Correction from my comment above re: Gold Mountain, Holcomb Valley. I must’ve drank one too many dynamite whist I was blasting moonshine today. The date that Billy Holcomb discovered the motherload here in the Holcomb Valley was sometime in the 1860’s. The 1069 Chapter for San Bernardino and Riverside County was created in Los Angeles in 1968 and the Billy Holcomb 1069 Chapter was chartered in May of 1969 with its first ‘doins’ in October of ‘69, hence 10_69