Journigan's Mill
After the Gold Reserve Act in 1934 raised the price of gold to $35/ounce, Roy Journigan located the five-acre Gold Bottom Millsite in Emigrant Canyon. Construction of a new 25-ton amalgamation & cyanide mill was undertaken in 1935, and in 1937 Journigan took out a lease on the Skidoo mine. Ore was also trucked in from the Cashier mine at old Harrisburg. The mill was sold off in 1939, but continued to operate under different owners for almost two more decades. In 1959, the mill machinery was dismantled by the Argentum Mining Company and moved to their property near Columbus, Nevada. An final attempt was made in the 1960s to use the remaining cyanide tanks to leach the tailings dump, but this ended by 1967.
