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A short overview:

The Arabia District is in the foothills of the Trinity Range about five miles west of Oreana, a station on the Southern Pacific Railroad. It was discovered by George Lovelock in 1859 and became active in the sixties. A Stetefeldt furnace was built on the Hmboldt River at old Oreana to treat the ores of the Montezuma mine in 1867. This smelter had the distinction of being one of the first lead smelters in the United States. It was erected after unsuccessful attempts had been made to reduce the ore in stamp mills.
-Vanderburg, Report on Arabia District, 1936

The Montezuma mine was the main hole here.

The Montezuma mine yeilded over a qurter of a million dollars in silver and was the biggest in the district. Mining here continued sproadically until 1951.
-Montezuma Mine Report, Jack Quade, 1984

Easterners want details! Back then, there was no Pershing County, which wasn't formed until 1919.

THE MONTEZUMA MINE
SOME FACTS Relative to its Location and Condition.
J. I., of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is informed that there is such a mine as the Montezuma at Arabia, in Humboldt county, Nevada, upon which some work has been done without material profit, as its ores,. the carbonate of lead carrying silver, are of low grade and chiefly worked for the lead. As we understand from the Report of the State Geologist for 1875 and 1876, the mine belonged to the Hurricane Company who own smelting works at Oreana, some eight or nine miles from the mines. Wood and water are scarce in the district. Assuredly, the stock of Montezuma described by J.. I. has no present market value. We would respectfully ask our Winnemucca contemporary, the Silver State, to give us the precious present condition of the Montezuma property!
The above is from the New York Mining Record, and in reply we will state the following facts: The Montezuma mine is situated in what is known as the Trinity-Arabia District, three miles west of the Humboldt river and about five miles from Oreana Station on the Central Pacific Railroad. It was located in 1865, and sold by the locators to the Trinity and Sacramento Mining Company of New York. That company disposed of it to the Montezuma Mining Company, of which A. W. Nason was Superintendent. The Company built furnaces on the river near Oreana, and. shipped, from ores taken from the Montezuma and reduced at the furnaces, some $450,000 worth of bullion. The ores which produced this bullion were found near the surface. Before the railroad was built to Oreana, the Company became involved, and subsequently, General L. A. Buckner obtained the property from the creditors. Last year he prospected the mine to some extent and had a quantity of the ore extracted while prospecting, smelted at Oreana. The greatest depth to which the mine has been prospected is 100 feet from the surface. It was never worked by the Hurricane Company, though that Company bought it for $30,000 of which they paid $5,000 and gave notes and a mortgage for the balance which they failed to pay at maturity and General Buckner foreclosed the mortgage and bought back the property. For a full description of the property and the country in which it is situated, the Record is referred to " Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel," volume III, published by the Government. Not having a copy of the work to refer to we cannot give the page, but it will be found under the head of " Montezuma —Humboldt," and if Professor Clarence King, who was chief of that Exploring expedition, knew anything about mines at the time he explored the Fortieth Parallel, the Montezuma is one of the best mines in the country. His opinion is recorded in the volume referred to and the work dune on the mine since he made his report has not been sufficient to prove or disprove his theories. Ore has been found and is now in sight in the mine at the lowest point to which it has been prospected, but at present it is not worked, and we believe the property can be purchased at a reasonable price.
-Silver State, Aug 04, 1879

A lousy day for riding- windy and blowing alkali dust almost constantly, bordering on a late spring thundershower or snowstorm. Did that stop us? Did it even slow us down? Well, yeah. Adding insult to injury was the fact that there really ain't a whole heckuva lot out here, either. But then, there wasn't much out here to begin with.
THIS may be a photo of the town site. THIS shows the ingenuity of Arabians and their home-made cooking utensils. Finally, THIS shows a structure we found.