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<p>[QUOTE="keemao, post: 2479490, member: 43972"]Back in the 1950s when we lived in Ridgecrest, CA and my dad worked at China Lake Naval Air Station, we spent a lot of time exploring parts of the desert. One of the places we went to was Randsburg ghost town, which back then was not a "tourist" attraction as it is now. It was totally deserted. I vaguely remember going into a building that had an open safe and us saving the documents that were in that safe, which wasn't much. But here are a few checks we found along with some other documents for J.D. Voss, who was apparently mining areas around there. I have not been able to find much about him online and I wonder if he really ever did have viable mines in the Kern County area.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]523164[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523165[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523166[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523167[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523169[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523170[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523171[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523172[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523174[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523175[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="keemao, post: 2479490, member: 43972"]Back in the 1950s when we lived in Ridgecrest, CA and my dad worked at China Lake Naval Air Station, we spent a lot of time exploring parts of the desert. One of the places we went to was Randsburg ghost town, which back then was not a "tourist" attraction as it is now. It was totally deserted. I vaguely remember going into a building that had an open safe and us saving the documents that were in that safe, which wasn't much. But here are a few checks we found along with some other documents for J.D. Voss, who was apparently mining areas around there. I have not been able to find much about him online and I wonder if he really ever did have viable mines in the Kern County area. [ATTACH=full]523164[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523165[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523166[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523167[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523169[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523170[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523171[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523172[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523174[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]523175[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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