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Well howdy ya'll, Yep, it's me again. Just over 7 weeks since the last newsletter. Bet you thought it would be a long while before you heard from me again, huh? Let's start off with Thanksgiving. The annual day after Thanksgiving dinner will not happen this year. We're very sorry to disappoint a lot of people who were planning on coming out but work is keeping me away this year. I have to work on that Friday and Saturday. Red Dog Lil will be coming down to join me in Las Vegas for the four days. We hope you all have a bountiful turkey feast and look forward to having our dinner again next year. Ready for a bit of trivia?? Just in case you haven't been sleeping well lately wondering about how many read this newsletter the answer is just over 600. We hope you have a good nights sleep from now on. We have one correction concerning the last newsletter. It seems that with all the proofreading we had a spelling mistake. I had mentioned that Dan from Fish Lake made a plague for our dearly departed Monolito. I guess (hope) you all knew what I meant because Dan was the only one who wrote back telling me about it. We meant PLAQUE not PLAGUE. Bruce from Lida Canyon who works at the Spearmint Rhino in Las Vegas has donated 5 small fire extinguishers. Another of our friends from Las Vegas who works at Caesars got them to donate a large two door refrigerator for the Saloon. It will come in handy during the Chili Cook-off party next Memorial Day. Hats off to both of them. Last Saturday I celebrated my 54th birthday anniversary. I had a few of my close friends up for a rib eye bar-b-que dinner. Red Dog made my favorite dessert. Mom gave her the instructions many years ago. They aren't complicated at all. Cook an angel food cake and let cool. Get a quart of heavy whipping cream and combine with two boxes of instant chocolate fudge pudding. Cut the cake sideways into thirds. Cover the bottom piece with the pudding and then set the 2nd piece on top and do the same and then the same to the top piece. Put into refrigerator and serve well chilled. Bony appetite. I'm now down to 32 years left. Sure hope that old Gypsy fortune teller is good. We thank you all for your input about the Lone Mountain cabin rug vote. It was 3 to 1 in favor of using throw rugs. That was until "SHE" heard the results. Red Dog vetoed that and using her judging gavel banged down the law. "I don't care what they say. If I'm the one doing the cleaning then I want the whole floor covered." So, the new law will go into effect immediately. Looks like we got the leaky roof over Red Dogs sewing machine stopped along with in the bathroom and the bedroom closed. Dan and Bob from Fish Lake finished up the new roofing just before a storm a few weeks ago. We put up trusses to raise the angle. It didn't rain much then to really test it but two weeks ago we had a good downpour and Red Dog said the whole house was dry. Not one leak in the usual places. Yippie!! That still leaves the tool shed. We'll have to raise that slope also. These roofs are all around 25 years old. Guess I got my use out of them. Only one problem. Does this mean that I'll have to redo them again when I'm 79!? Guess time will tell. Dan and Bob have finished the pump house at the Radkie house. They totally covered up the old junky siding with tongue and groove 1 x 4. This last weekend they put a door on it that was built to look and blend right in. We still have to add the back porch overhang in the near future. That will keep the sun off the bedroom and bathroom windows. It's almost time to start thinking about Christmas again. You know when I was a kid I remember not seeing any Christmas decorations until Thanksgiving. It was about a week before Halloween when I was in Sam's club and Wal-mart and noticed it looked like Christmas all ready. They seem to get put up earlier each year don't they? I said something to one of the associates about the early timing this year of the decorations. You won't believe the response. The displays and such aren't for this years Christmas but were put up early for NEXT years Christmas. Oh well. As long as were talking about Christmas let's talk about Gold Point gifts for family or friends. We have t-shirts, hats, music cd's or cassettes and the Gold Point book available. You can even purchase gift certificates to send some one here to the Bed & Breakfast for a night or two. While supplies last we'll even pay the shipping as our Christmas thank you to you. Early in December Red Dog and I will start sending out Christmas cards. This year they won't be just any store bought card. I got something better and special. Last week I was wrapped around the porcelain throne at work when I had a revelation. No, I wasn't sick I was installing and trimming wallcovering in the bathrooms at work silly. Why not send out old used Christmas Cards. No, not my old cards but the ones that Ora Mae Wiley received while she was here for almost 50 years. For those that don't know it, Ora Mae saved every letter and card ever sent to her and Harry from the 30's to almost 1980. I have them stored in the museum. I'll only send the ones that have a complete envelope with a old stamp on it. They are not in any order of years in the boxes so we don't know what years will be sent. Inside Red Dog and I will put our greeting insert with it. It's a piece of history. I'll have more than enough to last me for another 32 years. Those of you who would like to partake in this new tradition will have to send us a card first. Making sure your name and address is on it and readable. Send your card to: Gold Point Ghost Town HC 71 Box 30 Gold Point, Nevada 89013 Now for another thrilling story from "TALES FROM THE NOT SO OLD WEST" The following is from the Rhyolite Bullfrog Miner April 25th 1908. "Hornsilver is the latest Southern Nevada Camp. E.W. Griffiths, of Taylor & Griffiths, on his return from Goldfield the first of the week, stopped off at Hornsilver, a new discovery made only a short time ago near Mount Jackson in Esmeralda County, between 30 and 40 miles North of Rhyolite. Mr. Griiffiths says that the mineral indications are excellent on the surface and he predicts a flourishing mining camp in a short time...The site in a semicircular basin, surrounded on three sides by the Crescent range...Two days before our visit the first lot had been sold in the new town and the first tent pitched. On the day of our trip there were fourteen tents in the morning and eighteen tents and two frame buildings when we left. At noon a wagon freighted with lumber and another laden with culinary utensils and supplies drew up in front of a vacant lot. When we returned to a visit to the mines several hours later we found a substantial hotel building with dinner served in the dining room. Sunday morning two saloons started business in structures consisting of a floor and a bar, together with the necessary stock. By the middle of the afternoon the refreshment parlors were snugly under roof and had even ice with which to regale their customers. At this writing, Thursday afternoon, the camp of Hornsilver has already been assured a railroad, a telephone line and water system. It is a bustling little city with six saloons, four restaurants, a barber shop, four lodging houses, three stores, two automobile lines and one stage line, a feed yard, livery stable and what not. At the mature age of five days the city of Hornsilver made application for a post office and a precinct is being established, while the mining district has already fixed its metes and bounds and selected its officials. Within a couple of weeks the town will have attained to a growth of possibly a thousand men, women and children, for the gentler set and the coming generation are beginning to flock in and make homes... In the immediate vicinity are the towering mountains, reaching an elevation of better than a mile and a half. Near their summits the snow banks still lie, despite the fact that wild flowers are blooming in profusion about the townsites. Another shipper in the vicinity has inexhaustible supply of timer, something of a novelty in Southern Nevada. At all events, wood and water are plentiful within striking distance of the new camp, while a railroad is assured within a few weeks. Chief Engineer McGuire and General Agent Knight of the Las Vegas & Tonopah company, have made two trips to the district and they state almost positively that a branch road will be built. It will cut off from the main line about six miles south of Cuprite and will have uniform and easy grade, its being hardly necessary to do more that scrape off the earth and sagebrush before laying the ties and rails. A contract was signed this week with C. H. Bernard to immediately construct a telephone line into the camp. The contract calls for its completion before the 25th of April. To evidence the rapidity with which the town is springing up, it is only necessary to state that the visible supply of tents in Goldfield has been temporarily exhausted, while 20,000 feet of lumber was sent out Thursday morning. The Empire Lumber company will conduct a lumber yard there and before this article appears in print the Exploration Mercantile company, the Palace Hardware company and Barnes & Co. will have a branch store running, possibly without wall or roof for the present, but doing business just the same..." Well it's time for Red Dog to proofread and make any changes. If you're reading this that means it passed inspection. We wish you a very happy holiday season. Happy Trails and Sunsets, Sheriff Stone &/or Red Dog Lil |
