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Ruth Mine Walkthrough

The Ruth Mine is probably the most intact mining camp left in the Argus Mountains, just north of Trona, California. Several mines have been located here, all meeting the same imminent fate. The first mine here was the Grahm-Jones Mine, located in 1889 by Doug Grahn and S.S. Jones. The duo worked the mine until 1917, when Jones pulled out. Grahm worked alone until 1930 when two speculators gave Grahm a hefty grubstake fund from Fred Austin and one Dr. Evans to save the mine from the tax bill. Unfortunately Grahm was robbed of his money and died a week later. In 1937 Austin and Evans leased the mine to the Burton Brothers, who renamed it the Ruth mine and constructed much of the camp that remains today. These brothers founded the prosperous and massive Tropico Mine near Rosamond, California and had the finances to install the massive 40-ton cyanide mill at the Ruth Mine. The mine was very prosperous and by 1932 63 people were living in the camp, with a school that taught twenty-two students. The Saloon up on the hill was open every friday and holidays, with the owners thinking learning was better than drinking. The mill was very busy, producing up to seventy tons of ore every day, with additional ore coming in from nearby mines in the Homewood Canyon Mining District. The beginning of the end came for Ruth in 1942 when FDR issued the executive order L-208, closing all unessential mining for the duration of the war. After the war, attempts to reboot mining continued into the early 1950s and sparse activity in the '70s, but never yielded anything as great as before the war. For several decades, the camp was in the hands of a private owner who kept a permanent caretaker on site, and eventually the BLM wrestled the camp into its hands. After the transfer, the condition rapidly declined, with two buildings burned down and vandalism skyrocketing. In 2011 the BLM began removing the massive mill and tailings due to arsenic contamination, and now there is a massive scar where these relics of the past once lay. thanks for stopping by the channel please check out my sponsor https://www.imalentstore.com/?ref=Otg... if you would like a built to last flashlight , using my link provided above helps the channel out