BODIE, CALIFORNIA
This once famous mining town is today a small aggregation
of old buildings and shacks clustered below the great mill
and mines that set on Bodie Bluff. The mineral belt extends for
over 22 miles in the bluff above the town. It is said that
over $80,000,000 was taken out of the mines. Wm. S. Bodie,
after whom the town was named, found gold here in 1859.
Gold was discovered in the Mono region in 1852 when the
Mono trail was blazed, but in 1864 Sonora Pass wagon road
was open and a great amount of the travel used this new
road. Most of the town was destroyed by the fire of June 24,
1932 ... M.P.
Photo-color by Merle Porter
© & Published by Royal Pictures, Colton, California
B 477
S-16291-2
