Our Dinner: Scrambled eggs, and sausages!
Conway Stage Station was on the stage route between
Carson and Aurora. This route served Bodie, Fletcher, nearby Sonoma, and some
of the other smaller mines in the area.
The names of the station and Conway Summit
south of Bridgeport in Mono County, Calif. commemorate John Andrew Conway who settled in the area in 1880. Conway was in the freight hauling business using tems of horses to pull large wagons of goods. Burkham bought Conway's ranch.
-Nevada Heartland, Mary B. Ansari
This is possibly Cecil Bertrand Burkham, who also ran passengers and freight between Hawthorne, Aurora, and Bodie, and Bridgeport.
DEATH OF CONWAY REMOVES PIONEER
The death of John A. Conway at Mono Lake, on December as reported in the Gazette at that time, marks the passing of another of the western empire builders, He was born in Hawkesbury, Prescott County.Canada. on November 9, 1860, and was a little over fifty-eight years of age at the time of his death. He was buried at Bishop, Cal., where he had recently bought a home. School facilities are better at Bishop than those at his beautiful ranch at Mono Lake and he maintained a home there. He leaves to mourn his loss, a wife; one son, Richard P. Conway; three sisters, Katie M., Gladys C. and Pearl M. Conway; four brothers, P. J. Conway, the well-known farmer, stockman and banker of Sweetwater, and three brothers in Canada, Gregory, T. W., and Daniel Conway, also one sister. Mrs. Drown of Canada. Mr. Conway came to Nevada in 1880 and resided in Nevada. almost continuously until 1903 when he purchased the Sturgeon ranch at Mono Lake, in Mono County, where he resided until the time of his death. His thrift and toil amassed a comfortable fortune and made him conspicuous for hospitality and worthy charity. When he came to Nevada. its roads were lined with freight teams. He was a good horseman and soon obtained the reputation of being one of the finest drivers in the West. Few men knew a horse like Conway did and few horses have ever known such a man as he was. He never abused them or fooled or deluded them. No horse with which he was acquainted would fail to do its best and Conway rarely required quite that much of him. The perfect bond of sympathy, confidence and co-operation which existed between him and his team made Conway famous for hauling some of the heaviest loads that ever passed over the state. "He had a charming disposition and temperament and those who knew him will remember him with pleasant recollections, while his generous hospitality will he missed by his numerous friends," says an old friend.
-Reno Evening Gazette, December 13, 1918
Well, it's possible he wasn't squatting in some adobe-walled partially-roofed
cabin, no sirree. Looks like he was quite comfy in this nice frame house.
Either that, or the stage station is completely gone and this abandoned
farm house is in its place, built by later owners. There are several out-buildings, and you must
walk about a quarter mile past the locked gate.
The age of the house is unknown, as is the period when people were living in it. Wall to wall carpeting suggests that it was occupied at least in the 1940's or 1950's.
An 1880 Land Office homestead entry shows a "Margaret M. J. Baldwin, widow of deceased Calvin Aiken." The 1887 Land Office map shows the "Aiken House" at that location.