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Gaze00w on the street...
TOM WALTUCH-- Business
owner -- "The variations of the
country. Especially California.
You have deserts -- mountains,
snow, sun, and sea. Everything."
What do you like about/imerica?
Enfland
Hawaii
Kentucky
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KEITH WAKELIN-- Salesman
-- "It's Big. There is a lot to see. I
have only been here two days.
This is my second visit. The first
was to Washington and New
York."
RENNY MORGIA --
Electronics technician -- "There
are alot of things Ilikeand many
I don't. I like the : unrestricted
travd and
developments. 1 seen a lot
m my tifeUme. From Model Ts
to what they are now -2 from
crystal radios to satellite
GAlL SHERWIN --
Homemaker -- 'The freedom,
to freely travel."
DARRELL PEARSON--
Retred teache - The freedom
-- to me it's the most wonderful
place in the world, t have been
other place s and none have the
freedomor the opportunities we
have here."
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Located eight miles offU.S. Highway 6 in central Nye
COunty, Tybo was as lively a camp as any in the state in
the 1870s. Like many Nevada camps, Tybo has its share
of lost treasure stories, buried pay-
rolls and stagecoach loot.
The citizens of Tybo were reputed
to be distrustful of banks and more
inclined to bury their money than
entrust it to institutionswhich could
be robbed any day of the week. How
many of these caches were lost or
forgotten when those who con-
signed them to the ground moved on
cannot be known with nay certainty,
but surely something is still out
there.
Another lost treasure story con-
ceres a gambler who happened into
town on a payday weekend in 1876
and picked up some $3,000 in gold
coins in a marathon poker game.
There was some talk around town
that he had used a marked deck and
several men were said to be plan-
ning to waylay him when he de-
parted. These rumors got back to
him and he had the driver of the
Belmont stage stop in Kiln Canyon,
ust out of town. Walking out
rough the sagebrush with his
money in a canvas sack, he returned
empty-handed a few minutes later, telling the driver that
he would be back when he thought it was safe. Three
dags later, he was shot and killed in a Belmont saloon.
There is also the story of the Portuguese charcoal con-
tractor who followed the tradition of burying his profits
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Tybo's lost treasures
by Phillip I. Earl
Nevada Historical Society
rather than banking them. He did well in the charcoal busi-
ness, hb ing Chinese laborers to but pinon and juniper and
operate his kilns. In June 1877, he did not return to Tybo
where he had gone to hire more laborers. When his men
investigated, they found him on the ground next to the road
into town, dead of a broken neck, having apparently been
thrown by his horse. He had no local relatives and several
parties of men cam out to the kilns in subsequent weeks to
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look into his supposed fortune. The woodcutters said
that he would ride out to the northwest every few days
and be gone less than an hour. They suspected that some
$5,000 in gold coinage was
buried out there somewhere,
but later searches turned up
nothing.
Both the gambler's cache
and the lost Portuguese char-
coal profits have never been
reported to have been located,
go there is a chance that they
are still somewhere in the vi-
cinity. When this writer vis-
ited Tybo some thirty years
ago, a brick store still stood,
as did a long wooden build-
ing that appeared to have been
a freight depot. There was
also one resident still working
a mining claim and serving as
a caretaker and watchman for
the town. He was not talkative
and was none too pleased to
have a visitor, so we remained
less than two hours. Mine
shafts riddled the area and the
nearby charcoal kilns were
somewhat intact. The road in
from U,S. 6 was decent, pass-
able with a passenger car, but
those desiring to visit today should be prepared for any-
thing, as is always the case in Nevada.
PHOTO INSERT: Street scene, Tybo, 1874 NE-
VADA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PHOTOGRAPH
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