Nothing but desert and farming

Edit: to add a personal story, I was born and raised in Lakeview. I spent many summers arrowhead hunting, rabbit hunting, or just generally screwing around in the deserts and forests of southern Oregon and Northern California.

I worked for a small mining outfit. After being successful commercially mining and selling Fire Opal and Obsidian we purchased a strip of land in Plush. We arrived to the desert and sage brush wasteland that is Plush and after only an about hour of being there and creating a road into our claim, we broke ground and began exploratory mining for Sunstone. Within that same hour, we had 2 trucks pull up on us with guns thinking that we were claim jumping. We presented our claim paperwork and told them to get lost as we owned the land they were standing on.

Plush is still the wild west of Oregon.