Jumbo then & now

Jumbo, Nevada, ca. 1936 and 2011. Top photo courtesy of Nevada Historical Society (uncredited postcard); bottom photo by me, 14 Jul 2011.

In fact, the actual original photo stance is somewhere under those juniper trees in the foreground. This was a hard photo to recover, and not just because of all the vegetation that's grown up. It turns out the road in the foreground of the original pic no longer exists, too. It's been realigned to run up along the wash at right, presumably because of washouts over the years. I ended up matching the stance by lining up the rocky outcrop on the left of the hill in the middle distance (outlined) against the Carson Range (the skyline), and also by comparing the location of the distinctive whitish rhyolite roadcut in the middle of the picture.

I've put a photo from a different position, from about 100 yards southeast, in the comments that gives a much better flavor of the changes. None of the buildings or surface mine workings exist now, and the piñon/juniper forest has made a huge comeback. I imagine the trees had all been logged off in the 1860s to fire the boilers in Virginia City, about 5 miles behind me over the Virginia Range. The wildfire scar on the left in the modern photo dates to a few years ago. It was lightning-caused, IIRC.

I've also highlighted the headframe of the Pandora shaft. This shaft was filled in several years back by the BLM, as part of their mine-safety program.