Sheepshead and Victory Mine

From the California Journal of Mines and Geology, Vol. 47, No. 1, Jan. 1951:

Ownership: Milton L. Knapp, Palm Springs, California and Floyd R. Bekins, Los Angeles.

Scheelite is in a stockwork of quartz veins, 2 inches to 2 feet wide, which are in limestone and in a tactite zone along a limestone-granitic rock contact. The limestone strikes northward and dips 25° E. Azurite, malachite and bornite are associated with the scheelite in the quartz stringers. Several prospect pits have exposed the tactite zone over a distace of 600 feet; the zone has an average width of 6 feet. The total mineralized area extends 800 to 1000 feet in length and 500 to 600 feet in width; assays range from 2 to 12 percent WO3.

One ton of high grade ore was shipped in 1943. Further exploration of the property at that time was abandoned due to poor road conditions in Trail Canyon.

The property is idle.