Lyon County

  • Lyon County,  Mining Camps,  Nevada,  Storey County

    A Walk Back in Time- Sutro Tunnel

    October 16, 2021 /

    Dayton Nevada Last May I received the rare opportunity to visit and bring some fellow historical researchers to photograph and write about this unique ghost town and event frozen in time. The town of Sutro has been closed to the public for the last 50 years. On October 19, 1869 Adolph Sutro raised enough money through stock sales to start a 9 year project to dig a 20,498 foot long tunnel from the hills east of Dayton to intersect the deep silver mines under Virginia City to drain, ventilate and provide an emergency exit. But a bigger reason was to provide both easier and cheaper alternate ore haulage for the…

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  • Ghost Towns,  Lyon County,  Mining Camps,  Nevada

    Como, Nevada

    April 6, 2020 /

    June 2012 (Requested by Tami Force) The Ore Stamps and other parts of the mill were moved to Berlin State Park many years ago. From Wikipedia: Gold was found in the Pine Nut Mountains of western Nevada, and in June 1860, the Palmyra mining district was created. The town of Como was established in late 1862, during the gold rush in Palmyra Mining District. Two bills were under consideration in December, 1862, by the Nevada Territorial legislature in Carson City, to build a toll road from Carson City to Como. One of the bills was approved on December 18, 1862, providing an act chartering a toll road from Como to…

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