Whitlock Mining District - ECV Marker - Midpines, California
N 37° 33.068 W 119° 55.422
11S E 241721 N 4160032
Marker along Hwy 140 commemorating the Whitlock Mining District.
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Waymark Code: WM62R2
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 03/22/2009
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The Matuca Chapter 1849 of E Clampus Vitus incorporated several mining artifacts when erecting and dedicating this marker. The text reads:
Whitlock Mining District
This monument is located in the Whitlock Mining District, which is on the
eastern mother lode gold vein and includes the Colorado, Sherlock Creed and the
Whiskey Flat areas. Placer and Lode mining began in 1849.
49er's Lafayette Bunnell, Champlin Spencer, Thomas Whitlock and John Sherlock
and a Monte dealer from Quartzburg have all been credited with being the sole
discoverer of the rich gold deposits.
Over 70 lode mines, such as the Buffalo Champion 2, Colorado, Diltz,
Geary, Golden Key, King Solomon, Landrum, Nutmeg, Our Chance, Permit, Shroeder,
Spread Eagle and Whitlock have been recorded in the district since the 1850's,
with several of them operating stamp mills, including a 20 stamp battery at the
Whitlock mine. Post offices opened in the towns of Colorado in 1858 and
Whitlock in 1899.
In 1932 a mass of specimen gold weighing 52 pounds (troy) was taken at the
Diltz mine. It yielded 43 pounds 2 ounces of gold. Midpines was
started as a resort lodge in 1926 by Newell Chamberlain, who authored "The
Call of Gold" and became the community's first postmaster in 1929. The
mining towns of Whitlock, Colorado, and Sherlock no longer exist.
Dedicated by
Matuca Chapter 1849
E Clampus Vitus
Apr. 5, 208 (6013)
Credo Quia Absurdum