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Bristol, Nevada [also, see Notes 18, 19, Part I] |
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[1907] “Bristol. A mining district located in Lincoln County, 20 miles |
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northwest of Pioche, the banking and shipping point. Mail reaches it via |
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Pioche” [no businesses listed] |
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Nevada State Gazetteer and Business Directory, First Edition, 1907-1908, |
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by R. L. Polk & Company, transcribed by Joy Fisher, online at |
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ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nv/lincoln/business/bristol1907.txt |
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[November 2007] “Local landmarks include Bristol School (historical), |
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Bristol Silver Mines, Detroit Mine, Hillside Mine, Home Run Mine, |
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Iron Mine, Snyder Shaft, Tempest (historical), Tempest Shaft.” |
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http://abstusa.com/nv/bristol [website no longer available, March 2009] |
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[March 2009] “Visit: Must make appointment with Kerr McGee – closed” |
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[picture] Bristol in the 1940’s, courtesy Joanne C. (Wigglesworth) Miller |
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http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/nv/bristol.html |
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Pioche Weekly Record newspaper |
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Mary C. Tucker marriage: [Indexed] “Tucker, Mary / Bristol |
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Mar. 31, 1883 2:4 married Geo. D. Haggerty on Mar. 29, 1883” |
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Pioche Weekly Record, March 31, 1883, pg.2, col. 4. |
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Robert Tucker marriage: [Indexed] “Tucker, R. / Delamar |
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Sept. 9, 1897 4:3 married Kate Smith on Sept. 2, 1897” |
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[Article] “Miss Kate Smith of this place [Delamar] and R. Tucker of |
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White River were married on the 2nd. inst. By Rev. Father Kennedy. The |
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happy couple were serenaded by town hoodlums and afterwards by the boys |
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of the town. The couple have our best wishes for a long and prosperous |
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married life.” Pioche Weekly Record, Sept. 9, 1897, pg.4, col. 3. |
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index at Nevada Museum and Historical Society, |
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700 Twin Lakes Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada 89107, 702-486-5205 |
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Microfilm held by Nevada State Library and Archives, Carson City, Nevada. |
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[Groom Mining District, 1881] “Groom District joins Tem Pah-Ute District on the |
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south, and was organized in 1870. It is about ten miles west of Summit Springs, in the |
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same range of mountains, and includes . . . Pah-Ute Peak . . . altitude of 8,300 feet. |
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Fir and pine cover the western slope of the peak in the immediate vicinity of the |
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mines. The ore is of low grade, assaying from ten dollars to sixty-five dollars per ton |
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in silver, and was discovered in 1870. . . . The formations are of limestone, quartzite |
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and argrillaceous shale. Wood and water are in near proximity to the claims.” |
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History of Nevada with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent |
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Men and Pioneers, pub. Thompson and West, Oakland, California, 1881; pg. 485 |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XV n.2 / April 2009 / Copyright Frank McAninch / page 2009-12 |