HISTORY:
Cerro Gordo, Spanish for "Fat Hill" ,was a silver mining city high in the Inyo Mountains of Owens Valley. Cerro Gordo's major development took place in the early 1870s primarily by Mortimer Belshaw and Victor Beaudry. By 1872, the town was producing 100 to 150 83-pound bars of silver- lead each day and were shipped in huge wagons to the nearest ocean port city, which happened to be Los Angeles. At the port, the silver was loaded on to ships that carried it to San Francisco and other destinations for final refining.
