Family

Visit the links above for a bit about our family, military career followed by assignments to the NASA High Range, Nevada Test Site, Area 51, and then our business career.

1970's - 1980's

After leaving Area 51 my wife and I moved to our home state of Oklahoma where we purchased a motel and restaurant and started up an oil and gas exploration company. During the next 20 years we drilled and produced in excess of 100 oil and gas wells situated in the states of Oklahoma, Texas and Utah. We sold out during the peak of the oil boom circa 1982 and continued with our mining enterprises that included gold in Colorado, southern Arizona and southern Nevada, and uranium in Colorado and Utah. As you'll note below, today we are providing southern Nevada with landscape rock to replace lawns now forbidden due to the water crisis threatening the western United States.

TD Barnes, President Barnes Petroleum Corporation

TD Barnes, President Barnes Petroluem Corporation - Grand Junction, Colorado 1980	TD Barnes, President Barnes Petroluem Corporation - Grand Junction, Colorado 1980
Doris Barnes, Barnes Petroleum Corporation - Grand Junction, Colorado 1980	TD Barnes, President Barnes Petroleum Corporation - and secretary, Joy Hammond, Grand Junction, Colorado 1980
Barnes Petroleum Corporation - Eastern Oklahoma - 1970's	Barnes Petroleum Corporation - Eastern Oklahoma
Barnes Petroleum Corporation - Caddo County, Oklahoma	Bud Collins - Salt Lake City, Bill King w/Riddle Oil Company, and T.D. Barnes, President Barnes Petroleum
Barnes Petroleum Corporation near Casper, Wyoming	Barnes Petroleum Corporation - Caddo County, Oklahoma
Barnes Petroleum Corporation - Caddo County, Oklahoma	Barnes Petroleum Corporation - Caddo County, Oklahoma
Barnes Petroleum Corporation - Caddo County, Oklahoma	TD Barnes, President Barnes Petroleum Corporation at Mt. View, Oklahoma
Barnes Petroleum Corporation - Grand County, Utah	TD Barnes, President Barnes Petroleum Corporation and Norman Kaye - Grand County, Utah
Bill King, Riddle Oil Company and TD Barnes, Barnes Petroleum Corporation with wives at Grand Junction, Colorado	TD Barnes, Leo Crawley, pilot, and Floyd Bleak, Flagstaff, Arizona
TD Barnes and Billy Walker at Okmulgee, Oklahoma	Barnes Petroleum Corporation at Kiowa County, Oklahoma

1980's - 1996

TD Barnes, President Geneva Minerals, Inc.

TD Barnes, President Geneva Minerals, Inc., at company's placer gold mine in Placerville, Colorado	Geneva Minerals mining headquarters at Placerville, Colorado
TD Barnes, president Geneva Minerals Inc. pouring gold at company's placer mine in Placerville, Colorado	Silver poured at Geneva Minerals mill in Clark County, Nevada
Doris Barnes with Geiger counter at Geneva Minerals uranium mine in Eastern Utah	TD Barnes, President Geneva Minerals at company's uranium in Western Colorado

2000 to Present

OUR BUSINESS TODAY
STARTEL, INC

POTENTIAL SITE RENEWAL ENERGY

A Nevada Business Development Enterprise providing alternate landscaping solutions to the drought
in the southwestern United States
and
Excellent venue for a solar renewable energy project

Startel President T.D. Barnes at Nellis AFB solar power dedication

STARTEL'S SEARCHLIGHT 20-ACRE HILLSITE IS THE SOURCE OF DECORATIVE LANDSCAPE ROCK FOR SOUTHERN NEVADA

and the

SOURCE OF NDOT APPROVED MATERIAL FOR HIGHWAY AND CONSTRUCTION

160 Acres patented mining claims
Approved Land Use for Rural/Industrial Uses 10-Year Permit

L-R: Startel President T.D. Barnes, Vice President Alexander Forbes
Approved right-of-way & truck entrance onto paved 4-lane state highway