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The
Comstock Lode Historic Marker
Location
of sign - Along State Route 341 at Virginia City, Nevada.
Photo
taken October 2008
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign:
The Comstock Lode
Near this spot was the heart of the Comstock Lode, the fabulous 2
½-mile deposit of high-grade ore that produced nearly
$400,000,000
in silver and gold. After the discovery in 1859, Virginia City
boomed for 20 years, helped bring Nevada into the
Union in 1864 and
to build San Francisco.
Seven major mines operated during the boom. Their sites are today
marked by large yellow dumps, several of which are visible
from here—the
Sierra Nevada a mile to your left, the Union, Ophir, Con Virginia
and, on the high hill to the southeast, the
Combination. The lode
was worked from both ends, north up Gold Canyon and south from the
Sierra Nevada and Utah mines.
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