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Surveys and Assays Repro Photo and Original Sign from Nevada Ghost Town (110382)

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Surveys and Assays Repro Photo and Original Sign from Nevada Ghost Town   (110382)
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Original sign from Mina, Nevada reads: Surveys and Assays / L.B. Spencer & Co. / Civil and Mining Engineers / U.S. Mineral Surveyors / Office and Laboratory / One Block West of Hotel Mina / Mina, Nevada. Black ink printed on heavy card stock. Measures approximately 11" x 14" Black and white photograph reprint of the business and possibly the owners from the same time. Photograph is same size as sign.

Mina was founded as a Rail Road town in 1905 and is considered a living ghost town today, with little more than a bar and a famous burger joint left operating. Mina was also served by the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad as well as the Carson and Colorado Railway (6 miles south). most mining activity took place in the 1930's and 1940's. Located in the Pilot Mining District, the area around Minda is littered with mines, ruins & mills. The town itself is named after Nicaraguan Pioneer woman, Ferminia Sarrias, who earned the title of the "Copper Queen" mining Mineral and Esmeralda County digs. Sarrias nickname was "Mina" and as her fortune and fame grew in Nevada, so did the town named after her. Some of the prominent mines and prospects in the area in the 1930's, 1940's, and 1950's were Mina Mercury's Lost Steers Group (aka Booth-Wardell Mine) in Cinnabar Canyon, the Drew Mine (formerly Red Devil) at the head of Cinnabar Canyon with a 300 foot shaft and mill site, the Warlock mine, a small mercury mine, the Mina mine consisting of about 5,000 feet of drifts and crosscuts, the Pine Tree Mine, the Chong Wong Prospect's (also known as the Lakeview), the Reward Mine, the Hitt Mine, and right next door the Allen Mine, the Betty Mine, the Inman Mine in Dunlap Canyon, the Mammoth Quicksilver Mine, and the Cardinal group, in Cinnabar Canyon. L.B. Spencer & Co. must have been busy when they set-up shop in Mina. This sign is showing discoloration from age, but is in very good condition and is a classic example of Western Mining Memorabilia.

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Country (if not USA):
State: Nevada
City/County: Mina
Date: c 1910