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10,000. Once water supply was established to the towns, several mills sprung up around them. Smelting works were built at a cost of $ 60,000, the furnaces were housed in a big building and a 20-ton capacity and 45 ft long smoke stack was created. A 10 stamp Nevada started functioning from 20 May 1869 and a 20 stamp Big Smoky called the
Treasure Hill was established on 24 May 1869. Further expansion of the mills occurred on 1 June 1869 with setting up of the 24 Stamp Manhattan.
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High-grade silver ore, "with silica, calcite, silver oxide and manganese oxide in brecciated limestone" were found here. The mines of
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Hamilton, which impacted other towns in the area as well, accelerating emigration to other mining regions. Nonetheless, prospectors later found significant deposits of silver ore in the lower depths of the hill and the industry continued in the late 1870s and
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Company. But in the autumn of the same year, silver deposits were found in the region. This was a chance discovery, as a Native American known
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Treasure Hill led to a prosperous but short-lived boom, later described as the "shortest and most intense mining rush." The hill was named after the notable ore discoveries. Staking fever ensued, with "every boomer, promoter, card shark, merchant-capitalist, prostitute and prospector in the West"
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A nearby establishment to operate the mines was set up at Cave City at the foot of the hill in 1868; its name was changed later to
Hamilton. The discovery of silver created what was termed as "White Pine Fever." Hotel and saloons were soon established. In 1869, the floating population reported was
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There was short-lived revival of mining activity in the 1920s. A claim covering an area of 125 acres (51 ha) was staked by
Treasure Hills Deposit Mining Company. They had sunk a 250 feet (76 m) deep shaft and their production was to the extent of $ 1.2 million in two years but they soon
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Britain, their finding was a dampner to the development of the mines in the hill. They inferred that the ores found were mere deposits only and not sourced by ore-bearing veins in the rocks which could produce
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A series of towns with populations up to 10,000 people grew up in the county, fueled by the prosperity of the silver mining on
Treasure Hill. With the wealth that the industry on Treasure Hill produced, the early prospectors were said to have loved "horseracing, gambling, and celebrations of all
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Swansea Mill milled ores from Treasure City and Hamilton. At the peak of the Treasure Hill boom, the residents of Swansea thought that larger mills would soon need to be built and that the main street of Swansea would need to be extended to Shermantown (less than 1 mile (1.6 km) away.
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sorts" at the nearby camp in Hamilton This boom resulted in three cities coming into existence: Hamilton at the foot of the hills, Treasure City on the hills, and Shermantown, which developed purely as a miners town.
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making a beeline to Treasure Hill. The crest of the hill was a barren, windswept land before many claimants established their stores, with mining claims and drilling sites every few feet.
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