Alexander continued to allow the citizens of Barberton to use Lake Anna as a park but the danger of loosing Lake Anna caused O. C. Barber to speak out in 1909 at the Barberton Memorial Day Celebration.
The 2016 Battle Mountain, Nevada, population is 3,253. There are 912 people per square mile (population density).
The town is located on Interstate 80 between Winnemucca and Elko. The Battle Mountain area was home to the Northern Paiute and Shoshone peoples. The area was noted by fur trappers in the 1820s and 30s. It served as a waypoint for westward bound travel on the emigrant trail along the Humboldt River by 1845.