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Seven Troughs District,NV - Pershing County - c1900-1912 - Mazuma, NV Gambling Post Card :

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Seven Troughs District,NV - Pershing County - c1900-1912 - Mazuma, NV Gambling Post Card :
An RPC showing 7 men standing around a roulette game. On the wall in back is a sign that reads: H. Lee Jellum and something illegible beneath it. The caption on the card reads: Roulette Game Blue Hen., Mazuma. Osborn Photo 851. Printed by Osborn, Photographer, with G. & K. Drug Co., Rawhide, Nev. Both Osborn and H. Lee Jellum were photographers working in Nevada at this time. Jellum is also listed as a photographer working or living in the Chico (Butte County), Cal. area between 1900-1916. [Ref: www.cagenweb.com/butte/Photog.] Osborn is also known to have been working in Pershing County around 1908. We could not find any information regarding “Blue Hen,” either as the name of a saloon, another place, or type of game. Mazuma was a small mining camp in the hills near Lovelock that served the prospectors and mines around Seven Troughs. The town was completely washed away in 1912 by a flash flood in the Seven Troughs Range, killing at least 8 people and carrying objects miles down the alluvial fan. Rich gold ore was discovered here in 1905 and the first ore shipments were made the last day of December, 1907. A post office served the district from July 1907 through February 1918. The name is derived from a series of troughs placed by ranchers below some springs for watering stock. The spring emanated from a basalt dike that crossed the canyon at this point. (Carlson, p. 213).