Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining CampsPresents a detailed and accurately researched history of the sometimes fleeting, sometimes permanent 600 towns and camps in Nevada. Vitality and personality infuses the story with the addition of 700 photographs, some culled from the great collections of Nevadans' and other family treasures in order to make the work more descriptive, accurate, and valuable. |
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Page 130
... later Fitting , on SR 50 , 13 miles east of I - 80 at Oreana exit . This locality twice experienced large - scale placer mining . Chinese were the first to work the Spring Valley deposits after 1881. In 1905 a post office named Fitting ...
... later Fitting , on SR 50 , 13 miles east of I - 80 at Oreana exit . This locality twice experienced large - scale placer mining . Chinese were the first to work the Spring Valley deposits after 1881. In 1905 a post office named Fitting ...
Page 240
... later years . Fallen - down log ruins are left . SCHELLBOURNE , a half - mile east of SR 2 at a point 3 miles east of its junction with US 93 ( 43 miles north of Ely ) . Schellbourne led three lives - station , fort , min- ing camp ...
... later years . Fallen - down log ruins are left . SCHELLBOURNE , a half - mile east of SR 2 at a point 3 miles east of its junction with US 93 ( 43 miles north of Ely ) . Schellbourne led three lives - station , fort , min- ing camp ...
Page 287
... later the boom was over but the post office lasted until 1915 . FORT PIUTE ( California ) , 17 miles west - south- west , via desert roads , from US 95 at a point 13 miles south of Searchlight . Never an official army facility , this ...
... later the boom was over but the post office lasted until 1915 . FORT PIUTE ( California ) , 17 miles west - south- west , via desert roads , from US 95 at a point 13 miles south of Searchlight . Never an official army facility , this ...
Contents
Chapter Page Preface | 7 |
Acknowledgments | 12 |
Storey County | 15 |
Copyright | |
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