[Nevada Mining]: [Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad Company]:

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FACTS ABOUT GOLDFIELD AND VICINITY THE GREATEST GOLD PRODUCER IN THE GREATEST GOLD PRODUCING STATE...COMPLIMENTS OF SHORT LINE TO NEVADA GOLDFIELDS [caption ... An unrecorded promotional pamphlet, encouraging renewed investment in the Nevada boomtown of Goldfield. Gold was discovered at soon-to-be-dubbed Goldfield in 1902, and the town was laid out by the end of the year. The wealth extracted from the aptly named settlement was so great that population exploded to over 20,000 by 1906, making Goldfield the largest city in Nevada. Gold production then fell off as quickly as it began, and the population fell below 5000 by 1910, and to only a few hundred by the 1930s. The present pamphlet, issued compliments OF the Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad Company, dates from the middle of that sharp decline.The Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad (LV&T) was owned by Montana Senator and entrepreneur William A. Clark, and first began operations at the height of Goldfield's success in 1907, aiming to connect Las Vegas to the northern mining region. The northern line, which connected Beatty to Goldfield, operated only until 1914. With the outbreak of World War One (and with rail traffic in and out of Goldfield already plummeting), that part of the railway was scrapped, and the LV&T merged with the failing Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad, using their tracks to continue service to the region. Clark, with his keen eye for profits, scuttled the project in 1918, taking advantage of the high price of metal durin

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