for the Comstock Lode in Nevada, the first being Comstock (LSD-19), commissioned in 1945 and decommissioned in 1976. The Comstock Lode was discovered in... 6 KB (292 words) - 00:40, 26 August 2023 |
Virginia City developed as a boomtown with the 1859 discovery of the Comstock Lode, the first major silver deposit discovery in the United States, with... 45 KB (4,510 words) - 08:32, 8 April 2024 |
Paige Comstock (c. 1820–September 27, 1870) was a Canadian miner after whom the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada, was named. The Comstock Lode was... 3 KB (292 words) - 20:44, 23 March 2024 |
Silver mining in Nevada (section Comstock Lode) state of the United States, began in 1858 with the discovery of the Comstock Lode, the first major silver-mining district in the United States. Nevada... 8 KB (905 words) - 06:45, 13 February 2024 |
Philip Deidesheimer (section Comstock Lode) trustee of the Ophir Mine, part of the Comstock Lode silver mining boom in Nevada, and solved one of the Comstock mines' most critical engineering needs... 6 KB (660 words) - 12:12, 27 June 2023 |
Virginia and Truckee Railroad (section Comstock Lode) railroad (reporting mark VT) which was originally built to serve the Comstock Lode mining communities of northwestern Nevada. At its height, the railroad's... 51 KB (5,812 words) - 07:49, 18 March 2024 |
which capitalized on the wealth generated by the silver mines at the Comstock Lode in Nevada, making him one of the richest Americans in his time. He also... 20 KB (2,386 words) - 04:24, 2 March 2024 |
Eilley Bowers (section Gold Hill and the Comstock Lode) Nevada pioneer, farmer and miner, and was made a millionaire by the Comstock Lode mining boom. Married and divorced two times, she married a third time... 20 KB (2,629 words) - 12:21, 27 February 2024 |
someone had picked up in Utah Territory (near what was to become the Comstock Lode), and had assayed in Nevada County, California. Hearst hurried to the... 20 KB (2,125 words) - 01:45, 17 April 2024 |
of Cornell University Comstock High School, near Kalamazoo, Michigan Comstock Lode and mines in Virginia City, Nevada Comstock canned pie filling, line... 2 KB (254 words) - 00:48, 13 September 2023 |
most of the lumber produced in California was used in mining. The Comstock Lode was a major center for logging, with operations supplying lumber for... 70 KB (7,049 words) - 23:33, 18 April 2024 |
USS Comstock (LSD-19) was a Casa Grande-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was the first navy ship named in honor of the Comstock Lode... 10 KB (873 words) - 13:47, 4 March 2024 |
History of the Comstock Lode, 1850–1997, Reno: University of Nevada Press, ISBN 1888035048 J.D. Hague (1870) Treatment of the Comstock ores, in Report... 5 KB (602 words) - 21:21, 21 February 2023 |
American prostitute in Virginia City, Nevada, a boomtown serving the Comstock Lode silver mine. She was murdered in 1867 and a French drifter named John... 9 KB (947 words) - 01:08, 25 April 2024 |
accounts of the people, events, and silver mining operations on the Comstock Lode at Virginia City, Nevada, including his non-fiction book History of... 13 KB (1,831 words) - 20:34, 10 September 2023 |
The Sutro Tunnel is a drainage tunnel (adit) connected to the Comstock Lode in Northern Nevada. It begins at Dayton, Nevada, and connects 3.88 miles (6... 6 KB (645 words) - 10:05, 23 October 2023 |
Elsewhere Bonanza, Alberta, Canada Bonanza, Spain Bonanza, Nicaragua Comstock Lode bonanza Bonanza, "Book Four" portion of the Baroque Cycle novel The... 1 KB (157 words) - 23:27, 13 May 2020 |
for California-bound immigrants, but developed into a city with the Comstock Lode, a silver strike in the mountains to the northeast. The city has served... 55 KB (4,618 words) - 13:46, 26 April 2024 |
bonanza (prosperity) and commonly refers to the 1859 revelation of the Comstock Lode of rich silver ore mines under the town of Virginia City, not far from... 52 KB (5,175 words) - 20:18, 29 March 2024 |