Looking west from William Street at the Dutch Mill restaurant, corner of William and Carson streets in the 1950s or '60s.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Peaceable. Pioche is becoming, or rather is, one of the most orderly and well conducted towns of the coast. Few arrests are made and but a few cases which render an arrest necessary. In criminal matters the indicator docket shows a market decrease. — Pioche Record
140 Years Ago
Lake Tahoe stage. Doc Benton is now running the U.S. Mail coach to the lake three times a week, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with six horses. Passengers are carried as usual.
120 Years Ago
Yesterday the work of labeling the street corners of this city commenced in earnest. The signs are made of aluminum and are painted and enameled in black letters that are conspicuous and neat. The selection of the style shows that the City Fathers had an eye to what is ornamental as well as useful.
60 Years Ago
Four White Pine County school board members were voted out of office Thursday, climaxing a year-long movement against them by the taxpayers committee for better education.
40 Years Ago
What’s described as a “bureaucratic nightmare,” the Army takes over a new $70 million ammunition and salvage facility April 26 — and may mothball much of the 18-building complex. Senator Chic Hecht, R-Nev. was concerned about a possible “boondoggle.”
Sunday
150 Years Ago
The reconstructed Episcopal Church. Opening services. The largest, most critical and best dressed audience that we have seen in any church in Carson, in attendance on a regular Sunday service, assembled in the church of St. Peter on last Sabbath morning. The services were begun by the singing by the choir of a voluntary anthem — “Our heavenly Father.”
140 Years Ago
There are some things in this world which no fellow can find out, and among them is how may quarts of milk a Carson Valley cow will give. By this time the city purchaser is halfway to the next ranch (after a 20-minute runaround), where he will get about the same class of information, only perhaps not so much of it.
120 Years Ago
“Kid” Curtis Kendal, a brother of the owner of the January lease in Tonopah, one of the richest mines in the new and booming bonanza camp of Goldfield, was shot at 7 o’clock this morning by Howard Sharp, also known as “Doc” Sharp. A bullet from a 41-caliber revolver literally disemboweled Kendal and he cannot possibly recover. This is the first murder in the new bonanza camp.
60 Years Ago
John Borda Monday night was named by the Ormsby County School Board as the new varsity basketball coach of Carson City High School. Borda, 31, was one of 14 applicants for the job. Five of the applicants were from within the state.
40 Years Ago
A new policy which addresses an old problem regarding temporary management agreements between managers and former owners of establishments which sell liquor has been adopted by the board of supervisors.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Repairs to the Methodist Church. We understand that a considerable sum of money has been raised for the purpose of repairing the Methodist Church and refurbishing the same. The outer walls are to be “pointed” and the inner walls will receive a thorough painting. The repairs are needed, and we are glad to learn that the funds are at hand.
140 Years Ago
Near Schultz’s ranch not far from the road which leads to the North Carson Mine, are three or four wigwams which were erected there about three weeks ago. In one lies a leading Washoe in the last stages of disease. A medicine man was called and after dancing, pounded up bugs fed to the ill Indian with molasses and after dashing water every 10 minutes to stop his fever his recovery was doubtful. Graves have been dug, one for the patient and one for the physician, one to be buried face up, and the other face down. Both will probably be buried this week.
120 Years Ago
Everything points to a revival in the mining industry in the Pine Nut gold fields this coming summer. For the past few days, a number of experts have been over the field and local people have taken options on the ground.
60 Years Ago
“Let ‘em grow!” The Ormsby County School Board told male faculty members Monday night. Many men teachers had asked if they could grow beards for the centennial year, and it was approved by the board and by well-bearded President Orvis E. Reil.
40 Years Ago
Property taxes will rise in Carson City and nearly all major communicates in Clark and Washoe counties if tentative budget is adopted, according to the Nevada Taxpayer’s Association.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.