Gobble Gobble and HO HO HO to everyone.  We are now in-between the two holidays.

 

First lets yak about the first one. 

 

We had 39 hungry people chowing down food at our annual day after Thanksgiving dinner. 

 

Dan, now going to the Le Cordon Bleu school to be a first class chef, came out with his wife Ali to help out.  Ali made a tasty pumpkin cheesecake and deviled eggs and Dan make Brussel sprouts with pomegranate molasses with  vanilla butter and caramelized pecans.  Needless to say they went quick.  Next year we’ll ask him to make twice as much.  Dan also carved up two turkeys and the large honey ham and put each of them in their own large chafing dish.  They looked so beautifully arranged as you would expect from a first class chef.  I would have just thrown the meat in each in a jumbled pile figuring they would still taste the same. 

Thanks to two friends of Gold Point, Ken and Jim, everyone was entertained by our newly fixed player piano.  The next paragraph is what I wrote in the previous newsletter.

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.

 

We’ll, after putting in the new power supply and waiting for the computer to power up we crossed our fingers and picked a song and pressed the pick button and waited.  We watched it load on screen and then it happened.  The music starting coming out and filled the saloon with beautiful music.  We never stopped playing the piano for about 10 straight hours.  It was enough to bring tears to your eyes to hear the piano playing after 10 years of silence.

 

Needless to say Jim and Ken will never have to pay for another can of soda when they come visit for the rest of their life.  Lol.  We thank them very much.  Jim said that when him and Ken come back out in the spring Ken will do final tuning.  If it’s lost any tune since he left my ears aren’t noticing it at all.  It seems to be holding its tune just fine.

 

Ok, now let’s chit chat about the second one—Christmas.

 

It’s that time of year again for our annual Christmas card exchange for those interested.

 

Those who know about it can skip this paragraph.  For those who don’t here are the details.  Ora Mae Wiley, Senator Harry Wiley’s wife and postmaster for 25 years at Gold Point, saved everything ever sent her from the late 30’s until her death around 1980.  Of course most were Christmas cards.  They are in their original envelope including the stamp.  If you send us a Christmas card FIRST  we will send you one of these with our greeting inserted.  We have set aside the 40’s and 50’s.  If you have a sentimental year out of these 20 choices and if we have it available we will sent it to you.  please give us a couple of choice years in case we are out of your first choice.  In case some of you are wondering what to do with them here is our suggesting that others are doing.  Put them in a large picture frame under glass and add to your collection every year. 

 

If you’re interested please mail your card to:  Sheriff Stone & Red Dog Lil

                                                                                      HC 71 Box 3003

                                                                                      Gold Point, Nevada 89013

 

This might interest a lot of you.  We’ve been informed that the movie Blood River that was filmed here in October of 2007, starring Red Dog Lil at the end for less than one minute, is now available on Netflix.  I’ve gone to their site and confirmed this.  Just search for Blood River 2009 and it will pop up.  Make lots of popcorn and enjoy.  Let us know what you think about it and Red Dogs performance.

 

If you’ve ever stayed here and eaten with us most of you know we try to make things home made as much as possible especially our ice cream.  Well, we’ve decide to improve it by making it creamer.

 

Among other ingredients our recipe called for 1 quart of heavy cream and 1 quart of ½ and ½.  We’ve changed that now to 1 ½  quarts of heavy cream and a ½ quart of ½ and ½.  Wow!!! What a difference.  Of course that changes the calories in our ice cream also.  Here is a breakdown of the ingredients that have calories.  If anyone wishes the full recipe just write and ask us.

 

2 cans of condensed milk -          2600 calories

Heaping ½ cup of sugar -                500

Heaping ½ cup of brown sugar –      500

½ carton of egg beaters  -               100

½ quart of ½ & ½ -                           640

1 ½ quarts of heavy cream             4800

Total                                             9140 calories

 

This makes about 3 quarts of ice cream.  Which is 12 cups.  A cup has 16 tablespoons in it.  12 times 16 equals 192 tablespoons.  9140 calories divided by 192 tablespoons equals 47.6 delicious calories per tablespoon. 

 

We were inspired to improve our ice cream after going to the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas and having one of their delicious 2000 calorie chocolate shakes  to wash down one of their scrumptious 2000 calorie burgers, that’s the small half pound one not the 2 pound 8000 calorie meal, and fries, fried in pure lard.

 

We figure that if we make a shake now with 2 cups of ice cream plus cream instead of milk we should be close to that.  The ice cream alone will have 1600 calories.

 

Now for another chapter in our series “Tales from the not so old West”

 

May 15, 1908 Goldfield Daily Tribune Vol. 2 no. 234 Friday

 

“Twenty five per cent cut on lumber at Hornsilver.

 

That a great camp has been opened up at Lime Point, now known as Hornsilver, is the opinion of every mining man who has visited the district.  The little prominence is a spur of Gold Mountain, in the Slate range, and up to date all of other good discoveries have been made in this country.  The overflow from Hornsilver has made that camp ten miles square, that is solidly located and as good ore is found in fifty shafts as was ever mined on the Great Western at the same depth.  It has been one of those meteoric rushes from Goldfield in the past month of mining men that the camp never saw before, and the pleasing feature of the whole is that it is almost within the confines of Goldfield.  All come back telling the same story to the effect that a genuine camp has been found and that residents of Goldfield are on the ground floor. 

 

James M. Russell, who might be called the father of the camp, arrived in town yesterday.  He  is the president of several of the companies in the immediate neighborhood of the town as well as manager of the Great Western.  He is a quiet, easy going fellow, and probably has more care on his hands at the present time than at any period in his life, as he is looking after the details of many big interest that have suddenly come to him.  When seen last night by a Tribune reporter, he said: ‘Since coming to town I have been told that the name of Hornsilver is to be changed to Silverhorn, but that is not true.  The 16 horse freight team that is hauling ore from the Great Western makes a round trip every two days.  To my personal knowledge ore is being sacked on the following leases over which I have jurisdiction on the Great Western’s ground d and the Silver King:  H.P. Alfred on the Jessie, Frisbee, Rogers & Colburn, Smith and Harper, Flynn and associates, Gavle & Company, Bradley and McKay, the Shea lease, as well as on the lease worked by a G0oldfield man on the Nettie L.  I have seen ore and assays from twenty other places that looked good and the assay certificates that accompanied some of the displays were convincing to me.  I do not want to mislead anybody about the camp.  The score or more mining men from here who are working leases there furnish the best reference I can give.  As an evidence of the faith of miners in the camp, I have over 100 applications for leases that have not yet been considered, as the companies in which I am interested have no ground to lease.’

 

There is an active demand for lumber in Goldfield and at the different mines and prospects that are starting up in all directions.  Yesterday Jim Russell was engaged trying to solve the problem of quick delivery, as well as to gain cheaper transportation rates, and it was understood last night that he had secured a verbal agreement from one of the local lumber dealers whereby an ample supply would be furnished, and that the rate per 1000 would be reduced $14 a ton.  Lumber is selling at Hornsilver now for $72 a thousand, and it is not of the best grade at that.

 

All kinds of business houses are being established, and the number is growing from day to day.  A Goldfield pharmacist yesterday sent out a load of drugs for a branch store.  The building is already erected, and by the first of the week he will be ready for business.

 

One of the best showings that has been found since the excitement started is what is known as the Grapevine, owned by E.M. Binford, and some four miles to the south of the Great Western, which is the landmark for all finds and locations in the new district.  Assays on the ore that has been opened up have been secured that have went all the way from $20 to over $200.  Three leases have been given.” 

 

 

 

happy trails and sunsets

 

Sheriff Stone and/or Red Dog Lil