Directions: Highway 50E from Fallon 47 miles to Middlegate and the junction of Highway 361; Turn S on SR361 for 17.1 miles, turn left (at sign) on local dirt road for 1.7 miles

From Fallon: 65.8 miles

What Was

Broken Hills was largely the mining operation of two men, James Stratford and Joseph Aurthur, from about 1913 to 1920. Because they got the most promising locations before anyone else got there, the town never really boomed. They sold out to a mining and investment company, which went belly up soon after. The town was active once again in 1926 after discoveries in nearby Quartz Mountain, (Paher)

Like Quartz Mountain, water had to be delivered from the Lodi Valley, some 10 miles away, and the ores mine here were mostly of the lead-silver variety. Ore was shipped 12 miles to Bruner's 50 ton mill to be worked. This may be the Mystery Mill we discovered when we were exploring near Phonolite, which I just realized is a site I never even started the page on. Oops.

Post Office: December 1, 1920 to October 15, 1921, June 16, 1926 to February 28, 1935

Newspaper: None

What is

Before coming upon the actual town site, there is a grave on the north side of the road. Some remarkably dull-witted individual has stolen the headstone, so we may never know who is buried there, or why. Bob Jones' site says it's the grave of Matt Costello, so we'll go with that for now. Aside from the headframe and a small contemporary (1980's) building standing at the Broken Hills Mine, there isn't much left of Broken Hills, save some scattered debris and the remains of a couple of buildings. Cow pies now dot the landscape.