Four miners stand and sit outside the entrance to the Herald lode. Located on Battle Mountain near Red Cliff, the Herald lode was discovered around 1880. The Herald lode was short lived, and by 1886, it was no longer producing ore.
According to an article published in the "Rocky Mountain News" on May 12, 1880, "The strike recently made in the Herald lode at Red Cliff, promises to be a veritable bonanza on development. An expert … proclaims it to be an excellent piece of property, and one that will have no little tendency to induce more active prospecting in its vicinity and make the camp a point of attraction for a smelter. The property is opened up by a thirty-foot tunnel that in the face defines a lime floor as dipping at an angle of twenty-five degrees, into the hill. … Developments are being … made to ship the ore as soon as the condition of the roads will admit."
