Death Valley Historic Resource Study A History of Mining

1. Russel R. Elliott, Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom: Tonopah Goldfield Ely, (1966), pp. vii-viii, 1-2.

2. Shorty Harris, "Half a Century Chasing Rainbows," Touring Topics, October 1930, pp. 18-20. Rhyolite Herald, 29 March 1907.

3. Inyo Independent, 30 September, 21 October, 18 November, 23 December 1904; 27 January, 5 May 1905. Inyo Register, 20 October 1904; 16 March, 30 March 1095; Rhyolite Herald, 5 May 1905.

4. Rhyolite Herald, 5 May, 2 June, 18 August 1905. Bullfrog Miner, 9 June 1905. Walter N. Frickstad, A Century of Nevada Post Offices, (1958), pp. 4, 24. S. H. Ball, A Geologic Reconnaissance in Southwestern Nevada and Eastern California, USGS Bulletin #308, (1907), p. 25.

5. Bullfrog Miner, 23 March 1906. Rhyolite Herald, 27 April 1906; Mining World, 5 May 1906, p. 564. David F. Myrick, Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California Vol. II, (1963), p. 478.

6. Inyo Register, 7 Feb 1907. Bullfrog Miner, 8 February, 29 March 1907. Rhyolite Herald Pictorial Supplement, March 1909. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 23 September, 16 October 1907. Myrick, Railroads of Nevada, II, 517, 556. Harold O. Weight, Rhyolite: The Ghost of Golden Dreams (1953), pp. 18-26.

7. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 19 October 1907. Bullfrog Miner, 7 December 1907. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1907 Assessment Rolls, Nye County, Rhyolite.

8. Mining World, 4 Jan 1908, p. 41. Bullfrog Miner, 29 February, 2 May, 3 October 1908. Rhyolite Herald, 30 December 1908; Pictorial Supplement, March 1909. Myrick, Railroads of Nevada II, 484. Weight, Rhyolite, pp. 18, 33, 35.

9. Bullfrog Miner, 9 & 30 January, 27 February, 8 & 22 May 1909; Rhyolite Herald, 14 August 1909. Melvin Owen Warns, The Nevada "Sixteen National Banks and Their Mining Camps (1974), p. 87. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1909 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite. Mining World, 22 January 1910, p. 193.

10. Rhyolite Herald, 25 March 1911. Warns, Nevada's "Sixteen National Banks, p. 87. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1910 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite; 1911 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite. Mining World, 27 January 1912, p. 228.

11. Rhyolite Herald, 22 June 1912. Inyo Register, 30 July 1914; 7 December 1916. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1920 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite.

12. B.F. Couch and J.A. Carpenter, "Nevada's Metal and Mineral Production, 1859-1940," University of Nevada Bulletin #37 (1943), pp. 111-112.

13. Rhyolite Herald Pictorial Supplement, March, 1909. Lucien M. Lewis, "He was in on the Bullfrog Jackpot," Desert Magazine December 1946, pp. 20-21. Tom G. Murry, "Letters From a Death Valley Prospector," Desert Magazine June 1963, pp. 8-11. Carson City Land Office, Mineral Survey #2294.

14. Inyo Independent, 25 Nov 1904. Mining & Scientific Press, 26 November 1904, p. 362. Engineering and Mining Journal, 23 March 1905, p. 594. Rhyolite Herald, 26 May, 23 & 30 June, 14 & 21 July 1905.

15. Frederick L. Ransome, Preliminary Account of Goldfield, Bullfrog and Other Mining Districts in Southern Nevada USGS Bulletin 4303, (1907), pp. 41, 53.

16. Bullfrog Miner, 12 Jan, 9 & 23 March, 3 August, 28 September 1906. Mining World, 27 January 1906, p. 158. Rhyolite Herald, 9 March, 20 April, 18 May 1906.

17. Rhyolite Herald, 26 October, 14 December 1906. Bullfrog Miner, 26 October, 16 & 23 November, 7, 14 & 28 December 1906. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1906 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite.

18. Rhyolite Herald, 4 January 1907. Bullfrog Miner, 30 November 1906, 27 July, 31 August, 14 December 1907. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1907 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite.

19. Bullfrog Miner, 2 May, 18 April, 11 July 1908. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 11 April 1908. Rhyolite Herald, 3 June, 4 November 1908. F.L. Ransome, et al, Geology and Ore Deposits of the Bullfrog District Nevada USGS Bulletin 11407 (1910), p. 122. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1908 Assessment Rolls, Rhyolite.

20. Rhyolite Herald Pictorial Supplement, March 1909, 2 October 1909; 4 June 1910, 20 & 27 April 1912. Mining World, 27 June 1914, p. 1219. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1909-1917 Assessment Rolls, Rhyolite. Nevada Secretary of State, Articles of Incorporation, Vol 32, p. 74. Nye County Deed Book, Vol. 22, pp. 537-66.

21. Mining Journal, 15 May 1926, p. 37; 30 July 1927, p. 30; 30 September 1940, p. 28; 20 March 1941, p. 22. Leslie C. Mott, Mining Activities and Sales Opportunities in the State of Nevada, Los Angeles County Chamber of Commerce, Domestic Trade Report #66, (1937), p. 26. Victor E. Kral, "Mineral Resources of Nye County, Nevada," University of Nevada Bulletin #45 (January 1951), p. 35. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1926-1978 Assessment Rolls, Rhyolite and Beatty.

22. Murray, "Letters From a Death Valley Prospector," p. 8.

23. Nevada Secretary of State, Articles of Incorporation, 1905-1910.

24. Carson City Land Office, Plat of the Bullfrog Extension Mining Company. Nevada Secretary of State, Articles of Incorporation, Foreign, #8-1905. Rhyolite Herald 2 June, 13 October, 17 November 1905; 1 June, 14 September, 26 October, 14 & 28 December 1906. Bullfrog Miner, 12 January, 4 May, 1 June 1906. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1906 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite. Handbook on Nevada Mines pub. by Goldfield News (1906), p. 12.

25. Rhyolite Herald, 4 January, 22 February, 1 November 1907; 2 December 1908. Bullfrog Miner, 29 March, 6 April, 4 May 1907. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1907 and 1908 Assessment Rolls, Rhyolite.

26. Rhyolite Herald, 9 June, 2 October, 11 & 25 December 1909; 17 December 1910; 2 September 1911. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1909-1910 Assessment Rolls, Rhyolite.

27. Rhyolite Herald, 13 October, 8 December 1905; 5 & 26 January, 2 March, 27 April, 14 September, 26 October, 16 November 1906; Pictorial Supplement, March 1909. Bullfrog Miner, 30 March 1906. P. LaMontagne, Nevada the New Gold State: An Up-to-Date Description of the Mining Interests of Tonopah, Goldfield, Bullfrog, Diamondfield, Goldreef, etc., (1905), p. 47. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1906 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite.

28. Rhyolite Herald, 4 January 1907; 4 January 1908. Bullfrog Miner, 29 March, 4 May 1907.

29. Carson City Land Office, Plat of the Bullfrog Fraction, Survey #2496. Rhyolite Herald, 4 May, 16 & 23 June, 4 August 1905; 27 July, 31 August, 3 October, 2 November 1906. Nye County Recorder's Office, Deed Books, Vol 13, p. 395.

30. Nevada Secretary of State, Articles of Incorporation, Foreign, #281r1905. Rhyolite Herald, 17 November, 15 December 1905; 4 May 1906. Bullfrog Miner, 6 April, 4 May 1906. Handbook on Nevada Mines, p. 10.

31. Bullfrog Miner, 18 May, 5 October 1906. Rhyolite Herald, 1 June, 27 July, 31 August, 19 October, 9 November 1906.

32. Rhyolite Herald, 4 January, 8 February 1907. Bullfrog Miner, 8 February, 22 February, 3 May 1907.

33. Nevada Secretary of State, Articles of Incorporation, Vol 6, p. 35. Rhyolite Herald, 27 October, 3 November 1905. Bullfrog Miner, 12 January 1906.

34. Rhyolite Herald, 9 February, 2 March, 7 September 1906; 4 January, 5 April 1907; 16 December 1908. Bullfrog Miner, 13 & 20 April, 1 June 1906; 29 March 1907.

35. Rhyolite Herald, 30 June 1905; 4 January, 5 April 1907. Bullfrog Miner, 25 May 1906; 11 January, 8 March 1907. Handbook of Nevada Mines p. 16. Nevada Secretary of State, Articles of Incorporation, Vol 11, p. 285.

36. Bullfrog Miner, 5, 12, 19, & 26 October, 2 November, 21 December 1907. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 25 October 1907. Rhyolite Herald, 1, & 8 November, 1907; 4 March, 7 October 1911. Nevada--The Mineral Empire Souvenier of the American Mining Congress (1909), #57-58.

37. Carson City Land Office, Plat of the Bullfrog West Extension Mining Company, Survey 112590. Nevada Secretary of State, Articles of Incorporation, Foreign, j6-1905. Rhyolite Herald, 13 October 1905; 22 March 1907. Bullfrog Miner, 29 March 1907.

38. Rhyolite Herald, 4 & 18 May, 28 September, 2 & 16 November, 14 December 1906. Bullfrog Miner, 5 & 26 October, 23 & 30 November 1906.

39. Bullfrog Miner, 11 & 25 January, 22 February, 1, 8 & 15 March 1907. Rhyolite Herald, 25 January, 15 February, 8 March 1907. Nevada Secretary of State, Articles of Incorporation, Foreign, 58-1/2-1907.

40. Rhyolite Herald, 22 & 29 March, 19 April 1907. Bullfrog Miner 29 March, 5 April, 3 May, 22 June, 7 August 1907.

41. Bullfrog Miner, 31 August, 7 September 1907; 18 January, 1 February 1908. Rhyolite Herald, 29 November, 20 December 1907. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1907 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite.

42. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 5 February, 23 & 30 March, 27 April 1908. Bullfrog Miner, 8 February, 7, 14, 21 & 28 March, 4 April, 2 May 1908. Nye County Recorder's Office, Deeds, Vol. 19, p. 373.

43. Bullfrog Miner, 9 & 16 May, 13 June, 1 August, 5 September, 3 October 1908. Rhyolite Herald, 5, 19 & 26 August 1908. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1907 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite.

44. Bullfrog Miner, 3 October, 7, 14, 21 & 28 November 1908. Rhyolite Herald, 4 November 1908. Mining World, 17 October 1908, p. 621. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1908 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite. Carson City Land Office, Record of Patent, #88070.

45. Bullfrog Miner, 16 & 30 January, 7 August, 11 & 25 September 1909. Rhyolite Herald, 24 March 1909: Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 30 March 1909. Mining World, 11 December 1909, p. 1159. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1909 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite.

46. Rhyolite Herald, 1 January, 18 June, 5 November 1910. Nevada Secretary of State, Articles of Incorporation, Foreign, #6-1/2-1905. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1910 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite.

47. Rhyolite Herald, 1 April, 7 October, 25 November, 9, 23 & 30 December 1911. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1911 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite.

48. Rhyolite Herald, 13 January, 10 & 17 February, 2, 9, 23 & 30 March, 6 & 20 April, 25 May, 15 & 22 June 1912.

49. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1911-1922 Assessment Rolls, Rhyolite.

50. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1923-1978 Assessment Rolls, Rhyolite.

51. K. R. Casper, "The Bullfrog Bonanza," p. 323. Rhyolite Herald, 26 May 1905. Nevada Secretary of State, Articles of Incorporation, Foreign, #32111905.

52. Rhyolite Herald, 26 May, 16 June, 21 July, 1 September, 13 & 27 October, 17 & 24 November 1905. Engineering and Mining Journal, 6 July 1905, p. 13.

53. Rhyolite Herald, 5, 19 & 26 January, 2 & 9 February, 2 & 30 March 1906. Bullfrog Miner, 9, 16, 23 & 30 March 1906.

54. Rhyolite Herald, 6, 13 & 27 April, 4, 18 & 25 May, 8 June 1906. Mining World, 16 June 1906, p. 735. Bullfrog Miner, 6 & 27 April, 18 May 1906. Nye County Recorder's Office, Deed Book, Vol. 16, p. 276.

55. Rhyolite Herald, 29 June, 6 July, 21 September, 12 October 1906. Bullfrog Miner, 11 & 20 May, 30 November 1906. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1906 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite.

56. Rhyolite Herald, 4 & 11 January, 1, 8 & 15 February 1907. Bullfrog Miner, 8 & 15 February, 29 March, 22 June, 20 July, 24 & 31 August, 7 September 1907. Mining World, 23 March 1907, p. 402.

57. Bullfrog Miner, 14 & 28 September, 26 October 1907. Mining World, 21 September 1907, p. 492. Rhyolite Herald, 8 November, 6, 13 & 20 December 1907. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 25 & 30 September, 8 & 31 October, 27 November, 16 & 28 December 1907; 10 January 1908.

58. Bullfrog Miner, 11 & 18 January, 1, 22 & 29 February, 14 & 28 March, 4, 11 & 25 April 1908. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 4 March, 18 April 1908.

59. Rhyolite Herald, 6 & 27 May, 12 August, 2 & 30 September, 23 & 30 December 1908. Bullfrog Miner, 21 March, 27 June, 19 September 1908. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 18, 24, 26 & 31 December 1908. Ransome, Geology and Ore Deposits of the Bullfrog District p. 123.

60. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 6 & 21 January 1909. Rhyolite Herald, 6 January, 25 December 1909; 11 June 1910; 14 January, 4 February, 8 April 1911. Bullfrog Miner, 9 January, 6 & 13 February 1909. Mining World, 3 April 1909, p. 656. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1909-1922 Assessment Rolls, Rhyolite.

61. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1923-1978 Assessment Rolls, Rhyolite and Beatty.

62. Inyo Independent, 3 March 1905. Rhyolite Herald, 29 September 1905.

63. Rhyolite Herald, 27 October, 17 November, 1 December 1905; 5, 12, & 19 January, 30 March, 20 April 1906. Bullfrog Miner, 6, 13 & 20 April 1906.

64. Bullfrog Miner, 11, 25 May, 13 July, 7 September, 26 October, 9 & 16 November, 7 & 14 December 1906. Rhyolite Herald, 18 May, 1 June, 1 & 17 August, 2 November, 14 & 21 December 1906. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1906 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite. Nevada Secretary of State, Articles of Incorporation, Foreign, #2071_1907.

65. Rhyolite Herald, 8 February, 15 & 29 March, 5 April 1907. Bullfrog Miner, 8, 15 & 29 March, 5 & 26 April, 10 & 24 May 1907.

66. Bullfrog Miner, 20 & 27 July, 1, 17 & 24 August, 7 & 21 September, 12 & 19 October, 2 & 23 November 1907. Rhyolite Herald, 25 October, 22 & 29 November, 6 December 1907. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 9 & 22 October, 22 & 23 November, 3 & 4 December 1907.

67. Bullfrog Miner, 7, 14 & 28 December 1907; 18 & 25 January, 8 & 29 February, 28 March, 18 April, 2, 16 & 30 May, 6 June 1908. Rhyolite Herald, 13 & 27 December 1907; 29 April, 20 & 27 May, 3 June 1908. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 28 December 1907; 3 March 1908. Mining World, 4 April 1908, p. 578.)

68. Bullfrog Miner, 20 June, 22 August, 12 & 19 September, 17 November, 5 & 12 December 1908; 2 January 1909. Rhyolite Herald, 24 June, 8 & 29 July, 5 & 26 August, 2, 23 & 30 September, 14 October, 11 & 25 November, 2, 23 & 30 December 1908; 13 January 1909.

69. Rhyolite Herald, 30 December 1908; 13, 20 & 27 January, 3 & 17 February, 10 & 24 March 1909. Bullfrog Miner, 2, 23 & 30 January, 13 & 27 February, 27 March, 17 & 24 April 1909. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 20 January, 10 March, 4 & 19 April 1909.

70. Rhyolite Herald, 21 April, 5 & 12 May, 31 July 1909. Bullfrog Miner, 24 April, 15 May, 19 June 1909. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 11 May 1909. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1908 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite.

71. Rhyolite Herald, 31 July, 14 & 28 August, 2 October, 1909; 2 July 1910; 21 January, 25 March, 21 October, 11 & 18 November, 9, 16 & 30 December 1911. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1909-11 Assessment Rolls, Rhyolite; 1911 Delinquent Assessment Roll.

72. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1913-1978 Assessment Rolls, Rhyolite, Beatty. Mining World, 27 January 1912, p. 228; 17 February 1912, p. 408. Rhyolite Herald, 18 May, 25 May, 1 June 1912. Mining Journal, 30 January 1929, p. 40; 30 September 1940, p. 28; 30 April 1941, p. 23. M.J. Brown, "Mining Activities and Sales Opportunities in the State of Nevada," Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Domestic Trade Report #56 (1935), p. 8. Leslie C. Mott, "Mining Activities and Sales Opportunities in the State of Nevada," Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Domestic Trade Report 4*66, (1937), p. 29. Victor E. Kral, "Mineral Resources of Nye County, Nevada," University of Nevada Bulletin 4#45 (1951), pp. 36-37.

73. Rhyolite Herald, 2 July 1910. B. F. Couch and J.A. Carpenter, "Nevada's Metal and Mineral Production, 1859-1940," University of Nevada Bulletin #37 (1943), pp. 117-118.

74. Rhyolite Herald, 20 July, 17 August, 14 September, 12 & 19 October, 2, 9 & 16 November, 28 December 1906; 4 & 11 January, 15 March, 5 April 1907. Bullfrog Miner, 17, 24 & 31 August, 28 September, 2, 9 & 30 November 1906; 4 January, 15 & 29 March, 24 May, 29 June 1907. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 21 January 1909. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1907-1912 Assessment Rolls, Rhyolite.

75. David F. Myrick, Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California 2 vols., 1962-1963. Myrick's volumes on Nevada's railroads are indispensable to an understanding of the transportation system of Nevada at the turn of the century, and have been heavily relied upon herein. Unless otherwise noted, material in this section has been drawn from Myrick's work, especially his chapters on the Tonopah and Goldfield, the Bullfrog Goldfield, the Las Vegas & Tonopah, and the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroads. I will take this opportunity to acknowledge my debt to him.

76. Bullfrog Miner, 11 July 1908; 2 January, 20 February, 20 March 1909. Rhyolite Herald, 17 & ?4 March, 31 July 1909. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 10 March 1908. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1907 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite.

77. Inyo Register, 30 July 1914.

78. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1919 Assessment Roll, Rhyolite.

79. Betty J. Tucker, "Death Valley's Titus Canyon," Desert Magazine, April 1971, pp. 26-27.

80. Rhyolite Herald, 8 & 22 December 1905; 2 February, 23 March, 18 May 1906. Bullfrog Miner, 23 March 1906. Mining World, 19 May 1906, p. 620. Handbook on Nevada Mines p. 20.

81. Inyo Independent, 15 August 1925; 30 January, 6 February 1926. Mining Journal, 30 September 1925, p. 37; 30 December 1925, pp. 35-36; 15 January 1926, p. 24. Harold O. Weight, "Leadfield Died of Complications,". Desert Magazine. November 1977, pp. 34, 36-37.

82. Inyo independent, 20 February, 6 March 1926. Owens Valley Herald was quoted in Inyo Independent of 20 February 1926; Mining Journal, 15 February 1926, p. 31; 28 February 1926, pp. 20, 37; 15 March 1926, pp. 37-38. Weight, "Leadfield Died of Complications," pp. 36-37.

83. Inyo Independent, 20 March, 1926. Mining Journal, 20 March 1926, p. 16. Weight, "Leadfield Died of Complications," p. 37. Leadfield Chronicle, 22 March 1926, as quoted in C. B. Glasscock, Here's Death Valley (1940), pp. 280-283.

84. Mining Journal, 15 April 1926, pp. 35-36; 30 April 1926, p. 35. Inyo Independent, 17 & 24 April, 8 May 1926. Tonopah Mining Reporter quoted in Inyo Independent, 24 April 1926. Weight, "Leadfield Died of Complications," pp. 35, 37. Plat of Leadfield Townsite, 30 April 1926, Inyo County Court House.

85. Inyo Independent, 8 & 22 May, 7 & 27 August 1926. Mining Journal, 15 May 1926, p. 35; 30 May 1926, p. 35; 15 June 1926, p. 35; 30 June 1926, pp. 35-37; 15 July 1926, pp. 16-17, 37; 30 July 1926, pp. 37-38; 30 August 1926, p. 35; 30 October 1926, p. 31. Weight, "Leadfield Died of Complications," p. 39. Glasscock, Here's Death Valley, p. 284.

86. Inyo Independent, 12 February, 12 March 1927; 28 April 1928. Mining Journal, 15 February 1927, p. 31; 30 June 1927, p. 29. Memorandum, Superintendent of Death Valley National Monument to Director, National Park Service, 6 April 1960. Weight, "Leadfield Died of Complications," pp. 39-40.

87. "Mineral Resources of Inyo County," California Journal of Mines and Geology October 1938, p. 443. Weight, "Leadfield Died of Complications," p. 39. XXII Report, California State Mineralogist, October 1926, p. 504.

88. Rhyolite Herald, 7 & 14 July, 13 & 27 October, 3 & 17 November, 8 & 15 December 1905. Nevada Secretary of State, Articles of Incorporation, Vol 6, p. 503. F. L. Ransome, et al., Preliminary Account of the Goldfield Bullfrog and Other Mining Districts of Southern Nevada p. 62.

89. Rhyolite Herald, 12 January, 2, 9, & 23 March, 6, 13 & 27 April, 4 May, 17 August, 14 & 28 September, 19 & 26 October, 2 November, 28 December 1906. Bullfrog Miner, 23 & 30 March, 25 May, 5 October, 16 & 23 November 1906.

90. Rhyolite Herald, 4 & 11 January 1907; 2 December 1908; 31 December 1910; Bullfrog Miner, 29 March, 24 May 1907; 7 March 1908. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 21 January 1909. Victor E. Kral, "Mineral Resources of Nye County, Nevada," p. 36.

91. Rhyolite Herald, 19 April 1907; 13 November 1909; 4 February 1911. Rhyolite Daily Bulletin, 25 January 1908; 24 March 1909. Bullfrog Miner, 4 January 1907; 19 September 1908. W. C. Mendenhall, Some Desert Watering Places in Southeastern California and Southwestern Nevada USGS Water Supply Paper #224 (1909), p. 89.

92. E. E. Stuart, Nevada's Mineral Resources (1909), p. 27. W. C. Mendenhall, Some Desert Watering Places in Southeastern California and Southwestern Nevada, p. 89.

93. Victor E. Kral, "Mineral Resources of Nye County, Nevada," p. 36. Memorandum, Superintendent of Death Valley National Monument to Director of the National Park Service, 6 April 1960. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1942-1952 Assessment Rolls, Beatty.

94. Victor E. Kral, "Mineral Resources of Nye County, Nevada," p. 36.

95. Nye County Recorder's Office, 1931-1947 Assessment Rolls, Beatty.