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howdy everyone, It's time for another informative newsletter. Let's see now it's been 5 months since the last one. Did you eat too much for Thanksgiving? Did you get what you wanted for Christmas?? How about that New Year, was it a happy one??? Did you have too much green beer yesterday??? Ok, that's enough chit chat questions. Let's get down to business, shall we??? Just in case you're wondering why I'm not outside today working on some project it's because it's a winter wonderland here in Esmeralda County. Gold Point is simple beautiful when it's covered in snow. Our first snow fall this year in Gold Point was New Years day. Ok, now before we go on further and forget again we must correct a mistake on the last newsletter. I mentioned a donation of a refrigerator by a friend but failed to tell you who he was. His name is Dion. He used to work at Caesars and that is where it came from. Dion has a friend at Caesars and is working on getting another big one donated to put in the Saloon extension. Later in the newsletter we will be talking about the up coming chili cook-off. We will be putting on the finishing touches to the poster this weekend. I will then be able to send out info to any of you who are interested. Last month Dan, Bob, Sandy, Ruth & I had a hanging party in the Saloon. No, not the a lynching kind or to see who was hung the best, but a picture hanging party. We finally put up a lot of old documents and photos that we've collected or that have been donated to us. Everything was put in a frame first, which made it look much better than stapling it to the wall. We have two great drawings on long time loan from our friend Sue, who is the owner not the artist. One is of Robert Cummings and the other is of Moses, also known as Charlton Heston. It has his portrait and that of him as Moses and also of him on a chariot from the picture Ben Hur. We will be putting those and other photos up in another hanging party soon. Our Seagraves fire truck now has an external speaker that works thanks to a man named Miller from Florida who sells old radio parts. Dan and Bob have finished installing a fascia board and painting it on the North side of the Radkie House. We have recently finished the back porch by putting an awning up to shade the bathroom and bedroom windows. Plus it will also be a good place to sit and not get rained or snowed on. This just about completes the exterior of the Radkie House. Inside Sandy still has a couple of windows to make drapes for. Hope all of you who mailed us greeting cards for Christmas liked the old ones we sent back to you. I had one friend call me up and said it was the first time he received a Christmas card that was older than he was. He got 1946. We also had a couple that wrote us back saying their 1946 was the same year of their birth. The most amazing one was that of someone's wife getting a card marked December 18, 1946 the same day of her birth. This year if we can find a 1940's date that means something to someone we will try to find it for you. Don't tell me now. I'll let you know when it's time. Last years government grants for our fire department included money for new tires for the Seagraves and new P-25 radios for the Seagraves, International and the Tanker. D & D tire in Tonopah finished installing the tires with new rims at the end of January. We got rid of the split rims in case you're wondering why new rims. The radios are being supplied by Rebel Communications of Las Vegas and they are going to install the radios by the end of the month we hope. This year we are going for new tires for the International truck. All trucks will then have good rubber all the way around. This last weekend Dan and Bob have just finished up on laying new roofing over the tool shed and surrounding area. This is the first re-roof of this area since around 1978. It was leaking worse than a bunch of guys drinking beer. Our next project is the back bathroom for Lone Mountain cabin. Pat should be starting that one possibly as soon as this week or whenever the weather gets better. We are going to make it about 8 feet by 8 feet. Instead of the board and bat look I'm going with covering it up with old tin. This will enhance the add on look. For right now it will just have a porta potti with maybe a vanity and mirror. Sometime in the future we hope to have running water in it and add a shower. The latest story to come out is in the Lahontan Valley newspaper of March 3rd. David Henley was here in Gold Point 52 years age and met Harry and Ora Mae by accident, really by accident. Seems he rolled his mom's car heading to Gold Point a few miles from town. He walked into town and Harry towed his car to Tonopah to get fixed. 52 years later he returned to do a small article on yours truly. This time he made it home without an accident. I think you can find the story if you go to www.lahontanvalleynews.com Red Dog Lil's little kitty kat Miss Kitty will soon have an outhouse named after her. She got out between Red Dogs legs one day while she was standing at the front door. She tried all night to find her but no luck. The next day after coming home from work she went around Gold Point again looking for the fast feline. Over on the edge of the wash East of town she heard a meow meow. Red Dog walked over to the out house where the meows were coming from and peered into the darkness and saw two little eyes staring back. She got Dan and Diane to help tip over the out house and Dan jumped down in the hole and retrieved the hungry kitty. Since then Dan and Bob have rebuilt the building to useable condition. I said we should put a name on it now. Don't you think all such structures should have names?? Red Dog made a sign that says Miss Kitty's Hide-e-hole. I will do my duty and screw it above the door as soon as a finishing touch is put on the sign. Everything in this world seems to go up in price a little bit every year and things are no different in Gold Point. We've raised the prices of our cabins a poultry $3 per night. Not near the percentage of increase we saw in gas over the last two years. In fact it's barely over the cost of 1 gallon of gas. Now we are ready to chit chat about the upcoming Memorial Daze Chili Cook-off May 26, 27, 28 and 29. Are you ready?? First off this year we will be doing a lot of radio advertising concentrating on getting more contestants for both the chili and dutch oven contests. I think it would be just outrageous if we got at least 30 different chilies for everyone to sample this year. Not to mention driving the judges nuts trying to pick the top 8 best. To make it a little easier for the contestants and to possible entice more to enter we've eased the rules a little for the Dutch oven cooking. We're allowing people to marinate their meat before they get here and letting them use can stock to help them. The trick to winning is still how you cook it without burning it and the combination of spices and other ingredients you use. Oh, before I forget we want to thank the Nevada Commission on Tourism for granting us advertising money this year. THANK YOU!!!! This year the event runs from Friday the 26th of May thru Monday May 29th, including the days in-between. Saturday at 1 p.m. will be the Dutch oven contest where Cindy has vowed to get a trophy this year. Last year she took fourth place out of a crowd of 4 contestants. She has all ready purchased a new 12 quart Dutch oven. In fact last weekend she made Dutch apple crisp and it came out delicious, especially with Sheriff Stones home made ice cream on top of it. She is going to use a beef stew recipe that someone secretly mailed to her. On Sunday after the high noonish flag ceremony we start the Chili cook-off at 1.p.m. Yours truly is going to change his recipe a little to a lot to try and place higher also. As usual we will have breakfast, lunch and Bar-b-que dinner available. This year we will have Bluegrass, Country and Classic Rock playing starting at 8 a.m. and going until after the bewitching hour. We are going to try really hard to have more pie and hot dog eating contest over last year and get those beds moving down the street also. The grand prize this year for the raffle is a Henry 44 magnum Big Boy Rifle. Over 100 other prizes will also be given away donated by the nice folks from Goldfield, Tonopah, Fish Lake Valley and possibly other locations. For the flyer or entry form just e-mail your request to me and I'll e-mail them to you. Now it's time for some more news from our "Tales from the not so old West" feature. This is from the Rhyolite Herald of April 29, 1908. "Hornsilver Has Substantial Foundation for Big Camp. Order of Things Reversed by Making a Mine before Starting a Town--Shipping from Great Western. *Hornsilver, now two weeks old, is one of the most promising youngsters that has ever popped up in Nevada. A Herald reporter had the pleasure of visiting the embryonic little city the other day, at which time the town was only ten days old. The trip was made by automobile from Goldfield, in company with Jim Russell, one of the locators of Hornsilver's pioneer producer, the Great Western; J.J. Gordon, of the Goldfield Alta; E.H. Kennard, of the Jumbo Ledge lease, and Elmer J. Chute, on of the original Goldfield townsite men and also interested in the new townsite of Hornsilver. The camp is situated between Rhyolite and Goldfield, on the north slope of the Gold Mountain range, about five miles north of Old Camp, the home of the Nevada Empress, and about eleven miles south of Lida, the home of the Wisconsin mine. From Cuprite, a station on the L. Goldfield , V. & T. and Bullfrog railways, the distance to Hornsilver is only 14 miles, and the little city of tents is easily seen from the railroad. The town is nestled in the foothills at an ideal spot, at an elevation about the same as Goldfield. The telephone line from Cuprite has been completed into Hornsilver, the project being backed by Jim and Howard Russell, Jack Murphy and Elmer J. Chute, at a cost of $2500. K. K. Kevil, for the Nevada-California Power company, has a force of surveyors in the field,, surveying for a spur from the electric power line from State Line mill, five miles distant, and it is understood that the line will be built at once. Surveying parties for the two railroads are also in the field, and is predicted that one if not both of the lines would extend tracks into the district in the near future. Water will flow by gravity from the springs above Lida, and Mr. Chute is now arranging for funds with which to build the line. A daily stage is in operation from Cuprite. The Outlook. The outlook for Hornsilver is very promising. There are about 75 tents and houses on the townsite, and more are being added daily. The townsite agent, H. L. Rummel, reports the sale of nearly every business lot on two streets, the corners are going at $250. The first big sale on an inside lot was for $525, the lot going to Frank Carroll. The first tent went up on the townsite April 15. Restaurants, lodging houses, saloons and stores are going up rapidly, and a bank is promised for the near future. The town will also have a newspaper, arrangements having been made for the publication of The Hornsilver Herald. The mining companies are being besieged with applications for leases, but leases are granted only to men who will agree to do a lot of the work in a systematic manner. Even with the big demands that are being made of leasers, the hills are now alive with new workings, and the indications are that a number of shippers will be developed. "Lumber for Hornsilver. The Tonopah Lumber company has shipped a carload of lumber from its Rhyolite yards to Cuprite for transfer to Hornsilver. The shipment was consigned to the Empire Lumber company." Well people that seems to be all for now. So from the cold and windy streets of Gold Point I now close this rag of tid bit information. Besides I have Pat, Dan and Bob waiting in the dinning room for me so we can go out and work on that back bathroom for Lone Mountain. Until next time have fun and don't forget to stop by and say howdy at this years Memorial Daze. Happy Trails and Sunsets, Sheriff Stone &/or Red Dog Lil |
