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GOLD FOR LESS THAN

$5,000 AN OUNCE

BY CHUCK N. BAKER
W ell, that’s what
gold is going for
these days. But if
you can’t afford to
buy any just now,
you can fantasize owning a carload
by visiting Gold Point, a potential
weekend getaway north of our fair
city. The visit will cost you less than
$5,000. It’s 175 miles north of Las
Vegas off SR 266. Here’s a bit of
history about the ghost town that is
still very much alive.

This information was culled from
several government and private that the ore had to be shipped to and sagebrush, DO BELONG
websites about Gold Point. I’ve never nearby Lida for milling. The town of TO SOMEONE. Please take only
been there, so I can’t vouch for it, but Lida had been established a few years photographs and leave only
earlier in 1872 and was equipped
footprints. Please enjoy visiting your
it all seems reasonable.
with several of the dearly needed heritage!
variety stores and shops. Along with
No one is sure what happened to livery and feed stables, there was NO SPEEDING IN TOWN. The speed
those early settlers of 130 years ago even a post office. The huge costs of limit is 15 MPH in the town area.
who mined silver ore in the town shipping the ore to Lida and milling it, Private areas are off-limits so please
called Lime Point back then. What coupled with the remoteness to any stay on the roads if walking around.
is known is that supplies and water railroads, led to virtual abandonment
were scarce. This was a very desolate of operations and the town of Lime Places to stay: THE SENATOR WILEY
area in those days. The only major Point in 1882. HOME: A two-bedroom house with
supply town was about 250 miles Living Room, Dining Room, Full Bath
north at a town called Unionville, But progress changed things once With Tub, Shower, Toilet & Sink,
a major mining town northeast of again. In 1927 a miner by the name Refrigerator, Microwave and Coffee
present day Lovelock. of J.W. Dunfee went down the mine Maker (No cooking in Cabin). THE
to look around and came up with a RADKIE HOUSE: A two-Bedroom
At that time, the cost of freight was large gold discovery. Within a few House with Living Room, Dining
over $100 a ton and delivered by years, more gold than silver was Room, Full Bath With Tub, Shower,
horse drawn wagons. Water was being mined. To induce more growth Toilet & Sink, Refrigerator, Microwave
conveniently closer, being only a and encourage investments, the and Coffee Maker (No cooking in
day’s ride by horse and wagon, in name of the old camp was changed Cabin).
Lida Valley, 12 miles northwest. to its present day name of Gold Point.
DO YOU WANT TO DO YOUR
Around 1880, better silver Remember today when visiting OWN SPECIAL EVENT AT GOLD
outcroppings were discovered and Gold Point, that all of the buildings, POINT? Weddings, family reunions,
mining resumed, with the precious regardless of condition, and groups of friends, whatever.
metal selling at almost $1.00 per the artifacts, even the ones left For more information email
ounce. The scarcity of water meant scattered around and in the cactus goldpointghosttown@gmail.com.