On Sunday, the feature article was on Miners Spring and a broken link to Grabel’s Hole. I had a difficult time trying to locate the article. While most people in region associate mining with Diamond Mountain and Hayden Hill there were other pockets of activity.

In the mid-1870s there was considerable gold mining done just north of Susanville in the vicinity of Round Valley, including nearby Gallatin Peak.  One of those miners, was J.L Grabel. One of the peculiar oddities, is that Grabel never filed a mining claim, yet his activities were reported in the Lassen Advocate. According to folklore,  it was a rich mine, but for reasons unknown became one of those lost mine stories. My grandmother, Lola (Murrer) Tanner (1899-1973) was born and raised in this area. She, too, knew of the story and gave me some clues about the proximity of where it might be located. All these years later, it is have never been something that I have never seriously undertaken to attempt to locate. May be this, is as good as any time to mount an expedition.

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