Letter to his mother. Rinker told his mother not to worry about him working in the mines. He explains how above ground work is safe and below ground work is where it is dangerous.
C.A. Earle Rinker's reminiscences of mining and assaying life in Goldfield, Nevada, in the first decade of the 1900s. He recalls two different shootings, drilling contests, water use by the local hotels and a 1907 influenza epidemic.
Caption: Built in Goldfield Nevada about 1909 and then torn down! Windows smashed, a bulldoser was used, the beams were then taken to Lake Taho for a chapel there, Why? Such is the life of a church in a Nevada mining camp. Mrs. Spraig was credited with the building being built among others. Site Name: Goldfield Episcopal Church (Goldfield, Nev.)
Ruth McGonagill and a neighbor's baby at tent house with pipe from milk can stove. The family lived here, in the Kawich Range, from about September 1904 through March 1905. (This camp was called Wheaton and was a couple miles up the gully from Silver Bow, Nevada)