This pumicite mine, located 130 miles north of Los Angeles in the El Paso Mountains, is widely known throughout the U.S. as the Old Dutch Cleanser Mine. Production from this site began in 1923 operated by twelve men who produced about a 100 tons of pumicite per week.
At the beginning, hand labor was used to remove slabs of the material pulled up out of the mine by burros then lowered by a tramway to the bottom of the valley. From the base of the rail tramway the pumicite was hauled to a siding on the Southern Pacific Railroad seven miles south at Saltdale.
The mine produced 120 thousand tons of material in total before it was shutdown in 1947 when pumicite was obtained from other sources.
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