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California's "Lost Padre" Mine Found (Again) - In 1927
A romance of the olden, golden days of California that has touched for a time the broad acres of Lucky Baldwin’s Santa Anita rancho and then shifted to the mountains southeast of Sandberg’s , on the Ridge route, has been revived with the announcement that the once famous “Lost Padre” mine has been found again, after a lapse of nearly a century, and that development work to uncover the long-lost vein of gold, declared to run as high as $5000 a ton, is now going forward.
It was Dr. B.F. Bragg, of Kentucky and friend of Lucky Baldwin’s, who in 1876 came to Arcadia with a bunch of thoroughbreds from the Blue Grass country to sell them to the owner of the Santa Anita rancho. It was while Dr. Bragg was in Arcadia that he was approached by an Indian who wanted a horse but had no money to pay for it. He told Dr. Bragg that in return for a mount he would show him where the “Lost Padre” mine was. The mine had been, according to the story, located in 1840 by an Indian and worked by the mission fathers, who in three years, according to the legend, took out a cool million in gold.
But one day the tunnel caved in, burying fifteen Indians, and the rest refused to go back. So the padres filled up the tunnel and concealed the entrance to the mine, which remained “lost” until the doctor made the deal with the Indian 24 years later. The property was re-located and it is declared Dr. Bragg and his associates took out $750,000 in two years. But death again followed the footsteps of the miners, for an Irish foreman went amuck, killed four men and flung their bodies into the shaft. Dr. Bragg escaped, but the mine was somehow “lost” again. Just before his death Dr. Bragg told Miss Annie L. Rose, now owner of the property, where the mine could be located.
After many disappointments, Miss Rose and B.E. Miller of Pomona succeeded, as they believe, in locating for a third time the missing mine and are now confident they will soon uncover the mother ledge, and the tunnel in which the earlier miners worked. Gold-bearing rock of high value, rich enough to show the metal to the naked eye, has been discovered in the workings already discovered, it is said.
Based on the index I searched, there were no more Lost Padre Mine articles in the paper.
Elias Jackson “Lucky” Baldwin was a colorful figure in California’s rip-roaring 19th Century. Duke Hubbard, in his introduction to a reprint edition of C.B. Glasscock’s classic biography ]Lucky Baldwin; The Story of an Unconventional Success (1993) relates that Balwin’s 46,000 acre Rancho Santa Anita became the site of the Racetrack. Scenes from the movie African Queen were filmed there, as well.
Good luck to all,
~The Old Bookaroo
“Lost Padre” Mine, Is
Found Again, Belief of
Mountain Land Owners
Found Again, Belief of
Mountain Land Owners
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The Covis Argus – October 7, 1927 (Page 2)
The Covis Argus – October 7, 1927 (Page 2)
A romance of the olden, golden days of California that has touched for a time the broad acres of Lucky Baldwin’s Santa Anita rancho and then shifted to the mountains southeast of Sandberg’s , on the Ridge route, has been revived with the announcement that the once famous “Lost Padre” mine has been found again, after a lapse of nearly a century, and that development work to uncover the long-lost vein of gold, declared to run as high as $5000 a ton, is now going forward.
It was Dr. B.F. Bragg, of Kentucky and friend of Lucky Baldwin’s, who in 1876 came to Arcadia with a bunch of thoroughbreds from the Blue Grass country to sell them to the owner of the Santa Anita rancho. It was while Dr. Bragg was in Arcadia that he was approached by an Indian who wanted a horse but had no money to pay for it. He told Dr. Bragg that in return for a mount he would show him where the “Lost Padre” mine was. The mine had been, according to the story, located in 1840 by an Indian and worked by the mission fathers, who in three years, according to the legend, took out a cool million in gold.
But one day the tunnel caved in, burying fifteen Indians, and the rest refused to go back. So the padres filled up the tunnel and concealed the entrance to the mine, which remained “lost” until the doctor made the deal with the Indian 24 years later. The property was re-located and it is declared Dr. Bragg and his associates took out $750,000 in two years. But death again followed the footsteps of the miners, for an Irish foreman went amuck, killed four men and flung their bodies into the shaft. Dr. Bragg escaped, but the mine was somehow “lost” again. Just before his death Dr. Bragg told Miss Annie L. Rose, now owner of the property, where the mine could be located.
After many disappointments, Miss Rose and B.E. Miller of Pomona succeeded, as they believe, in locating for a third time the missing mine and are now confident they will soon uncover the mother ledge, and the tunnel in which the earlier miners worked. Gold-bearing rock of high value, rich enough to show the metal to the naked eye, has been discovered in the workings already discovered, it is said.
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Based on the index I searched, there were no more Lost Padre Mine articles in the paper.
Elias Jackson “Lucky” Baldwin was a colorful figure in California’s rip-roaring 19th Century. Duke Hubbard, in his introduction to a reprint edition of C.B. Glasscock’s classic biography ]Lucky Baldwin; The Story of an Unconventional Success (1993) relates that Balwin’s 46,000 acre Rancho Santa Anita became the site of the Racetrack. Scenes from the movie African Queen were filmed there, as well.
Good luck to all,
~The Old Bookaroo
to Be more specific, the area mentioned is in Castaic, California Annie Rose, AKA Annie Briggs, was the daughter of William Rose of "Rose station" fame in the tejon area, Annie, whose brother was billy "Uncle Billy Rose" also live near annie in castaic, was mentioned in the castaic range wars of the late 1800's, also mentioned was the story that several people involved in this range war were killed and their bodies placed in the mine to hide the evidence and were later discovered... "Uncle Billy" was thought to have been involved somehow with the deaths.... interesting enough, there were several mining claims filed by annie in that area, as well as reports that she sold maps to the mine in the early 1930's to suppliment her income.
