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Central Nevada

Central Nevada, including the Toiyabe, Toquima, and Monitor ranges

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Mountain View Mill and Arrastra

Mountain View Mill and Arrastra

The history of Mountain View seems to be lost to history. It is spread out into a couple of different sections. A camp with a few wooden cabins, the mill, and mine with its own little camp and the arrastra. Judging from the large mill foundations and careful masonry, it

Jefferson Ghost Town

Jefferson Ghost Town

Jefferson is a very scenic area and usually has a nice little creek running down through the trees. Once an old mining town, mainly in the 1870s, it is split into two sections – Upper Jefferson and Lower Jefferson. The lower part of town had stores, houses, and two mills: the

San Antonio and Cimarron Mines

San Antonio and Cimarron Mines

Discoveries were first made here in 1863 by Mexican prospectors, possibly outfitted by Emanuel San Pedro. This camp never struck it rich, even though it had a few revivals over the years. The workings here look pretty poor, and I didn’t go underground. One interesting find was the arrastra,

Petroglyph Butte

Petroglyph Butte

We have visited this site a couple of times over the years. The first time was in 2003 with Cat and Brad. We stopped by again in 2011, and the site looked mostly unchanged. This place is way out in the middle of nowhere. The petroglyphs here are carved into

Merger Mine

Merger Mine

The Bellehelen Merger Mine was a remote gold and silver mine that mainly worked from 1906 to the 1930s and was the principal mine of the district. There was an active camp with a fifty-ton cyanide mill here at one time. Not much is left these days. The mill is