130 YEARS AGO
Some enterprising citizens of Eureka are trying to get Grant to switch off at Palisade and visit the Base Range; and a suite of rooms is being made ready. There is no doubt Grant would enjoy Eureka, but we doubt if he would stay there long.
100 YEARS AGO
(Continued from Sunday) Beckstead enlisted as part of 500 dragoons in that battalion at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1846. They marched to Fort Leavenworth where they were fitted out and then to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they claimed the area as a new territory. They were ordered west to take California, but met Kit Carson on the way, and returned to Santa Fe (continued Thursday).
70 YEARS AGO
While excavating work for a basement in Elko, a horse slipped and his leg sank in the mud. After the horse was extracted, a cavern was revealed that had been secreted 12 years or so before with entrance from an underground room. The finding of the still, reportedly of Sagebrush Nellie, was so constructed that the outlet went through a pig pen, with the idea of "killing" the fumes from the mash and still.
50 YEARS AGO
The department of the interior has given approval of a bill introduced by Nevada U.S. Senators calling for the development of solar energy. The legislation, sponsored by Sens. Alan Bible and Howard Cannon has been hailed as a forward step.
20 YEARS AGO
The U.S. Forest Service plans to triple logging in the Tahoe Basin next year to weed out dead and dying trees that have spread the past few years. The once emerald green basin now has patches of brown.
10 YEARS AGO
The cottonwood tree gracing the entrance to the Carson City Library is being removed during Nevada Day Weekend. The tree, which was one of many cottonwood trees the library was built around, has become a public hazard.
• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.