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Perhaps the most extensive exploration of this site has been done by Dr. William C. Davis, Ph.D. of Fallon, in his book Historic Site Studies in Churchill County, Nevada. This book is available through the Churchill County Museum, by the way, so go buy a copy. Or two. Having never actually visited the site, we can only guess at the location based on his description in the book. But we know it's in Bell Canyon, so we've narrowed it down to only 4 or 5 square miles for you to search. Unfortuntely, his book contains no maps and his directions include "a wash" or "a tree" which makes it a little difficult to follow along. But he does appear to have located the site and some exciting historical debris.

At the first juniper tree, continue on up the canyon/wash a short distance to the double junipers, two trees side by side, in the wash. This immediate area comprises Locus 1. There are a number of sanitary and transitional cans here. The transitionals have crimped side seams and soldered tops and bottoms. A clear glass, one gallon jug is noted, a rectangular tin can for cooking oil (olive oil?) or syrup and a short length of wrought iron bar was recorded here. Also seen are lengths of axe and saw cut wood. At this point one should turn right, ascend the wash to the crest of the ridge, and this will place one in the middle of Locus 3 with Locus 2 being immediately adjacent. Locus 2 is a Paleo Indian lithics concentration which also contains two biface fragments. A large number of biface thinning flakes are recorded here. When climbing the narrow, rocky wash to the crest of the ridge, a large dead tree is encountered as well as large, cut tree stumps. Some of these are about two feet in diameter! The large dead tree has two main trunks with a lot of branches. Datum for Locus 2 and 3 is the small, lone juniper tree at the top of the wash, on the crest. In view of the number of Prince Albert tobacco cans, the gallon jugs, the quart bottles, (whiskey), the spool which once contained sewing thread, the condensed milk cans (both large and small), and several miner's boot soles, heels and uppers, it would appear that this was likely the main habitation area of the short lived "Canyon Camp." A couple of two pound Hills Bros. coffee cans are recorded here. The abalone shell and fragments are recorded here at Locus 3 and it is not clear if this is related to mining or the lithics site.
-Historic Site Studies In Churchill County, Nevada, William C. Davis, PhD

Hugh Shamberger mentions Canyon in his book, Fairview:

"Another townsite, called Canyon, was recorded October 10, 1906, and was about two and a half miles southeast Togo. Both of these townsites were within the Fairview Mining District. Very little further information was found about them and, no doubt like so many other camps, they were short-lived."

Davis states:

"The canyon drains out into a large wash with a large alluvial fan below at the dirt road in Bell Canyon. This Bell Canyon road was the old Downeyville freight road in the early 1900's.

It might be difficult getting to this site coming down the eastern side of Fairview Valley, unless you like the idea of F/A-18's mistaking you for a moving target. Better you should come down the road east of Fairview Peak where it's a bit more safe.