The Lincoln County-Ferguson (Delamar Valley) Mining District,
close to Las Vegas in Nevada.
Photos and descriptions courtesy of Bill Trowsdale, the Antioch, California "Desert Rat."
To enlarge the pictures, click on each one.

This one of the horizontal mine shafts in the area.
These are dangerous due to vertical drops and foul air..

The stone ruins are plentiful in this area.========>

Probably the mill in the Delamar Valley District.

This was the Miner's Union Hall.==========>
Anyone who knows about the Nevada Mine Owner-Miner Wars would never be anti-union.

Looking at the area of many buildings whose foundations are all that is left of the camp.

A Mine Office Relic.==========>
In the foreground is an ore funnel from the Glory Days.

All that's left of a miner's home.

A a mine explored by Bill Trowsdale, seen here at the entrance..==========>
Bill's experience is still at risk when looking into the depths of these mines.

This isolated building may have been the blasting-powder storage vault.

The Delamar Cemetery.==========>
Vandals have no respect for anything. The fence was broken down and damage to the headstones was rife..

This head stone shows the early death that was the average miner's fate.

A miner family's effort to fence out the world from their loved one's resting place.==========>
Here is an infant whose grave shows a protective response to an untimely death.

The Irish Mountain Petroglyph Site is not far from Delamar.

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