This massive sixty-five-foot Montana-type headframe is the only remnant of the Bullion Beck and Champion Mining Company. The Bullion Beck was discovered in 1871 by John Beck and became one of Eureka's Big Four mines, along with the Gemini, the Eureka Hill, and the Centennial Eureka (Blue Rock). Constructed about 1890, the A-type, or two-post, gallows headframe stood over deep mining shafts and served to transport men, mules, supplies, and ore in and out of the underground workings. Housed within a substantial frame structure measuring 40 by 119 feet and about 70 feet high, it was part of a hoisting plant that used two Frazer and Chalmers 500-horsepower engines, sheeves, ropes, cages, and skip guides to move loads from depths of 300 to more than 3,000 feet below the surface. Hoisting operations relied on a three-man team consisting of a hoist operator, top lander, and cage tender. The Bullion Beck mine had a double-compartment shaft with a man-way from top to bottom, and its surface plant was originally enclosed in a wooden building. In 1925 the plant was demolished except for the headframe, which stood idle during the Depression of the 1930s, reopened because of World War II demand, and operated into the early 1960s. The headframe forms part of the Eureka Historic District, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on March 14, 1979, and survives as a rare symbol of the western mining landscape.