The Combination Mine headframe came from the Combination No. 1 claim, which Alva D. Myers and R.C. Earl located on May 26, 1903. Gold had been discovered about two miles north by Harry Stimler and William Marsh in December 1902, creating excitement and a rush to stake early claims. By the summer of 1903, interest in the Grandpa District, later renamed Goldfield, was waning, but some original prospectors and investors, including Myers, persisted. In the fall, the Combination discovery paid off and became one of the richest ore discoveries in the district. Recorded gold production from the Goldfield District from 1903 to 1960 was nearly 4.2 million ounces from about 7.7 million tons of ore, and at least 98 percent of that came from a belt less than a mile long and a few hundred feet wide that included the Combination claims.