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36 / Desert Magazine / July, 1968
lone, Nevada
BY LAMBERT FLORIN
A monthly feature by the author of Ghost Town Album, Ghost Town Trails,
Ghost Town Shadows, Ghost Town Treasures and Boot Hill
ONE is not only a
classic name, it is also
a classic example of
boom and bust. Founded
in 1863 by P. A.
Haven, lone existed for
three riotous and robust years as a county
seat of Nevada. And it was only
through a bit of political skulduggery it
became a county seat.
Located 30 miles from Austin in the
rugged mountains of Nevada, the settlement
was first called Haven's or Shoshone.
Then some erudite miners named
it lone for the heroine of Bulwer Lytton's
novel, The Last Days of Pompeii.
Before its first anniversary lone was
clamoring to become the county seat.
The authorities, impressed with the
growth of the isolated camp, were agreeable
to the idea; their only objection
being that there was no county for lone
to be the seat of. The problem was
solved by the legislators in February,
1864. They severed a nearly square section
from the counties of Lander and Esmeralda,
named the several hundred
thousand acre chunk of sagebrush and
pinyon pines, Nye County. Then the
seat was placed in lone and everyone
was pleased. Especially happy was Governor
Nye who had engineered the
whole thing.
At about this time lone became the
home of an infant newspaper, the Nye
County News. A nearly complete file
of the four-sheeter is kept at Tonopah
and is a treasury of daily doings in the
lone of that day.
Every new business venture was wholeheartedly
endorsed and freely advertised.
If the editor wasn't paid in cash he
always received something in trade. His
larder was kept stocked by the grocery
store he extolled, and the week after he
inserted a flattering item about the
town's Men's Haberdashery, he blossomed
out in a new hat.
Reports of funerals in the town were
always given full treatment, especially if
the deceased had been a citizen of prominence.
The long and detailed story concerning
the funeral of the town's only
physician ended with "when these ceremonies
were concluded, the cold and
cruel clods rattled harshly upon the
casket and all that remains of a noblehearted
citizen, affectionate father and
husband and a true friend was forever
shut out from human vision and left to
darkness."
When there was insufficient actual
news to fill the pages the resourceful
editor dipped into his stock of fillers,
once coming up with "An lone father
who has passed incalculable nights has
immortalized himself by discovering a
method of keeping babies quiet. The
modus operandi is as follows: set it up,
propped by pillows if it cannot set alone
and smear its fingers liberally with thick
molasses. Then put a dozen feathers into
its hands. It will continue to pick the