Lida
Location: Southern Esmeralda County, Lida
Directions: Along SR 266 in Lida
Location: 7
Visibility: 1
Accessibility: 1
Marker type: St (L)
Date Conquered: 7/16/08
Quick Description: A marker remembering of the very brief boom of Lida.
Signed: Yes -- Signed on both lanes of SR 266.
NOTES: Please know that this region is one of the most inhospitable in Nevada. This location is far away from almost everything. Please keep all the regular precautions stored in the back of your mind. Stand and take a break at this turnout for just a few minutes and you'll know what I mean!
Full Description:
Known as a contact point for Shoshone and Northern Paiute Indians, Lida Valley was the site of early prospecting in 1860's.
Later prospectors organized a mining district in 1867 and laid out the town in 1872. Soon stores, shops, stables and a post office were established. Some ore was milled locally, yet high-grade ore ($500-$1,000 per ton) was treated at Austin or Belmont. After 1880 mining declined.
Lida revived and thrived for three years during the Goldfield boom but declined again in 1907. Mining efforts resumed a few years later, and a small community existed here until World War I.
The tiny outpost of Lida in the b.g -- Population, 10.
Some clever landscaping on behalf of NDOT.
Photo taken in 2011.
