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Reminiscences of old Louisville
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Mellen wrote his reminiscences in 1941. In it he talks about his years that he and his father spent building chutes and bins for various mines in Calico and Daggett, California, including King, Odessa, Occidental, Gobbler, and Garfield. They also helped construct building for the mining towns. Mellen discusses the problems they encountered in mining including a flood in the winter of 1883 and lack of money. He also talks about a murder that took place and the eventual hanging of the suspected murderer, as well as the miners' reactions to and treatment of Yung Hen, a Chinese man who owned a restaurant and several boarding houses in the Calico area. Included in the typescript are photographs of the author and the mines, most of which were taken in 1941; there is one photograph of the King Mine from 1883, and one of Calico in 1890.
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