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Location: Carson City
Directions: Along Carson Street (SR 529) at the Carson Rest Area
(Near the intersection of Stewart and Carson Sts.)
N39° 09' 07.0" W119° 45' 59.6"
 This is the only view you'll get from Carson Street!
Try spotting this one in the summer when the trees keep the marker in shadow! |
NOTES: To put it mildly, this is one of the hardest markers to spot in Nevada! Note my listing for the "Carson Rest Area." Most people know this spot as the patch of grass at the intersection of Carson and Stewart Streets; #193 sits at the southern end of this park-rest-whatever you wanna call it. #193 is NOT SIGNED, so don't expect this one to come easy. Also, the only parking available will be a few spots behind the Office Depot in the adjacent plaza. Good luck!
Location: 1
Visibility: 7
Accessibility: 4
Marker type: St (L)
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Date Conquered: 6/10/07
Nearest Intersection: Between Stewart St & Fairview Dr.
Quick Description: A marker remembering one of the largest sawmills built for supplying the Comstock Lode.
Signed: No -- Historically, this marker was never signed. What a shame. Of all the markers in the system, this one would most benefit from one. Good spots for this signage would be coming from SB Stewart Street, or pair the marker signing with #194 (see page for details.)
 The line of trees on the right blocks the view of #193 from US 395, seen in the background.
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Full Description:
Exact description as reads ...
 Many Nevadans make this geographical error: Spooner Summit is NOT in the Sierra Nevada! The mountains directly to the west of us is the Carson Range, NOT the Sierras!
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Approximately one mile south of this point and west of the present-day highway lay the immense lumberyard of the Carson-Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company. The greatest of the Comstock lumbering combines operating in the Lake Tahoe basin during 1870-1898.
Situated at the terminus of the 12 Mile "V" Flume from Spooner's Summit in the Sierra Nevada, the lumberyard was approximately one mile long and one-half mile wide. A spur line of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad served the lumberyard. The spur ran adjacent to this site and carried rough lumber to the company's planing mill and box factory, one-half mile north on Stewart Street. It also carried timbers and cordwood to the Carson yards to be hauled to the Comstock mines and mills.
 Approaching the marker northbound isn't much better. This is the only view we get from Carson Street. I realize the SHPO had good intentions with its location, but #193 would've been better placed on Curry Street, away from 395's mess of traffic.
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