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Title: Goldfield Ghost Town Cemetery 1902 Goldfield (NV), Chrome unused Description: Hundreds of young men are buried here that worked in the Goldfield Mining District. They died of silicosis or ?Rock on the Box.? Razor sharp silica dust particles were breathed into their lungs. The lungs were cut to shreds and the victim drowned in his own blood. The town of Goldfield is in the midground		Title: Mizpah Hotel 1907 Goldfield (NV), Chrome unused Description: Built by George Wingfield and Senator George Nixon of Goldfield fame. The Mizpah Hotel and the old five story State Bank Building across the street were for many years the tallest buildings in the State of Nevada. The Mizpah is on the National Register of Historic Buildings

Title: Showing Ledges Of 80000 Dollars Per Tone Of Gold Ore, Mohawk Mine Goldfield (NV), Divided Back PM 1908 Feb-24 Description: Showing ledges of 80,000 dollars per tone of gold ore.		Title: Goldfield Goldfield (NV), Continental Chrome unused Description: Esmeralda County, located halfway between Reno and Las Vegas, is the home to many mining communities and ghost towns. Surrounded by rugged mountain wilderness, vast open basins and rich mines. Esmeralda County offers a variety of spectacular scenery and a comfortable life-style.

Title: Goldfield Goldfield (NV), Chrome unused Description: Approximately 200 miles north of Las Vegas on the road to Reno. Once housed over 30,000 persons - now a few hundred persons live here. First claims staked in 1902 - biggest boom years between 1906 and 1910. Most buildings, including the Goldfield Hotel, are deserted.		Title: Frontier Photography Goldfield (NV), Chrome PM 1989 Nov-08 Description: The Goldfield Municipal High School is still in very good state of preservation. Its size bares witness to the size of the population


Title: Frontier Photography Goldfield (NV), Chrome PM 1989 Nov-08 Description: This Hippodrome Theatre was built to handle all types of entertainment. Many famous actors and actresses appeared here. A disastrous fire in 1923 leveled most of the business district		Title: Dj's Market Goldfield (NV), Chrome PM 1989 Nov-08 Description: The Oasis in the desert, Rustic on the outside and modern on the inside. Biggest little store in Goldfield! Groceries, liquor, beer and ice.

Title: Esmeralda County Courthouse Goldfield (NV), Chrome unused Description: The greatest gold boom town of all time producing $150,000,000 in gold at the ten going price of $20 per ounce. Goldfield won the county seat from Hawthorne in 1907 and rightfully so. Goldfield had grown to became the largest city in Nevada with 20,000 residents.		Title: Frontier Photography Goldfield (NV), Chrome PM 1989 Nov-08 Description: Goldfield, Nevada 1907. It didn't take them long to build a railway because there were a lot of people and plenty of ore to haul. Wouldn't you love to own one of those antique automobiles now>?

Title: Goldfield Ghost Town 1902 Goldfield (NV), Chrome unused Description: Prospectors knew there was gold here in 1870 but they didn't think there was enough to bother with. In 1902 tow prospectors from Tonopah, Harry Stimler and Billy Marsh found enough gold to make a lot of people rush to Goldfield. The rush lasted until 1907 swelling Goldfield to 20,000 people, largest city in the state. In 1905 there were 10,000 people in Goldfield and only one bath tub in a barber shop! Most people in those early days took a bath once a year whether they needed it or not! There was still a considerable amount of mining and milling here up until 1940 when the 100 stamp consolidated mill shut down. The Florence mine is in the foreground. Goldfield is in the midground.		Title: The Mines Of Goldfield Goldfield (NV), Chrome unused Description: The mines of Goldfield, Nevada, like that shown, now stand idle; but after the big strike of 1903, Goldfield was one of the most spectacular mining campus of the West. Its ore was so rich there was a serve problem of "high-grading" by miners who selected the best ore for their own pockets.

Title: Goldfield Ghost Town Cemetery 1902 Goldfield (NV), Chrome PM 1989 Nov-08 Description: Hundreds of young men are buried here that worked in the Goldfield Mining District. They died of silicosis or "Rock on the Box." Razor sharp silica dust particles were breathed into their lungs. The lungs were cut to shreds and the victim drowned in his own blood. The town of Goldfield is in the midground.		Title: Goldfield Ghost Town Cemetery 1902 Goldfield (NV), Chrome PM 1989 Nov-08 Description: Hundreds of young men are buried here that worked in the Goldfield Mining District. They died of silicosis or "Rock on the Box." Razor sharp silica dust particles were breathed into their lungs. The lungs were cut to shreds and the victim drowned in his own blood. The town of Goldfield is in the midground.

Title: Mozart Club Goldfield (NV), Chrome PM 1989 Nov-08 Description: Maurice Durand built the Mozart club in 1934 and promoted heavy weight boxing champion Jack Dempsey, "The Manassa Mauler".		Title: Santa Fe Club Goldfield (NV), Chrome unused Description: Joe and Carl Fuetch were proprietors of the Santa Fe during the 1920's. Carls son Joe Jr. went on to found Sierra Brewing Company of Reno, Nevada. Joe Fuetch was an Esmeralda County commissioner during the late 1930's. Joe is now busy operating the East Bay Tire Company on Oakland, California.

Title: General View Of Goldfield Goldfield (NV), Divided Back unused		Title: Mohawk Mine Goldfield (NV), Divided Back unused

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