GILBERT

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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