Steamboat Mountain: Difference between revisions

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Steamboat Mountain is located on the west side of main Black Rock Desert Playa between road to Soldier Meadows and the playa.

GNIS Map
Pershing County Road Map, 1954. Lists "Steamboat Mtn"
Peter Goin, "Black Rock," p. 195. Image of the pinnacle of Steamboat.
Mineral Resources of the United States, 1914--Part II--Nonmetals" Discussion of drilling in the center of the playa for Potash: "The site selected for the boring is in the center of the Black Rock Desert, about 4 J miles due north of the flag station Trego, on the Western Pacific Railway, and 18 miles northeast of Gerlach, a division point on the railroad." Includes a map dated October, 1913 that names Old Razorback Mountain as "White Mtn" and Steamboat Mountain as "Red Knob", see the Trego 1913 Map.

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 * [http://www.nevadadot.com/uploadedFiles/NDOT/Traveler_Info/Maps/pershingcounty1954_001.pdf Pershing County Road Map], 1954.  Lists "Steamboat Mtn"
 * Peter Goin, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=wvlpwjeM9fEC&lpg=PA272&dq=%22Steamboat%20Mountain%22%20nevada&pg=PA195#v=onepage&q=%22Steamboat%20Mountain%22%20&f=false Black Rock,]" p. 195. Image of the pinnacle of Steamboat.
+* [https://archive.org/details/mineralresources142unit Mineral Resources of the United States, 1914--Part II--Nonmetals"]  Discussion of drilling in the center of the playa for Potash: "The site selected for the boring is in the center of the Black Rock Desert, about 4 J miles due north of the flag station Trego, on the Western Pacific Railway, and 18 miles northeast of Gerlach, a division point on the railroad."  Includes a map dated October, 1913 that names [[Old Razorback Mountain]] as "White Mtn" and [[Steamboat Mountain]] as "Red Knob", see the [http://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:TregoMap1913.png Trego 1913 Map].
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