Amargosa Valley's Clay Industry - Amargosa Valley, NV
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jiggs11
N 36° 24.790 W 116° 25.407
11S E 551690 N 4029931
ECV marker located outside the entrance to the Longstreet Casino in Amargosa Valley.
Waymark Code: WMQABE
Location: Nevada, United States
Date Posted: 01/22/2016
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E Clampus Vitus marker located outside the casino entrance. Marker details the history of clay quarries in the area.
Marker text reads:
AMARGOSA VALLEY'S CLAY INDUSTRY
Near here is the site of the Bradford siding on the Death Valley Railroad spur of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad. This siding was used by the extensive clay quarries active in the Amargosa Valley from the 19020's until 1940. The first clay claim was staked by 'Dad' Fairbanks in 1916. In 1917 mining engineer S. Frank Brock located six square miles of clay claims. By the late 1920's 30,000 pounds of clay was shipped every year for filtering oil from booming Southern California oilfields. With the closure of the T & T the quarries closed in 1940, not to reopen until the 1970's.
Dedicated this 19th day of October, 2008.
Queho posse Chapter 1919 of the ancient and Honorable Order of
E Clampus Vitus in cooperation with Jim Marsh
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