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In 1860, M.H. Farley, working for the Silver Mountain Mining Company in the Coso Mountains, conceived the idea of building a processing mill on a creek flowing into Owens Lake. That year he explored and named Olancha Pass, and by December 1862 he had completed the first mill and furnace in the Owens River Valley. It stood on Olancha Creek about one mile west of this site.
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Olancha, California · United States
