Marzen House Museum

09/17/2026

Museum Improvement Notice

The museum is getting a fresh new look! In addition to a new paint job, blacktop improvements will also be taking place around the museum.

We appreciate your patience and understanding while this work is underway. Please be aware that the museum may need to temporarily close during portions of the project to ensure everyone’s safety and to allow the work to be completed efficiently.

Thank you for your continued support as we make these improvements to our museum!

09/14/2026

A little roadside cafe where the plates come out generous and the Mexican-American comfort food keeps folks coming back. It’s the kind of place that feels like a warm stop along the way.

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08/29/2026

Humboldt City, 1933: What Remained of a Nevada Silver Boomtown

This rough old photograph from 1933 shows the remains of Humboldt City, tucked away in the Humboldt Range of what is now Pershing County, Nevada.

The story began in 1860 when Louis Barbeau discovered silver in Humboldt Canyon. A rush followed, and Humboldt City was laid out the following year. By 1863, the little mining town had grown to around 500 residents and reportedly contained some 200 buildings.

For such an isolated place, it sounds like Humboldt City was actually quite a pleasant little community. Contemporary accounts described well-built homes, gardens, two hotels, two saloons, stores and a blacksmith shop. A clear stream had even been diverted through the town to provide water.

Unfortunately, like so many Nevada mining camps, the good times didn't last long.

Silver production began slowing after 1864, and the mining downturn of 1865 dealt Humboldt City a serious blow. People moved on to better prospects elsewhere, businesses closed and the town rapidly emptied. The post office hung on until November 30, 1869, but by then Humboldt City was essentially a ghost town.

It was quite a rise and fall. From a silver discovery in 1860, to around 500 people and 200 buildings just three years later, to nearly abandoned before the decade was over.

By the time this photograph was taken in 1933, Humboldt City's boom years had already been gone for about 70 years.

Too bad the photograph is so rough, but considering its age, I'm just happy somebody pointed a camera at the ruins and preserved the scene for us.

Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, NV0035.

08/29/2026

Florida Canyon is heading into the second half of 2026 with higher production and a larger long-term outlook.

Integra Resources reported 16,379 ounces of gold produced at its Pershing County mine in Q2, a 30% increase from the first quarter. The company also placed roughly 4.2 million metric tons of ore on its heap leach pads, up 45% from Q1.

An updated mine plan points to more ahead:

- 74% increase in proven and probable mineral reserves
- 17% increase in annual gold production
- $770 million in projected free cash flow over the life of the mine

Read more here:
https://bit.ly/4cxOp6D

08/27/2026

Nevada had tungsten in the ground for forty years before anybody bothered to pick it up. ⛏️

Geologists knew it was there by the mid 1860s. The trouble was that nobody had a use for it, so the ore was worth nothing and prospectors walked straight past it looking for silver. What changed was steel. Alloy makers found that a little tungsten let a cutting tool hold its edge at heat that would ruin ordinary steel, and suddenly the worthless rock had a price. By 1918 Nevada was producing about a third of the country's tungsten, most of it out of the Eugene Mountains, in country that would be carved off Humboldt County and named Pershing the following year. 💡

Then the war ended and the price collapsed. Demand came back in the 1930s as Europe started arming again, and this time one outfit owned nearly all of it. The Nevada-Massachusetts Company had consolidated the district by 1925, and by 1927 it was the principal tungsten producer in the United States, a position it held into the 1950s. The company town was simply called Tungsten, and it was the second largest community in Pershing County: a post office, a general store, a boarding house for the single men, an elementary school, a community hall, a library, a service station and more than one hundred ten family houses.

The last major tungsten mine in the state shut down in 1958. The Reno Gazette-Journal later called Tungsten the youngest ghost town in Nevada. When the ground was worked again in 1981 the town did not come back with it. The people who took those jobs lived in Imlay or drove in from Winnemucca, and the place built entirely around a metal nobody had wanted stayed empty.

Image is an illustration, not a historical photograph.

05/30/2026

Due to unforeseen staff illness, the museum will be closed today. Sorry for any inconvenience.

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