A picture postcard with photographs with the captions "Badger hole;" "Electric Gold Mines, Weepah, Nevada;" "Crowd looking at rich strike;" "Town of Weepah, Nevada where rich gold strike was made;" "Frank Horton, Geo. Wingfield;" "The rich strike;" "Traynor and Horton, boys who found the gold." Leonard Traynor and Frank Horton, Jr., found gold ore in Weepah, Nevada in early spring 1927; George Wingfield was a prominent banker and miner in Nevada in the early decades of the twentieth century. The "badger hole" was where Traynor and Horton reportedly made their first gold strike.

From the C. A. Earle Rinker Papers (MS-00514) -- Series III: Maps, newspapers, souvenirs, and ephemera -- Newspapers from Goldfield, Nevada and various locations.