Mengel Pass/Mengel's Grave

 cemetery, mountain pass

Carl Mengel, a buddy of Frank “Shorty” Harris and Pete Aguereberry. He also had a close relationship with Bill and Barbara Myers, who lived on a little ranch just over the pass in Goler Wash. Mengel, who lost a leg in a mining accident in Nevada, settled at the spring here in 1912, rebuilding an old preexisting cabin left by Mormon prospectors in 1869. In 1912 he also bought the Oro Fino Mine in Goler Wash. While trying to find a better route for his mules to haul ore out, he discovered a lode of high-grade ore that is said to have assayed as high as $35,000 per ton. Unfortunately, the deposit was small. Except for his financial interest in the nearby Lotus Mine, Carl died penniless of tuberculosis in 1944. At his request, his ashes and prosthetic leg were interred here.

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