Hart, California

Hart, California

Hart was a short-lived gold mining town located in San Bernardino County, California, United States. It existed between 1908 and 1915.

Location

Hart was located at 35° 17' 20" -115° 6' 12" (WGS84).

History

In late 1907, while a depression was sweeping the nation,3 prospectors from Goldfield - James Hart and the brothers Bert and Clark Hitt - found pockets of rich gold ore in the Castle Mountains, about 4 miles south of the Barnwell & Searchlight Railroad.

The strike was touted as the “second Goldfield bonanza”. In early 1908, prospectors swarmed to the strike in automobiles and wagons, on bicycles and burros. During the next few months, 700 people arrived, a camp was thrown up, a telephone line was strung to Barnwell, a weekly newspaper, the Enterprise, started up, a voting precinct and justice-court township were created, and a post office was established.

By summer, Hart’s peak of 1500 residents were served by the Norton House and Martin House Hotels, and a rooming house (flophouse) called the Star. Other businesses included 2 general stores, (including the Hart-Gosney), the Ames Book and Cigar Store, a real-estate office, a candy store, 2 lumberyards, a bakery, 8 saloons (including Hart and Hitt, C. Aguire, Arlington Club, Honest John, Oro Belle, and Northern Bar), and a house of prostitution. There was telephone and telegraph service, and a water line.

A miners’ union was organized. A businessmen’s league limited the sale of liquor, enforced police and fire regulations, and ousted gamblers and toughs.

Hart and Hitt’s original claim was sold by their promotor, Will Foster, to the Oro Belle Mining Company of Duluth MN in 1908 for $100,000. The mine was never profitable and shut down for good in 1918. [Snorf, D.N., “Early Days at Hart; Being the Reminiscenses of John Sherwood Snorf as told to Dorothy (Nelson) Snorf”, 1991, Tales of the Mojave Road Publishing Company, Goffs Schoolhouse, Essex, CA; 208 pp. Illustrated. ]

All the other mines had the same fate. The pockets of high-grade ore proved too small, and mining declined as soon as 1909. The largest mine besides the Oro Belle was the Big Chief, originally called the Jumbo, also owned by the Hart brothers. A 10 stamp mill was built at this mine. Other mines included the Twin Peaks, the Flyer, the Florence, the Zinc-Graf property, and the Todd Hunter lease. [ibid.]

The Enterprise and other businesses closed; a fire wiped out much of the business district (largely deserted); the leading mines suspended work and the miners’ union was disbanded; the court district and voting precinct were abolished; and, finally, the post office closed in late 1915.

citations

References

Hensher, Alan, 2005, The Historical Mining Towns of the Eastern Mojave Desert in Robert E. Reynolds editor, Old Ores, Mining History in the Eastern Mojave Desert: California State Uiversity, Desert Studies Consortium and LSA Associates, Inc. pages 22-27

Vredenburgh, L.M., Shumway, G.L., Hartill, R.D., 1981, Desert Fever, an overview of mining in the California Desert (Living West Press: Canoga Park, CA).

External Links

* [http://vredenburgh.org/mining_history/pages/hensher2005-manvel_vanderbilt_hart_vontrigger.html#hart Hensher 2005]
* [http://vredenburgh.org/desert_fever/pages/san_bernardino_08.htm Desert Fever (1981)]
* http://www.robertwynn.com/Hart.htm

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