Lincoln Highway Marker - Ruth Jct., Nevada
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Volcanoguy
N 39° 17.016 W 114° 57.856
11S E 675579 N 4350224
Lincoln Highway Marker at junction to Ruth, NV.
Waymark Code: WMV8KV
Location: Nevada, United States
Date Posted: 03/14/2017
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Lincoln Highway Marker next to Nevada History Marker (Copper Country) at the Ruth, NV. junction. Reproduction marker not an original.
Text of Copper Country sign:
The famed open-pit copper mines of Eastern Nevada including the Liberty Pit, largest in the state, are located two miles south of this point. Through the first half of the Twentieth Century this area produced nearly a billion dollars in copper, gold, and silver. The huge mounds visible from here are waste rock, which was removed to uncover the ore.
Two miles east of here, near Lane City, was the Elijah, the first mine discovered in the Robinson mining district. Lane City, originally called Mineral City, was settled in 1869 and had a population of 400. At Mineral City was the Ragsdale Station, one hotel and a stage station.
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