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constructed by Harry McNamara, the owner of another productive mine in the district. The mines of Athens produced $ 20,000 of gold in their first few months. The
Warrior mine was sold to the Aladdin Divide Mining Company, that thoroughly prospected the area, in 1921. This resulted in the discovery of some ore deposits. In July of the same year, the mine was sold to the Olympic Mines Company. That company sent the ore to its mill in
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A new ore deposit, of which the ore was worth $ 1,000 a ton, was found by Stott and
Martinez. Six of their claims were optioned for $ 100,000 by John McGee, but the quality of the ore in the deposit turned out to be disappointing. This led to people leaving Athens in the end of 1910. In December, the
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In 1922, a new company started mining. That company, the Lucky Boy Divide Mining
Company, bought an area neighboring Athens. A few years later, the mines stopped producing ore, because the ore had become too rare. However, all the property of the Warrior Company was sold to J.J. McNeil, who reopened
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Athens was founded as a mining camp in 1910 after the previous year ore was found in the area by John
Martinez, J.R. Stott, and James Herald. In July 1910, a rush to Athens started. In that month, the mining camp had around 75 inhabitants and the camp suffered from a water shortage. On July 9, the
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Athens was resurrected after the
Warrior mine was discovered, which was the most important gold mine in the district. The Warrior mine was sold to the Warrior Gold Mining Company. Because of the finding, permanent structures were built in the mining settlement. In 1913, a amalgamation mill was
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the mine in
December 1931. The next year, the mine was bought by Warrior Consolidated Gold. The company was not successful and therefore the mine was auctioned by the sheriff in November 1933. L.B. Spencer and L.J. Smith bought it. The ore was brought to the Dayton Consolidated mill in
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Athens Mining
District was organized at a meeting with over fifty attendees. Thereafter, thirty tents were set up. Land lots were sold in Athens for $ 50 and $ 75 by Lester Bell and businesses like a lodging house, a saloon, and a store arose. The mining camp
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250:. Leasers were producing ore in Athens until 1939. The Warrior mine, the foundation of an amalgamation mill just east of the Warrior mine, a few other structures, and debris remain at the site.
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