Ajax Mine
Discovered by Sam Pugh
Located by Sam Pugh alongside the Grizzly.
Location Unverified
The Mines & Claims
At least two dozen mines and claims are named in the record — from the Last Chance that built Manchester to the Plaskett Ridge claims worked by mule sled and arrastra. Most positions are still approximate or unknown; each entry shows how well its location is established and where the information comes from.
Type
Status
Location confidence
22 of 22 shown
Blackberry Mine
Discovered 1911 by Edward Abbott Plaskett
Third of the three adjoining Plaskett Bros. claims located in 1911.
Location Approximate
Buffalo Mine
Discovered by Henry Melville
One of Henry Melville's Los Burros claims.
Location Unverified
Davis Mine
A Plaskett Ridge claim; Tom Watson of Salinas held a mine 'just above the Davis mine' and was doing extensive excavation c.1960. Whether the Davis mine ties to saloon-keeper...
Location Unverified
Goodrich Mine
Discovered early days by goodrich (given name unrecorded)
In a hollow on the south side of Plaskett Ridge, just below the crest, near a large sycamore and cold spring. Named for its discoverer Goodrich. Frank Gilbert drove a 300-ft...
Location Unverified
Gorda Mine
Owned by Mrs. Reed; Ernest Bauman came to the mountains in 1909 to work for her at the Gorda Mine before filing a claim near the Lonny Plaskett place.
Location Unverified
Green Gold Claim
Discovered by walter-dixon
On the Dogvine, a tributary of Willow Creek. Discovered when Walter Dixon (Bushnell's stepson) slipped and pulled up a lilac bush, exposing greenish ore. Owned by John Bushnell.
Location Unverified
Grizzly Mine
Discovered by Sam Pugh
Located by Sam Pugh (son of James P. Pugh), partner of Arthur Lazier. The Grizzly Mine's water-wheel arrastra was photographed about 1900 and appears in the family archive.
Location Unverified
Hollyberry Claim
Discovered by Francis Marion Plaskett
Located on Plaskett Creek by Marion Plaskett, who worked it with a water-powered arrastra. About one mile above Plaskett Creek Campground, in a redwood gorge with cascades....
Location Unverified
Last Chance Mine
Discovered 1887 by William D. "Willey" Cruikshank
The district's first truly paying mine. Cruikshank's 1887 quartz strike set off the rush that built Manchester a few hundred yards downhill. He and Jim Krenkel worked it, then...
Location Approximate
Lilac Mine
Discovered 1911 by Lawson Plaskett
One of the three adjoining Plaskett Bros. claims located in 1911 with the Ocean View and Blackberry. Attributed to Lawson (Mabel: 'Lawson and Ed located The Lilac and The Blackberry').
Location Approximate
Logwood Claim
Discovered 1890s by joe-logwood
Below the Goodrich Mine. Located by Joe Logwood in the 1890s; later held by Luneta Thelen of Gorda, who also held the adjoining Blackbird, Buzzard, and Crow claims below the...
Location Unverified
Melville Mine
Discovered by Henry Melville
Henry Melville's principal claim; his son Henry Jr. lived on it, and Edwin Melville lived on the ridge above the old Melville Mine into the 1960s. A blacksmith shop with a...
Location Unverified
New York Mine
Discovered by William D. "Willey" Cruikshank
Willey Cruikshank's own mine, in a cabin across the canyon from the Last Chance; his last home. He set out from here in November 1937 and was not found for six years.
Location Unverified
Ocean View Mine
Discovered 1911 by Dudley Plaskett
Located by Dudley Plaskett in May 1911 after he traced nuggets up Plaskett Creek to a landslide exposing gold-bearing quartz. Worked under lease by Billy Cruickshank, Jim...
Location Approximate
Oregon Claim
Discovered by James M. Krenkel
Jim Krenkel's second personal claim, with the Protection.
Location Unverified
Plaskett Creek Arrastra
Discovered c.1885 by William Lucas Plaskett
Not a mine but the family's water-powered ore mill: a circular stone-floored basin driven by a water wheel on Plaskett Creek, built by patriarch William Lucas Plaskett about...
Location Approximate
Protection Claim
Discovered by James M. Krenkel
One of Jim Krenkel's own claims; the Krenkel home stood on these claims, which remained in the family.
Location Unverified
Queen Hattie
Discovered c.1910 by John Bushnell
On the south side of Plaskett Ridge. Located by John Bushnell ~1910; later split (No. 1 to Stalter, No. 2 to Ben Olsen) and consolidated under Marty Hess with the adjoining...
Location Unverified
Red Spider Claim
Discovered by william-plaskett
One of the abandoned Plaskett Ridge claims, located by 'William Plaskett' in the early days. Which William Plaskett is unresolved (patriarch, or a later William E./William).
Location Unverified
Redwood Claim
Discovered 1932 by Henry Melville
The last claim Henry Melville located, on his final trip into the mountains in 1932 — the same year a road was cut from Willow Creek to the mines.
Location Unverified
Western Star Mine
Discovered c.1885 by Reason Alpha Plaskett, Francis Marion Plaskett
The first mine on Plaskett Ridge, dug by pick and shovel by Reason and Marion Plaskett. Ore went by mule sled to the water-powered arrastra their father built on Plaskett Creek...
Location Unverified
No mines match those filters.