Diamondfield Nevada !

	May 9th, 2006, Wesley and I did the Goldfield area..... If you are looking for the history of Diamondfield you will find on Google page after page on Diamondfield Jack Davis. All of the history is in the Goldfield stories. Besides Goldfield there was Jumbotown, Columbia, and Diamondfield. These small camp were soon to be included as part of Goldfield and died just as fast, or faster.
The photo above was taken looking east over the Diamondfield site. There is only a couple of foundations and trash left to mark the remains of the camp. To the right and below are the two stone foundations that are left. The town grew from the Black Butte mine on the north side of town. Diamondfield was five miles Northeast of Goldfield and four miles from Columbia.
	When traveling around the area always keep track of what road you are on. There are mines and pits everywhere, not to list the many mills that were built here. To lease a lot here in those days, you would have to go through the Diamondfield Development Company. The owners were Anna L. McGonagill, Diamondfield Jack Davis, Van Spaulding, and T. L. Oddie. The attorney for the company was listed as Frank M. Ish, dated March 4th, 1904.
It was founded in 1903 and boomed in 1904. The camp had around 300 residents in 1904 and supported a post office, several restaurants, three saloons, two general stores, a school, church, blacksmith shop, drugstore, two hotels, and a assay office. As always in Nevada history when the mine failed, the town faded away and was gone by 1907.
	The main support for the town was the black butte mine shown here. This mine was just north of the town. East of here before you get to the Hiway is the large Goldfield Consolidated Mill, you can see it from the Hiway with out any problem. Right beside it which you can not see is the small Columbia mill. The area is full of mills, mines, and pits. This was one of the last big booms Nevada ever had.
This large stone foundation was right east of the mine. From the size of it, it would have to been the mine office or owners house. It had a great view of the mine in those days.