Sand Pass

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Sand Pass is located at the southern end of the Smoke Creek Desert. The Western Pacific Railroad buildings are on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation, so day use permits are required.

Lincoln (1923) states that [Fuller's earth] was found at Sand Pass, and that the Standard Oil Company prospected the area but found the deposit to not be economical[1].

In 1936, a gravel plant was constructed to provide gravel for maintaining the WP grade[2][3]

Bonham Ranch is to the north and Flanigan and Pyramid Lake are to the south.

c. 1914 map of the W.P.R.R. showing Sand Pass

References

  1. Francis Church Lincoln, "Mining Districts and Mineral Resources of Nevada," Verdi, Nev.: Nevada Newsletter Publishing Co., p. 238, 1923.
  2. The Deseret News, "Railroad to Renew Grade," March 18, 1936. Description of gravel plant.
  3. Theodore D. Overton, "B046: Mineral resources of Douglas, Ormsby, and Washoe Counties," B046, Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology, 1947. Full version with lower resolution images. Includes images of Fly Geyser, the Petrified Forest, Gerlach Hot Springs, Sand Pass that are in the collection at UNR.

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