GILBERT
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GILBERT |
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NAME: Gilbert COUNTY: Esmeralda ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Warm summers, Mild winters BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime |
COMMENTS:
From Tonopah to Burro Ave. SE, to Florence Ave. West, to US6(US95/Main St.)West to dirt road past Millers to the right for 13 miles. REMAINS: Very little, some pieces of headframes. |
| On the north side of the Monte Cristo range 2 brothers about giving up put in one last try called the Last Hope and hit high grade ore in 1924. The town boomed to a populaion of 400 but by 1929 the population was drastically diminishing and by 1931 the town was a ghost. Submitted by: Michael Mrofchak |
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