Notes and Sources for Part II:

 

[25]

Bristol, Nevada [also, see Notes 18, 19, Part I]

 

a.

[1907] “Bristol. A mining district located in Lincoln County, 20 miles

 

 

northwest of Pioche, the banking and shipping point. Mail reaches it via

 

 

Pioche” [no businesses listed]

 

 

Nevada State Gazetteer and Business Directory, First Edition, 1907-1908,

 

 

by R. L. Polk & Company, transcribed by Joy Fisher, online at

 

 

ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nv/lincoln/business/bristol1907.txt

 

b.

[November 2007] “Local landmarks include Bristol School (historical),

 

 

Bristol Silver Mines, Detroit Mine, Hillside Mine, Home Run Mine,

 

 

Iron Mine, Snyder Shaft, Tempest (historical), Tempest Shaft.”

 

 

http://abstusa.com/nv/bristol [website no longer available, March 2009]

 

c.

[March 2009] “Visit: Must make appointment with Kerr McGee – closed”

 

 

[picture] Bristol in the 1940’s, courtesy Joanne C. (Wigglesworth) Miller

 

 

http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/nv/bristol.html

 

[26]

Pioche Weekly Record newspaper

 

a.

Mary C. Tucker marriage: [Indexed] “Tucker, Mary / Bristol 

 

 

        Mar. 31, 1883 2:4 married Geo. D. Haggerty on Mar. 29, 1883”

 

 

        Pioche Weekly Record, March 31, 1883, pg.2, col. 4.

 

b.

Robert Tucker marriage: [Indexed] “Tucker, R. / Delamar

 

 

        Sept. 9, 1897 4:3 married Kate Smith on Sept. 2, 1897”

 

 

[Article] “Miss Kate Smith of this place [Delamar] and R. Tucker of

 

 

White River were married on the 2nd. inst. By Rev. Father Kennedy. The

 

 

happy couple were serenaded by town hoodlums and afterwards by the boys

 

 

of the town. The couple have our best wishes for a long and prosperous

 

 

married life.” Pioche Weekly Record, Sept. 9, 1897, pg.4, col. 3.

 

c.

index at Nevada Museum and Historical Society,

 

 

700 Twin Lakes Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada 89107, 702-486-5205

 

d.

Microfilm held by Nevada State Library and Archives, Carson City, Nevada.

 

[27]

[Groom Mining District, 1881] “Groom District joins Tem Pah-Ute District on the

 

south, and was organized in 1870. It is about ten miles west of Summit Springs, in the

 

same range of mountains, and includes . . . Pah-Ute Peak . . . altitude of 8,300 feet.

 

Fir and pine cover the western slope of the peak in the immediate vicinity of the

 

mines. The ore is of low grade, assaying from ten dollars to sixty-five dollars per ton

 

in silver, and was discovered in 1870. . . . The formations are of limestone, quartzite

 

and argrillaceous shale. Wood and water are in near proximity to the claims.”

 

History of Nevada with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent

 

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

 

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