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 Austin Nevada !
History brief on Austin Nevada.
Early May
1862 at the Jacob’s Spring stage station, which was located on the
transcontinental stage route, one William H. Talcott was gathering firewood on
the nearby hillside. He found on that day a metal-bearing quartz ledge from which
he collected a few samples and return to the station. After having it assayed,
it was found to contain rich silver. The ledge was then located as a mining
claim and the name Pony given to it. click-thru
to the full article.
 Ophir Nevada !
History brief on Ophir Nevada.
In 1868, the Twin River Mining District was considered the most important district south of Austin, some 50 miles.
The principle mines were the Ophir, Murphy and the McDonald and are all located in the Ophir Canyon. S. Boulerond and a party of Frenchmen made the first discovery of ore in 1863. They located several veins but never filed any claims or did anything in the way of development. However, the following year George H. Willard along with a few others entered the canyon and located several ledges, then formed a district and made mining laws to follow. click-thru
to the full article.
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I have one new screen saver. It is title "Under Water Things" and it has audio.
This is a heavy one to download, its about 6.3 meg. I made it for the water babies at work. They always like under water photos!
Book Reviews
This month I have been so busy, I am writting more than I am reading.
What I am reading on at the present is " Dan De Quille the Washoe Giant" and so far its been a good one. It was prepared by Richard A. Dwyer and
Richard E. Lingenfelter. Published by University of Nevada Press, 1990!
But I just got the "Report of J. Ross Browne on the Mineral Resources of the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mpuntains,
Published by H. H. Bancoft & Co. San Francisco Ca, 1868 1st ED. This will be my next book to read!
Local News in Vegas!
The new year came in with a bang! Then came the weather right behind it. Overton Nevada damed near
got washed down the Colorado to Arizona. Spring Mountain and Charleston had avalanches that knocked a 13 year old boy clean off the ski lift and killed him. That is not good weather for the desert!
As of the 17th, we are back up to 70 degree weather and every thing back to normal!
Bob and Brenda's Sponsored Sites!!!!!
One of the best on Missouri History sites that I have found. Kathy has done a real good job
and has put a great amount of effort in this site! Legends of America !
Now if you want to know whats what and who is where then there is only one site to see! VegasDuSoleil.com !
Now the best Nevada site on the Web, hands down has to be my Dearest of Friends Donna and Al Frederick. There is NOTHING about
White Pine County that you can not find there! Accessgenealogy.com !
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trip log; 1/17/05
Jan 17,2005 Well we got flooding up in Overton and deep snow and avalanches on the spring mountain and Charleston range.
I need photos of the Wildrose Kilns for an article we are working on. So Death Valley here we come. Just to start with, Death Valley jct has been cloased for a year, due to last summer flooding. We head south to Shoshone and come in through Badwater. Now my map shows that I have to come in from lookout mountain side to get up Wildrose canyon. I think they must have cloased that back in the 50's. Now we turn around and go all the way back to Stovepipe Wells.
Instead I thought we would give lookout townsite a shot. well, Wes and I killed way to much time going rock by rock up through Stone Canyon. I finally
gave up and made a mad rush for Wildrose. Now Wildrose is 44 miles south of Stovepipe on a blacktop, at least till the last two miles. Just about a mile up this dirt road we hit ice covered snow! We plowed our way till the snow got up to the bumper and a up hill grade, Yep, I had to walk about a qaurter mile. My luck
the sun was down over the range and the kilns were all in shadows. I still got pictures, but not like I wanted. Its a return trip!
Wes and I learned a great deal about Death Valley, including the 2.65 gas. The next time we know where we are going and it would take long to get there. We had
a ball, even though the weather was a little againist us.
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In February
Well this year is not starting off very good for us. The weather is nothing but bad. We had a couple of days and one weekend of good weather.
Brenda has had her back worked on once and is going back to the hospital the fourth for the rest. She should be up and going in a couple of weeks, I hope.
I am waiting for the first chance to get out, it will be to Panaca and above Pioche for some photos of charcoal kilns. We have done really
well on our articles and now await photos. I need to redo my photos of Bristol Wells any way. Dr. Tom Strata has an article coming out in Nevada Heritage
in Mar/April. It may have one of my photos of the Wildrose Kilns in Death Valley. It seems we are getting into more and more articles as we go along. I hope to soon be able to author some Ghosttown History articles in these magazines as well. Dr. Starta has helped me a lot to get my foot in the door ( sort of speaking) so I can write on my own. I am still going to assist him in photo work on his forestry articles in the future. He already has some 300 plus
articles published already.
After the articles on the charcoal kilns in Hot Creek Range get published this summer in the Central Nevada Glorious Past journal, we retain copyrights,
so the whole thing will be post on my site as well.
2005 Plans and Goals
Brenda and I both want to try and make the 2005 Rally this year. Cat has e-mailed us and she will keep me posted on the new Rally
info for this year. I think they are going to south eastern Nevada this year for one of them. If so this would be a big help to me.
I am still planning on the Forum Shops Ghosttown outing about April for an over night. The plans are still up in the Peavine
Canyon area. I hope to get to Simon, Athens, Potomac, return to Cimarron, return to Cloverdale, San Antonio Mine, Ray, Golden and anything
else in the area if we have time. The camp site will be at the Peavine campgrounds. I will keep everyone post on this so anyone free to play can let me
know, the more the better.
In March is the over night in southern Nevada and over in California. I have not figured out where to yet, but I still have time.
The trip back to the Sprucemont area may get put on the list for next year. I have so many places on my list that I need photos of for up coming articles
that things may change as always. I do not think I will get but half of them this year, unless things really go great. The northern counties I do not have anything in yet. So I will try to do the history pages first and then add photos as we get there.
I now have an article on the back burner which needs photos of down town Ely. This means we will do a three or four day trip to Ely this summer. I always look forward to visiting with Al and Donna Frederick and I can get some photo work at Eureka that week as well. This will be around July as usual.
Another trip that is needed is a return to the Bodie area, I need to take photos for an upcoming article in 2006. This will cover the old railroad built
to bring in the wood so needed in Bodie in those days.
Due to the new interest and chance to write, and get published, all things this year may change a lot. I will probably do more writing but I still need photos, or new update photos, to go along with the articles. Some of the more top end magazines like photos more and text less.
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