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** [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19750816&id=I_lYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VkYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4699,2739247 Residents buy town], August 16, 1975, Victoria Advocate.  Joe Ugalde quoted.
** [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19750816&id=I_lYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VkYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4699,2739247 Residents buy town], August 16, 1975, Victoria Advocate.  Joe Ugalde quoted.
* San Francisco Chronicle, "Death on the Desert" (from the Reno Journal), August 11, 1889, p. 12.  [[Louis Dean]] reports the death of a L.H. Long from Roseburg, Oregon.  Long died within two miles of Granite Station.  "He had wandered back within site of the ranch - probably delirious, looking for water.  The ground was torn and dug up in every direction."
* San Francisco Chronicle, "Death on the Desert" (from the Reno Journal), August 11, 1889, p. 12.  [[Louis Dean]] reports the death of a L.H. Long from Roseburg, Oregon.  Long died within two miles of Granite Station.  "He had wandered back within site of the ranch - probably delirious, looking for water.  The ground was torn and dug up in every direction."
* Granite Cove is listed on the [[http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cdm/ref/collection/hmaps/id/1435 1894 Plat]] as being near "Old Granite Creek Station".
* Granite Cove is listed on the [http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cdm/ref/collection/hmaps/id/1435 1894 Plat] as being near "Old Granite Creek Station".
* A 1999 water rights filing by [[Bright Holland Corporation]] states that [[James Raser]] lived at Granite Cove near Granite Ranch in 1894 and patented the land under patent 7627<ref>[http://images.water.nv.gov/images/Proofs/Vested/V09000/V09124.pdf Proof Of Appropriation of Water for Irrigation], 1999.</ref>.
* A 1999 water rights filing by [[Bright Holland Corporation]] states that [[James Raser]] lived at Granite Cove near Granite Ranch in 1894 and patented the land under patent 7627 [http://images.water.nv.gov/images/Proofs/Vested/V09000/V09124.pdf Proof Of Appropriation of Water for Irrigation], 1999.
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Revision as of 06:39, 4 January 2015

The Granite Creek Ranch is located on Highway 34, about 5 miles from Gerlach(Wheeler) at the mouth of Bowen Canyon. At one time, Granite Creek Ranch was known as Granite Creek Station and Camp McKee. Granite Creek Station was established in 1864. In March, 1865, an Indian and three whites were murdered at Granite Creek Station. Litch abandoned the station in 1867.

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