Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
A553.24Description
Mounted photo of a mining operation. There is a large water wheel, a couple of buildings, and several people standing around. On the left side there are two people (man and woman) in a horse drawn buggy.
Written in blue ink on reverse: No. 25. Comitti's [Commetti] home site on Birch Creek. Old arastra [arrasta] was there and he used it in washing ore from the mine one one of the hills in the background. He also had various fruits and a vegetable [garden] along the creek.
An old interpretative label says that this mine was situated in the Fish Springs Mining District six miles south of Big Pine.Collection
Olive Jones Reynolds Collection