By Darrell R. Lane — SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA County

Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Tom Ashworth). Author: Darrell R. Lane. Original page: sanluisobispo_ca.shtml. Area: By Darrell R. Lane. Map coordinates refined from text (landmark: "Mountain, SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA County, California, USA"). Still approximate — verify on the ground. LOCATION COUNTY: San Luis Obispo County STATE: California As listed in a reprint from the Friends of the Adobes, Post Office Box 326 San Miguel, CA 93451. A reprint of the History of San Luis Obispo County by Thompson & West, 1883. Pages 246 through 254. Also throughout the County Gold has been found and mined mostly in the flour variety. Only three locations have produced sizable nuggets. Mostly, West of Paso Robles, in the Mountain Country. A lot of it is private. Some is National Forest. (Los Padres National Forest). Just to the Northern Outside Boundary of the County in Monterey County and to the Eastern Boundary of San Luis meets the Kings & Kern County line, Nuggets have been found on Private Cattle Ranches for years. On JACK RANCH, now owned by the Hearst Corp., there is a butte behind the Headquarters, known as Gold Hill, for good reason. The Mission Padres of San Miguel Mission (7 miles north of Paso Robles) and Mission Indians mined gold there around 1805. Gold has been found North of there in the Castle Mountains, also known to the locals as Kings Peak.