M A DONTHETT

Abt 1834 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	M A DONTHETT
  Birth	Abt 1834	Ohio, USA
  Gender	Male
  _UID	1D76D85CC86246ABBC7CD0C00F2BD521DAF7
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	On some documents DONTHETT appears as DOUTHETT but DONTHETT is adopted here.. The following was provided by Helen Connell, July 2015: M.A. Donthett was listed as Secretary of the Eureka Consolidated Mining Co. , Eureka, Nevada in Mckenneys Pacific Coast Directory for 1883-4 Eureka Consolidated Mining Company Eureka Consolidated Mining Company was an underground, hard rock mining company operating about two miles from Eureka, Nevada, on Ruby Hill. Early mining in the region began in 1864. The Eureka Consolidated was formed when a party of San Francisco businessmen bought out the owners of the Buckeye, Mammoth, Sentinel and other mining claims in July, 1870. By the early 1870s the Eureka Consolidated Mining Company had purchased several additional mines, built five blast furnaces for smelting ore, and constructed a narrow-gauge railroad from the mines to its reduction works (later sold to the Eureka and Palisade Railroad Company). The production of the district from 1879-1883 was enormous, second only to the Comstock as a source of precious metals in the United States. From 1884 the output dwindled to a very small amount; the Eureka Consolidated Mines closed in 1891. By 1922 all the mines at Ruby Hill had shut down, largely because of sulphide ores and the water level in the mines. The exhaustion of the charcoal supply as fuel for the smelters also had an impact. At the end of 1905 the Eureka Consolidated and Richmond Mining Company were taken over by the Richmond-Eureka Mining Company with the goal of extracting large bodies of low-grade ore left from earlier days and pumping water from the Locan Shaft. By 1940 that company was owned by the U.S. Smelting, Refining and Mining company of Salt Lake City, which did extensive development work. In 1950 the mine was owned and operated by Eureka Corporation, Ltd., of Eureka, and development work continued. Nevertheless, not until the 1980s and 1990s did mining begin to really revive. Today the Eureka Consolidated properties are owned by Homestake Mining Company. (Source: Special collections, University of Nevada, Reno).
  Person ID	I1649	Folkestone, Kent
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2020

  
  

  Family	Lizzie McMARTIN,   b. Apr 1861, California, USA d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	26 Mar 1883	Eureka, Eureka County, Nevada, USA   [1]
  Family ID	F560	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2015

  
  

• Sources

  [S217] Western States Marriage Record Index 1809 - 2011 at ancestry.com, July 2015.