Howdy everyone,

 

Did everybody have a safe and scary Halloween?  The Gold Point spirits were very quite this year.  We had two guests spend Thursday night and were disappointed that they were not visited.  Maybe next year.

 

Not much to report on this issue.  Unless, you consider the fact that if I make it till Tuesday I'll be 51 years young.  According to my Virginia City gypsy fortune teller that leaves me with 35 more years to go.  Among other prophecies I was told I would always have my health and never be rich.  This and a lot more was foretold to me back in the early eighties and has held true to this day.  Now I'm very "rich" in friends, but I'm sure she was talking about money.

 

Let's start off with hoping everyone has a very warm and thankful Thanksgiving at the end of the month.  Here at Gold Point we have our Thanksgiving dinner the Friday after.  This allows everyone to enjoy the company of family and relatives on Thursday and then to come visit us and have dinner with us on Friday.  We are having a turkey and ham dinner with all the fixins around  3 o'clock.  We are asking for a $10 donation.  At this time we still have a couple of cabins available if you wish to spend the night.  So we can properly plan on having enough food for everyone we ask that you please confirm by Friday, November 22nd.  This is not a big full blown party like the other holidays up here.  Not even a band.  It's just people getting together and having a good time and good conversation and getting away from home for a while and experiencing something different.

 

The player piano has been picked up by Ken owner of www.ragtimewest.com, for fixin. He is going to beef it up a little to handle the weather up here better and add a new computer to it that will have a program to play 1000 songs without stopping.  To remind everyone, it's a 1915 Remington.  Originally a player piano.  Ken converted it to a Nickelodeon type in 1999.

 

Speaking of the weather.  So many of our visitors have asked about the annual rainfall here in Gold Point country so I've done some research.  I have found out that Nevada is the driest state in the union with a average annual rainfall of about 7 inches.  The driest part of Nevada is, you guessed it, Southwestern Esmeralda County.  We have an average rainfall of only 3 inches.  Last year was below average and so far this year we are below that.  There's a rumor from the animals around here that winter is going to be colder than last year.  They didn't mention anything about the snowfall yet.

 

Alan Patera is 2 years into writing a historical and informative book on Gold Point. 

I have recently been informed by Alan that he has collected the information and is going to spend the winter putting down words on paper for a possible spring release.  He is also planning on a book signing during our 2nd Annual Fireman's Benefit and Chili Cook-off next Memorial Day Weekend.

 

Our friend Gil has donated some stock certificates of local mines in and around the area.  He has also left a binder full of stock certificates for sale.  The most interesting and most expensive one is from the Tonopah Gold Mountain Mining Company, incorporated under the laws of Arizona, dated the seventh day of October, 1902 and signed by Jim Butler.  He is asking $200 for it.  The rest are around the $10 to $20 range.

 

Work has been very slow on the Radkie House.  Yesterday we finally got started on putting up the 1 x 4 spruce wainscot in the bedroom.  We have the bedroom wallpaper up already.  Because having to leave for work we don't have much time to spend on it.  We hope to have it done though by spring.  Sooner if anyone can get Bill Gates to donate his pocket change.  lol.

 

Happy Holidays to you all till next time.

 

Happy Trails and Sunsets,

 

Sheriff Stone