Hi Scott,

Thanks for your advice and assistance! I'm pleased by all the leads I'm getting from here. All I can say is that its good I'm relatively young and still have a few decades, at least, of genealogy searching left in me as I had no idea there were still so many places actively mining gold in California in the mid 1920s. Shows how much I know! I also think you're right in saying that Charles could have gone anywhere near Los Angeles city, out of the county into the surrounding areas. All I know is that he lived in Los Angeles until sometime around 1923. Too bad family legends don't have more information! Well it makes for some good "detective" work. Thanks again!

Becky