White Mountain City, California

White Mountain City (WMC) is a ghost town at the mouth of Wyman Canyon in Deep Springs Valley in Inyo County, California.

Information of White Mountain City's existence appears to only come from a single letter published in The Sacramento Union on March 28, 1864, promoting mining activity in the area and states that the town was laid out by Lieutenant W.A.

[1] The author of the Sacramento Union letter (“D.Q.C.”) asserted that he visited WMC due to a desire to visit the famous “Deep Spring precinct where the heavy vote was recorded for Judge Quint two years and a half ago which gave rise to the famous contested election case…”[2] The first modern historian to write about the contested election, W.A.

A close reading of the testimony given to the legislature in the contested election makes it clear that neither conclusion is correct.

[4] Over 36 people, largely prospectors and outfitters, gave evidence to the investigating elections committees of the legislature and not a single one mentioned White Mountain City.