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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rono, post: 189958, member: 6492&quot;]Howdy grand daughter,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The history of the carson city mint is wonderful.&nbsp; The comstock lode was basically this nuggest of 75% silver and 25% gold that was about 5 miles long and a mile in diameter.&nbsp; They had already hit pay dirt, but later hit the Big Bonanza - and that was the Mother Lode.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>They built this city on top of this rascal called Virginia City (ever watch Bonaza?).&nbsp; The original Silver Dollar saloon.&nbsp; Young reporter named Sam Clemens.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Actually, Mr. Comstock was a weasel who convinced the actual &#039;owners&#039; of his particular parcel that it was his but he &quot;settled&quot; for 1/3 of the action with them having the other 2/3.&nbsp; He later sold his portion for $11K and it later actually produced about $20MILLION. This was the Ophir mine. He died broke.&nbsp; This was on a documentary the other night.&nbsp; But here&#039;s a link to the overall history in brief.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_Lode" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_Lode" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_Lode</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>enjoy,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>rono[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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