"The saw mill1s owned by Clark Co., which supply most of the lumber used at the" -[mines]- "are situated about 2O miles east of Winters and McGinty's ranch, on Charlestown or Big Timber mountain, where the supply of pine timber of various kinds is of superior quality in almost inexhaustible quantities and easily accessible. After leaving this beautiful valley the road to the mines runs in a northerly direction, passing through Ash Meadows where there is an abundance of grass and several small ranches; thence across a desert of 25 miles and the point of the Bald Mountain is reached, where the first of our mining locutions are made."
Inyo Independent, Volume XIV, Number 46, 3 May 1884