Fairview and Nevada Hills

You ain't much of a mining camp unless you got yer own Historical Marker, bud.
The Fairview mill
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)
The vault sits alone.

 

Mr. Kent assumes a relaxing pose in front of the Palace Rooming House
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)
The Monarch Building- hard to believe something this big could vanish so completely so quickly.
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)

The Douglass Jarvis Bank
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)

The inside of the Hoover store
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)
The outside of the Hoover store
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)
A store and residence
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)
Pickup and camper, 1906-style. I believe I've seen references to this picture claiming that this is the first woman in Fairview.
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)
Buildings long gone
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)
A Panorama of "Upper Fairview"
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)
Storefront in Fairview
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)
A prospector's wagon
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)
Water was delivered by wagon
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)
Tent living was very common in most camps
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)
A shot of "Upper Fairview"
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)
The hotel in "Upper Fairview"
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)
Another shot of "Upper Fairview"
(Photo courtesy Churchill County Museum)
About all that's left of the graveyard
A Kent's ad in the Fairview newspaper
A picture of a mining token I found somewhere on the web- not, unfortunately, at Fairview.
A bit closer, showing the interesting construction technique
Messages scrawled inside the vault. We really hope things picked up for this guy.
Someone was gathering some artifacts before we got there.
You can see the imprints of the wooden forms used to cast the concrete vault.
What the @#$%&! did I take this picture for? I gotta start keeping better notes.
A square nail dates the site
And always, constantly overhead, you are protected by circling F-18's
At other mining camps they'd drink water or beer, but not at Fairview, nosiree. These were some tough hombres.
Lots and lots of cans over by the mill- lubricating oil, perhaps? Couldn't all be pancake syrup.
Sometimes all that stands between you and your Eternal Reward is a piece of red ribbon.
I thought this had a ind of "mission" look to it,
Using the building materials on hand
Ruins by the mill
A cozy little condo up by the mill
The Lambert Hoisting Engine Company of Newark, NJ will be happy to know that one of their products is still installed at Fairview, Nevada.
Scrap sometimes just collects in one place
My ex-father-in-law Duke Dalton would pick this up and say, "This is a glug," and you'd ask him "Whats a glug?" and he'd answer, "You throw it in the water and it'll go 'glug, glug, glug." Geez I loved that guy.
Whatever this was, its still in its original container, and it hasn't moved in a long time.
One thing we have noticed in our travels- an old mining camp ain't an old mining camp without some mattress springs laying around.
Even in ruin there is beauty. At least that's what I say to myself when I shave in the morning.
Even back then, the smart ones knew Fallon was the place to be
My "inflation calculator" computes this as about $473 a cord (in town) in 2001 dollars- $567 "up the gulch."
Loaded up at the end of a rainy Fairview day.
You'd have to be really, really bored to click on this picture of our grill warming up