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Tonopah

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Tonopah

Community and administrative headquarters of Nye County, southwestern Nevada, 274 km/170 mi southeast of Reno; population (1990) 3,600. Some gold is mined, and livestock and grain are raised in the area. It is the site of the Central Nevada Museum.

It was a silver boom town after 1900; in 13 years its mines yielded nearly $10 million.



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The flutter on the Tonopah Stock Exchange lasted just ten days, during which time his smashing, wild-bull game played ducks and drakes with the more stereotyped gamblers, and at the end of which time, having gambled Floridel into his fist, he let go for a net profit of half a million.
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