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Inscription on back reads: "The wagon in the middle foregroundshows a dray hauling one of our 50 HP motors to the "Frances Mohawk" lease which is shown on the extreme left. This lease and the one in the center (the "Hayes-Monnetta") are each taking out over $40,000 per day. The houses in the distance are lying between Goldfield and Columbia. The large white building to the right and back is the Nevada Goldfield Reduction Works. The R.R. station is to the rear and left."
Caption: Mohawk Mine Goldfield, Nev. early 1900s. Railroad station to the rear and left.

View of Burke Tunnel area-building at top of hill was store for Burke tunnel. #93 on left, some buildings on left remain, 1982. Photo 1900-1910. Pioche, Nev. ID by Vic Cottino/Jerome Sears July 1982

Photograph of the Cinnabar mine at Ned's Cache Spring, Goldfield (Nev.), 1920

Photograph of Don Finley at Josiah Crowel's Chloride Cliff camp in winter, Beatty (Nev.), 1915

Inscription on back reads: Room and pillar surface stopes stopes on the Wall Street Mine-which produced $1,5000,000.00 in gold alone from about 80 feet depth. El Dorado Canyon Clark County Nevada

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.

Photograph of a group of men outside the Mount Diablo Mining Company, Candelaria (Nev.), 1900-1925