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Howdy ya’ll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let’s start this newsletter out
with a special announcement. This coming November 5, 2011 at
8:03 in the morning I will turn 1,893,456,000 seconds
old. Wow, that’s a lot ain’t it?? For those
without a calculator handy it means I’ll be 6 decades
old. Yep, it was earlier that year
that a corporal in the army from Missouri got together
with a girl from upper state New York and later that
fall an 8 pound boy who would eventually be known as
Sheriff Stone came into this world. I remember
that day very well. After coming out from hiding
for 9 months I remember being spanked for no reason at
all!! I was so mad I didn’t talk to anyone for a
year!! It falls on a Saturday so I’ll
be having a small get together for anyone wishing to
stop by. Right now we have everything booked so
you’ll have to bring your rv if you plan to spend the
night. We’re having my favorite
birthday cake—angel food sliced into thirds and frosted
with chocolate pudding!!! YUM!! Mom always
makes it when I’m visiting around that time but I’ll
have to make my own this time. In fact we’re
making two of them as to not run out and to also make
sure I have some left after everyone leaves. As most of you know my life
expectancy has a limit. According to a very good
gypsy fortune teller in Virginia City, Nevada I’ve got
only around 26 years left!! So you better start
making your plans to come visit before it’s too late. This month also marks the 33rd
anniversary of my first visit to Gold Point. DONATIONS SINCE THE LAST
NEWSLETTER Mark from Connecticut sent $25 Ron from City of Industry in
California gave us an old iron bed frame which will be
used in one of our cabins and an old Ward Ice Box made
by the Ward Refrigeration company. It has nothing
to do with Montgomery Wards. They both appear to
be from the 20’s or 30’s. Jim from Carmichael, California,
my home town, came up a couple of weeks ago with his
friends and spent a few days. Jim donated an
“Olympia on Tap” neon sign that’s about 60 years old
and a “Bud” beer sign that’s at least about 40 years
old that he bought for $7 back then. He also
donated several bottles of booze and brought me some
diet Vernon’s ginger ale. Vernon’s ginger ale is
aged 3 years in a cask and is the best on the market. Ken, Jim’s friend, who went to
school over 40 years ago to learn how to work on pianos
donated his time to work on our 1915 Remington Player
piano. After many years in Gold Point it had
dried out and would not hold a tune so we haven’t been
able to play it for years. Ken laid the piano
back on a picnic bench and used some special glue on
the upper pins to stop them from unwinding after tuning
it. Then the next day rechecked and applied more
glue where needed. We had a guest this last
weekend and we had him play a tune. It’s been
about 10 days now and it’s still holding. Yeah
Ken!!! Next week when I make my monthly trip to
Las Vegas I have to get another power supply and we
should be able to turn it on and listen to old tunes
once again. We just have to keep our fingers
crossed and hope that no mouse chewed through anything
vital. Gold Point has finally gotten
into Playboy Magazine, sort of. If anybody
out there actually reads playboy magazine
please look on page 25 in the November issue which is
on newsstands now. There you will see a small
write up about Stephan Würth’s book called Ghost Town
and a mention of where it was shot. The following
is from our newsletter back in April about it.
The following is some
information on the book.
Stephan Würth:
Ghost Town Epilogue by Lesley M.M. Blume.
Since moving
to the United States from his native Germany,
photographer Stephan Würth has been fascinated with the
mythical vistas of the American West and the isolation
and freedom of vast desert expanses .Würth culminates
this geographical romance with the new series
Ghost
Town.
These photographs narrate the tale of three women as
they journey through Nevada where they soon find
themselves stranded with a broken-down car on the side
of a desolate road. Shot over seven days on
black-and-white Kodak Tri-X film, the images were
scanned for the book from 16 x 20 inch hand-developed
prints and never retouched. The book also features an
epilogue by fashion and culture critic Lesley M.M.
Blume. Stephan Würth: Ghost Town
ISBN
978-88-6208-185-6
Cloth, 11.25 x 11.25 in. /
160 pgs / 100 b
& w. U.S. $50.00 CDN $55.00
September/Photography/Fashion
This limited
edition of
Ghost
Town
is bound in leather and
housed in a box that also contains a
limited-edition
print. If you got to Amazon.com and put
in Stephan Würth: Ghost Town you will see that it will
be released for sale this coming Halloween for $31.50 Lesley did a great job with the
epilogue in the back describing Gold Point in a way,
with my limited writing skills, can never come up with. We thank them both very much for
choosing Gold Point and hope that others will follow
their lead. We had the Mountaineers off road
club stay about 5 miles outside Gold Point also that
week for about 5 days. There was around 60 of
them. They were a nice bunch of guys and visited
us every day. We were even invited to have tacos
with them Saturday night out in the middle of nowhere.
One of the members, Randy, finally gave us some
information that will become very useful for years to
come—the GPS co-ordinates to Gold Point. Over the
years we’ve been asked and I failed the questions every
time. This time I remembered to ask and actually
wrote them down and will keep them handy when asked how
to get here. The co-ordinates are 37 degrees
21.225 N by 117 degrees 21.900 W. This past week has been in the
70’s but on October 6th mother nature gave
us a reminder that winter was coming by giving us our
first snow. It wasn’t much and it didn’t stick of
course but it’s not far away. Red Dog & I finally entered the
21st century in August by finally buying a
Canon Rebel digital camera. Yep, we can now take
photos of something in Gold Point and send them to
interested readers. If you have a request let us
know and we’ll take the shot and try to figure out how
to send it to you. We will still not send this
newsletter out with any attachments because I know a
lot of people don’t like that. We will still be having our
photos printed for our photo album. Right now
it’s has over 8000 photos and weights almost 120
pounds. Our
first use of our new camera was in August in Chama, New
Mexico where we took a long 60 mile ride on the Cumbres
and Toltec Scenic narrow gauge coal fired railroad
ending up in Antonito, Colorado. We missed the
fall colors but it was still a very nice trip winding
between the two states 11 times. This was also
the railroad and station used in the movie Bite the
Bullet. It is also the highest railroad pass in
America at over 10,000 feet.
The C&TS
is located in the high country of the southern range of
the San Juan mountains. Elevation ranges from
7,863 to 10,015 feet. If you like riding steam
engine trains you’ll love this one. If you ride
it in the fall the trees change their color then and
makes for a very beautiful trip. If you wait for
October you might be blazing a path through snow. Ok, when Red Dog gets home from
work I’ll have her tell you about the latest movie
filmed in Gold Point and her part she had in it. Until then I guess I’ll go out
and cut some wood up for some guests in the rv park and
more for the saloon. I’m sure we’ll need it come
my birthday. We still got at least 2000 pounds of
coal and I’ve filled the wood closet in the house for
the cold weather coming. Whoops!!! Almost forgot.
Our annual day after Thanksgiving dinner is coming in 4
weeks from this Friday. If you’re interested we
still have a few cabins and rv spots available.
Dinner, consisting of honey ham, turkey, stuffing,
mashed spuds & gravy, yams, green bean casserole, stir
fried in butter garden blend vegetables, deviled eggs,
pies, cranberry sauce, etc and etc. , will be $15
person for all you can eat. So we can have enough
food for everyone please let us know if you are coming
and how many friends you’re bringing as soon as you
can. We’re looking to serve food about 2 o’clock
ish. Ok, it’s 5:30 and Red Dog just
got in. After she’s settled in she’ll be here to
tell you her story. Ok, here she is. Earlier this summer Melanie
(that was head of the art department of Blood River
filmed here in 2007 that I had a small speaking part on
camera at the end of the movie) brought her small crew
and filmed a short movie called ESCAPE that will be
entered in a number of film festivals upon completion.
She asked me to play the bartender for her and once
again I had a few lines to speak and my face on camera.
Our friend Stranger had a face shot on camera as well
just being a patron at the bar of the saloon.
A young lady comes into the saloon to take a break from
her long trip, another male traveler comes in, they
hook up and he turns out to be a real bad man and
kidnaps her, beats her up, she gets loose after he left
the car to relieve himself, she gets his gun and shoots
him after he comes back to the car. She takes off
in the car and leaves him lying in the desert on the
side of the road. Melanie and Nick came back a
few weeks ago to do some recording of my lines again as
they did not come across as loud as they wanted.
She let me see the film and it is quite good. She
also let me view another short film that was quite good
as well. We wish her well in her endeavors of
film making. Melanie is very talented in her
field. Once the film is all put together and
ready to go Melanie will get a copy to us. Ok then. Time for another
chapter in “TALES FROM THE NOT SO OLD WEST” May 10, 1908 Goldfield Daily
Tribune Vol. 2 no. 230 Sunday “fine addition to Hornsilver on
the Market. Fowlie’s addition to Hornsilver
promises to become one of the best quarters for the
crowds that are rapidly flocking to the new gold and
silver camp, just thirty miles south of Goldfield.
The addition was laid out owing to the demands for
central accommodations that could not be had within the
confines of the original town laid out by the Great
Western company. The site is level and so
situated that it is destined to be chosen by the two
railroads as the best adapted for terminal grounds.
The easy access and light grades justify the surveyors
in predicting that this will be the business center of
the entire country that is tributary to the new camp.
Topographically it cannot be excelled. Prices of lots are another
inducement for investors, owing to the raped advance in
the first location, where values have increased from
300 to 1,000 per cent in the course of a month, with
every indication of doubling again before the advent of
summer. The fact that Hornsilver was a producing
camp when the townsite was laid out, places it above
all other propositions in the state, as there is no
risk or uncertainty about the future of the district,
which is already shipping more ore than was sent out of
Wonder or Fairview a year after they had been exploited
as full-fledged towns. “Golden Horn Company is the name
under which the Deane, Shea & Lockhart holdings at
Hornsilver will soon be incorporated. …” May 12, 1908 Goldfield Daily
Tribune Vol. 2 no. 232 Tuesday “Eight feet of shipping ore at
Hornsilver. The hanging wall on the Great Western
mine at Hornsilver has been reached, exposing from
seven to eight feet of good shipping ore, with picked
specimens running as high as $200. Drifts are now
being driven both ways along the hanging wall, and the
work of sinking the winze at the 100-foot level is also
in progress. It is 150 feet to the east from the
breast of the drift where it is believed the rich shoot
will be entered. A mining man who returned last
night, said that the section in all directions from the
main find is being worked by lessees, and that good
values in gold, silver and laid are being found.
The town that was laid off a month ago is spreading out
in all directions, and the sound of the hammer is heard
day and night. A conservative estimate of the
population at the present time is 600. G.E.
Shannon, justice of the peace, has been appointed
postmaster. Lumber and stocks of merchandise of
every description are being hauled, both on the Lida
and HAPPY HALOWEEN TO EVERYONE. happy trails and sunsets Sheriff Stone and/or Red Dog Lil
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