Take it easy
  Warm Springs (Petersen's)
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39° 33' 24"N, 117° 25' 46"W

VISITED March 7, 2007
Our Breakfast: Eggs 'n' omelettes at the Cold Springs Cafe!
Our Lunch: MRE's at New Pass
DIRECTIONS From Fallon, take U.S. 50 East for 88.3 miles, then N on dirt road for 2.2 miles.
WHAT WAS


A station of some sort, and a mill to work the ore from Newpass and possibly surrounding mines. The mill was transported from Austin in the mid-1860's to work ore from Newpass. Pete Peterson owned a ranch in Smith Creek Valley and the mill is named for him, as are the creek and station 22 miles to the south.


POST OFFICE None
NEWSPAPER None
WHAT IS

The station is now sans roof, there is a large pond of water which isn't warm enough to deserve the name "Warm Springs," and the ruins of a mill-like object to the east. The station is in pretty good shape, made of nice cut rock and adobe. There is a fairly good set of corrals close by that were/are used recently. Probably swarming with bugs in the summer, idyllic in early March.

 
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