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Round Hole is [[Pyramid Lake]], on the road now followed | Round Hole is [[Pyramid Lake]], on the road now followed | ||
by the stage, passing through [[Pyramid|Pyramid City]], | by the stage, passing through [[Pyramid|Pyramid City]], | ||
and Jonesville, which lie on the line between Washoe | and [[Jonesville]], which lie on the line between Washoe | ||
and Roop Counties."<ref>Myron Angel, David F. Myrick, "[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.32106000657830 Reproduction of Thompson and West's History of Nevada, 1881,]" p. 565, (1881, 1958).</ref> | and Roop Counties."<ref>Myron Angel, David F. Myrick, "[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.32106000657830 Reproduction of Thompson and West's History of Nevada, 1881,]" p. 565, (1881, 1958).</ref> | ||
Revision as of 06:13, 11 February 2015
Round Hole is a spring on the west side of the Smoke Creek Desert.
hompson and West (1881) state "Eight miles south of Murphy's is Sheep Head, a station in the desert on the stage road. A spring of water is found here, the only good water in the desert. This stretch of inhospitable land is in some places forty miles wide, and is surrounded by a scant growth of sage-brush and grease wood, while for miles there is no vegetation whatever. Alkali, salt, borax and gypsum are the leading components of the soil, rendering a trip across its arid waste extremely unpleasant. Six miles south of Sheep Head is a spring called Buck, or Bull, Spring, and six miles farther south is Rotten Egg Spring, a name peculiarly appropriate, so extremely disagreeable is the water both to the smell and taste. Round Hole, or Deep Hole, Spring lies six miles more to the south, and the water, although not very pleasant is used for drinking purposes. It is on the above route that the stage road runs, and sixteen miles southeast of Round Hole is Pyramid Lake, on the road now followed by the stage, passing through Pyramid City, and Jonesville, which lie on the line between Washoe and Roop Counties."[1]
References
- ↑ Myron Angel, David F. Myrick, "Reproduction of Thompson and West's History of Nevada, 1881," p. 565, (1881, 1958).
External Resources
- GNIS Round Hole (historical)
- Citation: " 'Nevada': National Map Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, no date (map states it uses data from the 1920 census, and the acquisition data by the Nevada Historical Society was 1923). Full color map showing railroads, mountains, roads, communities, and springs, at scale of 1 inch=11 miles."
- GNIS Round Hole Spring