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Columbia St. one block, turning left one block at first 4-cor-
ners just beyond.
92.2 0.1 4-corners, bank on right; turn right onto Main St. Thru
4-corners 92.3. Cross RR 93.1 and three RRs 93.2.
93.3 1.1 Fork; bear left with travel. Cross RR 93.4. Pass large mill
on right 94.6. Avoid left-hand road 96.7. Pass road house on
114.3 left 104.1. Thru 4-corners 106.3. Avoid left-hand diag-
onal road 108.0. Thru diagonal 4-corners 109.7.
21.0 Fork; take either road. Come along poles 115.8. Pass sign
on left 118.1. Pass Butler Bldg, on left 119.0. Now on
Main St.
119.1 4.8 TONOPAH,* center of town, bank on left, hotel on right.
GARAGES—Sierra Auto Supply Co.
Tonopah Auto Supply Co., Main St. on Florence Ave.
Route .421—Tonopah to Ely, Nev.—189.5 m.
Reverse Route 676.
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^MILEAGE— Via Blue Eagle Ranch, Currant and Ruth. Natural prairie road with
Dlstancs stretches of improved and graded highway. This trip can be made in
Total Between ten hours.
Mileage Point*
0.0 0.0 TONOPAH, bank on right. Go south.
0.1 0.1 Left-hand road, Butler Bldg, on right;. turn left.
0.9. 0.8 Fork; keep right, passing Belmont Mine on left.
5.9 5.0 Prominent fork; bear right. Ascend slight grade 16.9. Pass
Salisbury Wash Sta. on left 24.8.
30.6 24.7 Prominent fork; bear right. Pass spring on left 34.8.
39.3 8.7 Fork; bear left with travel.
42.0 2.7 Fork; keep right. Thru Clifford 44.4.
50.5 8.5 Prominent fork; bear left. Pass stone corral on left 52.4.
53.2 2.7 Prominent fork; keep right.
63.0 9.8 Fork; bear right, passing Twin Springs Ranch on left.
68.7 5.7 Fork; bear left thru gap in range.
75.9 7.2 Fork; keep right. Thru alkali flat 76.9.
87.1 11.2 Pork bear left.
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90.4 3.3 Fork; bear left. Pass Nyala P. O. on left 91.1. Avoid right-
hand road 91.6.
95.9 5.5 Fork; bear right. Thru diagonal 4-corners 99.2. Thru
4-corners 99.4-101.4, passing mail box on left. Avoid right-
hand road 105.6. Water on left 105.7.
110.6 14.7 Fork; bear left.
Right fork is wet weather road.
118.0 7.4 Fork; bear right. Pass Blue Eagle Ranch on left 118.1.
130.2 12.2 Curve left into lane. _
0.1 3-corners, Butlers Ranch on left; bear right, crossing bridge
130.3
just beyond. Caution for sharp curve 133.0. Pass Johnson
Sta. on left 133.6. Pass large ranch on right 134.1. Pass
another ranch on right 135.3, crossing bridge just beyond.
Pass Forest Ranger Sta. on left 136.1.
142.4 12.1 Fork; bear left across wooden culvert. Reach Currant creek
summit 143.6. Cross bridge over White river 151.9. Pass
Ferguson’s Ranch on right 153.0. Avoid right-hand diag-
onal road 154.6.
155.0 12.6 Fork; bear right, passing stone cabin on left, just beyond.
156.3 1.3 Fork, stables on left; keep left.
172.1 15.8 Fork; bear right. Ascend grade 177.5.
•Tonopah, Nev. (pop. 5,000, alt. 6,100 ft.), the held full sway, stands today a forest of giant
county seat of Nye county, is queen of the steel gallows frames, a great foundry, and
mining camps that dot the map of the great machine shops, and, clinging to the hillsides,
southwest. One hundred million dollars has several thundering stamp-mills. Withal,
thus far been blasted from out the Tonopah Tonopah is a modern and up-to-date city,
mines, and, to all appearance, only a fair start offering every convenience of a metropolis to
has been made. Here, where fifteen short the tourist. It is a radiating center for some
years ago the horned toad and the coyote of the finest natural roads in the west.