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Photograph of people watching the driving of the silver spike at the Tonopah Railroad Carnival, Tonopah (Nev.), early 1900s

Mining maps drawn by May Bradford circa 1905.

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.

Bell Family Scrapbook scanning, Set 4, proofed 11.04.2010 Building or mine remains in Europe

Mining in Arizona.

Three men (Marko Dobro on the far right) stand at a mine's entrance behind the Goldfield Hotel.

A distant view of a mine (may be Goldfield).