Nevada Northern & Railroads of White Pine County
     

Ore Line — History and Operations

By Steve Swanson
as told to Keith Albrandt

References

 

 

 

Bibliography

  
     
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Bianchi, Curt. September/October 1995. "Rails to the Last Bonanza." Locomotive & Railway Preservation Issue 55, 26-39.

Elliott, Russell R. "History of Nevada Mines Division, Kennecott Copper Corporation." Department of History, University of Nevada. Photocopy.

Elliott, Russell R. 1966. Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom: Tonopah, Goldfield, Ely. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press.

Johnson, Walter. 1998. Copper Camp Kids. Tallahassee, FL: Histories by WBJ.

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Parsons, A. B. 1957. The Porphyry Coppers in 1956. New York: The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc.

Read, Effie O. 1965. White Pine lang syne; a true history of White Pine County, Nevada. Denver: Big Mountain Press.

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Endnotes
         
1
 Myrick, 131.  
23
 Elliott, Nevada Mines Division, 91-92.
2
 Read, 252.  

24

 Parsons, 1933, 6.
3
 Parsons, 1933, 129.  

25

 Parsons, 1956, 10-11.
4
 Elliott, Twentieth-Century, 290.  

26

 Spencer, 133.
5
 Read, 238.  

27

 Ibid.
6
 Parsons, 1933, 130.  

28

 Parsons, 1933, 129.
7
 Read, 237.  

29

 Ibid.
8
 Johnson, 231.  

30

 Spencer, 96.
9
 Parsons, 1933, 130-131.  

31

 Elliott, Nevada Mines Division, 39.
10
 Elliott, Nevada Mines Division, 74.  
32
 Adams, 6.
11
 Ibid., 84.  
33
 Elliott, Nevada Mines Division, 39.
12
 Moore, 29.  
34
 Spencer, 96.
13
 Wagner, 162.  
35
 Elliott, Nevada Mines Division, 39.
14
 Parsons, 1933, 546.  
36
 Parsons, 1933, 131-132.
15
 Elliott, Nevada Mines Division, 108.  
37
 Elliott, Nevada Mines Division, 23.
16
 Moore, 20, 35-36.  
38
 Ibid., 74.
17
 Elliott, Nevada Mines Division, 108.  
39
 Parsons, 1933, 132.
18
 Ibid., 110.  
40
 Elliott, Nevada Mines Division, 85.
19
 Ibid..  
41
 Ibid.
20
 Bianchi, 31; Sims, 51.  
42
 Myrick, 133.

21

 Elliott, Nevada Mines Division, 15.  
43
 Adams, 7, 9-16, 18-19, 22.

22

 Read, 251.      
         

 

Ore Line — History and Operations
  Table of Contents  
  Page I — History  
  Page II — Stations  
  Page III — Diesel Operations  
  Appendix  
  References  

 

 

Last modified 17 August, 2001 by Keith Albrandt