Map of Bullfrog Mining District in Nye County, Nevada. The information was compiled from official surveys by Bradford, Strange, and Collier and drawn by May Bradford circa 1905.
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.
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.