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Sulphur is a ghost town located on the Western Pacific Rail Road west of the Kamma Mountains.

Sulphur is named for the nearby sulphur deposits, discovered in 1866. The Hycroft Mine is located nearby.

J. W. Rover was convicted of murdering Isaac Sharp at Sulphur and hung in Reno in 1878.^[1]^[2].

The Sulphur post office "Operated Jan 1899-Sep 1899, Jan 1910-Nov 1943, Aug 1946-May 1953"^[3].

W. W. "Wally" Irwin was the Sulphur postmaster from "the mid-1930's through the 1950's"^[4]

Robert Trego states that there were three or families living in Sulphur in 1955^[5].

↑ Guy Rocha, "Myth #124: True Confessions: The J.W. Rover Case," Nevada State Library and Archives.
↑ Mining Magazine: An International Monthly Review of Current Progress in Mining and Metallurgy," p. 416, Volume 8, December 26, 1903.
↑ GNIS, "Sulphur Post Office (historical)," "History: , Citation: Gamett, James, and Paher, Stanley W. Nevada Post Offices. Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1983, 176 pp. Discusses historical background of Nevada post offices. p123"
↑ Benjamin T. Barna, "A Material Culture of Making Do: Adapting to the Great Depression in the Rabbithole Mining District," p. 74, UNR, May, 2008. Cites Venable 2006a.
↑ Robert Trego, "Black Rock Desert Roads," Nevada State Journal, October 23, 1955, p10-11. Low resolution image of Sulphur. Also mentioned are Trego and Jungo.

Wikipedia
Sulphur GNIS
"Winnemucca County Ghost Towns," Sulphur was a major shipping and receiving point in the 1920s.
Photos 1955 Derailment of the California Zephyr near Sulphur.
http://nvghosttowns.topcities.com/humboldt/humlst.htm
Dorthoy Nylen, "The Color of Daffodils, the Smell of Rotten Eggs," Nevada State Museum Newsletter, January/February 2002. Includes image of boiler.

HU-404, "Nevada Sulphur Smelter," Nevada Historical Society.
HU-405, "New Mill for Grinding," Nevada Historical Society. Not sure of the location.
HU-406, "Nevada Sulphur Smelter," Nevada Historical Society.
HU-417, "Sulphur-Humboldt Co.," Nevada Historical Society.
HU-418, "Spring Belonging to Sulphur Works," Nevada Historical Society.
HU-661, "Hotel @ Sulphur in the 1920's," Nevada Historical Society.

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 The Sulphur post office "Operated Jan 1899-Sep 1899, Jan 1910-Nov 1943, Aug 1946-May 1953"<ref>GNIS, "[http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:864862 Sulphur Post Office (historical)]," "History:	, Citation: Gamett, James, and Paher, Stanley W. Nevada Post Offices. Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1983, 176 pp. Discusses historical background of Nevada post offices. p123"</ref>.
+W. W. "Wally" Irwin was the Sulphur postmaster from "the mid-1930's through the 1950's"<ref>Benjamin T. Barna, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=WZTLIWiCRkIC&dq=Sulphur+Nevada++postmaster&q=sulphur#v=snippet&q=sulphur&f=false A Material Culture of Making Do: Adapting to the Great Depression in the Rabbithole Mining District,]" p. 74, UNR, May, 2008. Cites Venable 2006a.</ref>
 Robert Trego states that there were three or families living in Sulphur in 1955<ref>Robert Trego, "[http://newspaperarchive.com/us/nevada/reno/nevada-state-journal/1955/10-23/ Black Rock Desert Roads]," Nevada State Journal, October 23, 1955, p10-11.  Low resolution image of Sulphur. Also mentioned are [[Trego]] and [[Jungo]].</ref>.