Panorama of tailings piles near the mines in Pioche.

Ruins of mining area with ore deposits, known as Transfer Hill, at Death Valley Junction.

Located 10 miles southeast of Tonopah, the camp was settled in the late 1890s when silver and gold was discovered in the area. In May, 1900, when Jim Butler picked up his first samples at the site that would become Tonopah, he was en route to Klondyke. He offered the local assayer, Frank Higgs, an interest in the find for an assay, but Higgs declared the samples worthless and threw them out. Fortunately, Butler retrieved more samples on this return trip to Belmont. The building on the right with the large smoke-stack was the assay office. None of the structures remain today.

This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)