Description given with photograph: "Pat McCarran, Nevada's senior U.S. Senator, calls on Colonel Stanton T. Smith, Commanding Officer of the Tonopah Army Air Field. They discussed informally the growth of the base, Nevada's only 4th Air Force installation and weighed plans for its betterment."
Nevada businessman George Wingfield was born in Arkansas in 1876 and grew up on a ranch in Oregon. He settled in Nevada as a young man and eventually owned several banks, hotels, and mines in the state. Upon his death in 1959 he left his widow and three children an estate of over three million dollars.
Aerial view, looking west, of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus. The photo shows the entire campus from Tonopah residence hall on the south to the Judy Bayley Theater on the north and Frazier Hall on the east to the EPA buildings on the west. Intersection of Maryland Parkway and Harmon Ave. is seen in the foreground.
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.B. Coombs Family. The shaft was located just below the No.1 shaft in order to get back under the old mill, where it was believed some big pillars of ore could be found.