Reno Trip - February 2003

Trip to Reno, via Silver Peak
Nevada, February 2003
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	We drove from San Diego to Reno via Silver Peak, Nevada. See route map. This photo is us resting on California Highway 168 near the summit of Gilbert Pass, California, in the White Mountains, looking southwest toward Deep Springs Valley, February 2003.
	Do not exceed 25 miles per hour on U.S. Highway 95 through Tonopah, Nevada. Looking at the Post Office from the balcony of the Jim Butler Motel.
	A shuttered hotel in downtown Tonopah.
	Sherry at the Jim Butler Motel. (The historic Mizpah Hotel behind out motel, has been shuttered as a result of the depressed economy in this part of the state.)
	Marty begins to descend the stairs from our motel room. Mine workings are visible on the hill behind the hotel.
	Marty, Sherry, and Dave at the historic site of Blair, near Silver Peak, Nevada.
	"BLAIR, Developed by Accident" "Mining fever in the Tonopah boom reached out in all directions and revived many dormant mining towns. Land speculators at near-by Silver Peak bought up the land in that area and jacked the land prices so high that the 100-stamp mill planned at Silver Peak was built 1 1/2 miles west of here to become the hub of Blair. "The Pittsburg-Silver peak Gold Mining Company built the 17 1/2 mile Silver Peak Railroad running north in 1906 and the big mill (Nevada's largest in its day) in 1907. "The remnants of stone buildings and mill foundations are the only remains of a once thriving, but short-lived mining town. By 1920, Blair was all but deserted."
	Marty and Sherry at the historic site of Blair. "The Crater" is a cinder cone in the distance to the left of Marty.
	View to the north of the Nevada mining town of Silver Peak.
	Dave, at the crossroads in the center of Silver Peak, Nevada.
	"Silver Peak" "Lida via Railroad Pass 29" "Tonopah via Alkali 37" "Dyer via Coyote Pass 24" "Goldfield via Alkali 31" "Tonopah via Hwy 265 56" "Alkali Hot Springs 19"
	Marty tries to stay warm in Silver Peak. Chemetall Foote Corp. (lithium operation) office in background.

- Created 2/19/03, revised 3/1/03

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