There are views of the Excelsior Mine on Goodyears Creek four miles northwest of Downieville near Monte Cristo.

[3] On February 28, 1860, the Sacramento Daily Union reported delegates from Monte Cristo for the Democratic State Convention.

[2] There were several businesses in Monte Cristo, including a saloon, drug and variety store, an attorney's office, a physician and surgeon and a butcher shop, among others.

[6] The White Bear channel runs through Saddleback Mountain and Fir Cap, passing through Cooper Ranch under Monte Cristo.

The characteristics of the gravel of this channel is a large amount of clean white quartz boulders.