San Gabriel Valley - East Fork River vs. Cattle Canyon

[MrGneissGuy]

I went back up to the East Fork San Gabriel River this weekend, and I ended up wandering up Cattle Canyon. Cattle Canyon was far less crowded, and looked exactly the same as the East Fork did. Cattle Canyon comes directly from Mt. San Antonio which is home to gold nugget mine and plenty of others. The East Fork River runs up to Allison mine and also many others, so I'm wondering why people mine the East Fork but not really the Cattle Canyon River? Nugget Alley is the term given to the stretch of river from Cow Canyon Bridge to Camp Williams, so I would assume at Cattle Canyon would also have gold in it. Anyways, let me know what you guys think.

 

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[rodoconnor]

Cattle Cyn is locally famous for just not having much gold. I know , I know the minute I post this someone will have a 2 oince day !

 

[Hamfist]

I've never found much in Cattle Canyon. There's a tungsten mine operating there so be careful not to cross claim boundaries.

 

[H-2 CHARLIE]

I would love to set up a dry washer up there .