Hope Mill was named Philipsburg, in honor of Philip Deidesheimer. After the decline of the Comstock mines in the late 1870s, Deideshimer continued his successful mining engineer career at the Young America Mine in Sierra City, California, where he was one of the five mine owners made rich over the five years of good production at that mine. In media The development of his square-set timbering method was fictionalized in "The Philip Deidesheimer Story", a 1959 first-season episode of the American television series Bonanza, in which John Beal portrayed the title character. Philip Deidesheimer was the subject of the NPR radio program The Engines of Our Ingenuity in episode 1901 and was inducted into the (USA) National Mining Hall of Fame. See also Drift mining Shaft mining References Underground mining American mining engineers German mining engineers Hessian emigrants to the United States Engineers from Darmstadt People from Virginia City, Nevada People from Granite County, Montana 1832 births 1916 deaths 19th-century German engineers 20th-century German engineers