[Nevada Mining]:

$2,500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

THE SILVER MINES OF NEVADA. Second edition, first published the year before, with an identical map but without the two-page poem, "The Mines" that appeared at the conclusion of the first edition. A significant compilation of contemporary accounts of silver mining in Nevada during its early boom years, with an interesting map. Among the sources are newspapers in Nevada and California, and the report of Interior Secretary J.P. Usher. Many of the reports concentrate on the Reese River mining district, centered around the town of Austin, which experienced an explosion of activity after silver was discovered in 1862. "A comprehensive account of all that could be ascertained at that time regarding the new diggings, containing descriptions of the towns, mines, and settlements, together with many pages of extracts from the local newspapers" - Eberstadt.The folding "Map of the Washoe, Humboldt and Reese River Silver Mines in the State of Nevada" was drawn by E.W. Perry and shows most of Nevada and Utah, and California north of the San Francisco Bay Area, with much detail on the towns surrounding Austin. Wheat comments on some of the inaccuracies of the map, but also notes that "the old emigrant road is shown around the north end of Great Salt Lake, down the Humboldt, and as far west as the Valley of the Mud Lakes east of Honey Lake. Railroads, actual or projected, are noted in the Sacramento Valley; and from Auburn the 'Central Pacific Rail Road' finds its way across the Sierra to the

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