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NORTH BLOOMFIELD
NAMED IN 1857
FIRST NAMED HUMBUG IN igi
BY UNLUCKY MINERS
POPULATION 1800 IN 1880
NETAILS IN NEVADA CO HISTORY
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SAME STORY ON A SIGN
Put There by Historical Society
THE BIOGRAPHY OF A TOWN IN ONE PICTURE
Peeled Paint, Padlock Cobwebs Tell North Bloomfield’s Story
HOUSES WAIT AT ONE END OF STREET
p 7 , DESERTED GAS STATION-GENERAL STORE
TOWN IS.OLD BUILDINGS. A CROWDED GRAVE YARD
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Wednesday; October 28, 1959
North Bloomfield Lived Hard, Died Young
~The Law That Saved the State Passed Death Sentence on the Town
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NORTH BLOOMFIELD--A marker on the
single street of this near ghost community
tells those few people who make the tortuous trip here that in 1880, 1,800 persons
called this home. '
Like most gold mining towns of that
era, it was a bustling, brawling place:
hard as the muscles of the miners who
constituted the greater part of its populace.
Just out of sight of the town, it's reason for being--the Malakoff Hydraulic
Diggins--was working full time at eroding the countryside into a miniature Grand
Canyon to uncover the countryside's considerable quantities of gold ore.
Then came 1884 and the Sawyer Act
‘which made hydraulic mining of the Malakoff type impractical and the doom of
North Bloomfield inevitable.
Others Shared Fate
Other communities—Lake City tor instance--also passed into oblivion.or near
oblivion when the Malakoff ceased operation. It was a staggering blow to the
area; one from which it has never recovered. 5
Today, North Bloomfield stands like a
graveyard; .ead
buildings a mon
that will never be
it will never ret
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the few houses
its single street;
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mer. ;
To one and all
citizen--the town
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a few people.
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price class
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CHAMPIONS
IMPERIAL
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TRADES, TE
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120 W. Main St.
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