Someone asked me a while back what this pile of rock was.  It's a discovery monument.  Whe a prospector is out prospecting and he "discovers" an area he wants to mine, he errects a discovery monument.  In the DM, he will place paperwork.  The paperwork will give the name of the claim, it's location from a commonly known location, the layout of the claim, and the clainers name and date of location.  That information also has to be filed with a few gov't agencys and fees paid also.  The clain is 600' wide by 1500' long.  Normally corner monuments have to be errected also.  In the picture you will see a brown object with rounded ends, that a Prine Albert can.  It holds the current paper work, and is for public inspection also.  Assesment work or production work has to be preformed annually to maintain the claim.  With current, less then a year old, paper work some one can see if it is an active claim.  Woe be to the to one who would take that paperwork, it is a legal document persay.  It will also chap the hide of some miner.  You wouldn't want him figuring out you did it..

This is a picture of "Cousin Will" {Wm. [Billy] Hyder} and my grandmother, Mary Weaver Newman who were cousins.  The object of their attention is one of Cousin Wills cats, name unknown.  Fore thouse of you who might not recognise it, the picture was snapped in front of the Newman Cabin.  {I'll explain that name nest}  Cousin liked the company of the cats he had, plus the kept the mouse population in check.  Goler was the only place he could keep a cat.  At his place in Ballarat it was to open and flat and coyotes love dining on cats.  Up in Goler though, with all the mesquites around the cabin, it gave the cats the ability to hide and get away from Whiley.

In the previous picture Cousin and GrandMarry were sitting on a bench, long gone, on the left of the door as you look at the pic.  The Newman Cabin was actually named by the many people who travel thru and visit Goler, probably starting in the 1970's. I would have liked to see it as the Hyder Cabin, maintaining the history of thouse who actually lived there.   Cousin Will hadn't been in the canyon since the early 1950's.  Cousin Will passed away about 1954, spendining his last years at the Ruth mine and then with us in Riverside.  The last person out there that really knew Cousin was Charles Ferge, Seldom Seen Slim.  Seldom passed away in 1968 and is buried in Ballarat.  I met him once in Ballarat and as a young whipper snapper i was very impressed with meeting a real Desert rat.  With my dad taking over the assesment work when Cousin died, his name got to be associated with the cabin.  Place names are usually associated with people or features so . . . . . .  The cabin itself does have some noted history.  The 2x6's that make up the frame work were salvaged from the old Wingate Mono Rail when it  went toes up.  The 1x side walls were salvaged packing crates from the American Pot Ash and Chemical.   Company.  Cousin also had running water at the back door, talk about Five Star class, but that another blog.