Lida (Nevada)

37.458055555556 - 117.49805555556Koordinaten: 37 ° 27 ' 29 " N, 117 ° 29' 53 " W

Lida is a ghost town in Esmeralda County, Nevada.

Location

North of Nevada State Route 266 at the output of Lida Canyon on the southern slope of the Palmetto Mountains at an altitude of 1878 meters. Lida Junction on U.S. Highway 95 is located approximately 28 kilometers to the east, to the border with the State of California to the west is about the same distance to overcome.

History

Before the arrival of European settlers were mainly of the surrounding mountains goal of the forays of the Shoshone and Paiute, as placed here pines and cactus provided a food source. First, mainly Mexican and Native American prospectors arrived at the low-water -repellent area and only in the middle of the 19th century, found here and in nearby Tule Canyon located but mineable silver deposits.

Similar to around 20 kilometers west situated Palmetto intensification of degradation about 1867 began when a Mining District was established. The United States Postal Service opened on March 17, 1873, the post office, but ordered this to not knowing the exact location of this place first the Inyo County before this was corrected about a month later. As a main thoroughfare, a road was created by Silver Peak, from where there was already a connection by Wadsworth at the line of the Central Pacific Railroad. Steam -driven grinding mills, which used the local water sources, were built, but richer ores were shipped for processing to Belmont and Austin.

Already in the eighties of the 19th century saw a decline in importance of mining as the entire state, but led the finds at Goldfield and Tonopah to a new, but short-lived boom. In 1905 some 300 people lived in Lida, mainly served as a service center surrounding mines. Waters of the surrounding springs was delivered by means of a pipeline to Goldfield, usable for vehicles Road to Big Pine was opened in 1905. But this boom in 1907 was completed, a slow but steady decline began. The post office was closed in late 1918 and rebuilt in Gold Point.

Today Lida is at least seasonally inhabited, but there are no facilities apart from an information board at the State Route south towards the town entrance.