Of Gold HillSome of the most profitable mining ground was never on the market. It belonged to a closed corporation, usually one man, and it was not for sale–like the twenty feet of L. S. “Sandy” Bowers in Gold Hill. It yielded a total of about one million dollars and gave him a good income, […]
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C. J. Prescott
C. J. Prescott, was the proprietor of one of the first lumber companies on the Comstock. Sierra Nevada Wood & Lumber Co. They had major contracts to provide lumber to the mines for structural support and was always trying to get a contract with the railroad for struts. He was eventually bought out by the […]
The Big Four
The Comstock Lode in Nevada was and is still the richest mineral discovery in the history of the world. It brought a rare assortment of people to Nevada in the 1860s. Virginia City was the at the heart of the strike. The Big FourThey came to be known as The Big Four Bonanza Kings. John […]
