Don't buy Paher's book from a retail store - it will cost about $50.00. You can usually find a used one for sale on ebay just about twice a month. Well worth getting, but why spend all that money - particularly when the retail outlet store is trying to mess with you? Neither Borders nor B&N are my favorite stores anyhow. They are too darn big IMO. LOL Make sure you get the right book since Paher seems to like to recycle titles and uses the same one for Atlases, updates, and legends. It's a HB book, about 250 pages or so, and called "Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps by Stanley Paher. It's filled with great old photos and good driving directions. You'll be glad to have it if you get into ghost towning in NV.
Tonopah looked to me as if it isn't going to be a living town much longer, either. It's got some type of military base nearby, but I'm not sure that's enough to keep the town itself alive and kicking. If it goes the way of so many others, I'll be down there picking its bones as often as possible.
OK, just to set the record straigth, US Hwy. 50 is "The Loneliest Road in America." US 6 is the one that runs generally north and south, whereas US 50 runs east and west. Millers is a ghost town, and it was a good spot for finding ore sample crucibles. Dig around in the sand near the concrete foundations. We found a pile of about 100 or so, but most of them were broken. Next time you go down there, you might want to try raking through the sand because you might find some that are still intact.
Well, I surely appreciate all your updates to this thread. I'm a nosy person by nature (inquisitive is a nicer word to use) so I like to know how things worked out for you. Best of luck in your next ghost towning adventure.
