The first Territorial Legislature meet Oct. 1, 1861, at Abraham Curry's Warm Springs Hotel. Today the Nevada State Prison occupies the site.
Wednesday
155 Years Ago
Farmer Treadway shipped, day before yesterday, the first load of freight that has been carried over the new line. He has the first bill of lading ever issued by the company and sets forth that he, Treadway, shipped in good order and condition, to Abe Edington, two sacks of potatoes and one sack of beets; and the trademarks, a three spot of each of the suits of clubs, spaces and diamonds are duly entered upon the bill. The products of Eagle Valley thus early assert their marketable value!
140 Years Ago
The Appeal will at the next session of the legislature furnish the members with a homeographic chart.
120 Years Ago
Candidate’s ball. On the evening of Nov. 4 there is to be a fine time at Empire. Wiggins’ hall is engaged for the occasion and the candidates are informed that the dance of the season and the vote making contest is to be given. No particular party is to be represented and its everyone for himself in the grand dance that is to round up the votes.
60 Years Ago
“It is easier to admit Nevada than to raise another million soldiers.” That was President Abraham Lincoln talking as quoted by his Assistant Secretary of War, Charles A. Dana. So, 100 years ago Oct. 31, after a good deal of political maneuvering, Nevada became the 36th state of the union, the “Battle Born” state.
40 Years Ago
Faced with the highest health care costs in the nation, many state officials, including Gov. Richard Bryan, are considering establishing a rate-setting agency for health care similar to the Public Service Commission.
Thursday
155 Years Ago
The V.&T. R.R. Co.’s new locomotive “Ormsby” has arrived here and will be set up and put in running order very soon.
140 Years Ago
Lost man department. The advertisements in this column are published for the parties concerned. The names in black type represent the parties missing and the names in ordinary type are those of persons to whom communications regarding missing men should be addressed (three names are listed).
120 Years Ago
Material for the conversion of the C. and C. From a narrow gauge to a standard gauge line will be delivered at Mound House within the next few days and according to the statements of Southern Pacific official’s work will begin at once on the reconstruction of the road.
60 Years Ago
With its population spurting toward the 100,000 mark, Carson shrugged off a hint of rain and welcomed swarms of Silver State pioneers and tourists who flooded into Nevada’s capital to ring in 100 years of statehood.
40 Years Ago
The state Division of Environmental Protection will recommend a ban on projects seeking to recover gold, silver and mercury from the Carson River near Virginia City and Silver City.
Friday
155 Years Ago
Base and other balls — The rage for ball playing is very apparent hereabout. Old fellows whose hair and teeth are going and gone and young ones who have just got their first breeches and boots on, are knocking and tossing and catching balls on the Plaza and the streets from daybreak to dark. The disease is as contagious as “catching:” and butterfingers are at a discount.
140 Years Ago
The V.&T. R.R. will change their clocks to conform to the standard time. Yesterday Superintendent Yerington officially inaugurated the change by climbing on a high stool and turning all the hands back one minute and 15 seconds. He succeeded in accomplishing the work with only breaking one clock face and a stool leg.
120 Years Ago
Probably the finest collection of ores that ever came from one group of mining claims to this city, was brought in by John V. Brooks, general manager of the Empire Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company’s properties in the Freiburg district, Lincoln County, Nev. yesterday. The ores come from the company’s 32 claims that cover the mineral zone for a width of two-and one-half miles and five miles long.
60 Years Ago
The Nevada Indian Inter-Tribal council has scheduled a pow-wow and trade fair today as part of the centennial celebration. Indians from 11 western states have been invited to attend.
40 Years Ago
Storey County District Attorney Marshall Bouvier sat at his desk Monday in the ornate, century-old courthouse and talked about what he has come to believe is a fairly capricious election process. Bouvier has been subjected of two recall petitions in the past year.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.