Lida District
Overview
Note: Lida and Tule Canyon districts are often described as one district, but this publication breaks them into two districts. The Placer description is included in the Tule Canyon record.
Other Names: Lida Valley, Alida, Alida Valley, Tule Canyon
County: Esmeralda
Discovered: 1871
Organized: 1871
Commodities: silver, lead, gold, copper, turquoise
Comments
Originally known as Alida or Alida Valley, the present Lida district extends from the eastern slope of Magruder Mountain to the northeast and includes the section of the Palmetto Mountains lying east of Lida. The separate Tule Canyon district was at one time considered to be part of the Lida district.
References
Stretch, 1867, p. 59; Whitehill, 1873, p. 41; Whitehill, 1875, p. 22; Angel, 1881, p. 416; Stuart, 1909, p. 57; Hill, 1912, p. 207; Lincoln, 1923, p. 76; Stoddard, 1932, p. 39; Gianella, 1945, p. 56; Morrissey, 1968, p. 9; Albers and Stewart, 1972, p. 69
Lime Mountain District
Overview
Other Names: Deep Creek, Independence
County: Elko
Discovered:
Organized:
Commodities: copper, silver, gold
Comments
Includes all of Lime Mountain, a ridge about 6 miles long extending northward from Deep Creek toward Bull Run Creek. Smith (1976) used Independence and Deep Creek as alternate names for this district.
References
Lincoln, 1923, p. 51; Stoddard, 1932, p. 32; Gianella, 1945, p. 43; Granger and others, 1957, p. 104; Smith, 1976, p. 104; LaPointe and others, 1991, p. 150
Lincoln District
Overview
Other Names: St. Lawrence, Mount Washington, Mount Wheeler
County: White Pine
Discovered: 1869
Organized: 1869
Commodities: beryllium, tungsten, lead, silver, copper, fluorspar, thorium and rare earths
Comments
The Lincoln district covers the western slope of the Snake Range in the vicinity of Mount Washington and Lincoln Peak, south of Wheeler Peak. The district extends from Lincoln Canyon on the south to about Williams Canyon on the north. According to Hose and others (1976), the original district extended eastward to include areas now within the Snake and Lexington districts. The district has also been known as Mount Washington, Mount Wheeler, and St. Lawrence.
References
White, 1871, p. 95; Angel, 1881, p. 654; Hose and others, 1976, p. 58; Stager and Tingley,1988, p.221
Little Mountain District
Overview
Other Names: Cinnamon Bear
County: Lincoln
Commodities: copper, molybdenum, silver
Comments
Little Mountain district is in the general area north and south of Empty Mountain (Little Mountain) in the southwestern Cedar Range about 12 miles southeast of Panaca. The Cinnamon Bear district, described in the Territorial Enterprise (1873) as 20 miles southeast of Pioche, may have been in this area.
References
Territorial Enterprise, April 13, 1873; Tschanz and Pampeyan, 1970, p. 174
