This is what it is
all about, these Gold nuggets are of
the
type that were found at the
bottom of the
Canyon which is
where Dayton sprung
up.
This is a picture of the train that runs
between Virginia City and Gold Hill at the
present time, the plans are to extend the
tracks all the way into Carson City. At the
present time tickets can be purchased at
Virginia City and passengers can board there
for the ride to Gold Hill, a matter of a few
miles.
The railroad station building as it looks
today in Gold Hill, tickets can not be bought
here as the tickets are sold in Virginia City
a few miles up the hill. The train passes by
a lot of the important landmarks of the
Comstock lode and has a guide that points out
points of interest to the passenagers.
This is the Gold Hill Hotel. First Hotel on
the Comstock built in 1859. Early transient
shelters was taken in dugouts and tents. Some
of these were called Hotels. Boarding and
rooming houses sprang up with populatin. This
is the first edifice known to Nevad, to be
worthy the name Hotel.
A residential house of Gold Hill from by gone
days.
Another example of the early style
architecture that was typical of this
period.
This is typical of the type of wooden
structure that was used in the 1800's as a
store for the selling of dry goods, and
hardware and other supplies that were
difficult to come by in places like the early
mining towns of Nevada. The goods of these
type of stores would have to be freighted in
by wagons over rugged roads. The wages of a
miner was $4.00 a day, but the prices in
these small mining towns of the Virginia
hills would eat up these wages in no time at
all.
