Resting Springs, California

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Resting Springs, now a private ranch, was the best campsite and most dependable water source between Mountain Springs, southwest of Las Vegas, and the Mojave River. It was here in the 1840s that Chief Tecopa, leader of the Southern Nevada tribe of the Paiute in the Ash Meadows and Pahrump areas, and his warriors engaged the expedition of Kit Carson and John C. Fremont.

Osborne finally decided to give up on the smelting furnace and try milling the carbonate ores. Having 1,000 tons of such ore on the mine dump, he persuaded the company to buy a newfangled rotary mill called a Davis Pulverizer, advertised as more efficient than a conventional 20- stamp mill and requiring far less power to operate. He decided to locate the pulverizer not at Tecopa, but six miles away at Resting Spring, probably in an attempt to fuel a real estate boom and enable him to sell city lots there. By February of 1879 Tecopa was abandoned and the new camp of Resting Spring boomed.

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