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WHAT WAS

A townsite was recorded but there's not much known about Togo, or if it ever even existed past a temporary collection of tents. A more precise location might be discerned by looking at the filed townsite plat, or this plat showing the townsite and nearby claims. It appears that, while the area mines may have been worked for a while, the "town" of Togo was but a brief fantasy.

Nevada Fairview Mine (aka Snyder Mine, Gold Coin #2)
Produced for several years but amount unknown. Discovered in 1906 by Bartholomew, optioned by Snyder, 20 men worked the property for ten month, later production in 1910
Nevada Fairview Mine (aka Snyder Mine, Gold Coin Mine)
Production reported to be small, exact amount unknown. Discovered in 1906 and worked until 1910 by as many as 20 men.
Nevada Fairview Mine (aka Bluff Mine)
Production: small.
Discovered in 1906 and worked as part of Nevada Fairview Mine until 1910. Bluff name came from one of the original claim names.
HISTORY
The discovery of rich float by F. O. Norton in the summer of 1905 led to the location of silver-bearing veins on the northwest side of Fairview Peak later that same year.
During this same time period (1906-1916) a number of smaller properties were located along the west-central and southern portions of the district. The most notable of these include the Mizpah, Grand Central, and Jelinek mines in the west-central area and the Nevada Crown, Nevada Fairview (Snyder or Cold Coin) and Bluff Mines to the south. Although some of these mines have very sizeable workings, no production is recorded from any of them.
-FAIRVIEW DISTRICT. NBMG OFR 87-2. QUADE, J.; TINGLEY, J. 1987

Probably the first mention of "Togo."

B. F. Gregory and H. B. Morris returned Thursday evening from Togo, the new mining camp south of Fairview, where they completed the assessment work upon a promising group of clais, in which they were jintly interested with Dr. J. C. Simpkins and J. R. Gregory. They are very enthusiastic over the prospects and say that their group of claims is located withing a few hundred feet of the latest rich discovery, where ore is now being sacked that will run from $500 to $3500 in value.
-Churchill County Standard, September 22, 1906

ACTIVITY SOUTH OF FAIRVIEW
Six miles south of Fairview is the scene of considerable activity at the present time. The country around has been staked out for miles, and many of the claims are being proven up by substantial development work. The principal property now being developed there is that of the Fairview Southend company, the interest of Grant and Willard Snyder of Salt Lake. The company employs over twenty miners, mostly on tunnel work, and a big ore-shoot has been already exposed from which an excellent grade of shipping rock is being extracted. The Snyders are making preparations for an active winter campaign, and are securing a lot of material and all necessary supplies for carrying on the work on a big scale. In addition to these operations some 25 men are engaged on other claims grouped around the Snyders' strike. Last week, on a group of claims located two miles southwest of the Fairview Southend estate, another strike was made. Wide ledges with prominent outcrops traverse the ground, and from one of these samples were taken and submitted to assay. The returns received showed the presence of excellent values in gold, silver not being a factor. The Snyders are now concerned in a project for forming a permanent town-site in the section, and the name of Togo has already been chosen as that of the new settlement. As yet the camp is entirely dependent upon Fairview for all its supplies, and in view of its nearness to the older camp this is likely to be the condition for some time, until in fact more companies start up on a good scale. The Snyders, however, are confident that in the Fairview Southend company -they have a big proposition, and for the past few months Grant Snyder has been devoting almost his whole attention to the property, while his brother looks atfer their extensive Utah interests.
-The Goldfield News and Weekly Tribue, October 27, 1906

While ore was probably being shipped, it was nothing like its neighbor Fairview.

The Nevada Fairview mine, belonging to the Snyder Bros. of Salt Lake, is working about thirty men and they are taking shipping ore from thee widely separated openings.
-Reno Evening Gazette, December 26, 1906

PRAISING THE NEVADA FAIRVIEW
C. W. Kinney, the original discoverer of gas in the Sand Springs salt flat, and who owns the salt works there, together with about 1,400 acres of the adjoining land, was in camp this week. having come over from the vicinity of the oil excitement, stopping off at the Snyder property en route here he states that the management is very rapidly making a mine, and that a trip around the property reveals the presence of ore in shipping quantities. He states that they are at present sacking ore for transportation to the smelter; in his opinion Togo is going to make a big showing, and that before many months a string of wagons will be plying between that point and the railroad terminus at Fallon. He recently sold some claims about a mile from the Snyder strike, without ever having prospected the locality, and without giving them much thought. Since his recent visit to that section he realizes that he practically gave his claims away, for they are going to prove of great value.
-Goldfield News and Weekly Tribune, December 29, 1906


PORT-SAMPSON GROUP. Fred Young, of the Hayes-Monnette staff, arrived here Sunday, and has taken charge of a force of men employed to develop the Gold Crown group, better known as the Port Samson estate, situated about a mile south of the Nevada Fairview mine. The property was recently purchased by Wm. J. Morgan of Milwaukee, being at the time under bond to the Hayes-Monnette interest. Development work extending over a period of six months was carried on by the former owners, and the vein traversing the property was opened in several places; at one point a 45-foot shaft was dropped down upon the vein and some high values were found in excellent quartz. It has the name of being a leading prospect of the district and deserves the most painstaking and thorough prospecting possible, which it doubtless will receive, as the price paid by the new owners was a large one, and it Is evidently their intention to make a mine.
-Tonopah Daily Bonanza, November 3, 1907

 

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