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The Pittsburgh-Silver Peak Gold Mining Company bought the major mines in the area in 1906, and after land speculators at nearby Silver Peak bought up the land, the company surveyed a new townsite north of Silver Peak and named it Blair. The company built a 100-stamp mill in 1907 and also constructed the 17 1/2 mile Silver Peak railroad from Blair Junction to the Tonopah & Goldfield main line. By 1920, Blair was all but deserted, and the remnants of stone buildings and mill foundations are the only survivors of the once thriving, but short-lived, mining town.
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