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Brushed metal plaque № 48792

Carson City, NV, United States

Empire And The Carson River Mills. When the Comstock Lode was discovered in 1859, the problem of reducing the ore from the fabulously rich Virginia City mines had to be solved. Mills were built in Gold Canyon and Six Mile Canyon, in Washoe Valley, at Dayton, and on the Carson River which offered the

most abundant source of water to operate the mills.On the east shore of the river near the town of Empire the first small mill, built in 1860, was later enlarged to become the Mexican. The site of th

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