Sounds like you got a good chunk of land. I always like the sound of "no permits required".

I took a quick look & you really are over on the Applegate Trail - have you tried the Barrel Springs airstrip @ 40.7794 118.2557 ? I landed on it last summer - great shape - and a short walk down to the famous Rabbit Hole Springs. It is a very nice runway and a rather short drive to your section. You will be just ten or fifteen flying minutes east of that other Spaceport. When your runway is in you can be certain of visits from "aliens" every Labor Day.

Your Section & Quarter corners were set in 1875. You are in luck since they are marked stones in mounds of stone, rather than marked wooden posts. The odds for recovery are good. The odds that they match the record - average to poor. The coordinates you have will probably match the locations shown in the imagery rather well. But I suspect that they are rather poor estimates of where those stones actually are. Looking at the Township plat and your Google image, it appears that Google may have taken you a bit to the east of "reality".

Permits - rather simple, but not absent. When the I.W.W. (International Workers of the World - "Wobblies") controlled the Nevada legislature, the State declared all surface & groundwater to be a public resource. The State Water Engineer was invented to insure that this resource was not overused. Your well driller will have to jump through a hoop or two with the folks in Carson City. The 1875 plat shows springs to the east, southwest and south of your section. Whatever you do at the Courthouse - don't ask what the requirements for a Grading Permit might be in Pershing County - ignorance is bliss.

I sent you a PM.

I've flown over the airstrip by Rabbit Hole Springs, but never landed. (For those playing along at home, actual coordinates are 40.7795, -118.7233). I never knew it had a name. Is it listed in some resource somewhere that I don't know about?

I finally figured out what you're talking about with "that other spaceport"! It's the annual fleecing of the ding dongs in the Black Rock desert, aka, Burning Man! It's reported that the LLC takes in $12 million a year in ticket sales, has about a million in expenses, and divvies up the rest between the 11 shareholders. Nice work if you can get it!

Yeah but I met Elvis there. He was selling some sort of incense that gave me the ability to travel through space...

eureka wrote:
Permits - rather simple, but not absent. When the I.W.W. (International Workers of the World - "Wobblies") controlled the Nevada legislature, the State declared all surface & groundwater to be a public resource. The State Water Engineer was invented to insure that this resource was not overused. Your well driller will have to jump through a hoop or two with the folks in Carson City.

In Nevada, domestic wells (limited to 1800 gal. per day for household, garden, lawn, livestock) are exempt from the State Engineer's permitting process.
http://water.nv.gov/Home/FAQ.cfm

I think Green River Intergalactic Spaceport (as listed as the official name for the Green River Wyoming airport) precedes the Burning Man thing, at least it's been called that for 15 years or so that I know of. I never heard the reason why....why not I guess

kevbert wrote:I've flown over the airstrip by Rabbit Hole Springs, but never landed. (For those playing along at home, actual coordinates are 40.7795, -118.7233). I never knew it had a name. Is it listed in some resource somewhere that I don't know about?

I finally figured out what you're talking about with "that other spaceport"! It's the annual fleecing of the ding dongs in the Black Rock desert, aka, Burning Man! It's reported that the LLC takes in $12 million a year in ticket sales, has about a million in expenses, and divvies up the rest between the 11 shareholders. Nice work if you can get it!

One million just goes to the cops out there. Yes I know Larry of Burning Man fame, and they are not rich I can tell you, as I've to most of the staffs homes.

Space port....I have a story about that....Okay, I've seen things out there and well.....you won't believe it anyway. This one time a woman asked me for a ride in this space suit and she had a little silver baby she pulled out of her jacket which looked like an....and this other time.....oh and then....

Well, it's been 2 years since I first posted this, and I've made ZERO progress. Mining is booming in NV, and all of the excavators are very busy and charging high prices. I had one guy lined up, and he backed out. I had a deal set up to buy a cat dozer, but that eventually fell through. Sigh...

I just spotted this road grader for cheap on the Redding craigslist:
http://redding.craigslist.org/grd/2909529044.html
I called the guy, and he says it needs brake work and a rear seal on the engine, but he uses it as is.

Does anyone have any reasons on why this might be a good or bad deal? How much could I expect to pay to have someone truck it about 350 miles? I figured maybe $1000 to transport it, but history has shown I'm rather clueless on such topics.

I had one of those for 4-5 years. Never did fix the brakes. Drop the blade to stop.

kevbert wrote:Well, it's been 2 years since I first posted this, and I've made ZERO progress. Mining is booming in NV, and all of the excavators are very busy and charging high prices. I had one guy lined up, and he backed out. I had a deal set up to buy a cat dozer, but that eventually fell through. Sigh...

I just spotted this road grader for cheap on the Redding craigslist:
http://redding.craigslist.org/grd/2909529044.html
I called the guy, and he says it needs brake work and a rear seal on the engine, but he uses it as is.

Does anyone have any reasons on why this might be a good or bad deal? How much could I expect to pay to have someone truck it about 350 miles? I figured maybe $1000 to transport it, but history has shown I'm rather clueless on such topics.

Ya you might get it there for about $3 a mile. I don't do flatbed work but you might be able to put a flyer up at some truck stops close to origin on the bulletin boards. It's going to take at least a single drop deck you'll need a permit over 14' or should I say the carrier will.
That's pretty damn cheep you might be careful it's not hot

Try to find some hay haulers in the redding area and ask if they are looking for loads to NV. I used to drive for an outfit out of the central valley, CA and I'd go to Lovelock for hay all the time. Like someone else mentioned, you'd have to find a hauler that uses a dropdeck trailer...there's a few of them out there. Just an idea...

Kevbert
I just got a quote to haul about 1200 miles round trip with a double drop lowboy.
3.75 loaded going there and 2.75 for coming back empty!!?? figured fuel and permits @ 2.50/mile.
Look hard for someone going that way!
If you have a deck to load and unload, pull the cab off and the stack and put it on a regular trailer, the moldboard will swing under and out of the way.
Good Luck
GT