So after surviving my near death experience at Mesquite Flat (read about it HERE), I was looking for higher altitudes, cooler climate and less hiking. I was driving up Emigrant Canyon Road, on my way to the ghost town of Harrisburg and the remains of the Eureka Mine. I'd been up this road before a couple years earlier, when I visited the Wildrose Charcoal Kilns, and I remembered seeing several spots that needed further exploration the next time I was in the area. So I was in the area, and I caught sight of these two large tanks; I pulled over to investigate and I'm glad I did.

Research later told me that this spot is known as Journigan's Mill. Records are confusing as to when serious activity began here, but mining folks were most likely first poking around here during the early 1900s. Odds are good that Indians were here long before, as there are/were six springs in the vicinity.

Verified mining and milling operations ran here sporadically from the 1920s through the early 1970s. Carl Suksdorf and Frank (Shorty) Harris reportedly ran a ball mill here in 1918 while performing custom work for local area miners. Suksdorf later filed for water rights to the six nearby springs in the early 1920s, but later lost the rights when he failed to improve and develop the water sources. Shorty Borden and Shorty Harris purportedly operated a five-stamp mill on this site in 1924, to process ore from Skidoo.