Gold

[shearer18]

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[ximmy]

Wtf?

[Jewboo]

Wtf?

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[monty]

This old thread did not go anywhere. I will add something to it.

In 1952 my father bought the Peavine Ranch in Big Smoky Valley Nevada. He didn’t buy the grazing rights so the only cattle we could own were what the meadows on the ranch would support. He had about a 100 head of sheep and a captive market for the lambs. We butchered 2 or three lambs a week and sold them to the local grocery stores. When the hog market was good he had as many as 40 hogs. When it went down he kept 4.

I plowed and harrowed and raked alfalfa hay with a Farmall MD tractor. I mowed alfalfa with a Farmall H tractor.

We had a Miniapolis-Moline hay baler. My younger brother pulled the baler and a wagon behind with the Farmall M tractor.
I stacked the bales on one wagon while my father unloaded the other wagon onto the haystack.

My mother fed all the hired hands plus her family so the dinner table was generally 8 to ten of us at meal time.

Around the table many stories were told. In the early days of Nevada Statehood Belmont was the county seat of Nye County.

The story goes that the rancher’s wife would bring out a lard pail of gold coins and pay the hired hands once a month. One year at election time all the men left Peavine Ranch to go to Belmont to vote. Women did not have the right to vote so Mrs. Compton was left alone on the ranch. When the men returned from Belmont they found the barn had caught fire. Evidently Mrs. Compton attempted to open the stalls and let the horses out and was trampled to death by the frightened horses. The lard pail of gold money was nowhere to be found.


In the late 1990s the son of neighboring rancher was digging a ditch on the RO ranch in Big Smoky Valley with a backhoe. When he raised the bucket and dumped it there was a rusty tin full of gold coins.

I do not know who ended up with the gold but I believe it is the gold stolen from Mrs. Compton on the Peavine Ranch.

Edit: In 1958 Morison-Knudsen had a contract at Round Mountain Gold. The county ran a school bus from Round Mountain to Tonopah fo the high school students.

My brother and I milked cows before breakfast then after breakfast rode the school bus 45 miles to school. we didn't change our boots so in wet weather they soaked up the odor from cow manure in the corral. My classmates weren't real happy about the aroma in the classroom on stormy days.