Jungo

(surveying the) Desert Area near Jungo Nevada 1931

In 1888, it was reported that Jungo Point was a stage stop on a mail route between Winnemucca and "Denio's".

The town of Jungo is said to be named for Jungo Point, which is a survey peak located 11 miles from Jungo.

Jungo, located between Sulphur and Winnemucca, is the site of a former town. Jungo started in 1910 as a station to the Western Pacific Railroad. The post office opened on January 31, 1911 and closed on May 31, 1952.

The 1914-1915 WPRR Descriptive Time Table stated: "These are the Jungo flats, a basin fifty mile in area, as level and as bare as a deal table. From Jungo many sheep and cattle are annually shipped. Westward from Jungo Is the barrier Antelope Range, over which the train climbs. The gravelly and greasy shale formations of the ascent indicate oil, and oil is being found in paying quantities."

George B. Austin lived in Jungo for many years. In 1936, Austin bought the Jumbo Mine, which was located 36 miles to the north. Former President Herbert Hoover visited the mine and pronounced that the mine was worth holding on to. George Austin offered to pay for that advice and was told by Mr. Hoover "That kind of advice is free."

Jungo was the shipping point for the Iron King Mine, located in the Jackson Range.

Jungo Road (aka Nevada State Route 49 is the road from Winnemucca to Gerlach. Apparently, this road is also known as Nevada Road #2048 (?). Near the Black Rock Desert playa, it is known as "The High Road.". From its western terminus between Gerlach and Empire, it passes near Frog (Garrett Ranch) Springs, Trego, Sulphur and Jungo, before terminating at Winnemucca.

In 2012, Recology obtained a permit for a dump near Jungo. The permit was appealed in May, 2012 and Recology won the appeal. In December 2016, the proposal expired.

Jungo Road

• Day one: Winnemucca to Jungo (crazyguyonabike.com, 2008)

• Joining the Jungo Boogie 100 Club - Winnemucca to Gerlach, NV textual account. (bikes-n-spikes.org, 2004) ([archive.org])

• Lost on Jungo Road - YouTube fictional account, 2006

• Traveling on Jungo Road - (tribe.net, 2004, dead link) ([archive.org])

Resources

• Jungo, Nevada (Wikipedia)

Historical References

• "Humboldt Items - Rich Strike - Stock Doing Well, and a criminal case," The Weekly Gazette and Stockman, February 20, 1890. "The mining experts who went out to Jungo say there are very few dead cattle and a great many live ones on the Jackson Creek desert. The cattle look well and there are lakes of water miles from the hills, they now range and get good feed where they cannot in the summer."

• Patent #1184044, WHEEL RIM. APPLICATION,", 1915, George B. Austin, Jungo.

• "Norton family correspondence, 1902-1936," Nevada Historical Society, Residents of Jungo.

• "Mexican Prisoner Shoots Constable," Reno Gazette Journal, November 29, 1920. Gerlach Constable Scott Butler shot in the leg on a train after arresting Manuel Hernandez at Jungo.

• 1920 Census, Jungo

• "Jungo's Jumbo," Time Magazine, Aug. 31, 1936, No. 9, p.43.

• "GROCER MILLING GOLD FROM HIS OWN MINE: San Francisco Paper Reports $500 a Day Output at Jungo, Nev. -- Hoover a Visitor" (proquest.com, paywall), August 18, 1936, nytimes.com, paywall.

• "Epochal Gold Rush Expected at Jungo," Berkeley Daily Gazette, August 29, 1936

• "A Dream of Gold Comes True," (proquest paywall), New York Times, September 13, 1936. Includes images.

• "SUES OVER JUMBO MINE; Lender of $50 to Aid Gold Project Asks Third of '$50,000,000' Claim," New York Times (paywalled), November 5, 1936.

• "Jumbo Optioned," Time, June 07, 1937.

• Helen S. Carlson, "Nevada Place Names," p. 147. The Jungo post office operated from January 31, 1911 until May 31, 1952.

• Painting of the Jungo Hotel by McCoy (Humboldt Museum)

• Trego, Robert, "Black Rock Desert Roads," Nevada State Journal, October 23, 1955, p10-11. Low resolution images of Jungo, Robert Trego states that "Emergency Zephyr Water" was available at Jungo in 1955. Also mentioned are Sulphur and Jungo.

• Dayton Lummis, "Dust Devils," p. 72. By 1963, Jungo was deserted, but the hotel had not yet burned.

• http://nvghosttowns.topcities.com/humboldt/humlst.htm Jungo came into being in 1910 as a station when the Western Pacific Railroad was completed. Became the major shipping point for a huge area. A substantial town developed but by the 1930s, its usefulness was gone and Jungo faded. Since the 1940s, only a handful of hearty souls have lived here. A large hotel from the early days still stands as do a number of other buildings. (Dead link, 2-Dec-2013)

Map References

• GNIS Jungo (historical)
• GNIS Jungo Flat
• GNIS Jungo Post Office (historical) "Gamett, James, and Paher, Stanley W. Nevada Post Offices. Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1983, 176 pp. Discusses historical background of Nevada post offices. p81"
• Nevada Panorama Atlas, "Humboldt County, Jungo Flat,"
• Wikipedia, "Nevada State Route 49," State Route 49 is another name for Jungo Road.

WPRR 1910 Timetable showing Jungo

Geology References

• David L. Berger, "Ground-Water Recharge Through Active Sand Dunes in Northwestern Nevada," JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Volume 28, Issue 5, pages 959–965, October 1992.

• David L. Berger, "Ground-water conditions and effects of mine dewatering in Desert Valley, Humboldt and Pershing Counties, northwestern Nevada, 1962-91," USGS Water-Resources Investigations Report: 95-4119, 1994.

• Thomas J. Lopes, "Hydrologic Evaluation of the Jungo Area, Southern Desert Valley, Nevada," USGS Open-File Report 2010-1009, 2010.

Photos

• Jungo, Nevada 1936 (artsandculture.google.com). These photos are from Time Life, apparently rights might be available via Shutterstock. The photographer credit is "unknown" which could mean that these are WPA photos.

• Jungo Hotel (nytstore.com) Dead link as of 01-Dec-2013, which is a possible source of a 1930s Jungo Hotel picture. See archive.org.