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Oakland Motor Car, Virginia City, Nevada, United States,

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Chollar Mine

Coming across the entrance into Chollar mines has enough power to raise the small hairs on the back of your neck and give you the sinking pit feeling in your stomach. There’s something about seeing the old tracks on the ground where the mining cars would be and the old equipment left to sit in the elements of the desert that can get a person’s heart pumping wondering what happened to leave this area looking like the miners had just left their shift for the very last time. Falling into disrepair and becoming abandonded, the Chollar Mine is one that shouldn’t be messed with especially with how deep the tunnels are within the earth--but that’s not the only reason.

History

The Chollar Mines were established in 1859 by a group of prospectors lead by a man of the name Billy Chollar. Within a few years the mining claim was sold to the Bank of California. The Bank of California was ran by John Mackay, James Fair, James Flood and William O’Brien, who would come to be the wealthiest men in America by buying the claim and selling stocks of it. The Chollar eventually produced $17,000,000 in both silver and gold. The mining technology of the time was surprisingly sophisticated with underground generators, pneumatic drills and square set timbering all due to the fact they were gearing up to take over the west and produce millions in silver and gold. As riches “poured” out from underground, the world of the 1860’s and 1870’s was watching, setting this town up for what would be failure in the end with how fast it grew and how fast it fell.

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Explore The Way It Was in Virginia City, Nevada

Some towns don’t change. This can be a bad thing as some towns seem to be dying a slow, painful death, stuck somewhere in a past time and unable to move forward. Virginia City, Nevada hasn’t changed much since the Comstock Lode discovery in 1859. However, in this case, being stuck somewhere in time is a good thing. Virginia City celebrates the Old West town where silver was discovered. The Famed…

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