#Nelson ghost town series
Before long, several of the miners formed the Techatticup Mine, supposedly through a series of shady dealings. The miners began at the top of a high hill, cutting down into the vein. The rich, vertically stacked ribbon of gold ran through a steep ridge along one side of the canyon. Before long, word spread and miners began to flood the area.īy 1861 miners had discovered the Salvage Vein about five miles up from the Colorado River.
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However, this all changed in 1858 when the first steamboats began to make their way up the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona. Seventy-five years later, in the 1850s, a new breed of prospectors began sluicing the many streams feeding into the Colorado River.įor a few years, the miners were able to keep their gold find a relative secret due to the remoteness of the area. They soon found that the silver was not in high enough quantities to justify their operations, and moved on.
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However, these early Spaniards somehow missed the rich gold veins just beneath the canyon’s flanks, finding silver instead. Founding a small settlement at the mouth of the Colorado River, they called it Eldorado.
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Living peacefully for hundreds of years, the Indians were intruded upon in 1775, when the Spaniards arrived in the canyon in their constant quest for gold. The area surrounding Nelson and Eldorado Canyon in Nevada was first home to the ancient Ancient Puebloan Indians, and later the Paiutes and Mojave tribes. Nelson area in Eldorado Canyon by David Alexander.