Locally, most people think that all the mining activity was along Diamond Mountain, south of Susanville, However, there was  mining activity to the town’s north. See  Grabel’s hole..

Starting in the 1890s, for some odd reason,  considerable prospecting was done on Antelope Mountain. If one looks closely on Highway 139, one can see small mine tailing piles. At a place call “the spires” there is a small spring. that was a popular rest stop back in the horse and buggy days, to stop and give the horses a rest. Charley Carpenter thought it was the perfect place to call home, and built a small cabin there, while he was search of the next mother lode—hence Miner’s Spring.

In 1907, due to an extremely wet March, there was considerable flooding and erosion, that was bringing to surface gold among other things. This was especially true to places not known gold such as Antelope, Shaffer and Skedaddle Mountains. The local populace had a terrible case of gold fever, but by fall that fever broke, when dashed dreams of a new Comstock was just not in the cards.

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