Other small bentonite operations on the same formation, to the west, had taken place as far back as the 1920s. Martin Engel, the old assayer at nearby Cantil, described to the author in 1969 how the wet clay was used for facial cleansing mud by the "ladies of the night" in Mojave during the riproaring mining days of the 1930s.
HOW TO SUCCEED IN A SMALL MINE Mine
