Six Mile Canyon Lower Kilns on the Hot Creek Range Nevada !
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Six Mile Canyon Lower Kilns on the Hot Creek Range Nevada !


Taken from the Eureka " Daily Sentinel " Friday August 31, 1877, information in concern to the Hot Creek Range.

Quote; Henry Allen, the well known contractor of Eureka , has just finished a work of considerable magnitude at Hot Creek. Last summer he was employed by the Tybo Consolidated Company to build fifteen kilns, in which the company proposed to burn the charcoal neccssary to supply their furnaces at Tybo.
He finished his work a week ago, and some ideas of its magnitude may be gathered from the fact that 600,000 bricks were used in building the kilns. They are oval shaped, having a diameter of twenty five feet. Each one has the capacity of 1400 bushels, turning out that quantity of coal to each charge, the operation consuming five days. A great economy of time results from these kilns, instead of burning in the old fashioned way, and as the company owns a vast quantity of wood in the immediate vicinity.
They calculated on their fuel costing them about one-half the usaul rates. A force of twenty men were employed about three months in the building of these kilns.

The White Pine excitement proved a great injury to Hot Creek, from which its recovery has been slow.

After leaving Four Mile Canyon , we came to Six Mile Canyon. We did get all of the Kilns, and the ones in Wood Tick Canyon as well.
Now this Canyon had nine of the fourteen, to see more reference below;
Tybo Kilns
Four Mile Canyon
Six Mile Upper Canyon
Six Mile Middle Canyon
Wood Tick Canyon


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