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Ruins of mining area with ore deposits, known as Transfer Hill, at Death Valley Junction.

Unidentified men stand at the entrance to the Old Turner (mine) Shaft.

Square set stope, Mohawk Mine, Goldfield, Nevada, 1907. There is an inscription on the back of the image "Rich Ore is being hand sorted and shipped. The deputy is watching for highgrading." There is date stamp July 1978.

1200 ft. level, Belmont Mine, Tonopah, NV, 1911. There is an inscription on the back of the image: "The Tonopah Belmont Development Company was Tonopah's second most prosperous mining company, recording a production of $38,000,000. The Belmont mine was the company's principal working shaft and reached a depth of 1700 feet. The Belmont shaft was in use from 1909 until it was burned out by a fire of undetermined origin October 31, 1939." There is a date stamp: mid-year 1987.

The Harmill was being operated by Gerald B. Hartley, Sr. and was worked through the 1930s. (Gerald B. Hartley, Jr. Collection) There was an inscription on the image. "The Montezuma district was laid out after the discovery of ore in the area on May 24, 1867 by Thomas Nagle, Mat Plunkett, and a Mr. Carlyle. The district was active through the 1880s after which mining came to a standstill. Montezuma experienced a revival in the early 1900s on the heels of the Goldfield boom. Mining continued through the 1930s from operations such as the Harmill. Ore was chiefly silver accompanied by lead with some gold. Recorded production from the district was over $500,000."

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.

White Pine County's newest town, New Ruth, where most of the houses shown in this picture were moved by Kennecott Copper Corporation, a distance of over two miles to a new location to escape caving action which would have resulted from the Deep Ruth Mine operations. The homes are employee-owned.