Advertisement for Diamondfield Triangle Mining Co., Diamondfield, Nevada. The news clipping includes photo of "Diamondfield Jack" Davis, founder and locator of the mining district circa 1905.
New Consolidated Mill atop the hill in Goldfield, Nevada. Goldfield mining boomed after 1897 and the town's mining and overall size increased for some time afterwards.
Miners stand near large mine shaft in Tonopah, Nevada. Cars are parked in the dirt near a building next to the mining entrance at the surface, and mountains are visible in the background.
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). Gold Reed, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, probably about 1905. It was with a mine in Gold Reed that O.K. Reed made the money to purchase the ranch at Hawes Canyon. The ore at the mine was so rich that a person could stand off 50 or 60 feet and see the gold in the original outcropping; some of the ore sold for $1,000 a ton. Reed was partners in the mine with Jack May and a Mr.Wardle, Tonopah resident Austin Wardle’s father. Jack May and Reed were married to sisters, Mabel and Maude Hanley.
Square set stope, Mohawk Mine, Goldfield, Nevada, 1907. There is an inscription on the back of the image "Rich Ore is being hand sorted and shipped. The deputy is watching for highgrading." There is date stamp July 1978.
Handwritten inscription on back of photo: "Eldorado Empire Mining Company, first cabin (about 1910). I visited here on May 20, 1913. Bertha Heinrich Gresh, Nelson, Nevada."
Miners sit along the side of a mountain near a mine site in Nevada. Conflicting descriptions believe this to be Meyers Mine near Hoover Dam or the foothills of the Sheep Mountains next to a salt mine.
Carts filled with ore are being pulled out of a mine shaft in Delamar, Nevada. Written on the bittom of the frame is, "Al. Smith. De Lamar, Nev." Al. Smith was most likely the photographer.