| Monitor Valley, Nevada
February 21, 1982
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CANYON Vern was working in Nye county for three months to supervise the cutting over to newly constructed cable plant. for Nevada Telephone and Telegraph Co. On this sunday he took a drive way north of Tonopah and wanted to see what was up this canyon. He found mud, almost got stuck and got out of there. He continued north and found DIANA'S PUNCH BOWL His visit to BELMONT was the best. |
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the road Barcelona Peak and the old Van Ness mine. Van
Ness was a small mining camp located two miles from Barcelona. The Van
Ness Company owned and operated the camp and began working their claims
in the early 1920s. Mercury was the primary product of the mines. The
camp was at an altitude of 9,000 feet and had several boardinghouses, a
cookhouse, and a population of twenty. The camp continued to produce
for a few years but the cinnabar ore gradually began to run out and the
camp was abandoned by 1935. Van Ness became active again in 1940 but
the operation was short lived, ending in 1941. There are a number of
interesting remains at Van Ness and a four-wheel-drive vehicle is
required to get there.
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