 Now that Spring is in the air, I decided to give our website a good Spring Cleaning and reduced the price on over 25 pieces of land! By over $30,000! And on 11 different listings on our website - including acreage in Nevada and Colorado and building lots in Kentucky and New Mexico! I didn't just reduce them a little bit either! I took over $7,000 off of a 40 acre parcel in Elko, Nevada, $6,000 off of 30 acres in Colorado, and $3,000 off of a gorgeous 14 acre property with big, tall pine trees in the Zuni Mountains of New Mexico!
If you have been checking out some land on our website, be sure to visit and see if what you've been looking for is now on sale! With more land coming in the door as fast as we can buy it, the hot prices we are buying at are definitely getting passed along to our customers!
Northern Nevada Economy News
This week on national news I heard about the continued strong economy in Northern Nevada, especially Elko County, due to the continued high value of minerals like gold and silver. Nevada has more minerals than any other state in the USA. I jokingly commented that it was not news to me, as I had received the same scoop when I attended a foreclosure sale there last fall. I have been dealing in land in Elko for about ten years now and I swear I can't keep enough acreage there in inventory! Elko continues to grow - even in this difficult economy. A sign along the interstate said the Hilton was coming soon -not sure how old that was. The news report said that housing demands continue to be strong due to all of the workers in the area.
 I spent the day out in the Montello area exploring land and was thrilled to see what's coming up for sale soon and also a few that we already own! There is a ten acre parcel that sits way up in the Pilot Mountains with trees covering it and one spectacular view of the peak! I had never been up this far on the mountain and found a great road that ran only ten acres south of it! I expect that lot won't be around very long! There was a fabulous sunset over the Toano Mountains - a real treat! I stopped by the store in Montello and noticed that they had given the motel next door a nice face lift! I also spotted a Montello, Nevada sweatshirt and told the lady at the store that I was going to wear it to the next Elko County foreclosure auction and I would be the envy of ALL the men! Ha!
 I chitchatted a bit about the Ruby Pipeline that was laid through that area, as well as the mine that sits just south of the Interstate that is expanding and adding more jobs. The interstate was filled with trucks that have long poles with flags at the top of them - these are miner's trucks and I tell you there weren't just a few... there were lines of them down the interstate and in the hotel parking lots at night! It is so nice to see good news about the economy! We have sold quite a bit of inventory over the past year to the locals who work there and are looking for cheap land in Elko and Montello to build homes or go play on the weekends.
I was surprised to see that a 1.25 acre piece of land in the River Valley Ranchos, about 15 minutes northeast of Elko, was only 1.5 blocks to the North Fork of the Humboldt River. I myself own 20 acres about 5 miles to the northwest and about the same distance to the river. Someday I plan to watch it snow on the Ruby Mountains while I watch the animals down by the river...the secret!
 I viewed a big chunk of land (all 644 acres of it!) located north of Battle Mountain in Lander County. It sits about 1.5 miles away from Sheep Creek which had little fishing jumping in it as it flows right over the road! That was such a treat to find! There is a tributary to this big chunk of land that flows through this property that was dry; you can see in the photo that it was almost as tall as I am! And the sunset was spectacular! That should be available on our website very soon!
I also took a moment to stop and view the Thunder Mountain Historic Site, which sits along I-80, between Winnemucca and Lovelock. It is definitely one of the most unusual historical sites and I really was intrigued by it the first time I saw it about ten years ago. It is a place that the hippies used to trek to in the 60s. Created by Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder, aka Frank Van Zant, he described his roadside art park variously as a museum, a monument to the American Indian, and as a retreat for pilgrims aspiring to the "pure and radiant heart."
He gathered all the junk people had left behind over the years and made art out of it, making statements about the sad history of the American Indians. The house is a collaboration of bottles, car parts, TVs, windshields, rocks, horse carts, you name it! You could spend a long time looking at the different things (not sure what to call them, so we'll just keep it at "things!") But definitely a form of art! This is really a piece of American History! His son has spent several years getting it preserved and put on the historic registry. It is an unusual look at the plight of the Native Americans.
 The first time I visited this place you could not enter and I took some photos through the barbed wire fence. As I pulled my camera away I cut myself really badly on a barb and tore my finger open pretty well. I thought it was a sign that I had better really respect this place! There is a donation box there to help support their efforts asking for $2 per group. We dug deep into our wallets and came up with about $5 in change. As I dumped it into the donation box, I thought about those ahead of me who may have come to this place years ago with just pennies in their pockets as well and I got a big smile out of that!
Next I'm off to Southern Oregon! We are in the process of buying several properties in Klamath and Lake Counties. I wonder what I will find there!
- Char the Explorer : )
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