Boyer Ranch, Gilbert's Storeroom, 44 miles east of Fallon, on U.S. Highway 50, Fallon, Churchill County, NV. Surveyed as HABS NEV,1-FALL.V,1-A-, with a 854-word written history.
“The stone building was erected by the Gilbert Brothers ca.”
Written record, HABS NEV,1-FALL.V,1-A- survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HABS program as HABS NEV,1-FALL.V,1-A- · the record runs 854 words · one of 18 surveyed structures published for this county.
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The stone building was erected by the Gilbert Brothers ca. I860 - Nevada Place Names states that Dixie Valley was settled by southern sympathizers in and in that same year the second gold strike in the territory was made in Cottonwood Canyon. The mining town of Bolivia was quickly established in the Canyon about three miles northwest of this structure. At about the same time a root cellar of similar construction was built about 41 feet to the south. While not the work of a master t builder they are examples of vernacular architecture and embody distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction. Modifications and rehabilitation without regard for accepted standards have diminished their integrity but they still convey the essence of their historic past.
Description: The single story stone building is'roughly 21 by 25 feet and the single room interior is 18 by 21 feet. The walls extend six feet above a compacted dirt floor and are comprised of detritus from the alluvial fan on which the building is located. A mud cement plaster coated the walls inside and out and white paint at one time covered the plaster. The roof la supported by the walls and two hand hewn cotton- wood logs placed above the supporting timbers for the lintels. Rough-sawn planks were added at a later time to lend additional support for the beams. Vtgas of cottonwood, elm, juniper, and pinyon pine span from wall to beams and the space between the beams.
Braided rugs, rags, and newspapers can be seen through the chinks and must have been used to prevent the earth covering from sifting through. About Mr. Lamb added a plywood and asphalt shingle roof over the existing roof. He also added vertical t t BOYEH RANCH (Lamb Ranch), GILBERT'S STOREROOM HABS No. NV-20-A (Page *2) board aiding from the roof line to the level of the doors and windows. Around the center point of the room four cottonwood posts were erected to support the roof beams. They are 6" - 8" in diameter and spaced in a four foot square. Beginning at above the floor these posts were boxed in to a height of The resulting box enclosure was covered with screen to form a dry cooler. San Francisco Daily Examiner newspapers of - were pasted over the boxed columns to seal out insects.
HISTORY: Sheldon Lamb states that the atone building and it's associated root cellar were built in by the Gilbert brothers as a base camp for a mine they were working in the Stillwater Range about five miles north of the ranch. Lamb claims that they were built in or Neither date nor construction by the Gilbert's has been confirmed. The earliest record for the property is December 23, t when the Governor signed the patent. The patent was recorded on November 27, in the name of Alva Boyer. The BLM office in Carson City has no records of the property before Desert Land Entry in or prior to statehood when control of the land was transferred to the 3tate. There is no evidence of anyone associated with the ranch having had a significant role in the history of Nevada.
The Lamb's purchased the ranch in and the U\ S. Navy purchased it in December under a program to buy property from those owners wishing to relocate from under the Navy's Supersonic Operations Area. Future plans call for abandoning the structures and Issuing agricultural outleases on the land.
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Mr. & Sheldon Lamb Northern Nevada Title Company, Failon, Hevada Bureau of Land Management, Caraon City. Nevada Hevada Place Homes History of Nevada, reproduced by Thompson and West in HISTORIAN W. E. Frazier, Public Works Department, Naval Air Station, Failon. Nevada t t HISTORIC AMERICAS 3UILDIMGS SUR7EY BOYER RANCH (Lamb Ranch), GILBERT'S STOREROOM EABS NO. NV-20-A (Page #3) t TOP VIEW (Excluding roof) Stone -walls are 6 feet in height. Dry cooler is boxed in from 2' 3" to 6' 3" above floor. Northeast: corner of Storeroom bears N 51 41' 56" W feet from the West corner between sections 7 and 18, T24 N R 37 E t HISTQBIC AME2ICAS BUILDINGS 3UHVE7 80YES RA1ICH (Lamb Ranch), GILBERT'S S7OREE0OM HABS NO.
HV-20-A (Page #4) East end t West end I HISTORIC AMERICAN 3UIUI.VQS SURVET BOYER RANCH (Lamb Ranch), GILBERT'S STOREROOM HABS NO. NV-20-A (Page #5) t South side North side t t HISTOflIC AMERICAN BUILDIHQS 3UHVE7 BOYEH RANCH {Lamb Ranch) , GILBERT'S STOREROOM HABS NO. HV-20-A (Page #6) t I
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