Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Land applications: There have been more than two hundred applications for land at the land office for parcels ranging from 75 to 600 acres. This makes a rather gratifying showing for our school fund. Here and there are an applicant being a small farmer or an actual woodchopper; but the sorry fact is that most of those who apply for lands come either with a proxy for the actual applicant for the sake of getting a corner on and selling to some cattle grazier or other person with a longing for wide herding lands. There is a pitiful paucity of the sure-enough granger element in all this if, as we hope, a granger is an anti-land grabber and a homestead man.
140 Years Ago
In brief: The Reno jail is so full of criminals that there is no standing room for another one.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: C.F. McGlashan formerly editor of the Truckee Republican, is the pardonably proud father of a 12-pound daughter.
110 Years Ago
Comstock Recovery Company: The company recently acquired the Brunswick property on the Carson River below Empire. Four men are engaged in sluicing, being able to run out almost a ton a day, the average value of $800 per ton. Cleanup around the old mill spillway will be made and from values from prospecting and sampling may have values of fully $1,000 per ton…
70 Years Ago
Attendees at Nevada Day: There were 36,281 people in Carson City for the Nevada Day celebration, the state highway department has estimated. This is compared with an estimate of 26,000 here last year.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
Construction updates: The roof timbers are going up on the new extension and back action Sunday School of the Episcopal Church; Bliss’ new and stylist barn is rearing its head toward the zenith; Geo. Kitzmeyer’s brick block is stretching upwards in the direction of the empyrean and E.B. Rail went to San Francisco.
140 Years Ago
The ghost: John Dennis says in the Times-Review that he does not believe it is Hank Monk’s ghost moving the chairs about the barroom of the Ormsby House, for if it were him, he would be rattling the bottles instead.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Yesterday being Admission Day, flags were unfurled all over the state.
The Carson Home Orchestra (six pieces) which is composed of young people of Carson, will give their first ball of the season in November at the Armory Hall.
110 Years Ago
Theatre: Pathe weekly at the Grand. “The Pawnbrokers Daughter,” “Legend of Lovers Leap,” and Cutey Pies Reporting.”
70 Years Ago
Museum exhibits on Nevada Day: According to J.W. Calhoun, director of the Nevada State Museum, they played host to well over 6,000 visitors. A feature during the time of celebration was a group of wild animals lent to the museum through courtesy of the Nevada Fish and Game Commission. The animals included two coyotes, a fawn, bobcat, ring-tailed cat, and porcupine.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Genoa chopping: Mr. J.R. Johnson informs us that business in Genoa is the reserved timber lands on the hills that are a big business. Messrs. Yerington and Haynie have two thousand men chopping there and carpenters at work. Besides building a flume which is to run through the town to the river. The company will cut 10,000 cords of wood during the winter which they intend to flume down part in the early in the spring and the rest early in the fall.
140 Years Ago
John Moran, one of the workmen, noticed something wrong with the batteries, and the machinery was stopped. Superintendent Williams saw that mixed up with the Belcher ore was a conglomerate mass which on inspection, proved to be a trout. An investigation showed that the screen leading into the mill race had been broken and the brook trout that were shot into the batteries. Over a hundred trout in the mill race that are too large to go down the pipe are in the river. There is fine fishing in the vicinity of Empire.
130 Years Ago
A challenge: “Buffalo Bill” has challenged Tarrant, the bicyclist to a two-hour race. Cody is to ride a horse and Tarrant a bicycle. It is designed to test the merits of the two mounts, each rider being allowed a change if desired.
110 Years Ago
Personal mention: Fred Elms, who is publishing “The History of Nevada,” writes the Appeal that the books are now on the way from New York and will be ready for delivery.
70 Years Ago
Photo caption: New medical advance in the war on poliomyelitis is made by Dr. Alton R. Taylor, Detroit, who presents the first authenticated pictures of an isolated polio virus…
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.