Cowles Ranch
R.H. Cowles owned a ranch near Limbo.
A 1874 plat of S15 T30N R24 shows "Gummels House."
A 1910 land patent naming Alex Ranson, Nick Curnow, E. H Cowles and James Raser was granted as a selenite mining placer for these locations:
- NV Mount Diablo 030N - 023½E 5 3602 Washoe
- NV Mount Diablo 030N - 024E 6 3602 Pershing
- NV Mount Diablo 031N - 024E 31 3602 Pershing
A Cowles Ranch is shown in a 1954 map as being on the east side of the Selenite Range along old Nevada Highway 48 at S16 T30N R24E[1]
Wheeler states that there was a big R.H. Cowles Ranch near Pyramid. [2]
Ray Mosley owned a ranch on the west side of the Selenite Range that consisted of buildings and a tungsten mine at S30 T30N R24E.
References
- ↑ "1954 Pershing County Zone 1 map," Nevada Department of Transportation.
- ↑ The Desert Lake," y Sessions S. Wheeler, 1967, p. 79.