The E&P was completed in 1875 serving the booming mining camps of Mineral Hill, Eureka and Hamilton. Millions of dollars in ore were shipped north to Palisade and transferred to the mainline, returning with machinery and supplies for the town and mines, declining mining addend Eureka in the late 1800’s started the fall of the […]
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Palisade
Easterners bound for the Wild West on the Central Pacific Railroad in didnโt mind the empty stretches of desert scenery, since there was a good chance they might see a real-life shootout once they stopped at the infamous town of Palisade, Nevada.ย Big-city newspapers picked up the local papersโ horrifying stories of bloodshed in Palisade, […]
Land Speculation
New technologies such as the telegraph and the railroad improved communications and transportation and helped tie the disparate sections of the country together into an increasingly unified capitalistic market. Territory gained from the Texas annexation, the Mexican War, and Oregon settlement added vast tracts of land and resources to the United States.ย Americans moved west, […]