Past Pages for March 27 to 30, 2021

Saturday
150 Years Ago
Advertisement: “A man was rushing about wanting to kick the editor of the Appeal. Any person desirous of indulging in these pastimes, should purchase his boots of A. Cohn, who sells none but good reliable leather, and toes that last forever.”
The Capitol: Twenty-one men are engaged in giving the finishing touches to the interior of the new Capitol. The rooms of the Governor, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Surveyor General have been finished…. The sash of the elliptic dome 28 x 15 feet, with an elevation of 38 feet above the second floor is in position and awaits the arrival of stained glass. Twelve large volute columns for the porticos are nearly finished.
140 Years Ago
New bell: The Curry Engine Company (fire department) has hoisted its new bell received from Seneca Falls, New York.
Prestidigitation: Professor King, grand master of the occult, will give an exhibition at the consisting of many wonderful feats of prestidigitation, ventriloquism, etc.
Lake Bigler trout: E. Perasich of the California fruit, vegetable and game store, next to the Carson Theater received a large supply of trout fresh from Lake Bigler (Tahoe).
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Large quantities of soda, ore and marble are shipped every week from Inyo county. Grass in many lawns about town is quite green and lilacs and other flowering shrubs are beginning to leaf out. Jim Yerington is regarded as the boss floriculturist of Hawthorne. He makes chrysanthemums bloom in the sand and without irrigation.
110 Years Ago
Snow slide: Mrs. R. H. Mason was buried in the snow slide and is recuperating as well as can be expected.
70 Years Ago
Joins Air Force: Herbert Gillie, son of Mrs. Marie Gillie and the late A. L. Gillie, has enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and has been sent to a Texas station for processing. He is well known in Carson City having graduated from Carson High School. He later attended and graduated from Reno Business College and was employed by the state highway department.
20 Years Ago
Dayton’s birthday: The Friends of the Dayton Valley Library have arranged for a panel of historians to share knowledge leading up to Dayton’s 150^th birthday. The town celebrated the 150^th anniversary of the discovery of gold in Nevada.

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.