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Gold Run
Later Adelaide

Located by graded road 11 miles south of I-80 at the Golconda exit (15 miles southeast of Winnemucca).
"After formation of a district in October 1866 several gold and silver mines were opened. In the spring of 1867 the Humboldt Register reported in glowing terms that thousands of tons of ore in sight were worth nearly $100 per ton. A townsite platted that fall on an elevated site on Gold Run Creek soon had a few businesses around a plaza, including a commodious hotel which claimed to have the best of liquors and cigars at the bar at all times. Gold Run, then also known as Cumberland, had a population of sixty including a few families at the end of 1867, and during the next year the eighty-stamp Golconda mill three miles south of Golconda worked ore from the Hope and Golconda mines. For fuel the mill used sagebrush, collected by Indians at a cost of $4.00 a day. But a sustained boom did not develop and the camp probably expired by the spring of 1871, when the Golconda mine closed.
Scottish interest renewed mining with vigor for a decade after 1897 (see Golconda), and the Adelaide mine was the principal producer. In the summer of 1907 the townof Adelaide was laid out below the mines, but the district was only intermittently active thereafter with leasers producing almost $200,000. During World War I the mines sustained a lengthy development. By the 1930s the camp of Adelaide had moved a mile and a half west where a new mill had been built. A few 20th century wooden buildings mark the site of Gold Run, while Adelaide has mill foundations and a few shacks."

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