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« on: June 13, 2010, 06:56:19 am »
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Gold Point is one of Nevada's best ghost towns.

The town was first settled by ranchers and a few miners during the 1880s. The small camp of lime Point was formed a few hundred yards west of the present day town, at an outcropping of limestone.

When new discoveries of gold and silver established the major mining towns of Tonopah and Goldfield, Nevada in the early 1900s, a flood of prospectors returned to Lime Point. In 1902 silver was discovered in the area, and in no time the old camp was revived and renamed Hornsilver for a particularly rich source of silver ore.

In 1905, the Great Western Mine Company began operations about a half mile southeast of Hornsilver and discovered a rich silver vein which brought a stampede of miners back to the camp. In addition to the rich silver ore, gold was also mined in small quantities. By 1908, the tent homes turned into more permanent wooden structures and the camp became a town.

In May, 1908 the Hornsilver Herald began publication and the following week a post office was established. Before long the residents organized a Chamber of Commerce and numerous businesses sprouted up, including as many as 13 saloons. As deep ore bodies were extensively developed, the town peaked at a population of around 1,000 with over 225 wood-framed buildings, tents and shacks throughout the Town.

The town?s original founders did not find the boom town they had hoped for, as this strike also proved to be short-lived. In 1909. Before long, most of its businesses closed and its residents again moved on.

In 1927, a miner by the name of J.W. Dunfee went down the mine and made an even better discovery ? gold. Within a few years, more gold than silver was being mined and the town?s name was changed to Gold Point. It was after this discovery that Gold Point enjoyed its longest period of success, at a time that the rest of America was suffering from depression.

However, when World War II began, the government ordered all gold mines to shut down as nonessential to the war effort. Mining at Gold Point stopped, and once again most of its residents drifted away or went off to war.

Some questions comes to mind I wonder if the old tailings have been detected with a metal detector and most of all, is there still gold deposits still there to be mined?

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« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2010, 09:32:13 pm »
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That's one picturesque town.

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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2010, 10:20:34 pm »
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Looks like folks are still living there. Lotta these old ghost towns have turned into vacation properties.

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« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2010, 12:52:51 am »
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 this sounds like a good old goldn ghost town. Any reports of it being reworked after ww2.
 Old tailings could be a good prospect. I was surprised to it being closed on account of the war.

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« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2010, 03:10:31 am »
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Goldnboy in answer to your question? Not that I am aware of. But there is no better knowledge than the knowledge by the locals. Anyone in Nevada knows the history of this ghost town?

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this sounds like a good old goldn ghost town. Any reports of it being reworked after ww2.
 Old tailings could be a good prospect. I was surprised to it being closed on account of the war.


The same federal order did in the town of Oatman until tourists looking for the old Rt 66 breathed new life into it.   At least one of the residence of Oatman at the time didn't like the government stepping in and shutting things down and let his feeling be known by painting a "don't tread on me" sign on the side of one of the buildings.

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« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2010, 06:10:53 am »
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These residents of ghost towns show show a dogged determination to save these towns, that has to be admired. If it wasn't for these die hard individuals many abandoned towns would experienced the bulldozer.

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« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2010, 10:58:04 am »
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Nevada use to be a TH'ers dream.  Back in the 60's and 70's ghost towns were still standing and all over the place.  I use to go into the old saloons and tables and chairs were still there with pictures hanging on the wall sometimes.  We didn't bother taking these things because the town didn't belong us but to the miners and cowboys that still lived close by.  They would sometimes have get togethers and horse races down the main s
opps I hit the wrong button on this PC.  Anyway I found a lot of old tokens and old coins using my metal detector and sometimes by digging and sifting.  Old bottles and relics were pretty easy to find and the outhouses hadn't been dug either.  It was fun to camp right on main street and folks were friendly in those days.  But between the bottle diggers and the hippies things started changing fast.  People in their greed started digging up the foundations of the old buildings and tearing down the old cabins and houses looking for loot.  Then the price of Gold went up in the 80's I think it was and big mining companies came in and took over.  Of course legally they only had claim to their piece of land close to the ghost town but when no one was looking they bulldozed the town into nothing to keep people out of their mining area.  But there was still some ghost towns that were still standing so I just went there.  Then the price of Gold shot up again  and again.  Lots of BIG trucks running here and there and they didn't give you the right of way, because they thought they owned the place.  Pretty soon No Trespassing signs were to be seen and then the state of Nevada historical signs on the highways began to disappear too.  Us THer's were outnumbered and outgunned because the state of NV was on the mining company's side because mining in NV is the second biggest money maker for the fat cats that rule in our name.  More money was to be made by being a fat cat than swinging a metal detector but I couldn't become one of them.  So between the big mining companies, bottle diggers, hippies, used brick market and city slickers collecting souveneers there isn't much left.  Now days it almost takes a motorized hang glider to fly over the desert and look for squares and straight lines on the ground, to find good metal detecting places.  The good ole days are over.

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Hello Rattlesnake Joe

Sadly that is happening in many places. What is happening in Australia is local councils are closing off areas under the pretense of litigation laws.

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« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2010, 11:13:26 pm »
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hardluck, this is the way "they" have of CONTROLLING us.  They are pushing for One World Government, the same crap the Nazi's tried to pull on us.  But now it looks like their ducks are in order and we are about to go the way of the Doe-doe birds.  There is no one to stand up to these evil creeps, so it is just a matter of time before they round us up and ship us off to death camps.  They will cause the US dollar to collapse, then they will introduce a new form of currency called the Amero.  The people of this country will not stand for this Nazi crap and will revolt.  While we are in revolution against the heavy hand of the federal government, five different foreign armies will invade our country and we will lose the war.  This is what is going to happen soon.

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