Bull Creek
During the early days of mining at Hamilton, Bull Creek was home to Yokum's (a corruption of Yoacham) or Bull Spring Station, notably along a major route connecting points as far south as Arizona to the Central Pacific Railroad at Elko. It was also noted that it supplied peas to the White Pine District in 1869. By the end of the 1870s, the Bull Creek Ranch was home to O.M. Converse, who would hold multi-day horse races for a few years.
For a number of years prior to 1903, Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson held the ranch at Bull Creek before it was acquired by the Eureka Live Stock Company (succeeded by the Eureka Land & Stock Company in 1911), a company under which it operated for much of the twentieth century. By the late 1950s or early 1960s, Bull Creek was owned by multi-millionaire William Bartholomae until his murder in 1964, after which it was acquired by Edward Halstead (wife of Beatrice Rosevear Halstead, whose family ranch was just a few miles away at Green Springs). It remains in that family today.
