Combination Shaft of the Chollar โ Potosi, Hale & Norcross and the Savage Mines. This place was a disaster area. The Combination Shaft began in 1875 when the owners of the Chollar-Potosi, Hale & Corcross and the Savage mines combined their efforts to sink a shaft to explore the Comstock Lode at a greater depth. […]
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Chollar – Potosi Mine
Chollar โ Potosi Mining Co. HQ Founded by William โBillyโ Chollar (pronounced collar) in 1859, the original Chollar claim was 1,400 feet in length and 400 feet in width. In 1861, the nearby Potosi mine discovered an ore body that dipped into Chollar and brought suit to recover it. Later, when Chollar found rich ore […]
Orion’s House
This two-story residence was built from 1862 to 1863 by Orion Clemens, brother of author Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. Orion served as the first and only Territorial Secretary (1861-1864), and at times, acting governor of the Nevada Territory. The high point in Orion Clemens’s career occurred while he was living here when […]