The Vivian Mill in about 1885. The mill was the eastern most mill in Carson River Canyon.
Wednesday
145 Years Ago
Complaints from subscribers of having their Appeals stolen from their doors in the early morning are brought to our ear. We have made arrangements for detecting these sneak thieves and upon the apprehension of one of their numbers, we shall have him snake into custody, forthwith, and rammed, jammed, and crammed into the city prison. We mean just what we say.
140 Years Ago
Complaints come from Silver King Valley that a party of Carsonites who recently visited the valley killed a large number of fish with giant powder. They narrowly escaped arrest, which is to be regretted if they were guilty.
120 Years Ago
A strike has been made here which makes Tonopah, without a doubt, the richest mining camp in the world. The strike was made at 400 feet on the Mizpah ledge, about a mile east of the original workings on that famous ledge.
80 Years Ago
The Russell Bros. Circus, in Carson City Saturday attracted and pleased large crowds. Many of the acts were outstanding and sever of them were rated individually as well worth the entire price of admission.
40 Years Ago
After an absence of 30 years, a railroad with a real steam-powered locomotive will be operating in Carson City.
20 Years Ago
Janice Acres, executive director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer program, has received Nevada’s Outstanding Older Worker award from Experienceworks, a leading non-profit that promotes employment for older Americans.
Thursday
145 Years Ago
Ever since Mollie Forshay was pardoned out of the penitentiary, we have heard bitter comments upon the action of the pardoning board. She says, we hear that she will suffer starvation rather than return to her old life. We hear that Mollie is an excellent needlewoman. If so, she should find no difficulty in obtaining an abundance of work.
140 Years Ago
Didn’t like it. A tour list from the lake was shown into the dining room of a leading hotel in this city. He had no sooner taken his seat before a squad of little, willful children began screaming and hauling chairs about the room. The tourist, greatly annoyed, hailed the steward and said: “Show me into the dining room, I don’t want to eat my dinner in the nursery.” Upon receiving a reply that he was then in the dining room, he withdrew to a neighboring restaurant.
120 Years Ago
We, the representatives of the silver party of Nevada, hereby reaffirm the principles upon which the party was founded as enunciated in our last state platform and declare our unyielding fidelity to those principles. Money question – we unequivocally condemn the Republican party for its attitude upon the money question.
80 Years Ago
Wallace W. White, engineer of sanitation for the Nevada state board of health, addressed the Lions of Carson this noon on the subject of water supplies of the state. Several of the growing communities now, or in the near future, will experience serious shortages of water.
40 Years Ago
The State Board of Education was told Nevada school districts are running $13 million in the red because of the economic slump, approved Friday a proposed budget providing millions more for higher salaries and programs.
20 Years Ago
To the ire of a standing room only crowd, Carson City planning commissions gave a developer another month or more to work out the details of a controversial development in the Lakeview/Timberlake area.
Friday
145 Years Ago
It looks to us as if those sandstone blocks at the gates of Capitol square were not going to prove hard enough and solid enough to hold the iron gear of the hinges. We guess that it will be found necessary to substitute granite. The strain will be considerable, and sandstone isn’t the toughest material in the world.
140 Years Ago
It is said that some Virginia City Englishmen will endeavor to induce the Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise to visit the Comstock on their route west. If they are successful, we might be able to detain the royal party here for an hour or two.
120 Years Ago
Look out for your dog. At the Schulz slaughterhouse, a lot of poison has been scattered for coyotes and hunters who value their dogs had better steer clear of the place. The coyotes have destroyed half a dozen sheep in the past ten days and the poison has been set for them.
80 Years Ago
Americans were warned today to begin tightening their belts for the rationing of meat this winter but were assured they are a long way from hunger though the use of substitutes and “top notch protein diet” substitutes.
40 Years Ago
Three-time Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman, who played tragic heroines in such classic films as “Casablanca” has died. She was 67.
20 Years Ago
No one was hurt in a single-vehicle accident Wednesday evening when a woman crashed her truck near the Carson River in Brunswick Canyon.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
