![]() Some brick and stone buildings from before the fire remain, including the hotel and the high school. In 1923, a fire caused by a moonshine still explosion destroyed most of the town's flammable buildings. By 1912, ore production had dropped to $5 million, and the largest mining company left town in 1919. Part of the problem was the increasing cost of pumping brine out of the diggings, making them uneconomic. īy the 1910 census, its population had declined to 4,838. In the early 1900s, Consolidated Mining dug an adit at Alkali, Nevada to deliver water 10 miles (16 km) to the 100-stamp Combination Mill near Goldfield. The gold output in 1907 was over $8.4 million, the year in which the town became the county seat in 1908, output was about $4,880,000. In addition to the mines, Goldfield was home to large reduction works. Goldfield reached a peak population around 20,000 people in 1906 and hosted a lightweight boxing championship match between Joe Gans and Oscar "Battling" Nelson. Wyatt Earp left Goldfield shortly afterward. In April, he contracted pneumonia and, after six months of illness, he died on October 18, 1905. Virgil was hired as a Goldfield deputy sheriff in January 1905. Wyatt and Virgil Earp came to Goldfield in 1904. Wingfield moved to Reno soon after realizing his great wealth could be spread across northern Nevada and northern California.īetween 19, mining in the two towns grew from $2.8 million to $48.6 million. Nixon and Wingfield made huge fortunes in Goldfield by forming the Goldfield Consolidated Mining Company. ![]() Nixon (who was to become a US senator in 1904), Wingfield started in Belmont, Nevada in 1901, and saw the potential of Goldfield after mining at Tonopah, 27 miles (43 km) north, took off. In collaboration with his partner George S. Īnother prominent resident from 1906 was George Wingfield, one of Nevada's entrepreneurs, who built the Goldfield Hotel. Rice quickly left Goldfield, but continued to promote mining shares for another quarter-century. The collapse of his Sullivan Trust Company and its associated mining stocks caused the failure of the Goldfield State Bank in 1907. ![]() One prominent, or notorious, early Goldfield resident was George Graham Rice, a former check forger, newspaperman, and racetrack tipster, turned mining stock promoter. Goldfield, Nevada's courthouse in a real photo postcard dated 1907 ![]()
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