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View of Gold Reed: photographic print
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). Gold Reed, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, probably about 1905. It was with a mine in Gold Reed that O.K. Reed made the money to purchase the ranch at Hawes Canyon. The ore at the mine was so rich that a person could stand off 50 or 60 feet and see the gold in the original outcropping; some of the ore sold for $1,000 a ton. Reed was partners in the mine with Jack May and a Mr.Wardle, Tonopah resident Austin Wardle’s father. Jack May and Reed were married to sisters, Mabel and Maude Hanley.
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Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Mrs. W.M. Clayton
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Quartette Mine: photographic print
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Letter from C. A. Earle Rinker to his mother, March 12, 1908
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Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Sadie B. Clayton
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"Mizpah Mine, photo by H. T. Shaw 1906": glass plate negative
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Mine entrance in "Red Gap" (Ariz.): photographic print
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Mines at Milltown, Nevada: photographic print
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Entrance to the "Denver Vein," Bullfrog Mine: photographic print
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Transcript of interview with Joe Lappin by Gordon Brusso, March 4, 1976
On March 4, 1976, Gordon Brusso interviewed former miner, Joe Lappin (born November 14th, 1914 in Santa Paula, California) about his life in Boulder City, Nevada. The two discuss his early occupational history and his work for the Bureau of Mines. He then goes on to explain the different housing systems that developed in Boulder City during World War Two.
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