1907 Booklet NEVADA-GREENWATER MINING COMPANY Mines GOLD Silver CALIFORNIA Mine

Description

1907
Booklet
NEVADA-GREENWATER MINING COMPANY
Mines
GOLD
Silver
CALIFORNIA
DESCRIPTION:
1907
promotional booklet
[pamphlet]
NEVADA-GREENWATER MINING MILLING & SMELTING COMPANY;
New York
Office:
Chicago
Office:
Mining Offices:
Greenwater
[California (on the edge of
Death Valley
)]:
Tonopah
[Nevada]:
Goldfield
[Nevada]:
Lida
[Nevada]; Ben Leven Adv. Agency Chicago; Press of G. G. Renneker Chicago; string tied
32
numbered pages; measuring
10-1/2
inches by
7-1/2
inches; Large [33 inches by 8 inches
OPEN
and 8 inches by 7 inches
CLOSED
],
5 panel fold-out
Panoramic View
of centrally located mines at
Goldfield, Nevada
[
55 leases (claims) pictured and named including 5 shown by white “X’s” on the photo which are held by the
NEVADA-GREENWATER MINING MILLING & SMELTING COMPANY.
The companies holdings were for
Gold, Silver and copper
.
DATE:
Many testimonials,
the last of which is dated
December 1906
, suggesting a date of
1907
.
CONDITION:
Very good,
crease vertically down the middle
[see scans].
SECURITY:
ARGUS BOOKS
[or other wording] in
PINK
may have been super-imposed over the images for security or informational reasons and are not on the actual item.
HISTORY:
GREENWATER
[California]
:
(formerly, Ramsey, The Camp, and Kunze)
was an unincorporated community near
Death Valley
located in the eastern side of the
Inyo County, California
.
It is now a deserted ghost town.
TONOPAH
[Nevada]
:
The American community began circa 1900 with the discovery of
silver-rich ore
by prospector
Jim Butler
. He had stumbled upon the second-richest silver strike in Nevada history.[citation needed]
George Wingfield, a 24-year-old poker player when he arrived in Tonopah, played poker and dealt faro in the town saloons. Once he had a small bankroll, he talked Jack Carey, owner of the Tonopah Club, into taking him in as a partner and filing for a gaming license. By 1904, after investing his winnings in the
Boston-Tonopah Mining Company
,
Wingfield
was worth million. When an old friend George S. Nixon, a banker, arrived in town, Wingfield invested in his Nye County Bank. They grub-staked (provided with food, supplies and tools in an exchange for a percentage of mine yield) miners with friend Nick Abelman, and bought existing mines. By the time the partners moved to Goldfield, Nevada and made their
Goldfield Consolidated Mining Company
a public corporation in 1906, Nixon and Wingfield were worth more than million.
Wingfield believed that the end of the gold and silver mining production was coming and took his bankroll to Reno, where he invested heavily in real estate and casinos. Real estate and gaming became big business throughout Central Nevada. By 1910, gold production was falling and by 1920, the town of Tonopah had less than half the population it had fifteen years earlier.
GOLDFIELD
[Nevada]
:
was a boomtown in the first decade of the 20th century due to the discovery of
GOLD
– between 1903 and 1940,
Goldfield's
mines produced more than million at then-current prices. Much of the town was destroyed by a fire in 1923, although several buildings survived and remain today, notably the Goldfield Hotel, the Consolidated Mines Building and the schoolhouse. Gold exploration continues in and around the town today.
LIDA
[Nevada]
:
is a small ghost town in
Esmeralda County, Nevada
, near the border with California. It is located on State Route 266, north of Magruder Mountain. The first settlement at Lida was made in 1871. A post office was in operation at Lida between 1873 and 1932. Like other mining towns in
Esmeralda County
, its population sharply declined once its mines were exhausted. The site now rests on private property.
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