![]() | Bullionville |
"(#203) So I normally start my morning off with the routine caffeine boost. Coffee, tea, soda pop. Doesn't really matter as long as I down that sweet serenity. Well, everything opens late in Lincoln County. Even the "24 hour" gas station. And that means that lovely anecdote is nowhere to be found. Time is something of an inconvenience here. Maybe I should follow in their footsteps ..." -- Journal Entry, April 2009
Original Date Visited: 4/13/09
Signed: Original cut-out shield (severely faded). Both lanes of US 93
Exact Description:
Bullionville began early in 1870 when John H. Ely and W.H. Raymond removed their five-stamp mill at Hiko and placed it at this point. The enterprise prospered and during the next two years most of nearby Pioche's mills were located here because of the proximity to water. A twenty-one mile narrow gauge railroad, the Pioche and Bullionville, was completed in 1873 at a cost of $255,000 to haul ore from the Pioche mines to the reduction mills. Bullionville grew rapidly and by 1875 it had five mills, a population of 500 and the first iron foundry in eastern Nevada. During the same year a water works was constructed at Pioche which eventually led to the relocation of the mills. Although a plant was erected here in 1880 to work the tailings deposited by the former mills, this failed to prevent the decline of Bullionville.
Related Links & Markers
[5] -- Pioche [206] -- Hiko Nevada Towns: Bullionville Cathedral Gorge State Park (Nevada State Parks)
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