Mountain House District
Overview
Other Names: Holbrook, Pine Nut, Eagle, Mammoth Eagle, Sulphur Spring
County: Douglas
Discovered: 1864
Commodities: gold, silver, lead, copper, iron, tungsten
Comments
Located 10 miles east of Double Springs Station, on the old Aurora road. The historic Pine Nut district was located in this area in 1864. The General Land Office 1866 map included the Mountain House area in the Eagle district along with the Red Canyon and Gardnerville districts. The district has been known as Mountain House or Holbrook since the 1920s.
References
Territorial Enterprise, July 14, 1860, 3:2; General Land Office, 1866; Whitehill, 1875, p. 18; Lincoln, 1923, p. 35; Stoddard, 1932, p. 28, 56; Gianella, 1945, p. 34; Overton, 1947, p. 29; Moore, 1969, p. 30; Stager and Tingley, 1988, p. 48
Mountain House Placer District Description
A few ounces of placer gold have been recovered intermittently from placers in the southern Pine Nut Range in western Douglas County (T. 10 N., Rs. 21 and 22 E.). The source of the gold is unknown.
Literature
Overton, 1947: Describes lode deposits of district.
Mountain View District
Overview
Other Names: Granite, Reservation, Walker River, Penrod, Schurz
County: Mineral
Discovered: 1908
Commodities: copper, gold, silver, lead, tungsten, antimony, gypsum
Comments
Located in the Wassuk Range, on the western shore of Walker Lake, north of the historic Walker Lake district. Mountain View includes Penrod Canyon on the south and extends to the northern tip of the range, west of Schurz. The 1866 map placed this district south of Wellington, east of the Walker River. The gypsum occurrence is on the western edge of district, in the area between Mountain View and the adjacent Yerington district.
References
General Land Office, 1866; Stretch, 1867, p. 39; Hill, 1912, p. 207; U.S. Geological Survey, 1909, p. 407 and 1915, p. 643; Lincoln, 1923, p. 146; Stoddard, 1932, p. 60; Vanderburg, 1937a, p. 44; Ross, 1961, p. 83; Lawrence, 1963, p. 124; Papke, 1987, p. 22; Stager and Tingley, 1988, p. 117
Mountain Wells District
Overview
Other Names: Mountain Well, La Plata, Chloride
County: Churchill
Discovered: 1860
Commodities: silver, tungsten, fluorspar, molybdenum
Comments
The Mountain Wells district is on the eastern slope of the Stillwater Range and includes mainly the area of La Plata and Cottonwood Canyons, east draining canyons that lead into Fairview Valley.
References
Stretch, 1867, p. 29; White, 1869, p. 86; Angel, 1881, p. 366; Lincoln, 1923, p. 8; Stoddard, 1932, p. 22; Vanderburg, 1940, p. 38; Schrader, 1947, p. 299; Willden and Speed, 1974, p. 80; Stager and Tingley, 1988, p. 33
