Photo provided Tallac pier is advertised in this undated historical photo.
Saturday
145 Years Ago
A day’s ride (continued from previous day). This tunnel is seven feet across at the bottom, five feet on the top and six and one-half feet high. A considerable portion of the way it is strongly timbered. The solid granite through which it passes for a considerable distance seems not to require this precaution. In its construction a railroad track about eighteen inches wide was laid upon which cars are drawn by mules. The distance of the tunnel is about one mile. For more on this article, see the June 28, 1877, edition of the morning Appeal.
140 Years Ago
There hasn’t been a scandal, or a crime made public at Genoa for nearly a week. What’s the matter? Has a reformation set in?
120 Years Ago
Greeks on strike. Two hundred Greeks employed on the rock crusher and in the quarry at the Southern Pacific Company at Cisco, California, went on a strike last week. They made demand for an increase in wages or for transportation to San Francisco. To enforce their demands, they armed themselves and took positions on the hillside and places around the rock crusher and would allow no one to return to work.
80 Years Ago
A doe that attempted to cross the Clear Creek Road in front of Earl Liard’s automobile about 11 o’clock last night was killed instantly. The happening was reported to Sheriff Harold Brooks, who made arrangements for use of the venison at the county hospital.
40 Years Ago
Photo caption. Although not found on the official endangered species list, road signs without a single bullet hole are extremely rare along back roads. This victim tries to get its message across at the intersection of Deer Run Road and Brunswick Canyon Road.
30 Years Ago
Agnes Heeter just does not understand what all the fuss is about. After 99 other birthdays, Agnes shows little enthusiasm for number 100, but other people are very excited.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Railroad to Washoe: The first locomotive arrived in Washoe City. Jule Holmes, the daughter of the head boss of the works, engineered the train into town. Mrs. W.L. Knox was the first passenger who entered Washoe City by steam.
140 Years Ago
Nevada insane patients from the private asylum of Dr. Clark, at Stockton were moved to new quarters in Reno. The move was happily and successfully accomplished. There were 148 patients in all. Among the large throng of unfortunates were every phase of mental disease—maniac, imbecile, and imaginary hero.
130 Years Ago
By the Fourth of July all the town will be one brilliant field of red, white, and blue.
120 Years Ago
An Independence Day poem by Anne Martin:
A tax on goods he sent us o’er the sea;
A tax on paper; a tax on the goodly tea;
Until the people, tiring of this strain
Declared themselves an independent train…
Long live our land! May freedom from her throne
Bless all the land we proudly call our own,
No darksome future clouds the coming years,
But sunlight unalloyed allay our fears.
100 Years Ago
Pioneer dies: J. Browne, vanguard of the early day west, died at his home after a stroke. He was out auto riding but was taken ill and grew weaker until he had a stroke. He was born in Massachusetts and left home at nineteen reaching Nevada in 1862. His wife, formerly Janet Van Sickle of Carson Valley, survives.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson theater, one of the greatest pictures of all time. Walt Disney’s ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,’ in technicolor. Cartoon and ‘The Naughty Twenties.’”
30 Years Ago
Emmys top week’s TV ratings: 1. “Emmy Awards,” NBC. 2. “60 Minutes,” CBS. 3. “Rosanne,” ABC. 4.“Home Improvement,” ABC. 5. “Sins of the mother,” CBS…
Monday
150 Years Ago
Cooling drinks: O.P. Willis’ marble soda fountain should be well patronized today. Ice cream soda, lemon, strawberry, and raspberry sodas can be had, ice-cold, at a bit a glass—each glass as large as a water bucket.
140 Years Ago
All sorts: Hank Monk has returned from the lake, and to the surprise of all, hasn’t told a single fish yarn.
130 Years Ago
Visitors from the Bay: San Francisco visitors say Carson is the prettiest town of its size and population on the Pacific Coast.
100 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Four-room house unfurnished; plenty of outbuildings. Suitable for chicken ranch; 4-acres of land; located on prison road one mile from Carson City; low rent can be had by answering this ad. Sandberg & Co. Inc., Reno, Nevada, Phone 546.”
70 Years Ago
Moonlight ride: Kit Carson Riding club members will travel to Borda’s spring in King’s Canyon for a wiener roast. A good turnout is expected as this will be the last organized ride until the annual Mt. Rose trip the middle of July.
30 Years Ago
Property tax rebates for seniors: Tax rebates for eligible senior citizens will be reduced by 25 percent starting July 1 because of an unprecedented and unexpected increase in applications for the program.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Canvas wanted: The boys at the Orphan’s home have rigged up a circus. Their amusement is an excellent one, being conducive to health and development of their muscular powers.
140 Years Ago
All sorts: Dan Dobbs, son of George R. Dobbs, of the Mint, shot himself in the left hand with a cartridge pistol on the Fourth of July. The young fellow is suffering much pain from his wound.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: The “signal flags” on top of the post office indicate warmer weather.
100 Years Ago
Nevada Historical Society: A rare album containing an original photograph of Abraham Lincoln and his family has been presented to the Nevada Historical Society and is now on display at the association’s museum on Virginia street. It also contains numerous photographs of pioneers of Nevada. The album was presented to the Society by William F. Boyle of Virginia City, who received it from a French lady who at one time was a maid in the service of Lincoln.
70 Years Ago
Meteorite Falls: A flying, flaming object was observed in the sky over parts of northern Utah, northern Nevada, Idaho, and eastern Oregon. Some pilots insisted it was a meteorite that fell, starting a forest fire, near the Utah-Nevada border.
30 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Gold Hill’s Favorite, Cabin in the Sky; on the menu, a 32 oz. Prime Rib Special; Friday & Saturday ‘50s & 60’s Rock ‘n Roll. Cabin in the Sky… A Fun Place.”
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
