Richmond
Richmond was a small camp that emerged in 1863, named by Thomas, Yoacham, and others for a nearby ledge. The solitary newspaper mention I have located claimed there were sixteen men in the camp and one family nearby, with two stone houses and several other shanties of brush. Apparently, the first silver brick in the district was produced May 28, 1863 from the Tesora or Tesoro claim nearby, which was worked by Mexicans and processed at an arrastra.
In 1914, the Austin-Dakota Development Company began developing the OK Mine just to the west of old Richmond, and for the next years worked several claims in the area including the X-Ray and Dalton (adjacent to the old Tesora claim). On August 15, 1917, a boiler explosion at the Dalton took the lives of Louis C. Dyer and Fred Burchfield, after which operations there ceased. Apparently the Austin-Dakota Company ended all operations around 1920, and the area seems to have been idle since.
