GOLDFIELD-COLUMBIA TOWNSITE ESMERALDA COUNTY NEVADA

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Lithographed map, 20 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches (53 x 60 cm). Old folds. Small holes at cross-folds, one small marginal tear repaired with tape. Very good plus. A rare, early town lot and street map of the boomtown of Goldfield in Esmeralda County, Nevada. Gold was discovered at soon-to-be- named Goldfield in 1902, and the town was laid out by the end of the year. Production was such that the town quickly grew to a population of over 20,000 in 1906, becoming the largest city in Nevada. Gold production fell off as quickly as it began, and the population dwindled to under 5000 by 1910, and only a few hundred by the 1930s. This appears to be one of the earliest maps of the town, showing it in the midst of its meteoric rise and not yet fully plotted. Rendered at a scale of 400 feet to the inch and with North to the right, it labels streets and cross-streets, lists numbered plots, and includes the railyard and depot. A moderately sized plot near the east end of town is labeled "Phenix's Addition to Goldfield," after George L. Phenix, who dropped his life as a railroad man to stake his claim. Rather than making his money through mining, he made the wise decision to convert his claim into building lots and amassed a fortune through their rapid sale during the boom. A rare and illuminating early map of this aptly-named Nevada boomtown; OCLC suggests a date of 1905 and locates only two copies, at the Dever Public Library and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. OCLC 58566425. N° de ref. del artículo WRCAM62874

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