Mining conditions were difficult, with a lack of machinery and continuing cold weather to contend with. Capital was lacking and miners built stone arrastras and ground the ore by mule and horse power. Grazing cattle owned by settlers were captured and killed for food and Chinese workers released with the completion of the Central Pacific Railroad invaded the mining area and met with resistance, a number being killed in fights of one kind or another.
Julian is in the snow country and the winds can wail through the mountain passes with the ferocity of a tornado. I did live in Julian City, but that city is very much scattered just now and it bothers me to know where to find the old camping ground. Saturday afternoon, the north wind and the south wind and the east wind and the west wind came together and after the passage of appropriate resolutions, proceeded to demolish the town.
The gale culminated at midnight, when its fury was beyond anything yet known by the dwellers of this section of the county. Justice began to exert its pressure and an aged man named Robert Crawford was accused of stealing a saddle and hauled off to a nearby tree by a vigilantes committee and a rope placed around his neck.
He was hauled up and down a couple of times until he confessed to being a member of a ring of horse thieves. He was allowed to go free on condition he left the territory. The committee then voted to hang the first murderer and adjourned. Who owned the land being mined became an angry issue for more than a year. They assured the miners they had no intention of rejecting them, but expected a royalty on each ton of ore mined, and the schedule of rates was handed to them on May 25, at a mass meeting of miners in the town of Julian.
His words echoed those being heard throughout the state as labor troubles began to mount and socialism which had been brought across the Atlantic, became an issue of public debate and controversy:. A single one of the hardy prospectors who bravely push their way into the wilderness, toiling painfully over the mountains, sleeping on the ground, encountering the privations of hunger and thirst, giving way against bloodthirsty savages and periling life continually to open new stores of wealth for the enrichment of the state, is worth to the Commonwealth more than a thousand of the greedy capitalists who leave their lands unimproved and lie in wait for the profit of the labor and enterprise of honest men.
This, Mister editor, is simply the way the thing looks to me; if the digression seems out of place, you need not print it. As Spring died away the crude arrastras used to crush the quartz gave way to machinery. In September a third mill was erected at the Stonewall mine. A saw mill was cutting lumber for stores and houses and especially for saloons. Charles Yale and Louis Redman opened an assay shop. It was in August that a new and rich field was discovered and it was not within the disputed Cuyamaca land grant.
Louis Redman, the assayer at Julian, tripped over quartz rock in a canyon about six miles and feet below Julian and almost on the edge of the desert country. The Redman mine was in a canyon opening to the right of the present State Highway 78 at the foot of Banner grade, which is named Chariot Canyon.
Prospectors worked up the sylvan-like little canyon and through a narrow gorge and onto a higher valley where rich finds awaited them. Tents and shacks began to appear on the narrow flat land that parallels the highway about a half mile below the entrance to Chariot Canyon. The financiers and mining men who came down from San Francisco to inspect the mines returned home with adverse reports.
As a result mining in the Julian-Banner area never developed large enterprises with the possible exception of the Stonewall. The schist deposit in which the gold was being found is about twelve miles long and about four miles wide, running northwest from the Laguna Mountains and Pine Valley through the Cuyamacas and Julian and dying out about a mile north of Julian.
Quality was erratic and the extent always uncertain. The Julian Pioneer Museum houses an amazing array of artifacts depicting the history of Julian. Prior to the founding of Julian, native American villages were scattered throughout the area. Our Native American display is impressive. Historical artifacts throughout the museum provide a visual narrative of Julian history from to the turn of the last century.
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In , the courts ruled that the Rancho did not include Julian and the mines. While the miners were trying to wrestle the gold from deep within the earth, James Madison brought a wagon load of young apple trees up into the mountains. The fruit trees flourished in the clear, fresh air.
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