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Henry Comstock staked a claim in 1859 but frustrated by not finding gold he sold his claim a few months later.
Turns out that the clay he was mining in was nearly pure silver ore.
Boomtowns
News of this brought many prospectors west and in 1864 Nevada was admitted as the 36th state. This helped fund the civil war for the Union