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Historical Clippings Book (HC-12) (520 pages)
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Page: of 520
By Ross’. ~~ nn
‘the old mining v.p of Red
Dog nine miles east sf Nevada) }
City disappeared long ago, but
much of its history is still recorded on the gravestones of its. F
_ pioneer cemetery.
Buried there are two of the; }
three men who discovered gold
at Red Dog in 1850. Onc of these
men, Henry Stehr, spent his life
in the town throvghout its years. } 7
of boom and decline. During his
life he made several fortunes,
but when he died in 1881 he left
an estate of only a few hundred
dollars. ‘
There in the cemetery are also —
the plots of the Masonic Order] gy:
and the Odd Fellows, both containing graves of some of Red
Dog's most prominent citizens.
Most Were Common Folk
.But most of the graves are of
miners and common folk, obscure people who have been for-. * }
gotten by history. They were people who crossed the plains numbed
to all hardship and suffering by the} »>
golden dream. With energy and] .
fervor they dug into the land,. leveling mountains in their quest
for the precious metal. A few attained the riches they sought and
returned to the civilization and
comfort of the East to bask in
their hard-earned fortunes. Most
worked doggedly for years, eking
out only a meager existence and] ,
finally dying undistinguished and)
unheralded with their dreams of
gold still a distant mirage.
A striking fact about the old
cemetery is that the average age
of those buried there is less than
30, attesting to the dangers and
hardships of mining camp life.
Several of the graves are of
young miners who were killed
when gravel banks tumbled upon
‘them while they were working in
an hydraulic mine. This was a
common accident in the course of
hydraulic mining which. claimed
many lives. Another miner died
from injuries suffered when water
pressure broke a hydraulic pipe
knocking him several feet into a
flume, Many of the deaths were)
caused by pneumonia, which}
plagued the town during the early.
years of ils existence.
-A remarkable number of the
grapes are of children, who succumbed to. early epidemics and
fell prey to the various hazards
of a mining region. Open flumes
oan their toll of many, even
te plthh, detlned ted we
: es.