Happy Easter and Spring to everyone!!

 We’ll it’s that time of the year again to be thinking of what to do Memorial Day Weekend.   Friday May 24^th, 25^th & 26^th.

 Why not come to Gold Point for the weekend and let us do the cooking and entertaining while you spend the afternoon exploring the surrounding country.  If you’re interested in a flyer just write us back and request it.  This year we have live entertainment by Alkali Flats with their country and bluegrass music.  They will be playing and singing Friday and Saturday. 

 Please let us know if you are planning on have some of our meals so we can be sure to have enough on hand.

 Ghost Town Operations will once again be back their fancy equipment tracking down the spirits that inhabit Gold Point.  You can join them at their Dinner with a Ghost again this year if you’re not too scared!!!  The following few words (lolol) are from them: 

Please join in the Memorial Weekend festivities with Herb, Sandy, and all the Gang from Gold Point Nevada and once again please join Ghost Town Operations for "Dinner with a Ghost" and Nightly Paranormal Investigations of the Town of Gold Point Nevada.  As always, this weekend is an important weekend as we raise money for the Restoration and Preservation of this Jewel of the Desert.  This year we are looking to raise money for the replacement of the Saloon roof, so PLEASE join us for an incredible weekend of Food, Fun and Spirits.

 

 

 

 

 

Menu
   "Dinner with a Ghost" 

 

 

 

 

Southwestern Chicken Tortilla Soup

 

              Topped with Crusted Bread, Jalapeno, Pico De Gallo, Cheddar Cheese

 

 

 

 

 

             Gold Point Summer Salad

 

   Mixture of Various chilled Lettuce blends, Topped with Strawberry     

   Slices, Raspberries and blended with a Raspberry Vinaigrette Dressing

 

 

 

  

 

Gold Point "Center of the Plate" 

  New York Strip Steak sliced and placed on a bed of  Garlic Mashed potatoes, Western Gravy, Corn Cobbett, Roll.

 

The Gold Point Chappell Pie   

Not your Mothers Apple Pie............Served in a Towering Martini Glass with a mixture of Apple pie and Cherry pie so decadent.

 

 

 

 

 

  All Presented by "Chef Dan Adams"

 Please make your Reservations in advance by contacting:       Sherriff Stone
775-482-4653                                                                                            
 John Cushman  702 813 2187

 

   “Dinner with a Ghost" Plus Paranormal Investigation $ 49.00

   Paranormal Investigation Only $ 22.00

 

Thank you Ghost Town Operations.  Now back to our regular broadcasting.

 We’ve made a change on the website.  We will accept reservations on Friday and Saturday nights now instead of just Saturdays and also could be available Sunday thru Thursday nights as well.  Just call or write for availability.  I’m not sure of going back to work anymore in Las Vegas and Red Dog wants to retire at the end of the year from the county so we’re trying to see if we can build up the visitor count by being available just about 7 days a week.  If Red Dog can get a cabin ready during the middle of the week we will be happy to accept reservations for them.  That’s why you’ll have to call or write for availability.

 

Our friend Jerry, from Beatty, has donated a lot of his time to repair and get working all the lights and the scoring buttons for our shuffleboard.  Jerry donated about 25 hours of his time over the last 3 long years to get everything working so we no longer have to use chalk to keep score.  Most of the time spent was cleaning all the sticky contacts in the 60 plus year old shuffleboard.  After everything was cleaned in the comfort of his home he came up and was on his back under the shuffleboard checking the wiring and re-wiring the scoring buttons.  We thank him for finding the time to do this for all our shuffleboard players.

 

Dennis was back working next door at the Gold Central cabin.  He’s got the old wood kitchen stove on wheels and has brought up the lino for the kitchen and carpet for the living room.  Hopefully we’ll have it all ready for renting out in the next month or so.  The running water will be installed a little later.

 

Stranger is currently working in Utah on a small job and will soon be back working again on Shangri-la.

 

We’ve also decided to start renting out the old Senator Wiley home.  As soon as Red Dog has a chance to put on the finishing touches we will take some photos and list it on the website as another cabin with running water.  A brief description is as follows:   The old Senator Wiley home:  small house with two bedrooms.  King bed in main bedroom and full size bed in front bedroom.  Has a couple of electric oil heaters and a wood stove for heat.  Probably need someone familiar with wood stoves to stay here during the winter months because they might need to have a fire to keep warm.  Has running water in kitchen and bath.  Kitchen has large fridge, sink, stove, coffee maker and dining room table.  Bathroom has shower, tub, sink and toilet.  Has satellite tv in the living room.  $169 per night for first two people.  Each additional person is $20 per night.  Breakfast included.

 

That’s about all the new news from Gold Point so let’s go to another chapter in “tales from the not so old west”.

 May 21, 1908 Goldfield Daily Tribune  Vol. 2 no. 241 Thursday copy 1,2

 “water supply for camp of Hornsilver.  Surveys to start this morning and power line will also be coming up soon.  Surveys will be started this morning for a water supply for the new camp of Hornsilver, thirty miles to the south of Goldfield, in the Gold Mountain country.  The source of supply will probably be not far from Magruder mountain, and several miles will be traversed by the pipes.  The valley will be crossed, however, with little difficulty, and it is expected that within a week the pipe line will have been started.  The town is growing at so rapid a pace that water in large quantities have become a necessity. 

 

A representative of the Nevada-California Power company is now in Hornsilver district, and will also visit Bishop, with a view to bringing power and electric light into the new camp within the next sixty days.” 

 

May 22, 1908  Goldfield Daily Tribune  vol. 2 no. 242 Friday copy 1,4

 “Railroads bid for business to Hornsilver.  Las Vegas Line inaugurates a schedule that enables passengers to go in and out of camp in a trifle over either hours.  Hornsilver and its surrounding are in the air, and it is hard to get anyone to talk about finds, even here at home.  The names of the other camps which have sprung up since Goldfield made its debut seem to be forgotten.  Four or five automobiles go there daily from here, and both the Las Vegas and Tidewater roads have stations on their line, one called Cuprite and the other Stonewall, that have stage connections with the new camp, which is growing at a very rapid rate.

 

At present twenty-seven sets of lessees are working on the Great Western and Silver King mines and nine leasers are sacking ore for shipment…

 The railway people have finally decided to meet the competition of automobiles and freighters, and are giving lower freight rates to shippers.  The railway and stage rout will make the distance in about three hours, and the automobiles are doing it in about two hours.  Yesterday the record run was made by a Macmillan machine, from Hornsilver to Goldfield in one hour and fifteen minutes.  The distance is thirty miles. 

 

The latest find is on the Lime Point No. 2, owned by Skinner & Lynett.  They are working the ground under bond and lease, and at a depth of twenty feet show eight inches of ore that, according to panning, ought to run close to $100 a ton.  It is on a parallel lead to the Great Western, and the find is something like one-half a mile west and to the north.

 

Harry B. Doll, operating on a lease on the Grand Central, on a block of ground 300 by 600 feet, nearly a quarter of a mile south of the Great Western side line, has come into shipping ore, as assays obtained on the rock here yesterday showed that it carried values in gold and silver as high as $154.  It looks as though there was two feet of shipping ore at a depth of thirty feet.  It is the intention to sink 125 feet and equip the property with a gasoline hoist.  Cleveland money is back of the venture.”

 

“Macmillan-Holleran Syndicate in Hornsilver.  Papers were signed last night whereby the Macmillan-Holleran company, of Goldfield, took over the control of the Hornsilver Mining company, of that district.  The company was but recently organized, and is the possessor of forty acres immediately adjoining the Great Western Mining company property controlled by the Russell brothers, and which has for some time been a heavy shipper of high grade silver and gold ore.

 

The Macmillan-Holleran company has had an examination made of the Hornsilver district in a most thorough manner during the past three weeks, and the company’s engineers passed most favorably on the district and having recommended in the highest manner the Hornsilver company’s property, the deal which had been pending for some time was closed.  The amount involved in the passing of control was no given out; the fact, however, that $50,000 was refused more than two months ago for two thirds of the property, is the best evidence of the fact that the original owners held their claims at a high figure.

 

The Hornsilver Mining company is the second property in the camp to make shipments of ore, fourteen tons which went better that $150 to the ton, having been recently sent to a Goldfield plant.  In line with the Great Western, the company is already installing its hoist, and will have it in operation within a week on a shaft now down 100 feet, and which is situated within 1200 feet of the Great Western shaft on the same ledge.

 

The recent visit of Messrs. Macmillan and Holleran, along with James Hopkins ad Melville D. Martin, of the Gates party, to Hornsilver, was doubtless responsible for the closing of the negotiations for control of the property, which mining men in the hustling new camp declare will give the Great Western a good run for first honors.  Seven leases are in operation on the Hornsilver Mining company’s estate.  J.M. Macmillan is the president of the company.

 

Well that should put this edition to bed.

 

Thanks for reading down this far.

 

Happy springtime

 

happy trails and sunsets

 

Sheriff Stone and/or Red Dog Lil