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Silver and Borax: The Wadsworth and Columbus Freight Road Silver and Borax: The Wadsworth and Columbus Freight Road
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Document Date: 2009-07-08 15:56:16


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San Francisco / Belleville / Virginia City / Austin / LAS VEGAS / Salt Lake City / Carson City / READING / Placerville / /

Company

MACTEC Engineering and Consulting Inc. / Union Pacific / Columbus Freight Road Vulcan Power Co. / Vulcan Power Company Inc. / Tetra Tech / Land Management / Overland Mail Company / Pacific Borax Company / Tetra-Tech Inc. / /

Facility

Upper Mill / Wadsworth station / Lower Mill / Churchill County Museum / University of Nevada Special Collections / Smith Brothers Borax The Candelaria Depot / Carson Valley’s Mormon Station / Camp Floyd / Nevada State Library / /

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transportation / machinery / typical mining camp freight team / industrial machinery / main transportation corridor / flung mining camps / industrial-scale underground mining / Steel-rimmed wheels / expert mining engineers / travel corridor / /

NaturalFeature

Truckee River / Candelaria Hills / Carson Valley / Forty-Mile Desert / Sierra Nevada Mountains / Humboldt River / /

Organization

Carson City BLM Field Office / University of Nevada Special Collections / AL V / USDI Bureau / US Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management / Nevada State Historic Preservation Office / NE AL / Nevada Historical Society / Carson City Field Office / /

Person

Pat Barker / Myron Angel / James Simpson / Erin King / Russ Taylor / Candelaria Columbus / Peggy Waski / Miles Manhattan Belmont Fletcher / Andrew Wittome / Dayton Hamilton To Ely / Jim Carter / Mile Desert Ragtown / William C. Davis / Vickie Clay / Jim Kiser / Rebecca Palmer / Holly Prohaska / Sarah Branch / FALLON RENO / /

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Captain / whip / author / writer / Major / /

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Virginia / Nevada / Sparks Comstock Mining District / Utah / Columbus Mining District / NEVADA Belleville Candelaria Columbus ENLARGED AREA Columbus Mining District / Manhattan District / Churchill County / Columbus District / California / /

PublishedMedium

the Pony Express / /

Region

Western Nevada / southwestern Nevada / /

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