TWRM: ANASAZI RIM - ELDORADO CANYON, NV USA 18mile drive Time Lapsed 4.3.2011 §▬Яñ⌡▬§

Nevada Historical Marker NO. 6

ElDorado Canyon
HEAD OF STEAMBOAT NAVIGATION IN NEVADA

ELDORADO CANYON RUNS EAST FROM HERE TO THE COLORADO RIVER AND WAS THE SITE OF ONE OF NEVADA'S MINING BOOMS. PROPSECTORS BEGAN DIGGING FOR GOLD AND SILVER HERE ABOUT 1859, FORMING THE COLORADO MINING DISTRECT. THE THREE LARGEST MINES, THE TECHATTICUP, WALL STREET, AND EL DORADO RAND GROUP, YIELDED OVER $6,000,000.

THIS PORTION OF THE COLORADO RIVER WAS NAVIGABLE BEFORE DAM CONSTRUCTION, ALLOWING STEAMBOATS AND BARGES TO FREIGHT GOODS 350 MILES FROM THE CALIFORNIA GULF TO THE MOUTH OF THE ELDORADO CANYON AND UPRIVER. THE STEAMBOAT ERA PEAKED IN THE 1860'S, BUT CONTINUES TO THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

IN 1867, THE U.S. ARMY ESTABLISHED AN OUTPOST AT ELDORADO CANYON TO SECURE THE RIVERBOAT'S FREIGHT AND PROTECT MINERS IN THE CANYON FROM NATIVE AMERICANS. THE MILITARY ABANDONED THE CAMP IN 1869. IN THE 1870s, THE MINES FLOURISHED AGAIN, PRODUCING ORE UNTIL WORLD WAR II.

STATE HISTORICAL MARKER NO. 6
STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATIONS OFFICE
DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Eldorado Canyon Mine Tours
Colorado River Tours, Inc
This guided above and below ground mining tour will take you into the mine and the history of the oldest and most famous gold mine in Southern Nevada. This tour will consist of a walking tour of the old Techatticup Millsite. This is where the ore was brought out of the mine to the stampmill, crushed to a powder and mixed in cyanide tanks where the gold & silver were separated. We'll then proceed into the Savage Mine some 500 feet where you will view up and down stopes and actually see the veins they chased. This mine was once owned by Senator George Hearst and was claim jumped in 1874 which resulted in numerous murders. The air temperature in the mine is a cool comfortable 70 degrees year round.
http://www.eldoradocanyonminetours.com/

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