Kimberly & Veteran

White Pine County

Kimberly - Although the copper discoveries on Pilot Knob were the first in the district, developments never occured until the Giroux Mining Company began work there in May 1900. In 1903, the company town of Kimberly was created, named for Peter L. Kimberly, who had helped finance the Giroux Co.

Kimberly's post office opened on July 24, 1905. The town became home to a general store and boarding house, and in September 1906 the Nevada Northern Railway reached town. By 1910, there was even a newspaper - the Kimberly News. In 1914, the Giroux holdings were acquired by the Consolidated Copper Company. By the mid 1920's, the camp had a population of about 500, a school and a hospital. The Depression slowed developments in the 1930s, and in 1958 the mine was acquired by the Kennecott Copper Corporation. The post office closed on December 31, 1958. Extensive development since then has wiped the town of Kimberly off the map; tailings cover the site.

Kimberly
Date Unknown

Veteran - The short-lived camp of Veteran was established by the Cumberland-Ely Copper Company in 1906 near its main shaft. About fifty attractive buildings were erected, including a three-story office building, boarding house and bunkhouses. Veteran also became the terminus of the Nevada Northern Railway. By 1914, development of the Veteran mine had proved to be disappointing, and as a result of expensive underground work the mine closed. Most of the camp's buildings were moved to Ruth that year and the remainder in 1957. The site of Veteran was obliterated by work at the Veteran pit in the 1950s.

Veteran
1912

The Liberty Pit

Liberty Pit

Nevada Northern Railway
← Riepetown • Kimberly • Veteran

Bibliography

Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps by Stanley W. Paher (Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1970), 236.
Nevada Post Offices: An Illustrated History by James Gamett and Stanley W. Paher (Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1983), 83.
Romancing Nevada's Past: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Eureka, Lander, and White Pine Counties by Shawn Hall (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1994), 157-158, 204.

Kimberly & Veteran

Kimberly Post Office