Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Hung up. A big meeting was held at Empire, of the wood dignitaries who have determined that their joint property of between thirty and forty thousand cords of wood is virtually hung up between Markleeville and the Mexican dam. It was resolved that the wood cannot be unsung, despite having 80 workers unchanging it, until winter when the water rises.
140 Years Ago
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, and Governor Murray, of Utah, with a party of friends, were at Lake Tahoe a few days ago. Messrs Yerington and Bliss kindly placed the steamer meteor at the disposal of that party.
120 Years Ago
Four escaped convicts seen at Phillip’s station near Lake Tahoe. They are headed for Nevada. Thomas Wilkerson, warden. The convicts have evidently crossed from the Hope Valley country toward the lake. It is thought the convicts are headed toward Carson Valley or the country south of town.
60 Years Ago
The Carson Indian Colony has completed arrangements for a housing authority, a planning board and a citizen’s advisory committee to administer a home building program.
40 Years Ago
Stating the agency needs to “declare itself” in terms of how local government views the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency regional plan, members of basin-wide local government boards Monday outlined their suggestions for revisions in the plan.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
Ophir Hotel. This lodging place and hash house, so crowded and notorious in the early days of Washoe has come to naught in this day of Carson’s prosperity and being torn down appeared here in the shape of three carloads of old boards, which were standing at the V&T Depot, yesterday, undergoing an inspection of fright at the hands of farmer Treadway who was offering to buy it for fuel. Sic transit gloria mundi.
140 Years Ago
E.T. Trofatter, a commissioner of Eureka county, at present in this city, is accused by the papers of his town with some very crooked conduct.
120 Years Ago
Robert D. Grant, the well-known mining man of 1205 Brigham St., has just returned from Tonopah where he was the silent spectator to the biggest crap game that a mining camp ever saw. As $10,000, $12,000 and $13,000 were staked on a single throw of the little cubed ivories, it is possible it was the biggest crap game ever played in the state.
60 Years Ago
A monthly report of spending in city departments is being considered by the Carson City council. Mayor James Robertson asked accountant Don Pringle to report to the council with an estimate of costs for the monthly report. Robertson said the report would be valuable to help cut expenses.
40 Years Ago
Gov. Richard Bryan has proclaimed Saturday Kerry Gottschalk Day in Nevada. Gottschalk, the son of former Carson City supervisor George Gottschalk and wife Gertrude, died Aug. 8 at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, California. On July 8 he became the first Carson City resident to undergo a full heart transplant.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Spendthrifts. Every now and then Carson is visited by a reckless rancher who, having sold butter and eggs for $20 or $25 goes around and treats his numerous city friends until his earnings are dissipated and he is whooping drunk.
140 Years Ago
The wasp called our visiting Masons “Knight Samplers.”
120 Years Ago
News comes from Las Vegas that William Williams or “Wild Bill,” an all-edged cattle rustler and bad man was murdered at Stewart’s Ranch, about 30 miles from Las Vegas, a few days ago. An Indian named Conchino is under arrest.
60 Years Ago
A grueling four-day effort to bad three antelope for a life-size exhibit left a special hunting party from the Nevada State Museum with only a third of its mission accomplished. It will take two more hunting trips to get a buck and a kid to complete the tableau.
40 Years Ago
Leading what it hopes will be a statewide drive, the White Pine County Democratic Central Committee called Tuesday morning for Lt. Gov. Robert Cashell’s resignation from his state office following the politician’s “defection” to the Republican Party.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.