Carson-Tahoe Hospital's first campus in 1955. A fire in 1968 destroyed the building, and the infirmary at Stewart was called into play. Construc tion for this building in 1949 topped out at $80,000.
Sunday
145 years ago
The Spring repairs are fairly begun. We note some handsome new house work under way in the southern part of the city. On Carson Street the sound of the hammer and saw alternates with the chirp of the early bird who catches the worm. On the Square we observe that many pits are being dug for the new trees, box elders and others, which Mr. Ferris is setting out there.
130 years ago
De Quille’s Cane. Dan De Quille gives a description of a cane presented him by Frank Osbiston. It was cut from a wood which is only found where large herds of buffalo range and known as “boise de bison.” In the spring the buffalo cows are very fond of it. It is considered quite fattening and healthy and also much prized by the Indians. Canes are frequently made of this wood which is so rare that a stick readily sells for five and ten dollars in Omaha.
120 years ago
The California papers haven’t mentioned “rotten burrough” while alluding to Nevada for several weeks. The breeze that comes over the mountains from Sacramento, smells as if it came form a slaughter-house in July.
110 years ago
The Governor is slashing things with his veto axe and by some is regarded as much of a smasher as Carrie Nation.
100 years ago
The contract for the construction of the Topaz lake reservoir, the first unit of the reservoir system of the Walker river irrigation projects, has been let. The contract went to the Redmand Page Construction company of San Francisco. The contract was let by the directors of the Walker River Irrigation district and calls for $222,425.
Tuesday
145 years ago
The Wood of the wonders is in the bounding Carson. That is to say, the cord wood. That is to say, of the various great wood-dealing firms whose victims the giants and dwarfs of the primeval forests are. They are now sending down their thousands of cords, and the bosom of the gay and booming and buoyant river bears them bravely up.
130 years ago
The Weekly Wash. The Chronicle of last night has the following: “Swift’s Hot Springs, at Carson, are growing in popularity. The big swimming pool pond is a great feature. Bob Keaton, Mercer Otey and several other Comstockers were down there yesterday indulging in the regular weekly wash. Captain Lyon, the Governor’s private secretary, gave some remarkable exhibitions of skill as a diver, in the course of which his nose collided with any oyster shell at the bottom and peeled like a potato skin along the ridge.
120 years ago
The legendary Brayfoggle ledge has been again discovered.
110 years ago
The new tax law of Nevada in regard to assessments and taxation is a great improvement over the old method, for it will tend to bring the chronic tax dodgers to time. I have just been reading the act as it was passed by the last legislature, and find that it contains some novel features that other states will be apt to adopt.
100 years ago
Lehman’s cave, the mysterious natural wonder in White Pine county that rivals, if not excels, the great Mammoth cave in Virginia, is to be explored and marked in order to make it available to tourists who travel by auto road through Nevada, according to information from Salt Lake City.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006. Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan.