Nye County
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Nye County 1950’s Abandoned Gold Mill
Late 1800’s – Early 1900’s miners cabins Copyright © Thanks for looking
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Tonopah Nevada-Victor Shaft Headframe and Swimming Pool
Tonopah Extention Mining Company. This is one of the deepest of the many silver mines in Tonopah. The headframe is the tallest remaining in Tonopah. The hot water from the 2375’ deep shaft fed the community pool provided by the company according to Nevada Expeditions Austen Metz until the mine closed in the 1950’s. The pool has a 10’ deep end as there were large diving boards. *After 1905 , two mining companies consolidated between them most of the productive mines in Tonopah: the Tonopah Extension Mining Company, controlling about 700 acres of property west of the Tonopah Mining Company’s property. The Tonopah Extension company had three mines – the…
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Rhyolite Railroad Depot – Las Vegas and Tonopah RR
Rhyolite RR Depot Las Vegas and Tonopah RR 1906 Rhyolite, Nevada was founded in 1904 after Shorty Harris and Ed Cross discovered Gold in the Rhyolite Quartz at the Bullfrog mine. By 1906 the town had two railroad lines and a population of 10,000. The mines, however, did not produce as expected and by the early 1910s Rhyolite was abandoned. By 1914 only 25 residents lived there. Charles M. Schwab the Financier and father of present day investment company President and present day namesake. By 1906, Schwab had very seriously invested in what was happening in Rhyolite by purchasing the Montgomery Shoshone Mine. By 1906, Schwab had very seriously invested…
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The Cannon Ball Safe 1896
The Nevada Company, Berlin Nevada founded by James G Stokes. Only old time ingenuity would come up with such an ingenious idea to stop strong boxes from being stolen. Make something so heavy and impossible to lift and carry, no matter how many men and horses you have. The cannonball safe weights 2,400 pounds and has walls a foot thick on each side. The interior compartment is 10” in diameter. The safe made a weakly trip between Austin and Berlin. Plus it had a removable double dial. One of which was in Berlin and the other in Austin. Makes it pretty hard to open without a dial. Also, how would…
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Mayflower Mill/Mine
From the well-preserved Mayflower Mill just north of Silverton, across the Animas River, and up into Arrastra Gulch, threads a still-standing mile long aerial tramline, complete with swinging ore buckets suspended in time to the mine 2,500 feet above the mill —all that remains of one of Silverton’s greatest mining operations of the 20th century. Original photos Copyright © Steve Knight Photo
