Nevada Historical Society
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
We hear of an important industrial project about to be undertaken. The Virginia & Truckee Railroad Company contemplate building a narrow-gauge railway from the head of the Summit Flume to Lake Bigler (Tahoe). The distance over the highway is about three miles. The descent to the lake from the summit, however, is rapid — the difference in altitude being estimated at 800 feet. The road will be made to diverge from the direct line and pass over a distance of seven or eight miles.
140 Years Ago
A good Republican. G.W. Small of Lake View did not receive his paper on Sunday morning for some reason or another and immediately wrote a letter shaking up the editor pretty lively. He calls for the Appeal containing the report of the ratification meeting. And closes as follows: Now please attend to this if you would have me remain a good Republican. We can assure Mr. Small that as long as he takes the morning Appeal and reads it, there will be no trouble about his Republicanism.
120 Years Ago
Miss Grey Davis, one of the prettiest of the Carson girls has been selected as the Goddess of Liberty for the Fourth of July. Miss Elsie Gavin will represent Nevada and, as she is a handsome brunette, the two young ladies will certainly do credit to the nation and state.
110 Years Ago
The great register of Ormsby County now totals 249 signatures, with those designating the Republican party in the majority, the Democrats following with 16 less.
100 Years Ago
In order to test out the fire-fighting equipment, as well as the water supply, the Gardnerville volunteer department was called out Monday evening, the siren being sounded at that hour by order of E. Christensen, fire chief. — Record-Courier
Thursday
150 Years Ago
The Carson River maintains a high stage of water. All the mills along that stream are running up to their full capacity.
140 Years Ago
Chester Rail has joined the Holiness Band, and his sweet voice in the singing is drawing large crowds.
120 Years Ago
After the shops have been removed from Wadsworth to Sparks and that place is no longer a station on the line of the great trans-continental road the town of Hazen will forge to the front and take the place of the present thriving railroad town.
110 Years Ago
By failure of the gases to dissipate themselves from the shots of the night before in a shaft in a mine 27 miles from Tonopah, Sam Banovich, an Austrian miner, was asphyxiated Thursday morning. Two companions barely escaped a similar fate.
100 Years Ago
Yerington will celebrate the Fourth of July in fitting style. This was determined last Tuesday when representatives of each of the fraternal organizations met and made plans for a two-day celebration, embodying all of the usual features, such as street sorts for the children and a baseball tournament in which it is expected that several teams will play. — Yerington Times
Friday
150 Years Ago
A slight frost occurred night before last. Rapidly growing and consequently tender Vince’s received just a touch of the same. But little damage will result therefrom.
140 Years Ago
It is said that one of the men who got religion a few nights since at the Band of Holiness meeting went home on the strength of it and thrashed his wife. A little less religion and more manliness and decency would work a great change in that man.
120 Years Ago
Smash up. Yesterday morning, Schultze’s horse attached to his butcher wagon, became frightened at the hot springs auto and ran away. The rig came up against the U.S. Mint and was considerably damaged.
110 Years Ago
Gen. Rosalie Jones of New York City and Long Island, one of the nation’s most ardent and prominent woman suffragettes, was an arrival in Carson this morning and tonight will address the people of this city following a picture show at the Grand Theater.
100 Years Ago
Both of the emergency pumps which the reclamation service has been installing the Lahontan reservoir to safe the crop of farmlands under the Truckee-Carson canal, were put in operation Thursday, says the Fallon Eagle.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.