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0221Nye County
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Table of Contents:
Miscellaneous 1
Goodson (Tubb Ranch)
Toles (Ash Meadows Clay Pits)
Lowe
Records (Amargosa Valley)
Toles-Turner
Lisle
Revert
Crowell
Lemmon
Palsgrove
Reidhead (Beatty, Nevada)
Hughes (Pahrump Ranch)
Ruud (Pahrump, Nevada)
Turner (Pahrump, Nevada)
Wiley (Pahrump Valley)
Ford (Pahrump Valley, Nevada)
Hafen (Pahrump, Nevada)
Brown (Tecopa- Pahrump Area)
Fallini (Twin Springs Area)
Bradshaw (Goldfield, Tonopah, etc.)]
Coombs (Tonopah Area)
Hooper (Miscellaneous locations)
Slavin (Kawich Mountains Area)
Terrell (Tonopah and area)
Miscellaneous 2
Maps
Moore (Tonopah, Nev.)
Potts
Miscellaneous 3
Boni (Manhattan, Nevada)
Hawkins (Duckwater, Nev.)
Carver (Smoky Valley, Nev.)
Cirac
Hanson (Gabbs, Nevada)
Rogers (Smoky Valley, Nev.)
Carver Duhme (Smoky Valley, Nev.)
Carver Book (Smoky Valley, Nev.)
O’Toole
Lofthouse (Round Mountain, Nev.)
Berg (Round Mountain)
Wilson (Miscellaneous Nye County)
Zaval (Smoky Valley and Round Mountain)
Miscellaneous 1
0001 Stage stop at Beatty, Nevada.
0002 California Hotel, Beatty, Nevada
0003 Beatty Store, Beatty, Nevada
0004 Beatty [cash] Store, Beatty, Nevada.
0005 Beatty Ranch - - Beatty, Nevada.
0006 Remick's Garage - - Beatty, Nevada
0007 Amargosa Hotel - - Beatty, Nevada.
0008 Main Street in Tonopah, Nevada
0009 Springdale, Nevada Brockman Family
0010 Bettles Brothers, around 1910, San Francisco. From left: Alex Bettles, A.J. Bettles, and Gordon Bettles.
0011 Gordon Bettles wearing his Masons fez, during the 1950s.
0012 The daughters of Gordon Bettles, pictured in 1935. Edith Bettles Brockman was Born June 19, 1916 and Helen Bettles was born June 7, 1917 in Mina, Nevada. Their mother was Edith Thirsting Peterson.
0013 Looking east toward Betty, Nevada, about 1978. Land is being cleared for the Alta Vista Trailer Park.
0014 After Gordon Bettles moved to the Armagosa Valley, his daughter Edith and her Husband, frank Brockman, moved to Beatty, Nevada, in the late 1950s, purchased Land where T&T Railroad engines once had been serviced, and constructed the Desert Inn Motel. This picture was taken shortly after the motel began operating.
0015 Desert Inn Motel in Beatty, Nevada. Beatty Mountain sits in background.
0016 Frank Brockman, a Beatty resident, is pictured in the early 1960s with a Beatty Burro in Reno, Nevada, to publicize the Beatty Burro Race.
0017 Frank Brockman speaking at a meeting concerning the Beatty Burro Races, early 1960s.
0018 Frank Brockman, son- in - law of Gordon Bettles, at his home in Bishop, California, 1980s.
0019 Former Beatty, Nevada, residents Frank Brockman and Edith Bettles Brockman, 1980s.
0020 Frank Brockman, former Beatty, Nevada, resident, in the 1980s. Fishel (T&T Ranch)
0021 A landscape view of fields and trees planted by Gordon and Billy Bettles on the T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1955.
0022 Inscription on the back of the original photo reads; "Grapes planted April 1917, Trees planted Februarry 1917". View of the original ranch house on the T&T Armagosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1925
0023 Inscription on the back of the original photo, written by Billie Bettles in the 1980s reads: "This [picture] was made the day they were cutting rye, 1949"… The man on the right is Gordon Bettles and the 2 men on the left are unidentified, Though the man on the far left may be M.P. "Gless" Glessner.
0024 The corner of what is currently (1990) Mecca Road and Highway 373, Armagosa Valley, Nevada, August 1962. The foundation of the Mecca Club I being laid. A Packard automobile is visible in the background. The woman is dressed in black Blouse with her back to the camera is Billie Bettles. Bob Fishel, Billie Bettles's Son by a former marriage is visible on the far left.
0025 Stacked hay, probably on the T&T Ranch, ca. 1925. The gentlemen in white shirts And dark ties may be executives of the T&T Railroad. The inscription on the back Of the original photo reads: "Alex Stachau" [or some such spelling, the script is Difficult to read] "C.R. 66462, 848 Doheny Street.
0026 Water flowing from a well on Gordon and Billie Bettles's farm, T&T Ranch, Armagosa Valley, NV., ca. 1953
0027 Horse-drawn mowing machine, T &T Ranch, Armagosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1920 Persons pictured are unidentified.
0028 Wagons, haystacks, ducks, and chickens pictured on the T&T Ranch, Armagosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1920.
0029 Outbuildings at the t&t Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, date unknown, perhaps Ca. 1920
0030 Home of Gordon and Billie Bettles, T & T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1949.
0031 The inscription in Billie Bettles's hand on the back of the original photo reads: "June 1953". Pictured here are alfalfa fields and trees on the T&T Ranch, Armagosa Valley, Nevada.
0032 The inscription on the back of the original photo reads: "June 1953, Gordon on The hay wagon". Billie Bettles is driving the tractor on the T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada.
0033 Inscription on the back of the original photo reads: "Sugar beets" Buildings Pictured on the T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley Nevada, ca. 1920.
0034 A child feeding chickens and turkeys on the T&T Ranch, probably ca. 1920.
0035 Hogs pictured on the T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1920.
0036 A young girl pictured in a field of the T7T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1920.
0037 The inscription on the back of the original photo reads: "Mowing alfalfa, in the Right hand corner is the height of alfalfa". A horse-drawn mowing machine is Pictured. T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, NV., ca. 1920, looking west across the Valley.
0038 Alfalfa field, T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, NV., ca. 1920. Ranch and out buildings visible in the distance.
0039 Geese, or perhaps turkeys, T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1920. Ranch buildings visible in the background, along with a women dressed in white Standing behind one of the fenceposts. A child is seated watching the birds.
0040 Women pictured with a diary cow, T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1920. Cresote bushes are visible in the background.
0041 Billie Bettles with her granddaughter, Maryanne hensyel, 1985.
0042 House and garden belonging to Gordon and Billie Bettles, T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, NV. Ca. 1950
0043 The inscription on the back of the original photo reads: "The gourd, vine and 3 melons that weighed 22 pounds, 26 pounds, and 25 pounds". Grown by the Bettles on their farm on the T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1955. Home is visible in the background.
0044 Flowering fruit trees in front of the home of Gordon and Billie Bettles, T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1957.
0045 Interior of the Mecca Club, located at the junction of Mecca Road and Highway 373, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, late 1970s
0046 M.P. "Gless" Glessner sitting on the Ford tractor belonging to Gordon Bettles, preparing soil on the T&T ranch for alfalfa seed, ca. 1952.
0047 Preparing the soil for planting, T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, NV., ca. 1952.
0048 Preparing the soil for planting - - Amargosa Valley, about 1952. Funeral Mountains are visible in the west.
0049 Same as above.
0050 Irrigating land newly planted in alfalfa, T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, about 1952 or 1954. Gordon Bettles is pictured with a shovel. The child pictured In the foreground is a niece of Bob Fishel and Betty Lou Kemp, daughter of M.P."Gless" Glessner.
0051 Irrigated land newly planted in alfalfa. T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, ca. 1954.
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GOODSON (TUBB RANCH)
0052 T.D.L. "Kitty" Tubb, on her ranch in Ash Meadows, Nevada. The bell directly aAbove her head is from the old Greenwater School. The Tubbs originally settled in Ash Meadows about 1900.
0053 Robert McGomery Tubb, son of T.D.L. "Kitty" Tubb.
0054 Swimming in Deep Spring, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, middle 1950s. Gloria Miller is in the water in front on the left.
0055 Judy Tubb and Nancy Tubb on the family farm, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, early 1950s.
0056 The Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, early 1950s.
0057 The Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows, NV., early 1950s. The saddle horse, Diamond, carried the Helldorado Queen in the parade in Las Vegas one year during the early 1950s….
0058 The Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows, Nevada. Several horses pictured. (1950s)
0059 The Tubb Ranch, early 1950s. Left to right are Judy Tubb, Nancy Tubb, and Jessie Bishop, a resident of Ash Meadows.
0060 Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows, Nevada, early1950s. Dean Hale had just gotten out of the service and was visiting the ranch and was totally blind at the time.
0061 Bob Tubb at the Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada about 1930s.
0062 A photograph of a leaf from an unknown book featuring pictures of Pahrump, Nevada.
0063 Leaf from an unknown book showing Louis Avariaz standing proudly by his horse in front of the Pahrump Store, Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada, 1916.
0064 Nancy and Gloria Miller, visitors from Pasadena, California, riding the hay wagon at the Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, middle 1950s.
0065 Gloria and Nancy Miller (visitors from Pasadena, CA) standing atop the hay wagon at the Tubb Ranch, middle 1950s.
0066 Virginia Tubb getting a kiss from her horse, Tubb Ranch, about 1950 or 1951. Virginia's sister is sitting on her horse. The men pictured are Richard Gulack and Fred Tewilliger, a friend from Del Mar, CA.
0067 Nancy Tubb (right) gets a kiss from her horse at the Tubb Ranch, about 1950 or 1951. Virginia Tubb Goodson is sitting on her horse.
0068 Fred Tewilliger, a guest from Del Mar, CA, stands beside a horse on the Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows 1950 or 1951.
0069 Hay barn and corn crib at the Tubb Ranch, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, about 1951.
0070 T.D.L. "Kitty" Tubb, known as "Shotgun Kitty Tubb" because she never went anywhere without a shotgun (bar or restaurant, it didn't matter), grandmother of Virginia Tubb Goodson, and her husband Robert Tubb, Sr. and their sons, George and Robert Tubb.
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TOLES (ASH MEADOWS CLAY PITS)
0071 Left to right: Beulah Pardee, Jack Pardee, "Dude" Pardee, residents of Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1933.
0072 "Dud" Pardee, and her brother Wes Pardee, Ash Meadows, Nevada, residents, ca. 1933.
0073 Jepperson children, Louise and Tom, residents of Ash Meadows, Nevada, c. 1933 "Seems like I heard Tom was a World War II hero. I think they all moved to Tonopah or Goldfield during the war", says Herb Toles, a former resident
Himself.
0074. A.T. Sheppard, Superintendent for the Coen Company, which operated the clay pits, Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1933.
0075 Jess Toles displays a bobcat taken with bow and arrow, Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1933.
0076 Unidentified children swimming in the pool at Crystal Springs, Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1933.
0077 Clay crew and equipment used to mine clay from the Bell Pit, Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1933. L-R: Glen Jepperson, dragline operator; Jess Toles, mechanic and driver of the narrow gauge train; Jack Pardee, dump man; Mac Mckinna, Miner. (Resume of mining operations and duties of crew members behind photo).
0078 Drag line used at Bell Pit, Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1933.
0079 Narrow gauge ore train used to haul clay from the Bell Pit to an off- loading ramp on the standard gauge tracks of the T&T Railroad, Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1933.
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LOWE
0080 Gasoline tractor operated by Dave Fairbanks, uncle of Celesta Lisle Lowe. Dave Fairbanks is standing on the right in the white shirt. The tractor was used to haul Gold ore from a mine in Death Valley - - Zabriskie. The picture was probably taken between 1910 and 1915.
0081 Shoshone, California, between 1910 and 1915. Herman Jones is second from the left. Fourth from the right is Celesta Fairbanks. The tent is probably occupied by a visitor. The Fairbanks' home is in the background.
0082 Resting Spring, California, prior to 1900. Bob Lee, the shorter man in the white Shirt, is pictured with his brother Dick Lee.
0083 John Quincy Lisle, father of Celesta Lisle Lowe, standing beside an ore wagon intended for use in a sodium sulphate mine, Moapa Valley, Nevada, area about 1930. Lisle's son- in-law, Harry Adams, and son Ralph Lisle are at left.
0084 Resting Spring, California, looking west. The picture was taken from a small Mountain. just behind Resting Spring. The roof of the old stone cabin, constructed Before 1900, is visible at the far left.
0085 R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks in Shoshone, California, early 1920s, before he moved to Baker, California. Cabins in the background were moved from Greenwater, California, and the building directly behind Fairbanks was used as a school, where Celesta Lowe attended 1st or 2nd grade.
0086 Goodsprings Hotel, Goodsprings, Nevada, purchased by Deke and Celesta Lowe in 1945. The building was constructed in 1916 by the Fayle family; the Lowes Resided there from 1945 to 1951. The building burned to the ground in 1966. This Photo was taken in the late 1950s.
0087 Baker, California. The top photo, a composite, was taken about 1928, when R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks first moved to Baker and established a service station on the west Side of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad tracks. Photo on the bottom left Shows Death Valley; on the right is a photo of Hoover Dam.
0088 Snowfall at Greenwater, California, prior to 1907.
0089 Celestia Adelaide Fairbanks, wife of R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks, and Celesta Fairbanks (mother of Celesta Lowe) at age 16, Annabelle, Utah. This photo taken shortly Before Celestia Fairbanks joined her husband at Fairbanks Spring, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, about 1905.
0090 Celesta Spede Johnson and her husband, David Philo Johnson, great-grandparents of Celesta Lisle Lowe. She was the mother of 16.
0091 Family picture taken at the home of Deke and Celesta Lowe, Good Springs, Nevada, 1985. Deke Lowe is 3rd from the right in back, and Celesta Lowe is at the Far right in the back. All other family members are identified in the verbatim text.
0092 Fairbanks Spring, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, between 1905 and 1907. R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks resided at this site between 1905 and 1907. and is at the far Right in the photo.
0093 Probably the Amargosa Siding, but could be the Johnnie Siding, on the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railraod, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1910.
0094 John Quincy "Jack" Lisle, center, father of Celesta Lowe, at a prospector's cabin, date and location unknown. Others unidentified.
0095. R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks at the age of 70, a month or so before moving to and establishing a community at Baker, California, about 1925.
0096 The facilities and "community" established by R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks, Fairbanks Spring, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada. The photo was taken in 1907.
0097 Celesta Lisle Lowe at her home at 2525 E. Twain, Las Vegas, Nevada, Christmas, about 1965.
0098 Graduation picture, Celesta Lisle Lowe, granddaughter of R.J."Dad" Fairbanks. She graduated from El Monte High School in California; photo taken in 1934.
0099 David Walker "Deke" Lowe, Jr., at the central train control panel, where he worked as a train dispatcher from 1950 to 1960. The control facility was located at Union Station, Las Vegas, Nevada, present site of the Union Plaza Hotel.
0100 Two daughters of R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks, Vonola Fairbanks, and Stella Fairbanks Brown. Vonola is standing. The photo was taken in Long Beach, California.
0101 Ralph Jacobus "Dad" Fairbanks, Shoshone, California, ca. 1920.
0102 Second from Left is Celesta Lisle, daughter of R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks. Next to her are her Brother Vern, mother Celestia Fairbanks. Others are unidentified. Photograph appears to have been taken at Green Water, California, between 1907 and 1910.
0103 China Ranch, Amargosa River area, early 1920s. L-R: Glynn Lisle, John Lisle, Ralph Lisle; Bernice, Charles, George Brown, and perhaps Celesta Lisle Lowe May also be pictured. The woman standing at the right is Celestia Fairbanks, wife Of R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks.
0104 The boarding house constructed by R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks and his wife, Celestia, at Shoshone, California, shortly after their founding of the community in 1910. The Woman at left is Celestia Fairbanks; next to her is her husband, "Dad"; the man to The left of the dog is Shorty Harris; next to him is Herman Jones; the 3rd man Down from Herman is Charlie Brown, in white shirt and dark pants. Sitting on
Post at far right is man the world would later know as Sir Harry Oakes. Photo Taken about 1915. (More info behind photo)
0105 John Quincy "Jack" Lisle, father of Celesta Lowe, shortly after his marriage to Celesta Fairbanks, Santa Monica, California, March 1907.
0106 Celesta Lisle, daughter of R.J. "Dad" Fairbanks, with her daughter Glyn Lisle (Thomas). Photo taken in Hayward, California, about 1909.
0107 John Quincy "Jack' Lisle at the edge of the reservoir on his homestead in the Las Vegas Valley, about 1930. (More info. behind photo)
0108 Margaret Garner, John Quincy "Jack" Lisle's niece, driving at Lake Tahoe about 1929.
0109 Greenwater, California, about 1907. Persons in the photo not identified.
0110 Celestia Adelaide Johnson Fairbanks and her husband, Ralph Jacobus Fairbanks, Shoshone, California, about 1920. Everybody called them "Ma" and "Dad" Fairbanks.
0111 Death Valley Junction, California, 1924. Shortly after the hotel was constructed, the Pacific Coast Borax Company constructed a swimming pool and planted a number of trees in the square. The building at the left end of the square is the company store. An infirmary was established at the right end of the square. The Uppermost track going off to the left toward the middle of the photo, is the narrow gauge to Ryan. Funeral Mountains in the backgrounds.
0112 Parents of David Walker"Deke" Lowe, Jr., David Walker and Frances Columbus Kinkaid Lowe, Tecopa, California, about 1922 or 1923.
0113 Photo taken at the Noonday Mine, located about 10 miles east of Tecopa, California, in 1936 or 1937. Dr. Lincoln. D. Godshall, the mine's owner (Manager), is on the left, David Walker "Deke" Lowe, Jr., is in the middle and a man known only as Uncle Billy, the watchman at the mine for many years, is on the right.
0114 Celestia Johnson Fairbanks and Ralph Jacobus "Dad" Fairbanks, Baker, California, about 1930.
0115 Second from left is Death Valley Scotty (Frank Scott) at Death Valley Scotty's Castle, Death Valley, California, 1952. At far left is Lisle Lowe; on Scotty's left are Janet Lowe, David Walker "Deke" Lower, Jr., and Dale Lowe. (More info Behind the photo)
0116 The Standard Slag Mine and Mile above Tecopa, California, in the Kingston Mountains. Undated.
0117 Phi Lee in front of his home at Resting Spring, about 5 miles east of Tecopa, California. This photo was taken before 1900, perhaps before 1890. Lee is the Father of the two boys, Bob and Dick Lee, pictured in #0221 0082.
0118 Engine No.1 of the Tecopa Railroad, which ran from Tecopa to the Noonday and Gunsight Mines. This picture was taken in the 1920s, after the railroad had folded.
0119 Tweed Wilson, an Indian who was grandson of the founder of Wilson Ranch west of Las Vegas, Nevada (the ranch is now known as Spring Mountain State Park) and David Walker "Deke" Lowe, Jr., at Phi Lee's residence in the Charleston Mountains, about 1956.
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Records (Amargosa Valley)
0120 Amargosa Valley, Nevada, 1959 or 1960, looking southwest toward the Funeral the Funeral Mountains. The property pictured is on the corner of Section 7. The Home pictured was a frame structure moved from Las Vegas. It is the first town- built home in the Amargosa Farm Area. The trees pictured here were as high as 50 Feet in 1988.
0121 Digging a ditch for installation of a 10" water line to supply a sprinkler system in the Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1980.
0122 Amargosa Valley looking southwest toward the Funeral Mountains, 1980, showing a 10" water line and pump to supply a circle sprinkler system. The pump is a 75 horsepower electric turbine pump that supplies two sprinkler systems with a total of 1,450 gallons per minute. At that capacity, the pump only draws water Down 3 inches in the well.
0123
Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, looking west over land in Section 7, Township17S, Range 49E. The soil is fine -grained and contains few rocks. The profile of the Funeral Mountains in the distance is referred to locally as the " Old man", with the notch below the sharp pointed peak forming the open mouth of a sleeping man, his body stretching to the left.
0124 Land on the T&T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1958 or 1959. Commercial electricity was not available in the Amargosa Valley until 1964. Until then all water pumping was down with combustion engines running at the Wells. Pictured here is a butane- operated motor, running a pump on the property belonging to Hank Records.
0125 Ditch leading to an overhead pivot sprinkler system on the property of Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1980, looking west toward the Funeral Mountains.
0126 Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1980. Pivot watering system has just been installed on the property belonging to Hank Records and the alfalfa is beginning to grow. When alfalfa is first seeded, oats are planted as a cover crop. The oats, which protect the tender alfalfa seedlings, are later cut, and the alfalfa takes over.
0127 Pivot irrigation system operating on land belonging to Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1980. Alfalfa and oats have just been planted. The Boy pictured is the son of a Mexican farmhand.
0128 Undetermined location in Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1959,
Showing saplings that were newly planted.
0129 The trailer holds alfalfa pellets produced on the property of Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada 1984. Note the many horse tracks, horse droppings, and scattering of alfalfa cubes left by wild horses which are a constant problem for farmers in the Amargosa Valley Farm Area.
0130 At left, Nye County Deputy Sheriff Glen Henderson, whose area of responsibility iIncluded Beatty, the Amargosa Valley and Pahrump; at right, Hank Records, Amargosa Valley Farm Area pioneer; celebrating in their new leather jackets in
Las Vegas, about 1968. Henderson's home in the Amargosa Valley became known locally as "Fort Henderson" and is sometimes still called that. It is located not far from the present (1988) site of the Senior Center.
0131 Alfalfa cubes produced on the property of Hank Records, in the Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1984.
0132 Damaged alfalfa bales on the property of Hank Records, in the Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1984.
0133 An antique cattle chute owned by Hank Records, used for more then 30 years, although it is much older. Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1988.
0134 Water flowing from a pump located on the property of Hank Records, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1979. The view is toward the west.
0135 The same alfalfa fields shown in Photographs #121, 122, 123 of this collection. A Swath has been cut through the mature alfalfa. Looking towards the south, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada about 1980.
0136 Horses on the property of Hank Records, Amargosa valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1956. The colt, named Cindy, was 32 years old in 1988; she pictured with her mother and several other mares.
0137 House constructed by Hank Records on the T&T Ranch, Amargosa valley, Nye County, Nevada. Records and his brother Robert planted many trees in the valley about the time this photograph was taken, ca. 1955. Balm of Gileads, maples, Elms, and other varieties were planted.
0138 Detroit diesels powering pumps on Hank Records' property, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada. About 1956. Diesels were installed by Mantzer Detroit Diesels out of Sparks, Nevada. Records brought the trailer in the background From Prescott, Arizona; it was the first structure in the Amargosa Valley Farm area aside from those on the T&T Ranch. The trees are Balm of Gileads.
0139 The first building constructed in the Amargosa Valley aside from those on the T &T Ranch, middle 1950s. Hank Records property, Nye County, Nevada.
0140 Robert Records, pictured, and his brother Hank were the first settlers in the Amargosa Valley Farm Area in the middle 1950s. Records stands beside a pump on the Records' property.
0141 Ribbon-cutting ceremony at the dedication of the All -Purpose Building, Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, November 2, 1984. On the right are pictured former Nye County Commissioner, Jacque Ruud, Nye County
Commissioner Bob Revert, Betty-Jo Boyd. State Senator Ken Redelsperger is in the mustache and white collar, beside and slightly to the left back of Boyd. Others Unidentified.
0142 Robert Records, Amargosa Valley Farm Area pioneer, about 1960.
0143 From left, Hank Richards with Ann Redelsperger and State Senator Ken Redelsperger at the dedication of the All -Purpose Building, Amargosa Valley Nye County, Nevada, Nevada, November 2, 1984. Records was asked to be the Dedicator at the ceremony because he was the first to arrive in the valley and take advantage of the "Desert Entry Program", and with his brother Robert, he "knew what years people came".
0144 Property developed by Hank Records in the Amargosa Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1974. Looking can west at the Funeral Mountains, showing the profile of the "old man of the mountains".
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Toles-Turner
0145 Clay Camp, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, 1940 or 1941. The Clay Camp was located northeast of Death Valley Junction, on the Nevada side of the state Line. Jess Toles, grandfather of Joan Toles Turner, is on the left. K.K. Miller is on the right.
0146 Death Valley Junction with a mushroom cloud resulting from open air atomic testing at the nearby Nevada Test Site rising in the background. Probably 1951. The railroad station in the background was moved to Lathrop Wells, where it was used as a brothel. Prior to being moved, the station served as a schoolhouse.
0147 Front entrance to the Furnace Creek Ranch, Death Valley, California, about 1938 or 1939.
0148 Joan Toles Turner playing on a boardwalk beside the home of her grandparents, Jess and Myrtle Toles at Clay Camp, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada 1939.
0150 Clay Camp, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, about 1940. The house in the background is constructed of railroad ties. At left are Myrtle and Jess Toles with Granddaughter, Joan Toles Turner. Bedie Miller is at the far right.
0151 Death Valley Junction about 1930 or 1940. Tonopah and Tidewater car and station are in the background.
0152 Joan Toles Turner, Death Valley Junction, California, 1949. When this photo was taken the lodge was a dinner house with a number of rooms which guests could stay; Ash Meadows Lodge did not become a brothel until a number of years later.
0153 Clay Camp, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, about 1940. From left are Myrtle Toles, grandmother of Joan Toles Turner; Dwayne Baker, a self - Employed truck driver and friend of the Toles's; Mrs. Baker; and Jess Toles.
0154 From left are Jess and Myrtle Toles, grandparents of Joan Toles Turner; Jean Toles, Joan Toles Turner's mother; and father Jess Toles, about 1940. Joan Toles Turner is standing in front of her mother, and sister Jean is being held by her Grandmother.
0155 A ramp from which cars of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad dumped their ore for processing, Death Valley Junction, California, 1939. (NOTE: The perspective of this photograph is reversed from the original.)
0156 Herb Toles and family, in the clay camp in Ash Meadows, Nevada, ca. 1941.
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Lisle
0157 Florence Palsgrove, left, and Chloe Lisle, about 1933.
0158 Chloe Lisle, Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, 1932 or 1933.
0159 Photograph from a page of unidentified source featuring pictures of aspects of work associated with Beatty's Episcopal Church. Enlargements of these pictures are featured in Photographs #160-164, and #166 of this collection.
0160 Rear of Beatty's Episcopal Church on Main Street, date unknown.
0161 Outhouse used at Beatty's Episcopal Church, probably 1940s or 1950s.
0162 A trailer occupied by Ken Priest, priest at the Beatty Episcopal Church. He occupied the trailer upon first coming to Beatty in the early 1950s.
0163 Beatty Episcopal Church workers' living quarters, prior to upgrading, probably 1950s.
0164 Unidentified Beatty children. Date unknown.
0165 Dedication of the Beatty Fire Hall (known in 1988 as the Ambulance Hall), located on 4th and Montgomery, ca. 1960.
0166 Beatty Episcopal Church, Main Street, date unknown.
0167 Photograph from an unidentified newspaper showing dedication and ribbon- cutting ceremonies at the Beatty Fire Hall, Beatty, Nevada (called the Ambulance Hall in 1988), July 4th, 1960s.
0168 Demonstrators protesting nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site, early 1950s. Ralph Lisle was Justice of the Peace in Beatty at the time. This photograph was reproduced from a newspaper clipping, date and issue unknown.
0169 Dedication of the Beatty Fire Hall (known in 1988 as the Ambulance Hall), July 4th, 1960s.
0170 Demonstrators protesting nuclear testing at the Nev. Test Site during the early 1950s. This photo was reproduced from a newspaper clipping, date and issue unknown.
0171 Persons who were among demonstrators protesting nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site, early 1950s. Ralph Lisle, Beatty Justice of the Peace, is at the far right. This photograph is a reproduction of a picture contained in an unidentified news Paper.
0172 Beatty, Nevada, school picture, 1938. Back row, far left, Mr. Dees, teacher of Grades 5 through 8. Chloe Lisle, second from the left in the back row, taught grades 1 thought 4. Ert Moore, principal and high school teacher, is the bald-
Headed man standing next to Chloe Lisle. Robert Revert is the tall boy with glasses in the back row. Johnny Cobb is the tall boy next to Revert. In the front row at far left is Dewey Ishmael; Jack Crowell (blond - haired boy in the striped
Shirt) is sitting in the middle of the front row. Several Indian children attended the school. All others not identified.
0173 A rare photograph of M.M. "Old Man" Beatty, occupant of the Beatty Ranch at the time of Rhyolite's founding, and namesake of the town of Beatty, Nevada. Date and name of newspaper (from which photo was taken) unknown.
0174 Looking north up Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, following a flood in the early 1930s. The old Revert Store with its rounded flood in the early 1930s. The old Revert Store with its rounded roof is visible in the distance on the left, and a sign for the Mayflower Hotel can be seen on the right.
0175 Mrs. Bennett, a school teacher at Beatty, Nevada, about 1933. Mrs. Bennett was from Johnnie, Nevada. This picture was taken in Beatty.
0176 The Beatty Auto Court, know as the "Yellow Cabins", 1930s. The cabins were Located on the far side of the Amargosa River channel as one enters town from the north.
0177 Beatty, Nevada, looking northwest, 1930s. The railroad station in visible on the left.
0178 Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, looking north, early 1930s. Note the unpaved roads, Cottonwood trees lining the street, canopies over store fronts, and partially visible sign for the Exchange Hotel on the right.
0179 A highway sign is being readied at the Beatty Auto Court, Beatty, Nevada, early 1930s. The sign was painted by Chloe Lisle's stepfather and was placed 30 miles down the highway toward Las Vegas, in the vicinity of Lathrop Wells, Nevada. This picture is particularly valuable because it provides a listing of many of the businesses located in Beatty at the time.
0180 View from the Beatty Auto Court looking northeast to the highway across the Amargosa River channel, on the north end of Beatty, early 1930s. Heavy Equipment is engaged in road paving.
0181 Blacktopping activities on the highway at the north and of Beatty, looking north east across the Amargosa River channel from the Beatty Auto Court, early 1930s.
0182 Ore mill near Carrara, Nevada, early 1930s. Ore from the Gold Ace Mine was Processed here. The mill was powered by diesel electricity generated at the mill site. Vic Retterer and his son Homer ran the diesel plant.
0183 Panamint City, California, early 1940s. By this time Panamint City was pretty much a ghost town, but Ralph Lisle and his partners lived here while working a nearby tungsten mine. Because there was no road from Panamint City to the Mine, all transporting was done by burros, shown here loaded with cargo.
0184 Lottie Mills, mother of Chloe Lisle, on the front porch of her home on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, early 1930s. The house burned down in the 1950s; in 1988 the site was occupied by Beatty's TV station.
0185 Lottie Mills, mother of Chloe Lisle, with two pack burros, Panamint City, California, early 1940s.
0186 Chloe Lisle and her son Jimmy Lisle on Montgomery Street, Beatty, Nevada, 1946. During World War 2 gas and tires were scarce, so many people rode bicycles around town.
0187 Left to right, Bill Martin, Ralph Lisle, Phillip Lisle, and Sam Colvin, brother of Chloe Lisle, in Panamint City, California, early 1940s. The men were partners in a tungsten mine outside Panamint City.
0188 Jimmy Lisle, son of Chloe and Ralph Lisle, pictured with his maternal grand Mother Lottie Mills, in the front yard of a house on Montgomery Street, Beatty Nevada, about 1944. The Beatty Town Hall is visible in the distance. The hall Was originally the Miners' Union Building in Rhyolite, Nevada, and was moved to Beatty. The Beatty Police Station and the Fire Hall now (1988) sit at the approximate location of this old Town Hall.
0189 Man known as "Gasoline" Bill pictured in front of the Revert Store on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, early 1930s.
0190 Ballarat, California, in the foothills of the Panamint Mountains near Trona. Pictured is the home of "Seldom-Seen Slim". Left to right, Matt Ryan, an employee of the U.S. Park Service; Seldom-Seen Slim; Lottie Mills, and mother Of Chloe Lisle; a woman who worked in Trona but whose name is not recalled; and Chris West, who lived up Surprise Canyon in the Panamint Mountains.
0191 Front of the Episcopal Church, Beatty, Nevada, ca. 1930. Left to right, Mrs. Ray, Mrs. Albert Revert, Edith Revert, unidentified women, Mrs. O'Brien, Mrs. McRea, and Mrs. Harvey. The Episcopal Church was the only church in town at that time.
0192 Chloe Lisle talking to Red Mills in front of the barber shop on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, about 1932. Lisle was taking haircutting lessons at the barber shop at that time, and Red Mills, Homer and Vic Retterer, and Lisle's brother, Sam Colvin, allowed her to practice her haircutting skills on them.
0193 Lottie Mills, Chloe Lisle, and Jimmy Lisle, early 1940s.
0194 Phillip Lisle, brother of Ralph Lisle, with 3 pack burros heading for a tungsten Mine located out of Panamint City, California, early 1940s.
0195 Ralph Lisle with 2 pack burros used to transport supplies and ore to and from his Tungsten mine located out of Panamint City, California, early 1940s.
0196 Looking west at the yard of Lottie Mills, mother of Chloe Lisle, Beatty, Nevada, about 1932. The Beatty Episcopal Church is faintly visible on the very far left of the picture, between the fence post and the bush. The Old Town Hall is also visible in the distance.
0197 Left to right, Lorraine Thomas, Babe Palsgrove, Chloe Lisle, and Florence Phinney. Beatty, Nevada, early 1930s.
0198 Front of the store next to the Exchange Club, Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, early 1930s. C.G. Johnson, stepfather to Chloe Lisle, was proprietor of the store, which housed the Beatty Post Office in a corner.
0199 Warm Springs, Nevada, located 50 miles east of Tonopah on Highway 6, either 1937 or 1938. A bar stood to the left of the building pictured here, and a school stood to the left of the building pictured here, and a school stood to the right, near the present (1988) site of the big, stone corral. Mrs. Wilson ran a boarding house in the largest building pictured here.
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Revert
0200 The Revert Brothers' 76 Station, located on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, 1957. Leaning on the hood of the car is Bob Revert. Learning against the building is Norman Revert. Dolf Goole is in the foreground in the white shirt and next to him with his back to the camera, is Red O'Leary. Art Revert is visible in the background, second from the right.
0201 Art Revert filling a bulk truck at the Revert Brothers' Union Oil Bulk Plant, Beatty Nevada, about 1956.
0202 Interior of the Exchange Club, Beatty, Nev., 1950. Murphy Breedlove is behind the bar talking to Robert Revert, Nye County Deputy Sheriff responsible for Southern Nye County. At the end of the bar is Red O'Leary. Norman Revert is watching his brother, Art Revert, play the slot machines.
0203 Interior of the railroad depot at Rhyolite, Nevada, early 1950s. Mr. Heisler, who, with his wife, ran the depot for many years, is near the window; Art Revert is leaning on the back of the chair at far right.
0204 Albert Revert, patriarch of the Beatty Reverts, ca. 1930, when Revert was in his 60s. This photo was taken at the south end of town.
0205 In May 1956 Minute Man Magazine, a publication of the Union Oil Company, ran an illustrated article on the Revert Brothers' Union Oil Station and Bulk plant located in Beatty, Nevada. This picture appeared on the cover of that issue. It features Robert Revert in the background and his two children, Mark Revert And Elaine Revert. Mark Revert died tragically at the age of 5, and Elaine Revert now lives in Las Vegas and is married to Brad Richardson. The photograph was taken on the old Beatty Ranch, then owned by the Reverts.
0206 The Revert brothers, Norman, Robert, and Art, on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, 1956. Photograph appeared in an article on the Revert brothers in Minute Man Magazine, May 1956.
0207 Dolf Goole works on the first street light in Beatty, Nevada. Photograph appeared in an article on the Revert brothers in Minute Man Magazine, May 1956.
0208 Service station at Lathrop Wells, Nevada, leased by the Reverts from Bob Wheel Lock. Photograph appeared in an article on the Revert brothers in the May 1956 issue of Minute Man Magazine.
0209 Death Valley Scotty's Castle, located 60 miles from Beatty, Nevada. Art Revert looks at the Castle. Photograph appeared in the May 1956 issue of the Minute Man Magazine, in conjunction with an article on the Revert Brothers.
0210 Robert Revert is pictured with a new Ford automobile in Beatty, Nevada. Photo Graph appeared in conjunction with an article on the Revert brothers in Minute Man Magazine, May 1956.
0211 Mining operation in the vicinity of Beatty, Nevada. Photograph appeared in conjunction with an article on the Revert brothers in Minute Man Magazine.
0212 Beatty residents gather to view a new Mercury automobile. The Revert brothers were Ford- Mercury dealers in Beatty. Photography appeared in conjunction with an article on the Revert brothers in Minute Man Magazine, May 1956.
0213 Part of the Beatty, Nevada, water system during the 1950s. The system was owned by the Revert brothers. Photograph appeared in conjunction with an article on the Revert brothers in Minute Man Magazine, May 1956.
0214 Art and Norman Revert examine ore specimens at the Boyd-Endseley Mining Company Mill. Photograph appeared in conjunction with an article on the Revert Brothers in Minute Man Magazine, May 1956.
0215 Stagecoach and horses, probably southern Nye County, Nevada, before 1910.
0216 Early shot of Tonopah, Nevada. The woman is unidentified.
0217 Famous picture of a lighting strike in Tonopah, Nevada. Photograph taken by Mimosa Pittman, wife of Senator Key Pittman; copyrighted 1904.
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Crowell
0218 Don Finley, (in the hat) and his friend Jack Parsons, obtaining water for Josiah Irving Crowell's mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains southwest of Beatty, Nevada. Water is being taken from a well in a canyon east of Chloride Cliff.
0219 Josiah Irving Crowell's mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains, located Southwest of Beatty, Nevada, about 1914. Originally Crowell and his associates lived in dugout dwellings near the mine. The buildings in the foreground are a part of what they called "New Camp".
0220 Construction of the mill at Josiah Irving Crowell's mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains, southwest of Beatty, Nevada. The round machine near the base of the mill is a Lane Mill, which rotated and crushed the ore. All equipment
And materials were moved to the building site using horses.
0221 Horses pulling part of either a compressor or an engine up the trail to Josiah Irving Crowell's mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains, southwest of Beatty, Nevada, probably about 1914. This photograph illustrates the difficulty in Moving equipment in the early days in southern Nye County, Nevada.
0222 Road located near the Oasis Ranch in Fish Lake Valley, Nevada. The automobile is a 1914 Ford purchased by J. Irving Crowell, Jr., for $90. Photo probably taken between 1920 and 1922.
0223 Christmastime in the dugout dwelling occupied by Josiah Irving Crowell at his Chloride Cliff mine, located in the Funeral Mountains southwest of Beatty, Nevada. Picture taken around 1915, possibly earlier.
0224 Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad as it crossed the Amargosa River about 8 to 10 miles south of Tecopa, California, around 1915.
0225 Home of J. Irving Crowell, Jr., and Dorothy Crowell, Beatty, Nevada, 1919. At that time the home was occupied by Crowell's father Josiah Irving Crowell, who had moved to Beatty from his mine at Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains.
0226 Surface structures at the Crowell fluorspar mine, located in the Care Mountains east of Beatty, Nevada; photo taken in 1939 or 1940. The Crowell fluorspar mine is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, continuously operated mines in Nevada. The dump and surface structures belie the mine's extensive under ground workings and its long record of production.
0227 Aftermath of a flood in Beatty, Nevada, showing flood damage and water levels on machinery inside the mill owned and operated by J. Irving Crowell's home on Second Street in Beatty. The mill was built to refine ore from the Crowell Fluorspar mine. Photo was taken around 1923.
0228 Rhyolite, Nevada. Date unknown.
0229 Josiah Irving Crowell's mill near his mine at Chloride Cliff, located in the Funeral Mountains southwest of Beatty, Nevada. The mill was designed to amalgamate and cyanide gold ore. Photo taken around 1915.
0230 Beatty, Nevada, looking to the northwest. Date unknown - - perhaps 1920s. The large building on the far right housed the Palmer Store. The white building with many windows is the California Hotel. The large with building left of the California Hotel is the Exchange Club.
0231 Camp at the Crowell fluorspar mine located at Bare Mountain, west of Beatty, Nevada. Photograph taken in the early 1940s.
0232 View of Beatty, Nevada, taken from the top of the water tank at the Crowell home, ca. 1920s.
0233 Don Finley at Josiah Irving Crowell's Chloride Cliff mine, Funeral Mountains, Beatty, Nevada, about 1915.
0234 Josiah Irving Crowell in his dugout dwelling at his Chloride Cliff mine, Funeral Mountains, Beatty, Nevada. Judging from the date on the calendar in the back ground, this photograph was taken October 12, 1915.
0235 Josiah Irving Crowell and his teenage son, J. Irving Crowell, Jr., in a 1917 Buick at their new house at the Chloride Cliff mine in the Funeral Mountains southwest of Beatty, Nevada.
0236 Left to right, J. Irving Crowell, Jr., with Jerry, the Airdale, Elizabeth Crowell, Josiah Irving Crowell, Mary Crowell O'Connell, and Annie L. Crowell, wife of Josiah Irving Crowell, prior to 1920.
0237 Main highway across Westgaard Pass in Fish Lake Valley, probably between 1920 and 1922. May be a close -up of photograph #0222.
0238 The Red Rooster Brothel, Beatty, Nevada, 1940s or early 1950s.
0239 Candelaria, Nevada, 1902. The child is J.Irving Crowell; the other people are unidentified.
0240 These panoramic shots of Beatty, Nevada, dates unknown, were obtained from to Jack and Maud - Kathrin Crowell, Beatty, Nevada, 1987 (Six shots in all, 0245 #0240 to #0245)
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Lemmon
0246 Looking north on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, probably early 1950s.
0247 The old Beatty Ranch located on the northeast side of Beatty, Nevada, date unknown. M.M. Beatty, for whom the town is named, occupied the ranch at the time of the Bullfrog discoveries by Shorty Harris and Ed Cross.
0248 The Beatty Store with Pop Richings and his wife, probably 1930s, Beatty, Nevada.
0249 Looking north on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, probably 1920s or early 1930s.
0250 Pioneer, Nevada, probably 1930s.
0251 This photograph has not been authoritatively identified. It may be Gold Center or Carrara, Nevada. It has even been suggested that it is Springdale.
0252 Probably Aurora, Nevada, date unknown.
0253 Marble quarry, Carrara, Nevada, date unknown.
0254 Springdale, Nevada, probably 1907. Subjects are not identified.
0255 Mayflower Hotel, Main Street, Beatty, Nevada. Date unknown.
0256 Springdale, Nevada, probably 1910.
0257 Marble quarry, Carrara, Nevada, date unknown.
0258 School picnic, Springdale, Nevada, probably May 1, 1907.
0259 The "underground" chapel, Beatty, Nevada, about 1958 or 1959. The church was located in a converted storage cellar, behind the Beatty Cash Store, on Montgomery Street. It was operated by Renee Gibson, a long - time Beatty resident. Sunday school and church services were held there.
0260 Train depot, Beatty, Nevada, date unknown.
0261 Probably Carrara, Nevada, date unknown.
0262 Beatty, Nevada, date and subjects unknown.
0263 Renee Gibson, for many years the postmistress of the Beatty Post Office, Beatty, Nevada, 1950s. Looking north down Main Street from site of the new post office, built during the 1950s.
0264 Community Park, Beatty, Nevada, date unknown.
0265 Marble quarry, Carrara, Nevada, date unknown. The people pictured are unidentified.
0266 Location and person unidentified.
0267 Perhaps Carrara, Nevada, date unknown.
0268 Schoolteacher and children, Springdale, Nevada, 1908.
0269 Schoolteacher and children, Springdale, Nevada, 1908.
0270 Probably Carrara, Nevada, date unknown.
0271 Unidentified persons sitting on the fountain, Carrara, Nevada, date unknown.
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Palsgrove
0272 Carrara, Nevada, 1928.
0273 A truck hauling part of a ball mill of the Gold Ace Mill, several miles south of Beatty, 1928.
0274 Charles E. Phinney working on a concrete form at the Gold Ace Mill, about 1928. Phinney was in charge of constructing the mill, which was located a few miles south of Beatty, Nye County, Nevada.
0275 A view of the Gold Ace Mill from the valley, about 1929 or 1930. The Gold Ace is located a few miles south of Beatty, Nevada, off Highway 95.
0276 Carrara, Nevada, probably in the 1920s.
0277 Episcopal Church, Beatty, Nevada, Easter Sunday, April 1941.
0278 Workers unloading a ball mill near Beatty, Nevada, probably 1920s.
0279 A house in Carrara, Nevada, probably 1920s.
0280 Unidentified woman and the front side of the old Town Hall, Beatty, Nevada, probably 1930s. The Town Hall was originally the Miners' Union Building in Rhyolite, Nevada.
0281 House and occupant, Beatty, Nevada, ca. 1930.
0282 The California Hotel, Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, ca. 1930.
0283 Hot springs located a few miles north of Beatty, Nevada, ca. 1930. At one time the hot springs was a stop on the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad, which linked Rhyolite and Goldfield. The building pictured is the old station house for the
Railroad.
0284 Students at the Beatty School, 1930s. Chloe Lisle is in the front row wearing the dark jacket, and Robert Revert is in back on the far left.
0285 Main Street of Beatty School, 1930, Nevada, looking north, ca. 1930.
0286 A postcard showing a bus stopped at Andre's Grocery Store and Fountain next door to the Exchange Hotel, Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, ca. 1930.
0287 Looking north up main Street, Beatty, Nevada, about 1920. Note the trees lining the street, the dirt road, and the Exchange Hotel, visible at right.
0288 A view of Main Street, Goldfield, Nevada, before 1910.
0289 Remick's Garage, Beatty, Nevada, 1930s. The garage stood at the present site (1988) of the service station at 2nd and Main, across from the Exchange Club.
0290 An early view of Tonopah looking toward T Mountain, ca. 1920. The old high school, now (1988) the site of Barsanti park, is visible in the distance in the distance on the left. The Mizpah shaft, Tonopah's largest producing mine, is in
The foreground.
0291 The Goldfield Hotel, Goldfield, Nevada, perhaps the 1930s.
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Reidhead (Beatty, Nevada)
0300 Looking north up Main Street at the Gold Ace fire, Beatty, Nevada, ca. 1940.
0301 Looking north up Main Street at the Emergency Medical Clinic, Beatty, Nevada, about 1951 or 1952. The clinic building was originally the home of Judge Gray.
0302 Labor Day Parade in Beatty, Nevada, about 1955. Looking north up Main Street.
0303 Looking south down Main Street toward Daylight Pass, Beatty, Nevada, about 1947.
0304 View of Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad cars, Beatty, Nevada, probably 1930s.
0305 Looking north up Main Street at the bridge over the Amargosa River, Beatty, Nevada, following a flood, during the 1960s.
0306 Train depot, Beatty, Nevada, probably 1930s. The man in the doorway of the baggage car is possibly a Mr. Hilton.
0307 Grace Davies with a bobcat that her husband, Fred Davies, had trapped, Beatty, Nevada, 1938.
0308 North side of Judge Gray's home, Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, late 1930s. Left to right, Fred Davies, Grace Mitchell, two unidentified women, and Judge William B. Gray. Date of photo unknown, possibly late 1930s.
0309 View of Beatty, Nevada, looking east, probably 1930s. Beatty mountain is on the left and Bare Mountain is on the right.
0310 View of the baggage car of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, Beatty, Nevada, probably 1930s. The man in the car is possibly a Mr. Hilton. Photograph appears to be a closeup of 0221 0306.
0311 Exchange Club fire, Beatty, Nevada, March 1987.
0312 Looking north up Main Street at the Exchange Club fire, Beatty Nevada, March 1987. Photo was taken in the early hours of daylight on that date. March 1987. Photo was taken in the early hours of daylight on that date.
0313 Looking north up Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, probably middle 1950s.
0314 Pioneer, Nevada, probably 1930s. Smoke can be seen rising from the chimney of the large house in the background and both it and the cabin in the foreground on the left appear to be occupied.
0315 Fred Davies, long -time Beatty resident, working in his blacksmith shop at Pioneer, Nevada, 1920s. Davies was a blacksmith, farrier, pipefitter, and boil maker.
0316 View of the Exchange Club, Beatty, Nevada, early 1940s, looking north up Main Street.
0317 Looking north up Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, about 1941 or 1942. The Shell Service Station at the corner of Third and Main Streets is on the left.
0318 Chevron Service Station, possibly early 1940s. Location is undetermined.
0319 Headframe and buildings at the Gold Bar Mine, Beatty vicinity, Nevada, late 1930s. The pickup belongs to Beatty resident Fred Davies.
0320 View of the Tonopah Club and Ace Club, Tonopah, Nevada, Fourth of July Parade, about 1951.
0321 Tonopah, Nevada, July 4th, about 1951. Beatty resident Claudia Davies Reidhead is pictured.
0322 Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, about 1945. Looking south toward Death Valley. The white building is Mrs. Morgan's Church; a curio shop is at the right.
0323 Water tank belonging to the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, Beatty, Nevada, Late 1930s. The man in the foreground has been identified as Mr. Hilton.
0324 Exchange Club fire, Beatty, Nevada, March 1987.
0325 Tanker truck belonging to the Beatty Volunteer Fire Department, Beatty, Nevada, at the Exchange Club fire, March 1987.
0326 Beatty, Nevada, probably late 1930s.
0327 Fred Davies standing on top of the adobe monument that marks the boundary to Death Valley National Monument on the highway to Daylight Pass, west of Beatty, Nevada, probably late 1930s. or early 1940s.
0328 A picture postcard that came out about 1937, featuring Aurora, a Shoshone Indian resident of Beatty, Nevada, who was very skilled at making baskets.
0329 Main Street of Beatty, Nevada, looking to the northwest. Part of St. Peter's Bar is Visible on the far left. Partially visible on the far right is M. &M. Bar, Known in 1988 as the Sourdough Saloon. St. Peter's Bar is now (1988) the Pot Shop.
0330 The woman featured here is either Mrs. Heisler, a sister to a gentleman who was at the Rhyolite Railroad Depot, or Mrs. Moffatt - - probably Mrs. Heisler. Fred Davies' dog, Boots, is also pictured. Probably late 1930s or early 1940s.
0331 Claudia Davies and her uncle, Jack Davies, at a watering tank on the west side of Daylight Pass, about 1948 or 1949.
0332 Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Engine No. 10, Beatty, Nevada, probably late 1930s. Identity of the men in the photo is unknown.
0333 Hides of coyotes trapped by Fred Davies and Johnny Konzos, Beatty, Nevada area, about 1945.
0334 Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Engine No. 8, Beatty, Nevada, probably late 1930s.
0335 Death Valley Junction, probably late 1930s.
0336 Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Engine No. 10, Beatty, Nevada, probably later 1930s.
0337 Beatty Cemetery, looking east, 1940s.
0338 Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad car, Beatty, Nevada, probably late 1930s.
0339 Amargosa Hotel, Death Valley Junction, California, late 1930s or early 1940s.
0340 Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad cars, Beatty, Nevada, probably late 1930s.
0341 Beatty, Nevada, probably 1949 or 1950, from the Reidhead home on the end of Main Street, looking across Main Street toward the northern part of Beatty Mountain.
0342 Left to right: Fred Remmick, Fred Davies, unidentified man, and Charlie Walker. Possibly taken in the late 1930s.
0343 Looking north up Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, probably 1940s.
0344 Tonopah and Tidewater Engine No.9, probably late 1930s. Beatty Mountain is visible in the background.
0345 Beatty, Nevada, looking northeast, after a snowstorm, probably 1948.
0346 A water Tank behind the Davies home on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, probably late 1940s. The water tank was a part of the old Revert water system in town and Provided water to the homes in the vicinity of the Davies' residence.
0347 Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Engine No. 10, Death Valley Junction, probably 1930s.
0348 Billie Wallace, wife of Dr. E. Dasse Wallace, a Las Vegas physician who came up to Ash Meadows and Beatty and sometimes as far north as Tonopah to treat patients during the 1940s. Billie Wallace accompanied her husband on theses trips.
0349 Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Engine No. 8, ca. 1930.
0350 Beatty Primary School picture, October 1947. Back row, left to right: Shirley Gibbens, Jeanette Poland, Claudia Davies, Mary Lu Bright, teacher Irma Cunningham, Judgina Shirley, Esther Ray McCann, Rowina McLean and Jean Bacoccina. Front row, left to right: Robert Bright, Virginia Revert, Sherry Looney other children's identity unknown.
0351 Jim Hendershot in front of the Shell Service Station, Third and Main Streets, Beatty, Nevada, about 1954.
0352 Claudia Davies Reidhead atop the burned-out jail cell, Beatty, Nevada, about 1953.
0353 Claudia Davies Reidhead and her dog in front of Beatty High School, Beatty, Nevada, early 1950s.
0354 Air Force "volunteers" from the Indian Springs Air Force Base, helping to construct the Beatty Catholic Church in 1956.
0355 Beatty, Nevada, looking west toward Indian Head Mountain, with the primary School on the far right and next to it, the new high school building, probably 1950s.
0356 Back row, left to right: Patsy Manley, Brenda Revert, Anna Fordham, and Francis Bodich. Front row, left to right: Pam (last name unknown); Julia Landis, and Claudia Davies.
0357 Beatty School, ca. 1950. The building was constructed and designed around materials scavenged from Rhyolite.
0358 Air Force "volunteers" from the Indian Springs Air Force Base, putting finishing touches on construction activities at the Beatty Catholic Church, 1956.
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Hughes (Pahrump Ranch)
0359 Kenneth Hughes, brother of Pahrump resident Leon Hughes, atop a calf at the Pahrump Ranch, about 1937. Barn in the background is said to have been constructed prior to 1900 from timber sawed in Saw Mill Canyon in the Spring
Mountains. It … site.
0360 Kenneth Hughes on the Pahrump Ranch, about 1937, wearing a new hat and vest purchased by his father. Model -T Ford in background belonged to a man named Red Hennis, who worked on the ranch.
0361 Leon Hughes, son of John R. Hughes, on the Pahrump Ranch, 1938. John Hughes was then the owner of the ranch.
0362 Two young women at the Pahrump Ranch, all dressed up and no place to go. At left if Beryl Hughes, daughter of Pahrump Ranch owner John R. Hughes; at right is Mabel Ishmael, daughter of well - known Nye County resident George Ishmael. Photo was taken in 1938, when Beryl Hughes was 15 and Mabel Ishmael was 16. Beryl Hughes later became a model in Los Angels.
0363 Leon Hughes, son of Pahrump Ranch owner John R. Hughes, in front of the "old Motel" located on the Pahrump Ranch, 1938. Hughes believes the motel was constructed around 1920 by the Pahrump Valley Company, under the ownership of Isodore Dockweiler… 1940s.
0365 Betty Jean Hughes, daughter of John R. Hughes, riding her brother Leon's horse, Chico, on the Pahrump Ranch, about 1938. (For details on the barn see Photo Graph - 0359 in this series.)
0366 Young stallion named Snit belonging to John Hughes on the Pahrump Ranch, about 1938. The horse was a mustang and was caught on the open range in the Pahrump Valley.
0367 About half of this photograph was eaten away by the mice while in storage. From left, Mabel Ishmael, Red Hughes, Beryl Hughes, and Leon Hughes about 1938. Pictured in back is what was called the old stagecoach hotel, located on the Pahrump Ranch. Leon Hughes believes the building was used as a hotel at the same time that the barn, pictured on 0359, used to quarter stagecoach horses, at a time when the Pahrump Ranch was a stage stop…. The building is said to have burned down in 1943.
0368 Leon Hughes in the San Joaquin Valley, California, about 1935.
0369 Leon Hughes and his horse, about 1938.
0370 Mustang named Snit corralled on the Pahrump Ranch, about 1938. (See also photograph 0366 of this collection.)
0371 Leon Hughes and his family in the Pahrump Valley, mid -1950s.
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Ruud (Pahrump, Nevada)
0372 Robin Ruud stands beside a snowman he and his friend Brian King made following a two-day snowstorm in Pahrump, Nevada, in 1973.
0373 Mike Floyd heads out of the chute during a junior rodeo in Pahrump, Nevada, in the mid 1970s.
0374 Robin Ruud with his steer, Moby, at the J.C. Fair, about 1970. His sister, Joyce, is with her steer, Dynamite. The man inspecting Dynamite is unidentified. The fair was held each year at the Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada; the Pahrump 4-H Club always participated.
0375 Jacque Ruud in a contemplative mood at the pond where she washed clothes after her family moved to Pahrump, Nevada. Their dog, a Doberman, is in the background. The photo was taken in 1958.
0376 Joyce Ruud at age four, standing before the trailer the family moved from California to Pahrump, Nevada. The photo was taken in 1958.
0377 Bob Ruud in the backyard of his new home in Pahrump, Nevada, looking east Toward Mount Charleston, 1968.
0378 Joyce and Robin Ruud standing in front of their trailer in Pahrump, Nevada, in 1961.
0379 From left: Margaret Woner Elgorriagga, Lealla Woner Upton, Frank Woner, Louis Woner Clark, Jacque Woner Ruud, and Charlotte Woner Floyd in 1983 at Charlotte Woner Floyd's home.
0380 This is the pond described in photograph 0375 of this collection. The artesian Water was used for washing; play; and irrigation. This view is looking south. The photo was taken in 1958.
0381 Rick Ruud in 1969 or 1970 after a jackrabbit hunt.
0382 Taken at an El Riata trail ride sometime in the 1960s. El Riata was a horse Training and riding club for the children of Pahrump, Nevada. Once each year the children went on a long ride, with a barbeque and overnight stay. Bob Ruud
Was chef; he would drive his cattle truck up, attach a tarp, cook, and let the smaller children sleep inside the truck.
0383 Another view of the El Riata trail ride described in the previous photo. Some of
The older children opted for motor bikes instead of horses.
0384 Bob Ruud with his granddaughter Ricky in approximately 1980. Ricky is Sporting a shawl Bob brought her from his trip to Guatemala.
0385 Jacque Ruud and her mother, Mildred Hensley Woner, in 1981 at Pernicano's Italian Restaurant in Pahrump, Nevada. Mrs. Woner has been a Pahrump Resident since 1975.
0386 Bob Ruud and his youngest son, Robin, in front of Frank Woner's house on the Pahrump Ranch, approximately 1965. The house (at right) is made of railroad ties. The fish were probably caught below Hoover Dam on the Colorado River.
0388 Another picture from the El Riata trail ride, ca. 1970.
0389 Bob Ruud wrapping meat for the Pahrump Harvest Festival in the early 1970s. Bob was the chef for the festival for about 12 years.
0390 Jacque Ruud at the cotton gin in 1963 or 1964, standing beside the year's first Bale of cotton. A prize was awarded for the first bale of the year, and growers used to practically handpick their first bale to try to win that prize.
0391 Pahrump 4-H youngsters at a greased pig contest in 1968 or 1969. The kids kept and raised the pigs that they caught.
0392 Rick Tuud with daughter Ricky down at the hay- cubing barn.
0393 The Simkins Ranch on the northern end of Pahrump, Nevada, in 1975, looking east.
0394 Back row, from left: Margaret Woner Elgorriagga, Lealla Woner Upton, Frank Woner, Lois Woner, Clark, Jacque Woner Ruud, and Charlotte Woner Floyd. Mildred Hensley Woner is in the center. Charlotte Woner Floyd's home, 1983.
0395 Neighbors help the Ruuds break ground for their new home in September 1968, from left: Gary Bowman and his wife Alice; Mrs. Perry Bowman; Pauline Siri; Ed Siri (the Pahrump deputy sheriff at the time); Carol Woner and her son
Benny; (the blond-haired women is not identified); Ben Floyd; Frank Woner; Perry Bowman; Hollis Harris; Jacque and Bob Ruud.
0396 Al and Lynn Bells balling what probably is alfalfa, on the Simkins Ranch in 1975.
0397 From left: Max Hefen, Bob Ruud, and Tim Hefen celebrate the completion of a cattle chute on the Ruuds' Basin Ranch. The chute was put together in cooperation with the state of Nevada and some of the advisory council from the
University of Nevada, Reno, and is used for vaccination and de-horning.
0398 Joyce Ruud shows her steer, Dynamite, at the J.C. Fair in Las Vegas, Nevada, about 1970.
0399 Another shot of the greased pig competition described in photo 0391 of this collection, 1968 or 1969; holding onto the pig is one of the Mason boys.
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Turner (Pahrump, Nevada)
0400 Two views of the grapevines on Frank "Pop" Buol's place. These shots were taken from a booklet on Pahrump, Nevada, published in 1947.
0401 Nan Crutchfield at the entrance to the Pahrump Ranch, October 1947. This picture is from a booklet on Pahrump, Nevada, published in 1947.
0402 Registered Hereford cattle on the Pahrump Ranch, after 1947.
0403 Irrigating grain or alfalfa on the Pahrump Ranch in the early 1950s. At the time planting was done on beds, and irrigation was done in the furrows.
0404 Stanley Adams examining a new pump well on the Shurtliff Ranch, about 1955. The well was powered by a 92 horsepower Caterpiller diesel engine.
0405 A cotton crop on the Pahrump Ranch, looking southwest.
0406 Bill and Frances "Dutch" Turner at Dutch's testimonial in 1976. The testimonial was held to celebrate Dutch's many years as postmaster in Pahrump, Nevada.
0407 Apricot trees on frank "pop" Buol's place. The person in the photograph is not identified. The farm also grew peaches pears, cherries, pomegranates, figes, and nut trees, including pistachios. From a booklet on Pahrump, Nevada, published in 1947.
0408 Tom and Ben Ward in a cotton field in the early 1950s.
0409 Stacks of baled hay, a chief product of the Pahrump Valley, from a booklet on Pahrump, Nevada, published in 1947.
0410 Ben Ward driving a tractor on the Pahrump Ranch in the early 1950s. Gerland Emory is trying wires; the man at far right is unidentified.
0411 Walt Williams on the Pahrump Ranch Air Strip, with the cotton gin in the distance, in approximately 1959.
0412 Cotton trailers in front of the cotton gin in Pahrump, Nevada. The tall tower was a pre-cleaner. Seed storage was to the left of the tower, and the small structure next to the tower was the power house.
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Wiley (Pahrump Valley)
0413 Willow trees bordering both sides of the first road that led to the old Yount Ranch, also known as the Hidden Ranch and the Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, 1937.
0414 Suspension bridge above Cathedral Canyon, Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada. The bridge was constructed in 1972 by Roland Wiley, owner of the ranch and producer of the Cathedral Canyon attraction. ( More information printed on the photo board.)
0415 Dora Lee Brown and her niece on the Yount, or Hidden Hills Ranch, 1930s. Mrs. Brown and her son Steve originally lived at the Yount home on the ranch, but when Roland Wiley took possession they moved to a nearby area in which a
Spring flowed and considerable vegetation was present. Wiley referred to the area as Dora's place. In the 1970s, a flash flood destroyed the area, washing away the soil and trees and eliminating the spring.
0416 Elmer Bowman and Roland Wiley are pictured in a cotton field on the Manse Ranch, owned by Elmer Bowman, early 1950s. Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada.
0417 Granddaughter of Dora Lee Brown near the spring at Dora's place on the Yount (Hidden Hills) Ranch, probably the early 1940s.
0418 Dora Lee Brown and her granddaughter at Dora's place on the Yount (Hidden Hills) Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, ca. 1940.
0419 Hoot Gibson, a western cowboy actor, and Mrs. Elderbrook, then crowned Mrs. America, landing on Roland Wiley's Hidden Hills Ranch airstrip, early 1950s.
0420 Fred Kennedy riding a gaited horse owned by Roland Wiley at Cathedral Canyon Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, approximately 1939.
0421 Cathedral Canyon in Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, between 1950 and 1960… Roland Wiley is on the left in the white shirt; Mr. Elderbrook, from Palm Springs, is in the foreground in the white hat. Mrs. Elderbrook and Hoot Gibson's wife are also pictured.
0422 Visitors at the Hidden Hills Ranch during the 1950s. Hoot Gibson is standing behind the hitching post shaking his hands with Murdell Earl, owner of the ENT Drug Store in North Las Vegas.
0423 Roland Wiley is at the left and Elmer Bowman, owner of the Manse Ranch, is at the far right, visiting Harry and Mary Sackett, an Indian couple who lived in a cottage on the Manse Ranch, ca. 1990.
0424 Homestead house constructed on John Yount's homestead location at the south end of Pahrump Valley, Nevada. The house looked pretty much as it does here when Roland Wiley acquired John Yount's ranch in 1936. (More information on Photo board.)
0425 In 1941, Roland constructed the airstrip pictured here near his ranch in Pahrump Valley. (Pictured here; more background info. on photo board.)
0426 Cabins located on the Yount Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, 1950s. The cabins were constructed by Roland Wiley following Wiley's purchase of the ranch in 1936. The last cabin was built in 1950.
0427 Cattle trails located on the Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nevada. Undated photo.
0428 Riders and horses at the mouth of Torpedo Canyon, Hidden Hills Ranch, late 1940s. Left to right: Fred Kennedy, a resident of Sandy Valley for many years; Caretaker of the Hidden Hills Ranch; a client of Roland Wiley's,name unknown.
0429 Buildings located on Roland Wiley's Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nevada. The site where the buildings are located was known as Dora's Place, where Dora Brown and her family resided. (More information on photo board)
0430 Aerial view of the Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, ca. 1980.
0431 In 1967, 15 acres of Roland Wiley's land holdings on the California side of the Pahrump Valley were planted in melons. … Part of
the irrigation system and the Crop from that enterprise are shown.
0432 Unidentifed persons and melons grown on the California side of Roland Wiley's Ranch in Pahrump Valley, 1967.
0433 A view of a truck, farm workers, and melons grown on Roland Wiley's Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, 1967.
0434 Mummified remains of an Indian renegade known as Queho. This photo was taken in the early 1940s… (More information on the photo board). Standing second from left is Frank White was a member of the pose that initially searched For Queho.
0435 Cathedral Canyon, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, just prior to the canyon's development as a shrine by Roland Wiley, ca. 1971. A few lights have been strung up and guests have been invited to commemorate the occasion.
0436 A view of the suspension bridge and the statue of Christ at Cathedral Canyon, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, late 1980s. … Roland Wiley is seated in the picture; the man standing in the white shirt is unidentified. More information on the
Photo board.
0437 Another view of Cathedral Canyon from the same perspective as 0436.
0438 An aerial view of Cathedral Canyon, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, showing the parking lot and suspension bridge. The walls are about 30 feet high and a Recirculation waterfall has been constructed at the head of the canyon. The
Canyon is lighted at night, ca. 1986.
0439 Aerial view of Cathedral Canyon, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, late 1980s.
0440 A close up of the Christ of the Andes statue located at Cathedral Canyon, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, ca. 1980.
0441 Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, circa 1950. The remains of a fire place believed to have been constructed by the Indians. Left to right: Ruth Ellerbrook; unidentified; unidentified; Frank Ellerbrook, husband of Ruth Eller Brook. More information on the photo board.
0442 Roland Wiley at the entrance to Cathedral Canyon, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, Late 1980.
0443 Roland Wiley, the creator and financier of Cathedral Canon, Pahrump Valley, Nevada (admission is free), seated in the canyon with the suspension bridge and the replica of the Christ of the Andes in the background, 1989.
0444 During the early 1950s, Roland Wiley raised pheasants on his Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nevada. The birds were turned loose on the property in large numbers and hunted by guests from hotels In Las Vegas and other areas. Wiley's economic venture in raising pheasants for hunting, however, was not successful.
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Ford (Pahrump Valley, Nevada)
0445 Stanley Ford and his new six- cylinder Chevrolet truck, about 1931. For was in The trucking business in the Los Angeles area.
0446 Cowboys branding a calf on the Manse Ranch, probably in the 1940s.
0447 Looking west from the Raycraft Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, around 1940. Cedar posts, on the left, were cut in the Spring Mountain Range. Pictured is a four-wheel trailer constructed by Stanley Ford.
0448 House on the Raycraft Ranch, 1945, looking west. The house was built by Jim Raycraft from lumber obtained at the Johnnie Townsite and hauled down to Pahrump in wagons. The car is a 1931 Graham, used by Stanley Ford… (More Information on photo board.)
0449 Look closely toward the middle of the photograph, about an inch above the Mountain range, and you'll see an atomic mushroom cloud from a test at the Nevada Test Site. Photo was taken from the front yard of Harry Ford's home in Pahrump Valley, Nevada, looking north, a little east of Mount Sterling in 1952 or 1953.
0450 Eighteen - year old Harry "Button" Ford and his 1946 Ford convertible, parked in front of his home in Pahrump Valley, Nevada, during the summer of 1955.
0451 The first Pahrump Harvest Festival, held September 5, 1964. Looking northeast toward Mount Sterling.
0452 The first Pahrump Harvest Festival, September 5, 1964. The celebration was held approximately where the arena exists in 1988, near the Community Building.
0453 A John Deere tractor purchased by Stanley Ford use in Pahrump Valley, Nevada. The tractor was purchased shortly after World War II, after Ford stopped using horses. Ford did not purchase the tractor new; at one time it had been used as a power planet for a sawmill.
0454 Head frame of the Johnnie Mine, Johnnie, Nevada, about 1987.
0455 Remains of the home of Jack Longstreet, long - time Nye County resident and renowned desert frontiersman. The home was located in Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, near a large spring now known as Longstreets's Spring. Longstreet occupied the site in 1890s. This photo was taken in July 1983; in August 1984, floods destroyed the remains of the home.
0456 Another view of the home of Jack Longstreet, at Longstreet Spring, Ash Meadows, Nevada, July 1983. The home was destroyed by a flood in the following year.
0457 Students at the Pahrump School, Rose School District, Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada, 1945. Back row. Left to right, Johnnie Franks, Glenn Brooks, Helen Ford (Ward), Frederick "Fraddy" Sharp, Angelina Sharp. Font row, left to right, Teacher Norma Schnerder, Harry S. Ford, Mary Sue Sawday, Carol Jean Wilson, Darlene Cayton, Alberta Sharp, Catherine Ann "Timynia" Sawday.
0458 Automobile used a school bus in Pahrump, Nevada, 1945, and students.
0459 Grader removing snow from Pahrump Valley, Nevada, roads, ca. 1960.
0460 Well -drilling rig owned and operated by Stanley Ford. During the 1940s and 1950s Ford drilled many of the wells in Pahrump Valley, Nev. Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada. 1948.
0461 The Pahrump School, operated by the Rose School District, Main Street, Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada, 1948.
0462 Stanley Ford operating the controls of his well-drilling equipment in the Pahrump Valley.
0463 Cabin once occupied by Jack Longstreet in Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada. Photograph was taken in July 1983; the historic landmark was Destroyed by a flood in August 1984.
0464 The Johnnie Mine, Nye County, Nevada, 1983.
0465 Hattie Todd Ford, Pahrump, Nevada, 1946. She was related through her father to Abraham Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln.
0466 Stanely Ford, Pahrump, Nevada, 1946.
0467 Cover of the official program for ceremonies opening the Pahrump -Las Vegas Highway over Mountain Spring Pass, September 26, 1954.
0468 Cover of the first Pahrump Valley, Nevada, telephone directory. March 6, 1965.
0469 First Pahrump Valley, Nevada, telephone directory. March 6, 1965.
0470 Front page, Pahrump Valley Times, January 1971.
0471 Page 6 of Pahrump Valley Times, January 1971.
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Hafen (Pahrump, Nevada)
0472 The Jack Soules Memorial Golf Tournament, about 1986. Held at the Cal-Vada County Club Golf Course, Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada. Left to right are Tim Hafen; Warren Church, former president of Preferred Equities; Dottie
Soules, widow of Jack Soules; and Fifth Judicial District Judge William P. Beko.
0473 Governor Paul Laxalt of Nevada, in his office, sometime between 1967 and 1969. Left to right, Tim Hafen, Brian Hafen, Governor Laxalt, and Gary Hafen.
0474 School class, Pahrump, Nevada, about 1970. Sandy Hafen is pictured holding a birthday cake, Connie Anderson is third from left, Joley Pallan, fourth from left, Mark Slater is pictured in back with glasses. Maureen Anderson, Butch
Neff, and Theresa Mankins are also pictured.
0475 Left to right, Tim Hafen, Janie Hafen, Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt, and Greg
Hafen, late 1960s.
0476 Hafen Ranch, Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada, about 1967. Left to right, Jack Hafen, daughters Vickie Hafen, Sandy Hafen, and Paula Hafen.
0477 Tim Hafen, Mesquite, Nevada, 1947.
0478 Aerial view of the Pahrump Trading Post, about 1947.
0479 Tim Hafen at Well No. 5 on his ranch in 1964. Pictured with Hafen are Lisa Hafen and Miguel Avena. The water was artesian and flowed at between 800 And 900 gallons per minute.
0480 The Peppermint Palace, Pahrump, Nevada, about (1988) known as the Saddle
West. Early 1970s.
0481 View of cottonseed bins at the Nevada Cotton Gin, Pahrump, Nevada, probably 1970s. Cottonseed was conveyed in the round pipe stored in the bin, then fed by gravity into trucks.
0482 Horses and a cow in a pasture on Tim Hafen's property, Pahrump, Nevada, ca. 1970.
0483 Cotton fields belonging to Tim Hafen, Pahrump, Nevada, 1970s.
0484 An International cotton picker, Pahrump, Nevada, 1970s.
0485 Exterior, Nevada Ginning Company, Pahrump, Nevada, 1960s or 1970s.
0486 Max and Estelle Hafen about 1935 with sons Tim Hafen (standing) and Gary Hafen.
0487 Left to right, Ralph Zimmerman; Joe Drew, Justice of the Peace of Goldfield; William P. Beko, Nye County District Attorney; an unidentified woman; and Tim Hafen, Goldfield, Nevada, late 1960s or early 1970s.
0488 Sandy Hafen's birthday party and some of her friends, including Winky Neff, Theresa Mankins, Mark Slater, Maureen Anderson, Connie Anderson, Butch Neff, and Jolie Pallan. Approximately 1970. (Picture taken at the same time as
Photo 0474 in this set.)
0489 A function held by Calcot Ltd., a Pahrump marketing association, approximately 1962. Left to right, George Slater, manager of Pahrump's cotton gin, Walt Williams, Perry Bowman, a Calcot official (name not known) and Tim Hafen.
0490 Tim Hafen with Wayne Kirch, who was active in Nevada Fish and Game affairs and was Nevada Fish And Game Commissioner for many years. The apples were grown on the Hafen Ranch, probably early 1980s.
0491 North end of the Hafen Ranch, Pahrump, Nevada, and a display of some old farm machinery, including a manure spreader and a concrete mixer. The mixer a Rex model, was built in 1903. It was powered by a LeRoy engine with a
Water cooler around a cylinder, ca. 1980.
0492 View of the Pahrump Trading Post, Pahrump, Nevada, approximately 1947. The building was constructed of railroad ties, as were a number of buildings in the valley from that era.
0493 Home of Tim Hafen, approximately 1964.
0494 The Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nevada, about 1947.
0495 Interior of the Nevada Cotton Gin, probably late 1970s. The cotton gin closed permanently in 1983.
0496 Cotton fields belonging to Tim Hafen, Pahrump, Nevada, probably early October 1970s. Looking east in the direction of Las Vegas.
0497 Nevada Farm Bureau staff inspect cotton fields belonging to Tim Hafen, Pahrump, Nevada about 1976.
0498 Pahrump Valley rancher Tim Hafen receives the Outstanding Young Farmer Award, presented by the Junior Chamber of Commerce for Governor Charles Russell is on the left. The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson,
Presented the award. Nevada Sen. Molly Malone (U.S. Sen.), stands in the Background with Beldon Katleman, owner of the El Rancho.
0499 Aerial view of the Pahrump Trading Post, probably taken at the same time as photo 0478 in this series, about 1947.
0500 Building on Ray Van Horn’s place on the Dollar Ranch now (1988) known as Country Place II, at the north end of Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1947.
0501 Fall Festival Parade, Pahrump, Nevada, early 1980s. The Saddle West is visible in the background.
0502 Aerial view of an unidentified ranch, perhaps the Pahrump Ranch, Date Unknown.
0503 The Cotton Pickin’ Saloon near Highway 372, Pahrump, Nevada, approximately 1970.
0504 Lois Kellogg at an unknown location, with a Russian wolfhound dog, a breed which she later raised at her Fish lake Valley, Nevada, ranch. Photo was taken in approximately1915, and was obtained from the Getty Museum.
0505 Lois Kellogg at an unidentified location, ca. 1930. This photo was originally obtained from the Getty Museum.
0506 Lois Kellogg at an unidentified location, ca. 1930. This appears to have been taken at the same time as the photo 0505 in this set. This photo was originally obtained from the Getty Museum.
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Brown (Tecopa- Pahrump Area)
0507 Baling hay at the Resting Spring Ranch near Tecopa, California, approximately 1910.
0508 At left, Dora Lee Brown, sister of Bob Lee and mother of Steve Brown, panning gold near the Resting Spring Ranch around 1915. Clara Lee is in the center; third woman not identified.
0509 Team and freight wagons, perhaps at the town of Johnnie, Nye County, Nevada, ca. 1910. Note the sign on the building in the background that reads “Buy lots in Johnnie now”.
0510 Believed to be the Resting Spring Ranch, date unknown.
0511 Possibly Dora Lee Brown (second from left) pictured with fellow students at the Sherman Indian School at Riverside, California, probably around 1910.
0512 Stacking ha, possibly at the Resting Spring Ranch near Tecopa, California; or may be either the Pahrump or Manse Ranches, probably near 1925.
0513 Irrigation at the Resting Spring Ranch near Tecopa, California, probably before 1915. Man on left may be Philander “Phi” Lee.
0514 Date and location unknown, probably the Tecopa-Pahrump Area.
0515 Believed to be the Noonday Mill, located not far from Tecopa, California. Date unknown.
0516 John Yount’s home on the Hidden Ranch, now known as the Hidden Hills Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1917. Located off to the right of this photograph was a windmill and a blacksmith shop.
0517 Model-A Ford belonging to Bob Lee. No one was allowed to sit in the front seat of the car with Lee because it was reserved for Lee’s dog, Pictured here are Dora Lee Brown, Bob Brown’s daughter, and Margie Brown, Dora Lee Brown’s Granddaughter and daughter of Dora’s son Steve Brown.
0518 Philander Lee sitting in a buckboard with his daughter, Dora Lee Brown, probably around 1915. Probably photographed at Resting Spring near Tecopa, California.
0519 Believed to be the old Pahrump Store. Until a window was constructed to the left of the double doors, a post office was housed there, on the left side of the building’s interior. Individuals pictured are not identified. The store was located on the Pahrump Ranch, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada. The picture is believed to date from before 1920. Woman may be Clara Lee, daughter of Phi Lee.
0520 L-R: Dick Lee, Bob Lee, Clara Lee, Dora Lee, all children of Philander and Mops Lee, ca. 1910. Mops is believed to be short for Moppitts, a word meaning old lady, or old woman, in Southern Paiute. The woman on right not identified.
0521 Unidentified man partaking of the “Oh Be Joyful”, date and location unknown.
0522 Steve Brown, Marcus Fizaldi, and Steve Brown’s uncle, Bob Lee, in front of Bob Lee’s home in the Pahrump Valley, approximately 1938.
0523 The corral on the Pahrump Ranch, about 1950. Two large grain bins are visible in the distance. Behind the corral there was a pasture.
0524 Maimie Steve and Bob Brown, Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, probably 1940s.
0525 Bob Lee and his Model-A automobile, date unknown.
0526 Picture not yet identified.
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Fallini (Twin Springs Area)
0527 Schoolhouse and students at Twin Springs, Nevada, about 1955.
0528 Easter Sunday, about 1945, at the Twin Springs Ranch, Joe Fallini, Jr. on the left with his cousin Virginia. Note the old stage building in the background.
0529 Indian woman shelling pine nuts at the cattle corrals about Tonopah. Picture taken prior to 1940.
0530 Branding cattle on the Fallini Ranch during the 1940s. Ray Fallini, kneeling, is marking the animal’s ear during what is called the “knife work”. Joe Fallini is on the dark horse.
0531 Dad Lorigan’s cook wagon on a round-up at Crow’s Nest, up Railroad Valley from Twin Springs. Ranchers got together and participated in round-ups, and Lorigan would cook for the entire crew.
0532 Photo taken at the old stage building on the Fallini Ranch at Twin Springs, Nye County, Nevada. Joe Fallini stands at the right, next to his niece, Hazel Aragoni branding irons hang up on the wall.
0533 School at Tybo, Nye County, Nevada, late 1930s. Anna Baird Green, sister of Helen Baird Fallini, is in the back row, far left.
0534 The children of Giovanni Fallini at the Eden Creek Ranch, about 1912. Included are Joe, Raymond, Mildred, and Ethel Fallini. Joe Fallini is the smallest child.
0535 Oscar, the “Lefty”, about 1975. Lefty is a calf whose mother has abandoned him. (More information on photo board.)
0536 Twin Springs, Nevada, early 1950s.
0537 Joe Fallini and his granddaughters, Lorinda and Karina.
0538 Anna Baker, mother of Helen Fallini, Cherry, Arizona, 1915.
0539 Monte Rore, an employee of the BLM at Battle Mountain. Photo taken at the Twin Springs Ranch in the aftermath of the 1948-49 snowstorm, when tractors were sent out to break roads to get to the cattle. The Fallinis lost over 600 heads of cattle that year. Rore is operating a radio set up in Helen Fallini’s living room.
0540 Joe Fallini, about 1965.
0541 Fallini family and relatives. From left, Helen Fallini; unidentified person; Joe Fallini; Ethel Aragoni; Helen and Joe’s son, Joe Fallini with wife Susan; and Mildred Lorigan.
0542 The Fallinis would round up their cattle and drive them to Tonopah for shipment on the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad. In this photo, cattle are seen at the Tonopah shipping yards, about 1939.
0543 George Chubey and a deer he shot at Eden Creek, Nye County, Nevada, late 1930s.
0544 Anna Baker Baird, mother of Helen Fallini, about 1935. Children are Helen Fallini’s sister Rosemary and her brother Charles. Photo taken at Baird’s home in Tonopah, Nevada.
0545 Old ranch buildings at Tybo occupied by a man named Constant, a cousin to the Fallinis, about 1940.
0546 Joe Fallini with his pickup overlooking Tonopah, about 1935. Mizpah Mine is visible in the distance.
0547 Helen Baird Fallini observing a cow stuck in the mud near Twin Springs, Nevada, about 1935.
0548 Helen and Joe Fallini, Tonopah, Nevada, about 1935.
0549 Helen Fallini in front of the wild rose bushes at Eden Creek, Kawich Mountain, about 1935. George Chubey took the photo with the intention of using it on a cover of some sheet music of songs that he had written during that period.
0550 Anna Baker Baird, mother of Helen Fallini, in front of her home in Tonopah, Nevada, about 1934.
0551 The Merger Mill, located at Bellehelen, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, about 1935.
0552 Schoolhouse at Eden Creek, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, about 1934. The school was located in front of the stone house, which belonged to Giovanni Fallini. The children are, left to right: Hazel Aragoni, Alice Pete, Dick Pete, and Lawrence Aragoni; the teacher is Helen Humphrey.
0553 On the left is Blake Baker, Helen Fallini’s maternal grandfather, deputy sheriff of Wickenburg, Arizona. On the right is Charles Baird, Helen Fallini’s father. Photo taken at Wickenburg, Arizona, ca. 1920.
0554 The old Elks Building on Main Street, Tonopah, Nevada, middle 1930s. The Building was located next door to the present day (1989) post office.
0555 The old Ford Midland Garage on Main Street, Tonopah, Nevada, early 1930s.
0556 The Merger Mill located at Bellehelen, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, middle 1930s.
0557 Giovanni Fallini in front of his home at Eden Creek, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1932 or 1933. Fallini is pictured with a pet hen he called his “Crople”, meaning cripple;… (more information on photo board).
0558 Mr. and Mrs. Stingley, Eden Creek, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, About 1935. The Stringleys had mining claims up Eden Creek.
0559 Helen Baird Fallini and George Chubey, Eden Creek Ranch, Kawich Mts., Nye County, Nevada, 1934.
0560 Driving horses at the Fallini Ranch, about 1936.
0561 One of the first diesel trucks to haul cattle off the Fallini Ranch, about 1938.Prior to the introduction of trucks, it was necessary to drive the cattle to Tonopah, where they were placed on the railroad.
0562 Bautista Venner on the front porch of his home at the base of the Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, just west of the Reveille Mill in Reveille Valley, about 1938.
0563 Joe Fallini and his horse at Eden Creek, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, about 1934.
0564 Fourth of July celebration and parade in Tonopah, Nevada, in front of the Elks Lodge, ca. 1930.
0565 O.K.Reed at the Cedar Corrals, Cedar Pipeline, located south of the Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1919.
0545a Rosemary Baird, sister to Helen Fallini, about 1935. Mizpah Mine is visible in the distance.
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Bradshaw (Goldfield, Tonopah, etc.)
0566 Woman and children at Rabbit Springs, about a quarter of a mile south of the Present (1988) Highway Maintenance Building, Goldfield, Nevada, about 1920. Woman at left in the hat is Marguerite Bradshaw, mother of Albert Nicholas Bradshaw. On the far right is Mrs. Hill. Albert Bradshaw may be the child third From the right in front.
0567 Albert Bradshaw, far right, on his 70th birthday, Tonopah, Nevada 1984. Bradshaw’s sons, Gerald and Nick Bradshaw, and Nick’s wife Lorraine joined Him at the Lions Club for a surprise birthday party.
0568 Bradshaw Family reunion, Tonopah, Nevada, Christmas, about 1950. Back row, Left to right: John O’Leary, George Bradshaw, Ray Miller, Francis Bradshaw, And Albert Nicholas Bradshaw O’Leary; Marguerite Bradshaw; Nick Bradshaw; Louise Parker, wife of Francis Bradshaw; and Wilma Johnson Bradshaw, holding their youngest son, Gerald. Front row, from left: Nick Bradshaw, John O’Leary, John Miller, Linda O’Leary, Lorraine Bradshaw, and Donna O’Leary.
0569 Eighth grade graduation, Goldfield, Nevada, 1927. At the far left is David Walker; continuing from left are Raymond Jepperson, Calvin Conley, and Albert Bradshaw. Teacher Ora Mumford stands in back.
0570 Eighth grade graduation, Goldfield, Nevada, 1927. Left to right: Catherine McNair, Margaret Malone, Eleanor Dillinger, and Astrid Johnson.
0571 Bill Barrow and Albert Bradshaw at the collar of the Florence Mine shaft, Goldfield, Nevada, about 1937. The men are holding their coffee and are Preparing to descend 250 feet down the manway, to Bradshaw’s left, to put in a Shift.
0572 A postcard picture of part of the red-light district in Goldfield, Nevada, 1907.
0573 Although the town of Goldfield had produced tens of millions of dollars in ore, By the Depression money was scarce in town. Here, A.N. Bradshaw is pictured Beside an FWD truck and a hard –rubber tired trailer, filled with firewood that Had been collected in the mountains around Lida, Nevada. The wood was sold Locally as a way of making money. Ca. 1930.
0574 Young Albert Bradshaw selling Saturday Evening Posts at Lunging, Nevada, About 1920.
0575 Albert Bradshaw in his Western Union delivery boy’s uniform, delivering a Telegram. Goldfield, Nevada, late 1920s.
0576 Luning School, Luning, Nevada, about 1919 or 1920. The school comprised Grades one through eight. Standing on the top step, far left, is Francis Bradshaw And next to him is Albert Bradshaw (in bib overalls).
0577 A group of boys on a scouting trip, somewhere in the vicinity of Goldfield, Possibly Fish Lake Valley. The boys are riding in a truck belonging to the United Land and Cattle Company, and the vehicle features hard- rubber tires. Ca. 1926.
0578 The Bradshaw children, probably Luning, Nevada, about 1920. From the left Are Francis Bradshaw, Maisie Bradshaw, and Albert Bradshaw.
0579 Scouting expedition, probably somewhere in the Goldfield area. Scoutmaster Mr. Kyburz is flanked by Raymond Jepperson on the left and Charlie Olsen on The right. The car is a Buick Roadster. Albert Bradshaw took the picture, Probably 1920s.
0580 A.N. Bradshaw, father of Albert Bradshaw, driving a Model-T truck about 1920, Perhaps at the Gold Park Mine located about 10 miles north of Ione, Nevada. Note the truck’s hard-rubber tires in the rear, the chain drive, and the truck’s seat Either homemade or borrowed from a wagon.
0581 Marguerite Bradshaw and A.N. Bradshaw, parents of Albert Bradshaw, Tonopah Nevada, Christmas, ca. 1950.
0582 The 20-30 Club in Tonopah, Nevada, in the 40s. Jack McCloskey is at the far Left; Gerald Roberts is third from the left; Albert Bradshaw is standing at right, Behind the hand of the man in the light suit holding the plaque.
0583 Initiation night at the Elks’ Hall, Goldfield, Nevada, about 1937 or 1938. Among Those pictured are Ed Kitchen, Albert Bradshaw, Bill Barrow, A.N. Bradshaw, Dr. J.C. Cherry, John Koontz, John O’Leary, Doc Galvin, Leonard Traynor, and Mr. Sutherland.
0584 A picture of a settlement sheet, received by Albert Bradshaw and his partners, From a shipment made from a lease at the Florence Mine, Goldfield, Nevada, in 1937, from the American Smelting and Refining Co. in Garfield, Utah.
0585 A letter received by Albert Bradshaw and his partners in 1937 in forming them of the sums due to them as a result of shipments made from the Florence Mine, Goldfield, Nevada.
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Coombs (Tonopah Area)
0586 School picture, Tonopah, Nevada, about 1957. Bill Coombs, third from the right In the last row; Clyde Newman, killed in Vietnam, far right last row; Jimmy Franks, third from the right in the front row; Charley Cecchini, fifth from the Right in the front. Remaining students not identified.
0587 Water truck near a tungsten mine operated by Curly Coombs above the Turk Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, about 1952. Left to right, Shorty Morris, Norman “Curly” Coombs, Coombs’ ex-wife.
0588 Nye County Sheriff Bill Thomas on the right, about 1952, with Norman “Curly” Coombs. Taken at the tungsten mine about the Turk Ranch in Smoky Valley, Nevada, owned by Sheriff Thomas, under lease to a company, And operated by Coombs.
0589 Front view of the home of Norman “Curly” Coombs, located in Tonopah, Nevada, about 1960. Coombs purchased the house about 1950 and moved into It the following year; the siding was added in 1955.
0590 Bottle cellar at the Berg home in Round Mountain, Nevada. Cellar was Constructed by Will Berg about 1915; photo ca. 1970.
0591 View of Charles Street, Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada. House at near left Belongs to Ed Slavin; the second house belongs to Alice Lorigan. Ca. 1970.
0592 Cabin on the Gold Star Claim, Royston Hills, Nye County, Nevada, near Cold Springs. Photo taken about 1984.
0593 View of Main Street, Tonopah, Nevada, about 1958. Mizpah Hotel is in the Background next to the Butler Theatre and the Modern Barber Shop, then Operated by Bob Williams.
0594 Left to right, Norman “Curly” Coombs’ sons Allen and Bill; Coombs’ step Son’s wife and her daughter; and behind the child, Norman “Curly” Coombs, Ca.1955.
0595 Norman “Curly” Coombs at his mill at Royston, Nevada, panning gold in a Kitchen skillet, about 1985.
0596 Photo taken at St. Ives, Cornwall, England, during the 1960s. At the left is Selena Broom, aunt of Norman “Curly” Coombs. Selena Broom was born in Tonopah about 1903; not liking life in Tonopah, she returned to the “old Country” to live.
0597 A mill being constructed at Iron Canyon, Railroad Valley, Nye County, Nevada, by Norman “Curly” Coombs during the middle 1950s. The mine was Owned by the Meyers brothers. The Terrell brothers had a mining property Not far to the north.
0598 The No.1 shaft at Round Mountain, Nevada, operated by Nevada Porphry, 1967. Foreman Norman “Curly” Coombs is pictured.
0599 Back side of stock certificate for the Tonopah Divide Mining Company, June 14, 1923. This share is dated April 10, 1935.
0600 Front side of a stock certificate of the 1,250,000 shares of the Tonopah Divide Mining Company at $1.00 each. Billy Douglas, a prominent mine promoter in Tonopah, promoted the mine and was the company’s president. A man named Erickson was the mine’s boss.
0601 Danny Murnane, at left, and Norman “Curly” Coombs, about 1967, at a Mining claim at Divide, near Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada
0602 Living quarters constructed by Norman “Curly” Coombs at the tungsten mine in Iron Canyon, Railroad Valley, Nye County, Nevada, middle 1950s. This building was eventually moved to town and attached to a house near the Odd Fellows Hall.
0603 Students at the Tonopah public school, middle 1950s.
0604 A mill constructed by Norman “Curly” Coombs in Smoky Valley, Nevada, about 1965. The mill included a ball mill and a 7 –foot sluice box and used Amalgamation. It had a 4-ton per day capacity. The mill used water from Jett Canyon and was located about ¼ mile form the shaft where the ore was obtained.
0605 A shaft sunk by Norman “Curly” Coombs, Round Mountain, Nevada, late 1960s. The shaft was located just below the No.1 shaft in order to get back under The old mill, where it was believed some big pillars of ore could be found.
0606 Post office, Found Mountain, Nevada, about 1968.
0607 Tonopah Jr. High School basketball team, early 1960s. The back row includes Gary Downs, Kretschmer, Wally Pete, and Joe Clifford. In the front row are Jaime Pillers, Diane Rogers, Clyde Newman, Jaime Franks, Mike Robb, Eddie Murphy and Debbie Skanovsky. Others not identified.
0608 Long view of the early stages of construction of the cabin and mill in Iron Canyon, Railroad Valley, Nye County, Nevada, middle 1950s. A tunnel was Driven under the mountain, which included 1,000 feet of workings.
0609 Looking north at the gallows frame of the old Orazaba Mine, about 40 miles North of Tonopah, Nevada, about 1977. Note the old s team boiler on the right.
0610 View from the tungsten mine operated by Norman “Curly” Coombs in Smoky Valley, Nye County, Nevada, about 1952. Workings included a gallows frame And a shaft; the ore was hauled to Gabbs.
0611 A small mill, known as Black Mill, purchased for about 9,000 by Norman “Curly” Coombs about 1952, and set up in Iron Canyon, Railroad Valley, Nye County, Nevada. The mill was manufactured by a man named Black in Bishop, California.
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Hooper (Miscellaneous locations)
0612 Mayme Hooper is on the far left and her sister is on the far right. The woman Second from the left is a missionary; she is holding one of Mayme Hooper’s Sisters. The small child standing is another sister. The taller child standing is a Missionary child. Photo taken approximately 1930 at Fallon, Nevada.
0613 When Mayme Hooper was a student at the Steward Indian School at Carson City, Nevada, during the 1920s, a group of relatives came to the school to visit and they all decided to drive up to Lake Tahoe. Albert Hooper, who later married Mayme, is standing near the center wearing a hat. On the far left is Albert Hicks, Hooper’s cousin, standing next to Hooper.
0614 Campus of the Stewart Indian School, Carson City, Nevada mid-1920s. On the Far right is the Domestic Science building; next to it stands the older girl’s Dormitory.
0615 A Health Parade, Stewart Indian School, Carson City, Nevada, May 30, 1926. The sign reads, “What is the secret to better health? Eat more vegetables.”
0616 Mayme Hooper was present, but not pictured, at this gathering of Shoshone Indians in Lone Pine, California, probably early 1930s. Those present are Playing an Indian gambling game.
0617 Photo taken at Lone Pine, California, early 1930s. Mayme Hooper is on the Right, next to her mother –in-law and the foster son she raised.
0618 Photo of Mayme Hooper’s family about 1913, taken on the reservation at the Mission, Fallon, Nevada. Mayme Hooper is seated in the middle, her two Brothers on either side with her mother and father, Fred Williams and Lilly Breckenridge Williams.
0619 Mayme Hooper, shortly after her to marriage to Albert Hooper and her arrival At her home in the Monitor Valley, Nye County, Nevada, late 1920s.
0620 Mayme Hooper holding her sister’s daughter Lilly on Easter Sunday, early 1930s. An Easter egg hunt is taking place in the background.
0621 Mayme Hooper and her husband Albert Hooper in front of Stone House on their Ranch in Monitor Valley, Nye County, Nevada, probably early 1940s. The Hoopers lived in Stone House for 50 years; the building is a historic site and Once served as a stage coach stop.
0622 Mayme Hooper’s parents, Fred Williams and Lilly Breckenridge Williams, About 1927.
0623 Mayme Hooper is in foreground with the lace collar. Her father, Fred Williams, Is wearing the hat. Girl at rear is Norma Hicks. Picture taken about 1923.
0624 Mayme Hooper is on her ranch in Monitor Valley, 1942.
0625 Mayme Hooper’s father-in-law, Tim Hooper, in Monitor Valley. Tim Hooper Was a Shoshone Indian and lived to be quite old.
0626 Schurz Athletic Club, 1934. Second from the right in front is Mayme Hooper’s Brother Paul Williams; third from the left in front is brother Henry Williams.
0627 Mayme and Albert Hooper at their home in Tonopah, Nevada, late 1970s.
0628 Mother and father of Mayme Hooper’s husband, Albert Hooper, August 15, 1902. Time Hooper, Jennie Crow Hooper, and baby Albert Hooper on a cradle Board.
0629 Mother and father of Mayme Hooper’s husband, Albert Hooper, August 15, 1902. Tim Hooper on the left, Jennie Crow Hooper holding baby Albert Hooper.
0630 Friends of Albert Hooper, taken in Tonopah, 4th of July at some point during the Early 1920s. Left to right are Johnny Pass, George Anderson, Doc Moore (Albert’s uncle), Pedro Pigeon, Albert Hooper, and Johnny Reed.
0631 Albert Hooper, husband of Mayme Hooper, 1920s.
0632 Mayme and Albert Hooper, Stone House, Monitor Valley, Nye County, Nevada, Probably late 1930s or early 1940s.
0633 Mayme Hooper, about 1925, at the age of 15 or 16.
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Slavin (Kawich Mountains Area)
0634 Orville Knighton Reed, known to all in Nye County, Nevada, as O.K. Reed. Knighton was his mother’s maiden name. Reed came to the Tonopah area in 1900.
0635 O.K. Reed at his home in Hawes Canyon, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, about 1930.
0636 The home of O.K. Reed and his family at Hawes Canyon, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada. Reed had the home built, it was constructed by Vic Goodman in about 1908. This photo was probably taken around 1930. The house Burned down about 1960.
0637 O.K. Reed’s ranch at Hawes Canyon, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, About 1920. Left to right, Helen Reed, Jack May, Frank Reed, and O.K. Reed.Catherine May died out not long after this picture was taken.
0638 Working cattle on the United Cattle and Packing Company ranch, probably 1920s. The Hip-O, a circle right over the hip bone, was the company’s brand.
0639 On the range at the United Cattle and Packing Company, early 1920s. The Horses are ground tied and will not move; they will stay where they are all day.
0640 Working cattle at the United Cattle and Packing Company, early 1920s. (More Information on photo board.)
0641 O.K. Reed’s ranch at Hawes Canyon, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, During a snowstorm in 1927 or 1928. The black willows are believed to have Been brought from Elko County by Reed.
0642 Willows during a heavy snowstorm in 1927 or 1928 at O.K.Reed’s ranch in Hawes Canyon, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada.
0643 The General Store at Nyala, Railroad Valley, Nye County, Nevada, around 1920. The automobile is a 1914 or 1915 model Ford owned by O.K. Reed. Emery Garret owned the store. Gasoline then sold for $1.00 per gallon, which was not Considered high –priced even though gas sold for 30 cents a gallon in nearby Tonopah.
0644 Warm Springs, located 50 miles east of Tonopah on U.S. Highway 6, probably Early 1920s.
0645 Working on the range with the United Cattle and Packing Company, early 1920s. When the cattle were branded, a small piece of ear was removed from each cow. The piece of ear went into the cowboys’ pockets and the ear pieces were later Tallied. Here O.K. Reed (kneeling) is tallying ear pieces. Cuny Kerns, an Indian, Is on the far left, next to Frank May.
0646 O.K. Reed’s ranch at Hawes Canyon, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, Early 1920s. People at the ranch noticed that this cow wasn’t giving much milk; Upon investigating they found that a pig was stealing it. Here the pig can be seen In action. Florence Reed, standing, witnesses the crime.
0647 Florence Reed by then-abundant creek at Hawes Canon, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, early 1920s. Ed Slavin claims that water was more plentiful in The Kawich Mountains then than it is now.
0648 Snow on O.K. Reed’s ranch, Hawes Canyon, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1921. Left to right, Frank May, Catherine May, Jack May, Dick Alexander (holding the shovel), sporting a white mustache, unidentified child, Ed Reed, and Florence Reed.
0649 Maude Reed, wife of O.K. Reed, and four of their children, about 1924. Left to Right, Florence, little O.K., Maude, Helen, and Lucille Reed.
0650 Allen and Bob Mortell at the No. 1 well, United Cattle and Packing Company, in Stone Cabin Valley, early 1920s. During World War I, the Mortell brothers Designed and produced airplanes, assembling them at the Cedar Pipeline south of The Kawich Mountians; and attempt to sell the aircraft to the U.S. government Failed.
0651 Students at the school on Reed’s ranch, Hawes Canyon, early 1920s. Back row, From left: Helen Reed, unidentified girl, Lucille Reed, teacher (name unknown) And Florence Reed. Front row: Jack May, holding the dog; other children are Unidentified, but may have belonged to the hired help who lived on the ranch.
0652 No.3 well of the United Cattle and Packing Company located in the Pine Creek Area. Identity of persons pictured is unknown. (More information on photo Board)
0653 Johnny Reed and a woman of unknown identity. About 1922, Helen Reed, on Her way out to the ranch, had just passed the Indian camp at the mouth of Hawes Canyon. There she found an Indian baby who had been abandoned Because he had pneumonia and was dying. Helen raised him. (More Information on photo board)
0654 Ed Reed’s home at Cedar, at the end of Cedar Pipeline near the south end of Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, early 1920s. Ed Reed, brother of O.K. Reed and partner I the United Cattle and Packing Company, made his Residence here; he never married. This site is known for it’s very strong winds.
0655 Ed Reed’s home at Cedar at the end of Cedar Pipeline, Nye County, Nevada, Early 1920s. The year this picture was taken, Ed Reed tried to grow some corn, As seen in the foreground.
0656 Windmill at Cedar at the end of Cedar Pipeline, south end of the Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, ca. 1920s.
0657 Children and workers at O.K. Reed’s ranch, Hawes Canyon, Kawich Mountians, Nye County, Nevada, ca. 1920s. Frank May is on the far left in the Back row. George Bruno is the tall man in the dark hat in the middle of the Back row. It may be O.k. Reed on the far right in the back row. The three Children kneeling in the front row belong to May and O.K. Reed.
0658 O.K. Reed’s ranch at Hawes Canyon, Kawich Mountians, Nye County, Nevada, prior to 1920. A four-mule team and wagon holding supplies, Including beds, grub, and necessary equipment, prepare to leave for spring Round –up.
0659 Working with a calf on the United Cattle and Packing Company ranch, early 1920s. O.K. Reed is on the left, little O.K. is at his father’s feet, providing Instruction, and one of the Fallini brothers, kneeling, is holding down the calf.
0660 Believed to be the No.1 well, located in Stone Cabin Valley, probably early 1920s. The horses belong to the United Cattle and Packing Company. When Working cattle, riders received two horses a day, one for the morning and one For the afternoon. Ed Slavin once protested jokingly “Horses get tired, I get Tired too”.
0661 O.K. Reed teaching little O.K. to ride a calf, about 1920.
0662 Believed to be the cinnabar mine near Ned’s Cache in Railroad Valley, Nevada, about 1920.
0663 O.K. Reed and his daughter Lucille, early 1920s, at Kawich or Gold Reed, Nevada.
0664 O.K. Reed’s ranch at Hawes Canyon, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, Early 1920s. Hay fields are in the background.
0665 O.K. Reed’s ranch, Hawes Canyon, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, Early 1920s. An Indian named Cuny Clifford is at the left. Clifford was adopted By the Clifford family, local ranchers, and raised much as Johnny Read had Been raised by the Reeds. George Bruno stands on the right. Bruno was a Cowboy actor in Hollywood; he once bet that he could ride a bucking horse With a 4-by-4 board sitting under him for the length of the ride. He won the bet. Bruno later married Maude Reed.
0666 O.K. Reed and his brother acquired the Hawes Canyon Ranch from Andrew Jackson “ Jack” Longstreet about 1908. The Reed Ranch under went rapid Expansion until it encompassed an area more than 100 miles on a side in its east - west, north-south dimensions. At its peak, it was one of the largest ranches ever In the United States. … Later they acquired a steam-powered well-drilling Machine, pictured here in the early 1920s. A wagon and team of horses are Hauling water to the drill. (For complete caption, see photo.)
0667 A close-up of the steam-powered well-drilling machine owned by the United Cattle and Packing Company. The drill was manufactured by the Keystone Driller Company, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Johnny Weaver operated the Machine. The car has been identified as a 1921 or 22 Ford or Dodge.
0668 Preparing for the spring round-up a t the United Cattle and Packing Company, Early 1920s. The older man in front with the baby carriage is a joke: There was No baby in the carriage. It was symbolic of the fact that old men did not Participate in the round-up, but were instead told to stay home and take care of The ranch and the baby. This old man is Wake Catlet, described by Ed Slavin as A “residue of the Civil War”. Catlet was said to be the only man in Nye County Of whom Jack Longstreet was afraid.
0669 Jack Longstreet with his Ford Model-T. … This picture has been dated at about 1914 or 1916. (More information about Longstreet on the photo board.)
0670 The No.1 well, located in Stone Cabin Valley, United Cattle and Packing Company, around 1920. The tent is the style that the cowboys slept in on round- Up. Both gas and wind were used to pump water. The gasoline-powered pump is Inside the shelter at left. When demanded for water was low the wind did the Pumping, but when demand was high the gasoline-powered pump was also Used.
0671 O.K. Reed and his goatskin chaps, about 1920. Goat and sheep skins were used For chaps because of their warmth. Some riders had bearskin chaps, of which They were very proud. Note the large size of Reed’s horse.
0672 Horses used during the round-up at the United Cattle and Packing Company. About 1920.
0673 Bringing a calf in on a rope at the United Cattle and Packing Company, Probably early 1920s. George Bruno is riding the horse pulling the calf.
0674 Cattle contained inside a fence at the United Cattle and Packing Company Operations at Pine Creek or Cedar, Nye County, Nevada, early 1920s.
0675 Cedar, at the end of Cedar Pipeline, south of the Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, about 1920. Picture shows operations of the United Cattle And packing Company, looking east towards Ned’s Cache.
0676 The house at Pine Creek as it looked in the 1910s. The house burned down in The early 1920s.
0677 Riders watching horses used in the round-up, by the United Cattle and Packing Company, about 1920.
0678 Horses being gathered for the round-up, No.1 well in Stone Cabin Valley, United Cattle and packing Company, about 1920.
0679 Cattle belonging to the United Cattle and Packing Company in the 1920s. One Year they had one herd with 4,000 head in it.
0680 This lake, 3 or 4 feet deep, a quarter of a mile wide, and ¾ of a mile long, Stands on top of the Kawich Mountains, Nye Country, Nevada, perhaps 1940s.
0681 Cattle round-up riders in the Kawich Mountains area, date unknown. The Following names were supplied by Ed Slavin: One Arm Bob (Indian), Charlie Gilbert, Lorigan Henry Bordoli (kid holding Bony Allred), Tom Allred (holding Addy Allred), Will Hatan, Charlie Williams (standing), Cully Turner, Joe Martin, Ed Reed, Irving Allred, Ethel Allred, Mrs. Lydia Munson, Clarence Munson, George Hildebrand, William Pony.
0682 Putting up hay at O.K. Reed’s ranch in Hawes Canyon, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, proably the1930s or early 1940s.
0683 Ed’s Well, Railroad Valley, Nye County, Nevada, named after Ed Reed. The Well is on property originally owned by the 7-L Outfit, who sold it to the United Cattle and Packing Company. The Quinn Canyon Range is visible in The distance. Proably the early 1920s.
0684 Ed Reed, left, and O.K. Reed with what looks like a 1914 Model-T Ford. The Reed brothers were tall men; Ed was about 6’4” and O.K. was about 6’, Described as big-boned with no fat on their bodies. Ed had long legs, O.K. Had short legs.
0685 Gold Reed, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, probably about 1905. It Was with a mine in Gold Reed that O.K. Reed made the money to purchase the Ranch at Hawes Canyon. The ore at the mine was so rich that a person could Stand off 50 or 60 feet and see the gold in the original outcropping; some of the Ore sold for 1,000 a ton. Reed was partners in the mine with Jack May and a Mr.Wardle, Tonopah resident Austin Wardle’s father. Jack May and Reed were Married to sisters, Mabel and Maude Hanley.
0686 Four of the pretty girls who lived at O.K. Reed’s ranch at Hawes Canyon, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, early 1920s. Left to right, Lucille Reed, Catherine May, Florence Reed, and Helen Reed. The gloves the girls are Wearing were made by Indians living in the Hawes Canyon area.
0687 O.K. Reed and his son, little O.K., about 200 feet from where Reed and his Partners had their mine at Gold Reed, about 1920.
0688 Tonopah’s Championship Basketball Team, 1925. Back row, standing, from Left, Coach Snydar, John Casselli, McGuire, Jimmy Burns, Paul Richards, and Manager Bernard Fuetsch. Second row, Bill Dumble, John Starr, and Ed Slavin. Sitting in front, Chester Geyer and George Brown. While playing its Last game in Ely that season the team received a telegram from home staying, “Beat Ely and Chicago next”. About $2,500 was raised in a few hours in Tonopah to send the team to participate in a tournament in Chicago. The Tonopah lads, however, did not fare well in Chicago against older and bigger Competitions.
0689 A settlement sheet from the Tonopah Mining Company to Ed Slavin, dated November 30, 1941.
0690 A settlement sheet from the Tonopah Mining Company to Ed Slavin, dated December 7,1938.
0691 The back side of the settlement sheet pictured in 0690.
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Terrell (Tonopah and area)
0692 Solan Terrell home on leave from the U.S. Navy, early 1943.
0693 Solan Terrell’s eighth grade graduation diploma, Tonopah, Nevada, May 29, 1930
0694 Clyde Rufus Terrell seated at the linotype machine at the Tonopah Times Bonanza, which he owned. Terrell would compose stories for the newspaper At the linotype keyboard. This photo was taken about two years prior to his death in 1950.
0695 L-R: Clydene Terrell, Don Wheeler Terrell, Starle William Terrell, Solan Chester Terrell, children of Clyde Rufus Terrell and Kitty Wheeler Terrell. Photo taken about 1918.
0696 A picture postcard with the caption, “A native son of Tonopah, Nevada”. Described by Solan Terrell as the most “cantankerous animal that was ever Born”. Also one of the most intelligent. During the 1920s and 1930s burros ran Loose in the streets of Tonopah, raiding garbage cans and providing an endless Source of entertainment to the children. (More info. On photo board)
0697 An old picture, date unknown, of an Indian family, perhaps from the Tonopah Area. The child’s ragged clothing is indicative of the poverty conditions that Indians often lived in.
0698 A pontoon from the dredge constructed at Manhattan, Nevada, prior to World War II. A large hole was dug to impound water. Water was then piped to Manhattan from across the valley at Peavine and fed into the hole. (More info. On photo board.)
0699 A frame of the building housing the mill being constructed at the Terrell mine Above Eden Creek in the Kawich Mountains, about 1937.
0700 The Tonopah Depot. Man on the far right may be Don Terrell. With the mines And mills in Tonopah shut down, the railroad was losing money. The Contraption above was constructed to carry passengers on the railroad wheels. The gas tank is visible on the roof of the car.
0701 Hazel Terrell, sister of Clyde Rufus Terrell.
0702 Clyde Rufus Terrell at his mine above Eden Creek, high in the Kawich Mountains, about 1929 or 1930. Probably taken at the South Gold Mine. Note The homemade wheelbarrow, little buckets for holding ore, and the mortar at The side of the wheelbarrow.
0703 South Gold Hill above Eden Creek in the Kawich Mountains, about 1920 or 1930. High-grade gold ore was found just below the top of the hill and a shaft Was sunk. Note the windlass hoist, cranked by hand, and the pipe going down To the shaft to draw air into the hole for ventilation.
0704 An old picture postcard (ca.1940) that asks the question, “What became of the Driver?” A desert tragedy near Schurz, Nevada.
0705 The Reveille mill, located in Reveille Valley east of Tonopah, as it looked in
0706 Solan Terrell, second from the right, back row, member of a United States Navy Diving Crew, early 1943, Sand Pedro, California. While a diver in the navy, Terrell served as photo double in the diving shots for Richard Arlen, the star of The movie, “Minesweeper”.
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Miscellaneous 2
0707 Aerial view of Beatty, Nevada, ca.1980.
0708 George Ishmael, long-time southern Nye County resident, and his children. From left, standing, are Dewey Ishmael and Lynn Ishmael. Sitting are Luella Ishmael Cox, George Ishmael, and Phyllis Ishmael Bell. The photo was taken About 1980.
0709 Same Colvin in military uniform during World War II.
0710 Same Colvin and his mother during World War II.
0711 Margarito “Shorty” Diaz at his home, Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada, in His later years, ca. 1980.
0712 Margarito “Shorty” Diaz, ca. 1965.
0713 Jovita Diaz Long, daughter of margarito “Shorty” Diaz, and her husband Les Long, ca. 1985.
0714 Bar and brothel belonging to Bobby Duncan located in Tonopah, Nevada, early 1950s. Bobby Duncan is pictured second from the right.
0715 Dollly Strozzi Gillette, a long –time Beatty resident, in the 1980s.
0716 Caesar Strozzi, father of Dolly Gillette, long-time Beatty, Nevada, resident, Originally a native of Switzerland. This photograph was taken near Strozzi’s Residence in the Grapevine Mountains, probably during the 1940s.
0717 Charlene and Madison Locke, parents of Sue Locke Holloway, with young Holly Baker White. Ely, Nevada, 1972.
0718 Four generations at the Locke Ranch in Railroad Valley, Nevada, April 1951: Sarah Locke, Madison Locke, and Sue Locke Holloway holding Jacque Holloway Lowery. The photo was taken at the lower, or original ranch. The old Rock house, built in the late 1800s or early 1900s, was the second house built On the ranch.
0719 Madison and Charlene Locke in front of the restaurant at the Locke Ranch, Rail Road Valley, Nevada, in the late 1950s. Locke built the restaurant in the 1950s When oil was discovered in Railroad Valley.
0720 Halsey “Jack” Holloway and Sue Locke Holloway, 1977 or 1978.
0721 Charlene Locke, mid 1960s.
0722 Miruna Banovich, mother of Catherine Banovich-Lydon, pictured in the garden Of her home at Magnolia and Main Streets, Tonopah, Nevada, during the 1940s. Mrs. Banovich, born in Yugoslavia in 1877, is holding flowers she grew in her Garden.
0723 Front row, from left, are Olga Beko, Jennie Reeves, and Ardith Thompson. Captain Smith, stationed at the Tonopah Army Air Base, is in rear cener, flanked By two army officers whose identities are unknown. The Army Officers Club At the Tonopah Army Air Base, about 1943 or 1944.
0723a Madison Locke in front of school bus, Sarcobatus Flats, Nevada, ca. 1968.
0724 A gathering of local citizens and Tonopah Arm Air Base personnel at the Ramona Hotel, Tonopah, Nevada, spring of 1943. The woman with the white Corsage and hat on the right is Captain Smith’s wife; Colonel Flynn sits at her Right, followed by Catherine Banovich-Lydon, and Captain Smith. The Tonopah Army Air Force Band is providing entertainment. (The image on this Picture inadvertently reversed during printing.)
0725 A gathering of local citizens and Tonopah Arm Air Base personnel at the Ramona Hotel, spring of 1943. From left, Colonel Flynn, Captain Smith’s wife, Captain Leo Delore, Catherine Banovich-Lydon, and members of the Tonopah Army Air Force Band.
0726 Enlisted Men’s Service Club, Tonopah Army Air Base, about 1943.
0727 Freck Lydon, husband of Catherine Banovich-Lydon and Jack Dempsey, Former World’s Heavyweight Boxing Champion, at Tonopah’s 50th-year Celebration in 1950. (More information on photo board.)
0728 First grade class, Tonopah School, in 1921 or 1922. Back row, from left: John Anderson (2nd), Minnie Cannak (4th), Catherine Ryan (5ht), Ray Tennant (6th) Second row: Thelma Call (1st) Elaine O’Hara (3rd), Red Douglas (4th), Billy Geyer(5th), Catherine Banovich (6th), Tom Beko (7th), Clinton Steveson (8th) Front Muriel Prout (5th), Homer O’Connel (6th), a girl named Burns (in the White dress). And Bruno Skanovsky next to the last in the front row. Others Unknown.
0729 Lois Kellogg with her prize heifer on the Arlemont Ranch, Fish Lake Valley, Nevada, 1940 or 1941. Kellogg was born Sept.29, 1894, and would have been Approximately 45 years old at the time this picture was taken. She purchased The Arlemont Ranch in 1938 or 1939, and raised Russian wolfhounds. It is said That she kept 125 Russian wolfhounds on the ranch. George Ishmael was the Ranch Foreman.
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Maps
0730 The famous map of Bullfrog Mining District, designed by T.G. Nicklin, editor Of the Bullfrog Miner, Beatty, Nevada, shortly after the founding of the town of Beatty. This particular copy was distributed by the Exchange Club, probably During the 1950s. The town of Beatty is featured at the Bullfrog’s heart. (Courtesy of Claudia Reidhead, Beatty, Nevada.)
0731 Menu from the Montgomery Café, believed to have been located in the Montgomery Hotel, Beatty, Nevada. … The Montgomery Café’s menu Features the famed T.G. Nicklin map of the Bullfrog area. (More information On the photo board.) (Courtesy of Claudia Reidhead, Beatty, Nevada)
0732 A map of the state of Nevada published by the Clason Map Co., Denver, Colorado, copyrighted 1906. Note the routes of the railroads in the southern Nevada area, including the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad linking the small Community of Las Vegas with Beatty; (More information on the map is Contained on the photo board.) (Courtesy, Central Nevada Museum, Tonopah, Nevada.)
0733 A portion of a map produced by the Automobile Club of Southern California During the early 1920s. The map was of San Bernardino County, California; this Portion of the map shows roads and railroads and communites in the Barstow, California, area. Of particular interest is the railroad linking Tonopah and Tide Water Railroad with the Santa Fe tracks at Ludlow, California, and the stops on The T&T between Ludlow and Riggs, north of Silver Lake, California. (Courtesy of Claudia Reidhead, Beatty, Nevada.)
0734 A portion of a map of southern California and southwestern Nevada prepared by The Automobile Club of Southern California during the early 1920s. The Portion pictured here illustrates well the development of railroads and Communities in the southcentral Nevada area, from Tonopah to the Pahrump Valley Note the number of roads in the area between Tonopah and the Kawich Mountains. (Courtesy of Claudia Reidhead, Beatty, Nevada.)
0735 A portion of a map of southern California and southwestern Nevada prepared by The map department of the Automobile Club of Southern California, early 1920s This map shows the development of roads, railroads, and communites in the Southcentral Nevada and Death Valley areas. This map seems to be identical to That pictured in 0734 of this collection, although this photograph provides more Coverage of the Mojava Desert area. Note the many springs listed in the south Central Nevada area. (Courtesy of Claudia Reidhead, Beatty, Nevada.)
0736 A portion of a map of the state of California produced by the Automobile Club Of Southern California, early 1920s. This portion provides a view of the major Roads in the Beatty-Pahrump region of Nevada. (Courtesy of Claudia Reidhead, Beatty, Nevada.
0737 Part of a road map of southern California produced by the Automobile Club of Southern California, early 1920s. Map shows the development of roads, Railroads, and communities in the southern Nevada area at that time. (Courtesy Of Claudia Reidhead, Beatty, Nev.)
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Moore (Tonopah, Nev.)
0738 Ruby Kepplinger Moore, at the age of about 3. Photo taken in Chico, California, 1906.
0739 Ruby Kepplinger Moore in a photo taken on top of the Sacramento Hotel, Sacramento, California, during the 1920s.
0740 Ruby Kepplinger Moore, about 1925. Notice the marcelle hair style, which was Set with hot irons.
0741 Roy Moore, husband of Ruby Kepplinger Moore, playing the piano in the Ace Club, Tonopah, Nevada, 1940s.
0742 Ruby Kepplinger Moore and Roy Moore, Rex Bar, Tonopah, Nevada, October 1946.
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Potts
0743 Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, center, with Jeanne ad Don Potts. Jim Butler park, Tonopah, Nevada, late 1970.
0744 Initiation of the high school freshman class, Tonopah, Nevada, September 1940. Jeanne Cirac Potts is in the back row just below the A in “Fountain” in the Window of Ross’s Fountain on Main Street, Tonopah, Nevada. Joe Friel, Wearing a large black hat, is to her immediate right. Bob Wardle is ninth from The left in the front row, wearing a wristwatch with a black band. Carr’s Meat Market is at the right, and Tonopah’s Butler Theatre is partially visible on the Left.
0745 Students at Millers, Nevada, school, about 1911 or 1912. The tall boy in the back Row is either Jeanne Cirac Potts’ uncle, William Cirac, or her father, Louis Cirac.
0746 Interior of the Ace Club, Tonopah, Nevada, late 1930s or very early 1940s, Certainly pre-World War II. Louis Cirac, wearing the sweater, father of Jeanne Cirac Potts, is dealing roulette. The man to his right, ranking in chips, was Named palooka.
0747 Louis Cirac, Sr., and his wife, Elizabeth Joseph Cirac, early 1902. Louis Cirac, Jr., father of Jeanne Cirac Potts, is held by his mother and Marie Cirac is being Held by her father. Marie married a Frenchman named LaJeuness and lived in Martinez, Calif. Louis Cirac, Sr., died in 1962.
0748 Jeanne Cirac Potts, 1953 or1954. Photo taken on Wells Avenue in Reno, Nevada.
0749 Eighth grade class, Tonopah, Nevada, 1939. In the back row, from left, Fred Inman, Eddie Warren, Joe Friel, Bill Kendall, Ed Conley, Harvest Hooper, Bob Bab, and teacher Chet Howard. In the middle row, Dorothy Caven, Wanda Barrego, Jeanne Cirac (Potts), Clara West, Norma Morris, Doris Perchetti, Consuelo Morales, and Iris Infield. In front row, Bob Wardle, Roy Sam, Crispin Gallegos, Ilia Barsanti, Ed Olsen, and Loren (?).
0750 Jeanne Cirac Potts and Don Potts at the Charity Ball, Late 1970s. Photo taken by Judge William Beko.
0751 From left, Louis Cirac, Jr., Romano Andreotti, Helen Redmond, and Jeanne Cirac Potts, Christmas 1946. Andreotti and Redmond were married by Redmond Commited suicide in the early 1960s.
0752 Left to right, William Cirac, Elizabeth Cirac, Marie Cirac, Louis Cirac, Sr., and Louis Cirac, Jr. Leland Cirac is in front, below Marie. Picture taken about 1908.
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Miscellaneous 3
0753 L.A. “Rusty” Horgan moved to Pahrump, Nevada, in 1949 after purchasing a Large block of land on the west side of the valley for $5.00 per acre. He came From Randsburg, California, where he had worked most of his time as a miner… (More info. on photo board.)
0754 Vidosava “Vida” Tripcovich Skanovsky, mother of Tonopah, Nevada, resident Bruno Skanovsky, ca. 1944.
0755 John Skanovsky, father of Tonopah, Nevada, resident Bruno Skanovsky, ca. 1944.
0756 Beatty Store located on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, ca. 1930
0757 Interior of the Beatty Store, located on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, ca.1930.
0758 Interior of the Beatty Store, located in Beatty, Nevada, ca. 1930.
0759 A criminal complain against one James Burns, sworn out by the Justice Court of Rhyolite, Nevada, February 13, 1907. The complaint states the Defendant “begged money from the public on the streets of the town of Rhyolite”.
0760 Beatty Store, located on Main Street, Beatty, Nevada, ca. 1930.
0761 Prospector’s cabin, Nevada Test Site, 1975.
0762 Stagecoach way station, Buckboard Mesa Road, Nevada Test Site.
0763 Photograph of front page of Las Vegas Evening Review Journal with headline Concerning “Murder at Pahrump”, Jan.22, 1931.
0764 Photograph of Lathrop Wells Special Telephone Directory, February, 1965. (one Page)
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Boni (Manhattan, Nevada)
0764a The children of Pete Boni, who was born in Italy, November 7, 1879; and Dominica Louise Julia, born in Italy, November 4, 1884, and died June 14, 1975. Pictured here left to right, are 7 of the 9 Boni children: Virgillio, Pete, Mary Emily, Albino Richard, James, Ermand Richard, Rose Louise, Leo, and Irene Nelly.
0765 A portrait of Pete Boni, c. 1906.
0766 A portrait of Dominica Louise Julia Boni, ca. 1906
0767 The Boni family home located in Manhattan, Nevada. The photo was probably Taken in the 1930s. The small building on the far left served as a bunkhouse for The Boni boys.
0768 Irene Nelly Boni playing the accordion in front of the garage on the Boni Property, ca. 1936.
0769 A picture of the Reliance Mine, Manhattan, Nevada, 1930s.
0770 The Catholic Church located in Manhattan, Nevada, 1950s. This photo was Taken prior to the building’s restoration.
0771 A photo of Manhattan, Nevada, 1940s.
0772 Manhattan Standard Building, Manhattan, Nevada, probably 1930s.
0773 The Red Mill in Manhattan, Nevada, ca. 1950. Other mills in Manhattan Included the Consolidated Mill and the White Cap Mill.
0774 The Red Mill in Manhattan, Nevada, ca. late 1940s. The last time the mill Operated was just prior to World War II.
0775 Another view of the Red Mill in Manhattan, Nevada, late 1940s.
0776 A view of the Red Mill in Manhattan, Nevada, late 1940s.
0777 Red Mill, Manhattan, Nevada, late 1940s. The loading ramp can be seen on the Left.
0778 Undated view of Manhattan, Nevada.
0779 Flood waters that struck Manhattan, Nevada, 1952.
0780 Flood waters from a storm at Manhattan, Nevada. This photo was taken by McGowen Photos, Tonopah, Nevada, ca. 1950.
0781 Dominica Louise Julia Boni, resident of Manhattan, Nevada. This photo was Taken by McGowen Photos, Tonopah, Nevada, ca. 1950.
0782 Manhattan, Nevada, 1905. A horse-drawn wagon is pictured. No explanation is Available as to why the cabin upside down.
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Hawkins (Duckwater, Nev.)
0783 L-R: Frank Roberts, father of Martha Roberts Hawkins; in front of Frank is Helen Roberts, Martha Roberts, Isabelle Roberts, Josephine Roberts (in hat), And Frances Roberts, Duckwater, Nevada, 1927.
0784 Josephine Roberts and Tom Thatcher, Frank Roberts’ great-uncle, visiting the Irwin Ranch, Duckwater, Nevada, ca. 1921. This photograph is taken in the Irwin ranch fruit orchard located on the northern part of the property.
0785 Josephine Roberts holding Frances Roberts, pictured with Frank Roberts on the Irwin ranch, now a part of the Holstead ranch, Duckwater, Nevada, 1911.
0786 Lou Heller, husband of Helen Roberts Heller, pictured with Martha Roberts Hawkins’ oldest daughter Norma (left), second oldest daughter Amelia, and Youngest daughter Ethel. Photo taken at Duckwater, Nevada, 1940.
0787 Martha Roberts and her sister Isabelle Roberts with brother Monroe Roberts in The tub playing with a homemade sled on the Irwin ranch, ca. 1921.
0789 Unidentified.
0790 The Irwin Ranch. The trees in the background were planted by the ranch’s Developer, Isaac “Ike” Irwin, great-grandfather of Martha Roberts Hawkins. Duckwater, Nevada, ca. 1925.
0791 An inscription on the back of this photo reads: “Survey camp taken in 1909” Tonopah Tidewater Railroad in Railroad Valley, Nye County. Grandfather Roberts with the hat in his hand on top of the pyramid was Grandma Roberts’ Husband on top of the pyramid was Grandma Roberts’ husband. Grandma was An Irwin”. Martha Roberts Hawkins indicates that this inscription is wrong, that The Tonopah Tidewater Railroad never came to Railroad Valley and the Railroad’s construction was completed prior to 1909. The man pictured on top Waving a hat is Frank Roberts, born in 1886. Photo is believed to be a survey Crew for the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad.
0792 Helen Roberts getting a drink from the ditch in front of her mother’s house on The Irwin Ranch, Duckwater, Nevada, 1922.
0793 Left to right: Martha Roberts Hawkins and sister Frances Hawkins on the Irvin Ranch, Duckwater, Nevada, ca. 1915.
0794 A stone house located on the Irwin ranch. Pictured are Martha Hawkins’Grandmother Hermi Irvin and Charlie Irwin and their daughter, Irma Jean Irwin. The stone building is still standing on the Irwin ranch, Cuckwater, Nevada, ca. 1918.
0795 Frank Vanover, husband of Imogene Irwin Vanover, at the lower part of the Irwin ranch, Duckwater, Nevada, ca. 1918.
0796 On the back of this photo is written: “Phyllis Holstead in front of a home, Pop Roberts’ home, Duckwater”. This refers to the Frank and Josephine Robert’s Home located on the Irwin ranch, Duckwater, Nevada, ca. 1940.
0797 Wash day on the Irwin ranch, 1929. Left to right are toddler Frank Roberts, Isabelle Roberts, Martha Roberts Hawkins, and brother-in-law Lou Heller, Who was married to Helen Roberts Heller. The washing machine is operated By a foot pedal with water drawn from the well.
0798 A camp in Railroad Valley, Nye County, Nevada, in the vicinity of present-day (1990) oil fields where Isaac “Ike” Irwin drilled Roberts and beside him is Jess Hildebrandt, a resident of Duckwater, Nevada. This photo is undated, but Judging by Frank Robert’s age in the photo it appears to be ca. 1915.
0799 A steam-powered drill rig that Isaac “Ike” Irwin purchased in Eureka to drill For potash in Railroad Valley, Nye County, Nevada. The picture is difficult to Accurately date but might be ca. 1915. Individuals in the photo are not Identified.
0800 On the back of this photo is written: “Around 1912 or 1911”. Branding cattle On the Holstead ranch, located about 4 miles north of the Irwin ranch, Duck Water, Nevada. Frank Roberts, dressed in a white shirt, is holding down the Cow. Frank Vanover is branding the vow and Abe Collins is riding the white Horse. Rider on the left is not identified.
0801 Sheep on the range, location and date are not identified.
0802 The Roberts girls in front of their mother’s house, “the Robert’s place”, on the Irwin ranch, Duckwater, Nevada, ca. 1933. Left to right: Frances, Isabelle, Martha, Helen, Mabel. There were a total of 7 children in the family including 2 boys, whose names were Monroe and Frank, Jr. On the back of the photo is Written: “(Tan Francis) says we all look too terrible to go anywhere but after All, we are just looking our everyday look. Don’t ask when it was taken, I can’t Remember, but even if it was some ago we all look the same.”
0803 Frank Robert’s wood wagon, Irwin ranch, Duckwater, Nevada. After Dad Returned with a load of wood and unloaded it, the children left to right: Frances, Isabelle, Martha, Monroe, and Helen climbed into the wagon. Ca. 1924.
0804 Photo not identified.
0805 The Roberts family on a visit to relatives in the state of Pennsylvania, 1915. Left to right are Uncle Clarence Roberts, a baby unidentified, Uncle Monroe Roberts, and Frank Roberts and his daughter Frances.
0806 This is a photo mistakenly included in this collection. Gardnerville, Margaret Clark.
0807 Photograph taken on the north side of the Robert’s home on the Irwin ranch, Duckwater, Nevada. Cottonwood trees were planted by the Irwin ranch’s Developer, Isaac “Ike” Irwin, to be used in the manufacture of fruit boxes. The Boy with his back to the camera is David Deluze, son of Nancy Deluze, a teacher On the Irwin ranch. Ca. 1945.
0808 Photo taken in front of the Robert’s home on the Irwin ranch, Duckwater, Nevada, 1924. Frank and Josephine Roberts are pictured with their children, Frances, Isabelle, baby Helen, Monoroe, and Martha (sticking her head out from under her Father’s arm).
0809 Frances Roberts and her dog Lady. Photo was taken at the Stillwater Gaming Club, Stillwater, Nevada, ca. 1930.
0810 The family pictured in front of the Roberts’ home located on the Irwin ranch, Duckwater, Nevada, 1928. The old man holding the baby is Charlie Irwin. The Baby is Bobby Kitchen, married to Isabelle Roberts. Left to right are Helen Roberts, Mabel Roberts, Frank Roberts (the tall man in the back row), Isabelle Roberts, and Josephine Roberts, Charlie Irwin’s wife. The small boy is Monroe Roberts.
0811 Celebrating Martha Hawkins’ 75th birthday, Duckwater, Nevada. Left to right: Frank Roberts, Martha Roberts Hawkins, Kid Buffington. Pictured in the back Ground in a white shirt is Monroe Roberts.
0812 Perline Thompson, a resident of the Duckwater Indian Reservation, and one of Her children, at Duckwater, Nevada, ca. 1940.
0813 A family of Indian children residing on the Duckwater Indian Reservation, 1950. On the back of the photo is written, “The Graham family, 1950”. Pictured here are Boyd, Audrey, Darlene, Sylvia, and Phyllis.
0814 A beautiful example of Indian pictographs located in the Currant Creek area of Nye County, Nevada. Local Indians are said to be able to decipher the markings And older Indians residing at Duckwater are said to place high value on the site.
0815 Close-up of Indian pictographs in Photo 0814 located in the Current Creek area, Nye County, Nevada.
0816 Residential site of Shermantown, White Pine County, Nevada, near the ghost Town of Hamilton, Nevada, 1928.
0817 Isaac “Ike” Irwin. Ike was born in 1924 and is believed to be around age 50 in this Picture.
0818 The front of Imogene Irwin Vanover’s house in Duckwater, Nevada, ca. 1912. On The porch are…. (cont. on next page)
0818 (cont.) On the front porch are Martha Hawkins’ parents, Frank Roberts and Josephine Rogenteni Roberts, with their daughter Frances. The lady standing in The center is Louisa Irwin, wife of Isaac “Ike” Irwin. On the right are Edisel and Mary Caziar and their children Grace, Russell, and Elmer. The Caziars lived in Currant Creek and were visiting.
0819 Martha Hawkins’ birthday party at her home in Duckwater, Nevada, 1987. Back Row, left to right: Charles “Bud” Priester, Norma Hawkins Priester, and Aaron Buffington. Seated, left to right: Amelia “Milly” Hawkins Sallaberry, Ethel Hawkins Buffington, and Martha Hawkins.
0820 Home of Jim Beach on the Isaac “Ike” Irwin ranch in the late 1800s. The black Line on the lower ridge in the background is a rock fence built by Indians Ike Irwin hired and paid 25 cents per day.
0821 Photo of Martha Hawkins’ grandmother, Hermi Irwin Rogenteni, and Martha’s Mother, Josephine Rogenti, taken in Eureka, Nevada, ca. 1892.
0822 Forty acres of fruit orchard on the Isaac “Ike” Irwin ranch, Duckwater, Nevada, Viewed from the north in approximately 1880. Irwin raised peaches, plums, pears, cherries, and several types of apples.
0823 Photo taken by Martha Hawkins in 1986 of Indian writings near Moore’s Station, Nevada.
0824 Mill located at Shermantown, Nevada, near the ghost town of Hamilton, Nevada, 1928.
0825 Ralph Irwin, son of Isaac “Ike” and Julia Irwin, late 1890s. Ralph was born Approximately 1976.
0826 Martha Hawkins and her daughters at her home in 1987. Left to right: Martha Hawkins Torrealdy, Ethel Hawkins Buffington, Amelia Hawkins Sallaberry, Norma Hawkins Priester, and Martha Roberts Hawkins.
0827 Paul Irwin, son of Isaac “Ike” and Julia Irwin, late 1890. Paul was born Approximately 1878.
0828 This photo, taken in the 1960s, shows the location of Isaac “Ike” Irwin’s first Home, a 4’ by 8’ rock house, in the foreground. The cottonwood trees in the Center were planted by Ike Irwin for use in making fruit boxes to transport the Fruit he grew to Eureka, Nevada, for sake there. In the background is Duckwater Range.
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Carver (Smoky Valley, Nev.)
0829 Gerald Miller Carver, Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1950.Carver was born in 1901 and died in 1956. He moved to the Smoky Valley in 1939, after purchasing the Carver ranch. Formerly, he had been a rancher near Glendale, California, northeast of Bakersfield, California.
0830 Gerald Miller Carver, working on the northeast corner of the dance hall, Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1950.
0831 Gerald Miller Carver, pictured with his oldest son Dick, Carver’s ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, 1945 or 1946. (More information, including history of the ranch And it’s acquisition, on photo board.)
0832 Gerald Miller Carver, pictured with sons Dick (left) and Gary, in front of Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, 1949 or 1950.
0833 Gerald Miller Carver, pictured with son Dick, probably about 1945. This photo Was taken up Twin River Canyon in the Toiyabe Mountains, Smoky Valley, Nevada.
0834 Jean Carver, pictured wih son Dick in front of the old ranch house on the Carver Ranch, 1947, prior to the Carver family’s construction of Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada.
0835 Robert William “Bill” Carver, son of Gerald Miller Carver by a previous Marriage, holding half-brother Dick Carver on Gerald Carver’s buckskin horse Buck, which Carver brought to his Smoky Valley Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, when m movin there from California. Photo taken on the Carver ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada. Ca.1946.
0836 Gerald Miller Carver, left, with an unidentified individual in Hermosillo, Mexico, 1949.
0837 Gerald Miller Carver, pictured on a beach in southern California, 1951. Gerald Carver was born in Winnemucca, Nevada, but the courthouse in Winnemucca Later burned down, and he thus had no official birth certificate.
0838 Gerald Miller Carver, pictured relaxing on a boat on Lake Mead, early 1950s.
0839 Irrigation reservoir located on the old Turner ranch (later it became the Carver Ranch), 1905. The reservoir was fed by an artesian well located to the left of the Photo. The well was 500 feet deep, and flows 90 gallons a minute (1990) with Out pumping.
0840 Corral and buildings located on the Turner ranch (purchased by Gerald Miller Carver in 1939), looking towards the north, ca 1908.
0841 Outbuildings and corrals located on the Carver ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, Late 1940s. The building used as a slaughterhouse by the ranch’s former owner Ed Turner, is visible on the right. Mount Jefferson and Round Mountain can be Seen in the distance.
0842 When Gerald Miller Carver purchased his Smoky Valley ranch from Ed Turner In 1939, Carver agreed to allow Turner to live on the property. Turner resided in The cabin pictured on the left in the photo. Carver purchased the ranch for $5,200 which included 80 head of cattle. This photograph was taken prior to Carver’s purchased of the ranch. Undated.
0843 The old ranch house on the Carver ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, is visible on the Left. The water tank, which was filled by artesian water flow using a hydraulic Ram, is on the left side of photo 0843 and the right side
0844 The old ranch house on the Carver ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, is visible on The left. The water tank, which was filled by artesian water flow using a Hydraulic ram, is on the left side of photo 0843 and on the right side of photo 0844. The photo shows a heavy snow during the winter of 1948-49.
0845 Fish ponds located on the Carver ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, 1948 or 1949. Wild horses were gathered off the range and fed to the fish. The horse hides were Sold.
0846 Remains of the Combination Mill located east of Belmont, Nevada, early 1950s.
0847 The Belmont cemetery, Belmont, Nevada, early 1950s.
0848 Stack at the remains of the mill located east of Belmont, Nevada, early 1950s. Dick Carver is pictured along with a Chevrolet automobile.
0849 Looking west toward the town of Belmont, Nevada; undated. The Belmont court House is visible in the distance in the center of the photo. Building with tin roof Located on the right was occupied by Rose Walters during the 1940s. (More Information concerning the building on the photo board.)
0850 Looking west toward Devil’s Canyon from the ranch house on the Carver ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, prior to 1948. The Toiyabe Mountains are pictured in the Background. Not long after this photo was taken, the Carvers constructed what Was called Carver’s Rainbow Ranch, which later became known as Carver’s Station, in the foreground.
0851 Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, as it appeared ca. 1950. The facility was of Modular construction. … The dance hall was constructed in 1949 and is visible to The right of the porch. (More information on the photo board.)
0852 The original bar located in Carver’s Station, ca. 1948. L-r: Jean Dutton Carver, Gerald Miller Carver, two unidentified cowboys from the R.O. Ranch, and Patsy Wohlgamuth. (More info. on photo board.)
0853 Carver’s Station. Smoky Valley, about 1949.
0854 Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, about 1953. Originally the bar room in Carver’s Station was rather narrow; it was widened by bolting a number of 2-by-12s together and using that as a roof beam. Ground motion from the first Atmospheric atomic test at the Nevada Test Site, located to the south, produced So much shaking that it broke the beam and caused the roof to sag. (Additional Information on photo board.)
0855 Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1950. This photo was taken during A turkey shoot.
0856 View of the Carver ranch and Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, about 1956, looking west.
0857 Carver’s Station and ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, looking east, 1956.
0858 A view looking west up the canyon into the headwaters of North Twin River, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1949. This photograph was taken Above the Wardnot pasture.
0859 In the vicinity of the Wardenot pasture, looking down the canyon (east), Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1949.
0860 Looking down on the Wardenot pasture, Twin Rivers area, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1949. The small cabin situated in a quaking aspen grove is Visible.
0861 Passing through the gate, moving towards the cabin at the Wardenot pasture, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1949. On the left Dick Carver is Leading a pack horse. Gerald Carver is riding a horse in the center of the photo.
0862 Unloading the pack horses, Wardenot pasture, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1949. Gerald Miller Carver is pictured to the left and Gary Carver is Partially visible on the right.
0863 The cabin located in the Wardenot pasture, North Twin River area, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1949. The pasture is now (1990) within the Arc Dome Wilderness Area.
0864 Dick (left) and Gary Carver, in front of the cabin in the Wardenot pasture, North Twin River area, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1949.
0865 Dick (left) Carver, in front of the cabin in the Wardenot pasture, North Twin River area, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1949.
0866 Dick (left) Carver, in front of the cabin in the Wardenot pasture, North Twin River area, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1949.
0867 One of the side canyons in the Twin River area, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1949, looking down the canyon toward the Wardenot pasture.
0868 Left to right: Gerald Miller Carver, Gary Carver, Chi Hiedeman on a fishing Expedition to the headwaters of the Reese River, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1949 or 1950.
0869 Gerald Miller Carver, Dick Carver, Gary Carver, and Chi Hiedeman, who Operated an electric shovel for the Yuba Dredging Company at Round Mountain, on a fishing expedition in the Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1949.
0870 Dick Carver (left) and Gary Carver on the trail coming down out of the North Twin River area (looking east), Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1949.
0871 Gary (left) and Dick Carver and Barbara Roberts, pictured in the front of the Spring at Darrough’s Hot Springs, Smoky Valley, Nevada, about 1950.
0872 Antelope, originally planted north of Austin, Nevada, moved into the Twin River area of Smoky Valley, Nevada, and stayed there. In this photo cement Ditches from Twin River down to the R.O. Ranch are being installed by the Vawdrey Construction Company, about 1954. Looking to the northwest, Last Chance, Ophir, and Wisconsin canyons are visible in the Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada.
0873 The first and only train to run through the Smoky Valley. Doby Doc Caudill Lived in Carlin, Nevada, and had amassed a large collection of memorabilia of Early Nevada history. He later sold his collection to the Last Frontier Casino in Las Vegas. One of the items in Doby Doc’s collection was this old steamPowered locomotive, which was hauled to Las Vegas by way of Highway 50 And the Round Mountain turnoff out of Austin, then on to Tonopah and Las Vegas.
0874 Al and Alice Lofthouse are pictured riding burros that a miner had left at the Carver ranch. Note the burro on the right is missing part of its left ear. Carver Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1944.
0875 Arleen Lofthouse Berg, in her Tonopah, Nevada, high school band uniform, at Age 16. Ca. 1946.
0876 Dick Carver and a boy remembered only as “Bobby”, riding the same burros as Pictured in 0874 on the Carver ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, about 1946 or 1947. This photo is taken at the approximate site where Carver’s Station is Presently (1990) located. Broad Canyon in the Toiyabe Mountains is visible Upper left in the photo.
0877 Roger Berg, pictured at the Wine Glass Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, when it Was owned by Pete and Mary Rogers. Undated.
0878 Robert “Bob” Wilson, long-time Round Mountain resident, pictured inside Carver’s Station, ca. 1958.
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Cirac
0879 Louis V. Cirac, grandfather of Don Cirac, showing the Combined Beet and Cotton Harvester he built and patented on his farm in Fallon, Nevada. The man On the right is Louis’ brother, Leon.
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Hanson (Gabbs, Nevada)
0880 Norman Hanson and his dog Brucite the camp snake eradicator, ca. 1936, at Basic Magnesium’s camp in Gabbs, Nevada.
0881 Norman Hanson on the road which ran from Basic Magnesium’s camp to the Loading ramp at Luning, Nevada. This photo was taken in the winter of 1936-37 when the region was snowed in for weeks.
0882 Norman Hanson on the same road pictured in 0881 running from Basic Magnesium’s camp to the loading ramp at Luning, Nevada. This picture was Taken in the winter of 1936-37 when the region was snowed in for weeks.
0883 Breaking through the drifts near Gabbs, Nevada, February 1937.
0884 The loading ramp at Luning, Nevada.
0885 Basic Magnesium’s camp in Gabbs, Nevada, in the winter of 1936-1937.
0886 Basic Magnesium’s camp in Gabbs, Nevada, in the winter of 1936-37. Upper Left: dining room, kitchen, and cook’s quarters. Upper right: bunkhouse; at the Lower left is the offices complex including Norman Hanson’s office.
0887 Bunkhouse and a few of the burros that seem to have adopted the people at Basic Magnesium’s camp, Gabbs, Nevada in the 1930s.
0888 A close up of two structures shown in 0885 in Basic Magnesium’s camp, Gabbs, Nevada, ca. 1937.
0889 Howard Eells presenting a plaque to Norman Hanson at a Basic Refractories Employees’ dinner meeting, Maple Grove, Wisconsin, in June 1941. Mr. Hanson Says of Mr. Eells, “He was just a good old warm-hearted chief. They don’t make Them any better.”
0890 Newspaper article regarding Norman Hanson’s retirement from Basic Magnesium.
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Rogers (Smoky Valley, Nev.)
0891 Branding calves at the Wine Glass Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, 1951 or 1952. The man on the horse doing the roping is Dan Berg. Next is Pete Rogers; Armando Francisco is on the far right.
0892 Belmont Courthouse. Undated.
0893 Left to right: Pete Rogers and Dan berg moving cattle form the corral to the Pasture on the Wine Glass Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, 1950s.
0894 Armando Francisco, Pete Rogers, and Dan Berg branding calves on the Wine Glass Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, 1951 or 1952.
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Carver Duhme (Smoky Valley, Nev.)
0895 Rose Walters in front of her home in Belmont, Nevada, 1968. Walters was a Long-time resident of northern Nye County including the communities of
Manhattan, Belmont, and Moores Creek.
0896 Art Howed, former Smoky Valley, Nevada, resident, pictured at Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada.
0897 Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, 1973. At that time Sandy Spicer of Tonopah operated a mail stage, pictured in front of Carver’s.
0898 Earnest Brown “Browny” Parks, a miner who for many years lived in a small Trailer located behind Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1963.
0899 Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, pictured in 1965 after the garage had Been constructed north of the restaurant. The pay telephone, which Jean Carver Duhme had fought to have installed, is visible on the north wall of the Restaurant facility.
0900 An aerial view of Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, early 1950s. The Station itself is visble beside the road just above the trees. In those days most Small airplanes landed on the highway, but some contractors were working in the Area and one had a plane that was too large to land on the highway, so a small Airstrip was constructed for landing, visible to the right of Carver’s Station.
0901 Gerald and Jean Carver Duhme are pictured with their son Dick and the family Dog beside an airplane belonging to Ken Arnold of Boise Idaho, who operated The Great Western Fire Protection Service.
0902 Dick and Gary Carver, ready for Sunday School in January 1950, in front of Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, ca. 1962.
0903 Jean Carver Duhme at the lunch counter at Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, ca. 1962.
0904 The four grandchildren of Jean Carver Duhme, l-r: Mary Jean Carver, Marcy Carver, I.W.Carver, Gerald Carver. The 2 children on the outside belong to Jean’s son Gary, and the 2 inside to Dick Carver.
0905 One of the first pictures ever taken of the interior of Carver’s Station about 1948 Or ’49. Jean Carver Duhme is pictured on the left and Gerald Carver is to her Right standing behind the bar. Others are not identified. The bar top, made of Solid mahogany, was originally in the old hotel located in Round Mountain, Nevada.
0906 Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval, long-term employee at Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, pictured behind the lunch counter, ca. 1962.
0907 A picnic for returning veterans, North Twin River, Nevada, April 28,1946. Left To right: Noah Kaufman, Robert Lee, Karl W. Berg, R.W. Carver, Eugene Michels, William Streshely, Lee Streshely, Sylvia Michels, Ethan Pitts, Armando Francisco, R.J. “Dick” Benn. Most of the men pictured here served in the armed Forces during World War 1.
0908 Community picnic, North Twin River, Nevada, 1946. On the left side of the tableFront to back, are: Dick Carver, Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zavel, Katie Berg, And Grace Farrington (Rene’s mother). On the right side of the table are Kim Anderson and Mary Slate, her back to the camera.
0909 Proud mother and firstborn, Jean Carver Duhme and son Dick in Jean Carver’s Home on the Carter ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, April 1945.
0910 Left to right: Dick Carver, Jean Carver Duhme, Gary Carver in Jean Carver Duhme’s home, Carvers’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, 1974 or 1975.
0911 An aerial view of Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, looking east before The garage was constructed to the left of the station prior to 1965.
0912 Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, looking north, ca. 1957.
0913 Jean Carver Duhme pumping gas at Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, NV c.1954
0914 Left to right: E. Critchfield, Round Mountain resident and the town’s lastConstable and last justice of peace; Amy Farrington; Mamma Jo Francisco. Date And location unknown.
0915 Diesel pump located across the highway from Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, looking west from Carver’s Station toward Broad Canyon.
0916 Jean Carver Duhme standing in front of Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nye County, Nevada, February 1952.
0917 Smokestack from the old Combination Mill located at Belmont, Nevada, ca.1952. Standing on the rock pile left to right are Dick Left; the individual on the right is unidentified.
0918 A picnic held up Kingston Canyon, Nevada, about 1949 or ’50. Left to right: Dolly Francisco, unidentified men in white shirts in back. The woman farthest from the camera is Margaret Ishmael, wife of George Ishmael. In back row: Mrs. Millett, Mrs. Vucanovich (mother of NV. U.S. Rep. Barbara Vucanovich’s husband), Mrs. Michels (former postmaster of Round Mountain, Nev). Man in dark shirt and woman holding a baby in the background are unidentified.
0919 A picnic up Kingston Canyon, Nevada, about 1949 or 1950. Same setting as in
0918 Far left is Mrs. Vucanovich. Standing and cutting the cake is Dolly Francisco. Mrs. Ott is visible in the far upper right corner and Mrs. Millett is Facing the camera.
0920 Left to right: Niece of Hamilton Ott and her husband, Gary Carver, Hamilton Ott And her husband, Gary Carver, Hamilton Ott, Dick Carver. Baby is unidentified. Ca. 1949.
0921 A gathering of community members at a picnic up North Twin River, Nevada, Ca. 1950.
0922 Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, about 1947 or 1948.
0923 Laura Stebbins Darrough, said to have discovered the gold deposit at Round Mountain, Nevada, while searching for an escaped milk cow. Man with back to The camera is unidentified. About 1947 or 1948.
0924 Barney Brownhill is pictured with Gary and Dick Carver, Carver’s Station, Smoke Valley, Nevada, ca. 1949.
0925 Jean Carver Duhme’s first new car, a 1955 Mercury, pictured beside Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada. She purchased the car from Red Douglas at Red Douglas’s Ford dealership in Tonopah.
0926 Some of the students at the Round Mountain, Nevada school and their teacher about 1953. In front in striped shirts are Gary and Dick Carver; in white shirts are Kenny and Roger Berg; in the back row wearing a hat is Jim Berg. The remainder of persons pictured are unidentified.
0927 Jean Carver Duhme pictured with Chi Hiedeman and the first deer that Jean shot in 1949 or ’50.
0928 One of the first pictures taken at Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, when it was originally known as Carver’s Rainbow Ranch Bar and Café. Driver of the Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stage Line, which traveled through Tonopah to Winnemucca every other day, is pictured with Dick and Gary Carver, 1948 or 1949.
0929 Aunt Kit Anderson, a resident of Manhattan, Nevada, who once resided in Belmont, ca. 1950.
0930 Jean Carver Duhme working at the grill at Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nev. Items from the Carver’s menu are listed on a sign on the wall in the upper right-hand corner.
0931 Jean Carver Duhme, pictured at the bar at Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1952.
0932 Unknown man putting gas in automobile, Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, 1954. Gary and Dick Carver are watching with interest.
0933 First photo ever taken of the Carver’s Station, then known as Smoky Valley Ranch Bar and Café, Smoky Valley, Nevada, 1948. Gary and Dick Carver are pictured playing on the front step.
0934 Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, looking north, ca. 1957.
0935 Frank Penola, long-time resident of Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1980.
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Carver Book (Smoky Valley, Nev.)
0936 Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, winter of 1952-53.
0937 Fred Melleis and Dick and Gary Carver, Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, 1949.
0938 Musicians at Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, 1958. Left to right: Dan Lowe, Dan Bowman, Russell (last name unknown).
0939 Eva Craft and her first doe, Smoky Valley, Nevada, undated.
0940 Lona Williamson behind the lunch counter at Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, date unknown.
0941 Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1950. Note the airplane in the background.
0942 Dick Carver and daughter Marcy displaying a string of trout in front of Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, 1969.
0943 Musicians at Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, 1958. Several of the musicians are the same as pictured in 0938. The remainder are not identified.
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O’Toole
0944 Bartholomew O’Toole, grandfather of Bar O’Toole, April 16, 1894. The O’Tooles lived in Washington Canyon, Nevada.
0945 Margaret Kelly O’Toole, wife of Bartholomew O’Toole, Apr. 16, 1894.
0946 Tessabel O’Toole (Clifford) and Bartley Augusta O’Toole, father of Bart O’Toole, April 16, 1894. Tessabel died at the age of 20.
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Lofthouse (Round Mountain, Nev.)
0947 Ranch located in the Stone Cabin Valley area owned by Fulton Little Kelsay, long-time associate and friend of the William Berg family in Round Mountain. People unidentified, date unknown, but probably early 1920s.
0948 Sawing wood using the rear wheel of a truck to power the saw, Round Mountain area, Nye County, Nev. Man unidentified, date unknown.
0949 Lillian Berg and an unidentified friend pictured with Round Mountain in the background, Nye County, Nevada, ca. 1920.
0950 Placer miners using hydraulic methods, Round Mountain, Nevada, date unknown.
0951 The home constructed by Will Berg in Round Mountain, Nevada, for his new bride, Lillian Yeager Berg, 1917. Note the bottle house, also constructed by Berg, pictured on the right of the photo.
0952 The town of Round Mountain, Nevada, with Mount Jefferson in the background. A structure at the far left of the town is believed to be Will Berg’s dairy. Photo is believed to date pre-1910.
0953 Indian children, Round Mountain, Nevada. Children unidentified; date unknown.
0954 The summit of Round Mountain, located near the community of Round Mountain, Nevada, August 1, 1915. Left to right: Katie Berg (wife of Karl Berg), Lillian Berg, Will Berg; the woman on the right is not identified.
0955 Unidentified Indian family, Round Mountain, Nevada, date unknown. The children pictured here appear to be the same as those pictured in 0953.
0956 Miners pictured at a mine site perhaps in the vicinity of Round Mountain, Nevada, date unknown.
0957 Getta and Dan Berg, children of Lillian and Will Berg of Round Mountain, Nevada, on a picnic, ca. 1921.
0958 Lillian Yeager Berg with her firstborn Dan, on the front porch of her home in Round Mountain, Nevada, 1916.
0959 Building and snow drifts in Round Mountain, Nevada, date unknown, perhaps prior to 1940.
0960 Round Mountain Hotel and snow drifts, Round Mountain, Nevada, date unknown, perhaps 1930s. The hotel was located across the street (north) from the present (1990) Palace Bar.
0961 Round Mountain High School students, ca. 1931. Not all individuals in the photo have been identified. Back row left to right: unidentified, Mr. Peck (teacher), Irene ‘Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval, Ruby Zuzallo, unidentified, Lucille Berg (7th from left), Pansy Weeks, unidentified. Front row left to right: unidentified, Bill Berg, unidentified, unidentified, Dan Berg, Getta Berg, Kay Salisbury.
0962 Round Mountain High School students 1929 or ’30. Teacher Mrs. Benson is in the light dress and white stockings in the middle of the line. Remainder of individuals in the photo are not identified.
0963 A pond possibly located on the Berg Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nye County, Nev. Dick Carver believes the pond might be located on the Carver Ranch, not the Berg Ranch. Year and individuals are not identified although the woman in the big dark hat may be Lillian Berg. Mt. Jefferson visible in the distance.
0964 Karl “Skook” Berg riding a horse named Pardner on the Berg Ranch, 1928.
0965 Actors in a school play, in costume. Fourth from left, front row, Lillian Berg; others unidentified. Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1915.
0966 Round Mountain Grammar School, 1925. The boy in the third row back, second from the left (round face and full head of hair) is Dan Berg. Several Indian children are present in the class. Children are pictured in front of the old school constructed of wood in Round Mountain, Nevada
0967 Left to right: Georgetta Louise Berg Jakowatz, her husband Frank Jakowatz, Diane Lofthouse Goldie, Frank and Sandra Farrington. Photo taken in the Farrington home in Thousand Oaks, California, ca. 1988.
0968 Grandchildren of Shirley Ann Lofthouse, Rock Springs, Wy9ming, December 1989.
0969 Getta Berg, Dan Berg and a boy named Carroll in the front yard of the Berg home, Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1921.
0970 Will Berg and his firstborn, Dan, pictured in the front yard of the Berg home, Round Mountain, Nevada, 1916.
0971 Lucille Berg, daughter of John berg, and Dan and Getta Berg, children of Will and Lillian Berg, Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1920.
0972 Lillian Yeager (Berg) prior to her marriage, pictured with friend Audrey (last name unknown), Round Mountain, Nevada, spring 1910.
0973 Shirley Ann Berg (Lofthouse) pictured in front of the bottle cellar constructed next to the family home by her father in Round Mountain, Nevada. The house is made of 2 layers of the bottles with their necks facing inward; mud was used as mortar. In later years a corrugated tin roof was placed over the shingles, shown here. Bottles did not go far below ground level. Photo taken ca. 1946.
0974 Community of Round Mountain, Nevada, as viewed from the vicinity of the Fairview Mine, ca. 1940.
0975 Fulton Little Kelsay and a female companion from New York who visited Kelsay in Nevada, prior to 1923.
0976 Third from left: Fulton Little Kelsay at a location of his ranch in north-central Nye County, Nevada. Man on far left may be Kelsay’s partner, Roscoe Vasser; others are unidentified. Prior to 1923.
0977 A restaurant specializing in hamburgers located on Main Street in Round Mountain, Nevada, 1949 and ’50. Amy Smith, the proprietor, installed a counter and several stools and an old jukebox.
0978 Getta Louise, daughter of Shirley Ann Lofthouse, and Getta’s daughter Melissa Rose pictured with unidentified friend, ca. 1987.
0979 Shirley Ann Lofthouse with Andre Douchane, general manager of the Round Mountain Gold Corporation operations, Round Mountain, Nevada, receiving a $200 check and a medallion in honor of 10 years of service with the mine.
0980 Vacated.
0981 Shirley Ann Berg Lofthouse, William Eugene Bert Berg, and Georgetta Berg Jakowatz, children of Lillian and Will Berg, ca. 1983.
0982 View of the Round Mountain Gold Corporation’s pit at Round Mountain, Nev., ca. 1984.
0983 Karl “Skook” and Arlene Berg, ca. 1987. The nickname “Skook” is reported to have been given to Berg by his father Will Berg, who, expecting the birth of a daughter, had no name for a boy and called him Skookum Jim, which in Alaska is said to mean, “Big, strong, healthy”.
0984 The Hotel, Round Mountain, Nevada, following a flood, August 12, 1931.
0985 Indian girl believed to be a Round Mountain, Nevada, resident named Topsy, 1912.
0986 Unidentified woman in a cabin in the vicinity of Round Mountain, Nevada, possibly around the Black Jack Mine, date unknown.
0987 A view of the bathroom of a house, Tonopah, Nevada, ca. 1959. man in photo unidentified.
0988 An unidentified lady friend of Fulton Little Kelsay, Round Mountain area prior to 1923.
0989 Richard Carver and daughter Marcy at Marcy’s wedding held in the school gymnasium, Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1985.
0990 Buildings at the Sunnyside Mine, Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1940.
0991 Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval and Georgetta “Getta” Berg Farrington Jakowatz, February 1985.
0992 Left to right: Gary Carver, Jean Carver Duhme; behind Jean Carver Duhme is her husband R.M. Duhme, Bertie Carver, Roger Berg, Ann Berg, Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval, Bobby Berg, Kenny Berg, at a gathering in recognition of Rene Zaval’s 25 years of service at Carver’s Station, Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1985.
0993 Buildings and mill located in Jefferson Canyon near Round Mountain, Nevada, 1940s.
0994 Judge William Beko and Shirley Ann Berg Lofthouse at the wedding of Marcy Carver, Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1985.
0995 The maintenance shop, Round Mountain Gold Corporation, Round Mountain, Nevada, October 1985.
0996 A flatbed truck – a 1941 Ford pickup—belonging to Karl ‘Skook” Berg, loaded and headed for a camping trip, Round Mountain, Nevada, 1969. The Shirley Ann Lofthouse family was fond of camping.
0997 Lillian Yeager Berg pictured with her firstborn, Dan, Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1915.
0998 Mill building believed to be located in Jefferson Canyon near Round Mountain, Nevada, date unknown.
0999 Lillian Yeager Berg pictured in front of her home in Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1920.
1000 Fulton Little Kelsay and patients at a sanatorium specializing in the treatment of disabilities arising from infantile paralysis, located in Missouri. Kelsay is pictured standing in the back row on the far right in a dark hat. Others pictured are unidentified; ca. 1920.
1001 Mother of Fulton Little Kelsay and her granddaughter Ione at a ranch located in north-central Nye County, Nevada. Date unknown, but probably around 1923.
1002 Residential structure located on the Kelsay ranch in north-central Nye County, Nev. Persons pictured are unidentified except for the man on the far right: Gard Kelsay, Fulton Little Kelsay’s brother, ca. 1923.
1003 Unidentified child pictured at what is believed to be the Kelsay Ranch located in north-central Nye County, Nevada, perhaps ca. 1920.
1004 A home located in what is believed to be the Kelsay Ranch area, north-central Nye County, Nevada, perhaps ca. 1923.
1005 Dianne Marie Lofthouse, firstborn to Shirley Ann Lofthouse, ca. 1953.
1006 Angie, Fulton Little Kelsay’s sister, photo perhaps taken in Tonopah, Nevada. Angie Kelsay was married to Joe French.
1007 Fulton Little Kelsay after suffering from infantile paralysis, December 7, 1920.
1008 Fulton Little Kelsay at a treatment facility in Missouri, April 21, 1921. (See #1000)
1009 A white truck belonging to the Will Berg family, Round Mountain, Nevada. Dan Berg is in the middle on top of the load of wood; Will Berg is probably on the right; the individual on the left is unidentified; perhaps ca. 1919.
1010 A picture of a mining operation at Round Mountain, Nevada. Individuals are unidentified but the women could be Lillian Berg and Katie Berg. Probably prior to 1920.
1011 A cabin located in the mountains in the vicinity of Round Mountain, Nevada. Exact site and date unknown. The photo is primarily of interest because of the method of construction employed.
1012 Lillian Yeager Berg pretending she is going to hit her aunt, Katie Rogers Berg, wife of Karl Berg, in a bit of horseplay. Date of photo is uncertain, but probably 1920s.
1013 Lillian Yeager Berg, an unidentified woman, and Lillian’s son, Dan, on the south side of the Berg home in Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1917.
1014 Lillian Yeager Berg pictured in the back yard of her home in Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1915.
1015 Fulton Little Kelsay pictured with unidentified woman at the facility in Missouri where he received treatment for infantile paralysis, ca. 1921.
1016 Fulton Little Kelsay pictured on the right with unidentified individual at the treatment facility in Missouri, ca. 1921.
1017 Fanny and Jessie, sisters of Will Berg, pictured in Los Angeles, California, undated.
1018 Left to right: William Berg, Lillian Yeager Berg, Fred Oliver (in back), Shirley Ann Berg Lofthouse; in front, Dick Williams (brother to Lillian Y. Berg), unidentified woman from New York. Round Mountain, Nevada, January 5, 1946.
1019 The Berg Ranch. A tank in the background was used to water Berg’s vegetable garden. Left to right, Jim Keller and Jim Berg. Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval’s oldest son. Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1950s.
1020 Will Berg pictured at the back door of the ranch house on the Berg Ranch, Round Mountain, Nevada, late 1940s.
1021 Heavy snows in the Smoky Valley, Nye County, Nevada, winter of 1936-37, looking south toward Tonopah. Under these conditions a trip to Tonopah took 12 to 15 hours.
1022 A cabin located in Round Mountain occupied by the Manley Family, undated but probably 1940s or earlier.
1023 A view of what is believed to be a mill located in Round Mountain, Nevada, undated.
1024 White truck belonging to Will Berg hauling pipe used in the construction of the Round Mountain town water system constructed by Berg, probably 1920s. Note the hard rubber tires on the truck and the chain drive.
1025 Hydraulic system used in placer mining, believed to be Round Mountain, Nevada, 1926.
1026 (None exists.)
1027 (None exists.)
1028 Main Street, Round Mountain, Nevada, probably late 1930s. Karl ‘Skook” Berg is pictured holding pipe. Looking up Main Street toward Mount Jefferson the Berg Mercantile is visible on the right. The Berg Mercantile sits where the firehouse currently (1990) site.
1029 A view of Stebbins and Round Mountain peaks, Round Mountain, Nevada, looking to the southeast, 1926.
1030 Tonopah, Nevada, view of the courthouse looking to the south, prior to the construction of the radar facility on top of Brougher Mountain, early 1950s.
1031 Will Berg pictured with his firstborn son, Dan, Round Mountain, Nev., 1915.
1032 Oldest children of Shirley Ann Berg Lofthouse, left Dianne Marie and Carol Ann. Girls’ dresses were made by Shirley Ann Lofthouse. Photo taken in East Ely, Nevada, ca. 1956.
1033 Round Mountain, Nevada, looking east toward Mount Jefferson. Many of the cabins on the hill belong to old bachelors. Ca. 1942.
1034 View of a mining operation believed to be located somewhere in central Nevada, although the exact location and date are unknown.
1035 Two miners and a tunnel; exact location, date, and identity of persons unknown.
1036 Building located in the vicinity of the Sunnyside Mine, Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1940.
1037 View of a man and an abandoned gallows frame, located in central Nevada. Exact date and location are unknown.
1038 A horsedrawn hay wagon and workers on Kelsay Ranch, north-central Nye County, Nevada. Fulton Little Kelsay is believed to be the man standing holding a pitchfork dressed in bib overalls. Photo is taken prior to 1923.
1039 House belonging to the Fred Stegmeyer family located near the foothills north of Round Mountain, Nevada, 1940s.
1040 Haying on the Fulton Little Kelsay ranch, north-central Nye County, Nevada, prior to 1923. Individuals in the photo are unidentified. Perhaps the same outfit as pictured in #1038.
1041 The Victor Mine and surface facilities, Tonopah, Nevada, 1926.
1042 On the back of this photo was written: “With some of my drilling crews, I’m second from the right at the collar of the New Gold Mine, the porphyry gold mine shaft in 1936-37.” Individuals are unidentified except for the man second from the right, who may be Steve Dittman.
1043 Two cowboys believed to be in the vicinity of the Stone Cabin Valley operation perhaps of Fulton Little Kelsay’s Ranch, north-central Nye County, Nevada. Rider in foreground may be Buster Fillipolini. Riders appear to be mounted on mules. Date Unknown.
1044 Angie French, sister to Fulton Little Kelsay, pictured with her son, perhaps in Tonopah, Nevada, ca. 1923.
1045 Karl “Skook” Berg pictured home on furlough from the armed services in military uniform in front of his uncle Karl W. Berg’s garage, Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1943.
1046 Shirley Ann Berg (Lofthouse) pictured with her brother’s horse Comanche on the Berg Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, 1948.
1047 Post Office, Main street, Round Mountain, Nevada, 1948. The postmistress, Mrs. Michels, ran the post office and lived in back of the post office. The switchboard for local telephones was also located in the building.
1048 Grandma Kelsay, mother of Fulton Little Kelsay, pictured on the Berg Ranch, Round Mountain, Nevada, June 14, 1926. Grandma Kelsay smoked a corncob pipe.
1049 Lillian Yeager Berg pictured in Round Mountain, Nevada, prior to 1920. Stebbins Mountain is visible in the background.
1050 A Packard automobile belonging to Fulton Little Kelsay. Probably the Berg Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, probably late 1930s.
1051 Jessie and Fanny, sisters to Will Berg, pictured in Los Angeles, California, with their rooftop garden just off Sunset Boulevard. Date unknown, but perhaps 1940s.
1052 Shirley Ann Berg (Lofthouse), 1933.
1053 A truck parked at the Stegmeyer home located just north of Round Mountain, Nevada, probably 1940s.
1054 Members of the Will Berg extended family. Left to right: Dan Thomas, Katie Berg, unidentified, Lucille Berg, Will Berg, Fanny Berg, Karl Berg, John Berg, man with head turned in back below gas pump is unidentified. Photo taken in front of John Berg’s garage, Round Mountain, Nevada, December 5, 1936.
1055 Kate Logan and her brother Roy pictured in front of a house on the Berg Ranch, prior to the Bergs’ purchase of the ranch in 1915. Kate Logan married Ray Darrough, one of the Darrough twins. Smoky Valley, Nye County, Nevada.
1056 Children of Shirley Ann Berg Lofthouse. On the left Getta Louise and on the right Johnnie Irene in the parking lot of the Echo Bay offices in Reno, Nevada, 1988.
1057 On the top of Round Mountain, Nevada, 1915. Left to right: Karl Berg; Katie Rogers Berg, wife of Karl; Lillian Yeager Berg; a woman named Allie who is not otherwise identified.
1058 An Indian woman named Mayme, a resident of Round Mountain, Nevada, prior to 1932. Mayme lived in a stone house located on the slopes of Round Mountain.
1059 Possibly the Sunnyside Mill, Round Mountain, Nevada, perhaps late 19540s.
1060 First picture taken of Lillian Gladys Yeager Berg and William Henry Berg following their marriage, believed to be taken in Shoshone Canyon near Round Mountain, Nevada, 1914.
1061 A portrait of Lillian Gladys Yeager Berg and William Henry Berg, ca. 1915, Round Mountain, Nevada.
1062 At one time William H. Berg operated a small dairy in Round Mountain, Nevada. He delivered milk to the homes in the community in 5-galloncans and gave each family the amount of milk they desired from the can. Here Berg is delivering milk on a sled during the winter, ca. 1925.
1063 A placer operation, Round Mountain, Nevada, possibly late 1930s. The miners are unidentified.
1064 Postcard of Tonopah, Nevada, postmarked October 7, 1912. The postcard is addressed to Mrs. I.M. Williams, Round Mountain, Nevada. The message on the postcard in Lillian Yeager Berg’s handwriting reads: “Arrived in Tonopah all right last evening. Expect to go to Goldfield this afternoon. Did Auntie May come?”
1065 Buildings during the winter in Round Mountain, Nevada. Date unknown.
1066 Looking up Main Street, Tonopah, Nevada, probably 1930s.
1067 Berg clan children, Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1954. Left to right: Kenny Berg, Jim Berg, Roger Berg, stepson of Dick Williams (in plaid shirt), unknown, Dianne Lofthouse, Doran Berg.
1068 Office building for Nevada Porphyry, Round Mountain, Nevada, 1951. Eddie Critchfield, on the left a man by the name of Sommerindyke, Shirley Ann Berg Lofthouse in the middle.
1069 Dan Berg in front of the Berg home and young Berg’s uncle, Dan Thomas, on the front porch. Thomas helped Will Berg finish the interior of the home. Thomas was married to Will Berg’s sister Georgetta. Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1917.
1070 Lillian Gladys Yeager Berg on a horse-drawn sled, Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1924.
1071 John Berg’s garage, Round Mountain, Nevada, late 1940s.
1072 In the background is a stage truck driven by Pete Beko, father of Judge William Beko. The stage serviced Tonopah, Manhattan, and Round Mountain. In the foreground is Dorothy Darrough, granddaughter to Laura Darrough. Round Mountain, Nevada, the late 1940s.
1073 Getting ready for the prom are Jeannie Hugh, Dianne Lofthouse, Cynthia Kielhack, and Carol Lofthouse, 1968.
1074 “All Dressed Up With Somewhere to Go:--The same girls pictured in photo number 1073 after a remarkable transformation, all ready for the prom, 1968. Some of the dresses pictured here were made by Shirley Ann Lofthouse.
1075 Left to right: Arlene Berg, Karl “Skook” Berg, Norman “Curly” Coombs, at a Berg family reunion, Round Mountain, Nevada, May 1988.
1076 Pictured here are Grace Wolgemuth, an aunt of Lillian Yeager Berg; Lucille Berg, only child of John and Blanche Berg; and unidentified friend from Fallon, Nevada. Photo taken May 1988.
1077 Grandma Berg, mother of Will Berg, date unknown, possibly the early 1900s.
1078 A garage belonging to John Berg, Round Mountain, late 1940s.
1079 A Buick automobile pictured in front of John Berg’s garage, Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1946.
1080 Lillian Gladys Yeager Berg and husband Will Berg in the living room of their new home, Round Mountain, Nevada, late 1914 or early 1915. (More info. About the home on photo board.)
1081 Students from the Round Mountain School, ca. 1939. Teacher Lillian Berg is visible on the far left in the back row. Third from the left, back row is Midge Mason; 6th from left in the white shirt is George Vucanovich, husband to U.S. Representative Barbara Vucanovich; second row left to right are Ruth Manley; fourth, Shirley Ann Lofthouse; fifth, Connie Moore. The remainder of the children are unidentified.
1082 Wranglers in the Stone Cabin-Little Fish Valley area, prior to 1943. Left to right: Fulton Little Kelsay, Roscoe Vasser, probably Joe French, Buster Fillipolini.
1083 Aerial view of the Round Mountain Gold Company’s mining operation, Round Mountain, Nevada, mid-1980s. The community of Round Mountain is visible in the upper left center. The remains of Stebbins Peak can be seen on the left and Round Mountain on the right. The pit operation is visible in front of Round Mountain and Stebbins peaks. The heap leaching pads are visible as a dark wide line to the lower left of center. Looking east, Jefferson Canyon is visible in the upper center part of the pictures.
1084 Workers at the Indian Mine Round Mountain, Nevada, 1905.
1085 Sunnyside Mill, Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1905-06.
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Berg (Round Mountain)
1086 Round Mountain, Nevada, November 27, 1909.
1087 Home constructed by Will Berg in Round Mountain, Nevada, 1915.
1088 Thomas, Georgetta, and Will Berg, taking a ride in a Travelair biplane piloted by Garland Lincoln and stunt pilot Walter “Suicide Slim” Cahill, Round Mountain, Nevada, June 25, 1936. Lincoln and Cahill had flown the plane to Round Mountain from Los Angeles, California, to perform stunts.
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Wilson (Miscellaneous Nye County)
1089 Robert “Bob” Wilson pictured in a canyon in the San Bernardino area, California, in 1933 at 18 years of age.
1090 Robert “Bob” Wilson, pictured running his placer mill at Ophir Canyon, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1974. Three thousand tons of tungsten ore from Ophir Canyon were run through the mill.
1091 Left to right: Sue Popplman, Robert G. McCracken, Robert “Bob” Wilson, Ophir Canyon, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1974. Part of Bob Wilson’s placer mill is visible in the background.
1092 Robert ‘Bob” Wilson operating his triple-drum, slusher-feeding system on his placer plant located in Ophir Canyon, Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada, 1974.
1093 The Bobbie Number 4 incline shaft located in Ophir Canyon, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, ca. 1975. Lee Early worked the property around 1953.
1094 Placer mill belonging to Robert “Bob” Wilson, located in Round Mountain, Nevada, 1973. At that time Wilson had a lease on placer ground owned by the Nevada Porphyry Company, currently (1990) the site of the giant operation belonging to the Round Mountain Gold Company.
1095 A view of part of Robert “Bob” Wilson’s placer plant in Ophir Canyon, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, ca. 1974. The canvas covered structure was a darkened area for sorting scheelite with a black light during daylight hours.
1096 A trammel screen, part of the placer mill belonging to Robert “Bob” Wilson located in Ophir Canyon, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1975. The trammel is part of Wilson’s placer milling operation.
1097
Another view of Robert “Bob” Wilson’s placer mining plant, located in Ophir Canyon, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1975. As of 1990, the plant is still located at that site.
1098 In addition to his placer plant in Ophir Canyon, Robert “Bob” Wilson also had a hard-rock mill at the location. This picture shows the crusher and the crusher’s flywheel, powered by a Model-A Ford engine. The ore bin was located above the crusher and was fed by a Ford tractor. Even in 1990, the 1930 Model-A Ford engine seldom needs repairs. The engine is one of three Model-A engines owned by Bob Wilson. Photo ca. 1974.
1099 Another view of Robert “Bob” Wilson’s placer mining plant located in Ophir Canyon, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, 1975.
1100 A pilot cyanide plant belonging to Robert “Bob” Wilson located at his mill site at Ophir Canyon, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, ca. 1980.
1101 The portal of the Annex No. 1 tunnel located at Robert “Bob” Wilson’s South Twin Mine, located in South Twin Canyon, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada. The Annex No. 1 tunnel goes in 590 feet to the toe of a raise, leading to Tunnel No. 2 (1990). The tunnel pictured here is located at approximately 7,600 feet elevation and is reported to be a very good gold and silver property. Wilson has engaged in a lengthy David-and-Goliath struggle with several different agencies of the federal government regarding his right to reasonably access and operate his South Twin mining property.
1102 Jimmy Williams packing ore out of the Toiyabe Mountains for Robert “Bob” Wilson, ca. 1986.
1103 Part of the road accessing Robert ‘Bob” Wilson’s South Twin Mine located in South Twin Canyon, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, August 1987. In 1983 about 4,000 feet of the road were damaged from runoff of heavy snow pack. Wilson’s persistence in fighting for his right to repair the road accessing his mining property evokes memories of earlier Nye County residents whose persistence and determination made possible the settling of an untamed environment occupied only by Native Americans.
1104 A snow shot of equipment located at the grounds of Robert “Bob” Wilson’s home in Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1982.
1105 Wheel pulley from the Sunnyside Mill was torn down by Robert “Bob” Wilson in the fall of 1978. The wheel pictured here was sold to Raymond Popplman, Boulder City, Nevada. The wheel and other materials from the Sunnyside Mill were incorporated into the home that Popplman built in Boulder City.
1106 Stamp mill timbers incorporated into the home belonging to Raymond Popplman, Boulder City, Nevada. Timbers and fastenings are from the Sunnyside Mill, Round Mountain, Nevada, 1978.
1107 View of the dredge at Manhattan, Nevada, ca. 1938. The dredge began at the lower end of the canyon at Jamestown and worked its way up to the vicinity of the power station, the big cement-cast substation building at Manhattan. Water for the dredge was obtained from a pipeline which crossed the Smoky Valley from Peavine Creek. The dredge had a 90-foot bucket line on it and was anchored with 2 winches to a deadman. The dredge—when dredging was finished at Round Mountain—was disassembled and moved to Battle Mountain, Nevada. The make is believed to be a Yuba dredge. The man in the white shirt is Louis Cirac, long-time Nye County resident and father to Smoky Valley resident Don Cirac.
1108 A view of the dredge at Manhattan, Nevada, ca. 1938.
1109 A view of the dredge at Manhattan, Nevada, ca. 1938. In the center of the dredge the screw elevator can be seen. It brought the placer material from the bucket elevator on board the dredge where it was processed. It is said that it took 100 workers to assemble the dredge. The dredge could process between 500 and 1,000 tons of gravel per hour.
1110 A photograph of the Manhattan, Nevada, dredge being assembled, late 1930s.
1111 A view of the Manhattan dredge, Manhattan, Nevada, probably late 1930s. On the right-hand side of the picture can be seen the pond on which the dredge floated.
1112 Another view of the dredge, Manhattan, Nevada. The hopper on the starboard side of the dredge is visible…(More info. About how the dredge functions can be found on the photo board.) This photo dates from the late 1930s.
1113 Robert “Bob” Wilson repairing a bulldozer, Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1965.
1114 Robert ‘Bob” Wilson’s Swedish grandfather at the age of 18. He immigrated to the United States at the age of 18, worked for a while in Colorado as a steam engineer, and eventually ended up in Spokane, Washington, where he married and raised a family. Bob Wilson’s father, Gustavus Edward Wilson, was the oldest son of the gentleman pictured here. Bob Wilson’s grandfather was one of several investors who purchased a mine and mill in Goldfield, Nevada, in 1906, only to find that another company had previously come in and taken out the gold.
1115 Alice and Robert “Bob” Wilson, ca. 1985.
1116 A frame, bed, and motor of a 1912 Model-T Ford that once belonged to Julius Gainer, who owned and operated the South Twin Mine in the 1920s, located in South Twin Canyon, Toiyabe Mtns., Nye County, Nev. Gainer constructed a mill and ran 3,000 feet of mine tunnel on the property. He employed four men. Gainer modified the Model-T pickup shown here to haul ore down the South Twin Canyon. Al Bradshaw, a Tonopah resident, remembered riding up and down the canyon as a 10-year old child with Julius Gainer on the Model-T.
1117 Round Mountain resident Robert “Bob” Wilson’s grandfather and grandmother, George Hiram Gates and his wife, Annie. They came from North Dakota and settled in Los Molinas, California. Ca. 1915.
1118 Robert “Bob” Wilson, born November 11, 1914. This picture was taken at Rockford, Washington, about 30 or 30 miles from Spokane.
1119 Alice Pratt Cirac Wilson, wife of Robert “Bob” Wilson, pictured in Tuolumne, California, about 1923.
1120 Ruins of part of a milling operation, Toiyabe Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, ca. 1985.
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Zaval (Smoky Valley and Round Mountain)
1121 Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval at about 19 years of age, ca. 1933.
1122 School at the R.O. Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1921. Left to right: Genevieve Mealman, Ms. Woodhouse (teacher), Eva Johnson (Indian girl), Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval, Pete Rogers, Harvey Mealman.
1123 Millett Store, Millett Ranch, Millett, Nevada. Al Millett operated the store years ago at Millett on the Millett Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1920.
1124 Berg house on the Berg Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada. House burned down in 1952. Picture probably taken 1920s.
1125 Left to right: Ted Logan, Grandma Rogers (grandmother to Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval), Mrs. Logan, Aunt Emma Rogers (in front), Rene (as a child), Ted Logan. The Logans lived on the Berg Ranch for many years and were friends of Rene’s parents. Picture taken at the R.O. Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1921.
1126 Eva Johnson, Smoky Valley Indian resident who attended school with Irene ‘Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval at the R.O. Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada. Johnson is pictured with her baby in the 1930s.
1127 Butch Mancuran, who rode for the Rogers on the R.O. Ranch for many years. When the Rogers moved to the Wine Glass Ranch, Mancuran worked there for some time before he passed away. Picture taken in Smoky Valley, Nevada, in the ‘20s.
1128 Manhattan, Nevada. Date unknown.
1129 Emma Rogers and Katie Rogers Berg, aunts of Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval. Emma never married. Photo taken at the R.O. Ranch, Round Mountain, Nevada, between 1910 and 1920.
1130 Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval’s maternal grandmother Catherine Anderson when she was very young. She was a resident of Belmont, Nevada. Picture taken in Belmont prior to 1900.
1131 Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval’s mother’s cousins, John and Joe McCann, who were raised in Belmont, Nevada. Date and location unknown.
1132 Irene ‘Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval’s great-uncle Alec Anderson. Picture taken in Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1906, where Anderson lived for a time.
1133 Right: Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval, and Vera (last name unknown) when they worked as waitresses at the Round Mountain boardinghouse, Nevada, 1930s.
1134 Norman “Curly” Coombs and Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval on a picnic on the far side of Round Mountain, Nevada, ca. 1933.
1135 Round Mountain, Nevada, looking west, ca. 1910.
1135a Hupmobile touring car belonging to the Rogers family, Round Mountain, Nevada.
1136 Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval and her horse Trump at the Wine Glass Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1932.
1137 Round Mountain, Nevada, July 1, 1906.
1138 The school and students at the R.O. Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada. Left to right: Pete Rogers, Ms. Woodhouse (teacher), Ida Mike, Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval, Arlene (last name unknown) in front of Rene, Eva Johnson in the white dress, Ada Mike, Ruth Mike. Late 1920s.
1139 A postcard featuring the Belmont Mine, Tonopah, Nevada, postmarked June 5, 1912.
1140 Front porch of the Berg brothers’ store in Round Mountain, Nevada. They called it the General Store. The store was located on the corner diagonally across from the present (1990) Palace Club where the Round Mountain firehouse is situated. Will Berg is second from the right. Prior to 1915.
1141 Another picture of the Berg brothers’ General store. Same people as #1140. Prior to 1915.
1142 The school up at the R.O. Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, June 6, 1927. Left to right: Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval, Ms. Woodhouse (teacher), Eva Johnson, and Pete Rogers.
1143 Grace Anderson Rogers, mother of Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval, at the R.O. Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1922.
1144 Grace Anderson Rogers, born in Belmont, Nevada, ca. 1922.
1145 Haying t the R.O. Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, in 1924. Grace Anderson Rogers and Benjamin Rogers, Irene ‘Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval’s parents, are pictured.
1146 Haying at the R.O. Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, ca. 1920.
1147 Ben Anderson, Joe McCann, and Alec Anderson between 1910 and 1920. They all wore chaps. Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval’s dad wore chaps all the time. In this picture, the chaps have black hair on them. Rene said, ‘Most all the buckaroos wore chaps a long time ago. They don’t wear those hair chaps anymore.”
1148 Freight wagons coming into the Millett Ranch, Millett, Nevada, undated.
1149 Postcard featuring Round Mountain. It’s addressed to Belmont, Nevada, to Catherine Anderson, Irene “Rene” Berg Zaval’s grandmother. Message reads: “happy New Year to you and hubby from the Foleys and Mrs. Fox”. Postmarked Round Mountain, Nevada, December 29, 1917.
1150 Ben Rogers (Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval’s father) and Pete Rogers (her brother) on the Wine Glass Ranch, Smoky Valley, Nevada, February 4, 1930.
1151 Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval’s grandmother and grandfather, Catherine and Charlie Anderson. Grace Anderson Rogers is the little girl on the right and Mary Anderson is on the left. Rene Rogers’ mother (Grace Anderson) had blonde hair and blue eyes. Belmont, Nevada, ca. 1901.
1152 Grandma Catherine Anderson (in the black dress) with some of her children. Left to right: Ethel, Mary, Edie, Nellie, Lottie, Alvin. Note the high-button shoes; girls are wearing long underwear. Belmont, Nevada, ca. 1915.
1153 Catherine McCann Anderson ca. 1925 or 1930.
1154 Dan Berg, husband of Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval and father of her children. Ca. 1952.
1155 Dan and Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval, when they were living in Round Mountain, Nevada, and operating the store thee. Picture taken ca. 1940 on the front step of their home.
1156 Portrait of Grace Anderson Rogers and Ben Rogers, mother and father of Pete Rogers and Irene “Rene” Rogers Berg Zaval, 1916.