Just over the Virginia Range from Virginia City and the Comstock, but the heyday of mining was 40-odd years later, in the early 20th century. Not much left at this point!
Just over the Virginia Range from Virginia City and the Comstock, but the heyday of mining was 40-odd years later, in the early 20th century. Not much left at this point!
Washoe County.
Not much left of Jumbo...
Curiously, altho this area is only a few miles from the Comstock, there was no significant mining activity till the early 1900s.
Looks like a snag, except that it's too tall and straight for the piñon/juniper in the area (note dogs at base for scale); and there's a broken crosspiece and rusty fastener by the base. And I've found additional old pole fragments in the area. Apparently the line ran power from Virginia City to the Jumbo mill. The timeframe (early 1900s) is right, as mills were being electrified around then. This is evidently the only pole that's still standing, though.
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