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Date Posted: 01:42:25 12/11/03 Thu
Author: jim straight
Subject: Re: Cold--- I can "one-upsmanship with a cold story--
In reply to: Chris Ralph 's message, "Re: Cold--- try Ely, Ruth, or Kimberly." on 18:58:55 12/10/03 Wed

Chris--- you are right about Reno/sparks area being colder then here in warm sunny California. The land of milk and honey.

Eastern Nevada: The Summer of 1936 was hot. The winter of 1937 terribly cold and lots of snow. Our family car was a 1927 Chrysler "50." It completely disappeared in a snow drift in front of the house, most all residents walked. The "Great Depression" was still going and copper mines working a limited sched. However, silver/gold mining going strong and the big companies had all of their small mines leased out and hanging on with "royalties."

In Ely-Elko area thousands of sheep/cattle perished. Efforts were made to bring food to the stock via roadgraders; not very good.

The winter of 1949 was another bad one. However, the Nevada national guard responded with operation Haylift and the stock loss was not too bad. On Murry St. in Ely due to snow drift some residents went in and out their second story window; or did a lot of digging. I believe about 1952 a train--- Fast passenger Diesel passenger 101 was stranded for days in the Sierras. Finally a steam (Mallory) was able
to pull it out.

In the winter of 1954 I worked at the crusher in McGill. When an ore car was tipped up-side-down at the tipper it would not dump out. We needed to run burner oil torches along the side of the car to thaw the muck out enough so it would drop into the grizzly for crushers.

Each ore car contained 100-tons. I thought this was "huge."
The mill handled about 19,000 TPD but Kennecott management
was trying to push 22,000 through it. At this time copper sold for about 24 cents and it was costing Kennecott about 26. By a "speedup" we were hoping to keep going. Unfortunately the ball mills couldn't handle it. Neither could the Oliver thickners.

Today, the mill is gone. The smelter stacks blown to ground and no more Kennecott Copper or Consolidated Copper, (Nevada Mines Division). Just old memories and photos of what was once an up and coming "camp." Pat Nixon was born in
East Ely about 1912(?) Her dad worked for the railroad.

Oh by the way, did you attend MSM Banquet for Peter Vardy's award at the school a couple of months ago? (Just checking with this question to see if you are still with me)

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