Comstock Lode
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Comstock Lode
C19: named after T. P. Comstock (1820–70), American prospector
Example Sentences
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Europeans colonized the area in the mid-1800s and began clear-cutting trees to supply nearby towns and the Comstock Lode mines with lumber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2021
The Comstock Lode boom began in the 1850s and, for several decades, brought a rush of prospectors to places including Virginia City, Gold Hill and Silver City.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 11, 2019
Eight years of placer mining in that state produced little, so he went over the Sierras to Virginia City, Nevada, and worked in the silver deposits known as the Comstock Lode.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015
In 1860, in the Comstock Lode region of Nevada, for example, there were reportedly only thirty women total in a town of twenty-five hundred men.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
After leaving Empire the road enters the canons of the Carson River, passing in rapid succession the sites of numerous mills which were erected to. crush the rich ore of the world-famous Comstock Lode.
From Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information by Stratton, Lilyan
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