Granite Creek Station

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The Granite Creek Ranch is located on Highway 34 before Fly Ranch.

  • Theresa and little Joe Ugalde at Granite Ranch July 1941 (Photo)
  • Joe Blackwell, "Granite Ranch Gerlach" (Photo)
  • Sessions S. Wheeler, "The Black Rock Desert," p 157. The Granite Ranch was bought by Louis Gerlach in the 1890s.
  • Joe Ugalde owned Granite Ranch for many years.
  • 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."