Carson City looking north from the top of the Capitol building in 1871.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Blind Tom, the wonderful pianist, is going to give an entertainment in Virginia City tomorrow night. We certainly hope he may come to Carson. He is one of the wonders of the age.
140 Years Ago
The sawmills at Glenbrook have contracts for between 18-20 million feet.
120 Years Ago
J.D. Culbert had the top of his skull caved in through being struck with a piece of iron falling from the top of a Tonopah mine shaft in the bottom of which he was working last week. Slight hope of recovery is entertained.
80 Years Ago
Through their postcard referendum taken last week the Carson City Lions voted about 74 percent to return to noon meetings.
40 Years Ago
The Senate Finance Committee withdrew its plans to locate a 192-man prison honor camp at the former Steward Indian School.
20 Years Ago
Wearing hand-tanned buckskins, throwing tomahawks, and firing black powder rifles, members of the Eagle Valley Muzzleloaders will hold their annual spring rendezvous this weekend.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
An accident occurred on the V&T R.R. between 11 and 12 o’clock yesterday which caused much damage to the locomotive engine “Comstock” and more or less wrecked four ore dumps and four flats. The conductor of train one on the silver switch left detached cars standing on the main track when engine number two ran around the curve and smashed into the standing cars. Nobody hurt.
140 Years Ago
Those who have subscribed for the Appeal during the past few days will please notify this office if the paper is not regularly left by the carrier, as he has some difficulty in learning the whereabouts of some of the new subscribers.
120 Years Ago
Mayday is here and there is no picnic billed. There is something wrong.
80 Years Ago
Harold J. Berger is now employed by the Carson Water Co., and today he started making the monthly collections from water consumers.
40 Years Ago
The total snowfall in the Sierra this year was still 10 inches short of the all-time record Saturday, but a weather service spokesperson said that may change before the weekend is over.
20 Years Ago
The Boys & Girls Club of Western Nevada got its first official go-ahead from Carson City Wednesday to build a new clubhouse.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
A pair of fellow citizens who ought to have been engaged in a quiet game of pitch seven-up or “ker-sock” indulged themselves yesterday in the questionable amusement of driving their buggy team onto the sidewalks of Carson Street – thereby frightening timid folks, injuring their horses, provoking unfriendly criticisms, depressing their friends and illustrating the true unwisdom of some folks ever indulging in too many “tods.” There was no particular damage done; but that sort of amusement is a bad example.
140 Years Ago
Senator Jones is in Gold Hill. He carries a string with a cork at each end to put in his ears when the office seekers invade the house.
120 Years Ago
Thomas A. Edison has devised a scheme for extracting gold from sands of the desert. The discovery is expected to add untold millions to the wealth of the world. Compressed air is to be the means by which the gold will be separated from the sand, an air blast being directed through an ingenious machine of the inventor’s own design.
80 Years Ago
The program presented at the Rotary meeting-luncheon this noon was a combined observance of Music Week and Mother’s Day. “Mother Machree” and “Mother” were sung by Miss Jackie Ross.
40 Years Ago
The streams in Ash and Kings canyons are brimful of cold water as April ends. One of the topics in Carson this week is if those streams will turn into rivers.
20 Years Ago
The first woman elected to Nevada’s Supreme Court; Miriam Shearing is to retire next year.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.