Crescent City

Lincoln County

[Not to be confused with Crescent in Clark County]

Following the 1865 silver discoveries that led to the creation of the Pahranagat District to the east of Mt. Irish and the location of the List Mine to the west in 1866, the Crescent Silver Mining Company was incorporated. The Company erected a five-stamp mill - the Crescent or List - at a spring near the List Mine and Crescent City was born. After operating for only ten days, the Alameda Silver Mining Company overtook operations of the mill and List properties. In 1868, the mill was enlarged to ten stamps with four furnaces, five pans, and two 20-hp motors. Mining at Pahranagat declined beginning in 1869, but Franklin Buck purchased the mill that year to work on ore from Tem Piute. His venture was unsuccessful, and the mill closed in 1871. A short revival occurred in 1873 when about 2400 ounces of silver was produced at the Crescent Mill, but it was short lived and the mill was ultimately dismantled and relocated.

Water Tank

Crescent Mill

Smokestack

Mill Flue

Flue & Smokestack

Mill Ruins

Crescent City

The List Mine produced ore worth $80/ton, which was processed at the Crescent Mill and amounted to $20,000 by 1868. In 1918, Rosario Arcurio began reworking in the area of the List Mine, where he set up the Rosey Mine. By the late 1930s, Arcurio erected a small custom smelter at Crystal Spring. In 1943, he proposed construction of a gravity tram to a 50-ton mill in Pahranagat Valley, but these plans never materialized and Arcurio moved on.

Rosey Mine