Wednesday
155 Years Ago
Four hours from Reno to Carson was the time made by the regular mail and passenger stage yesterday. Owing to the burning of the bridge over the American River the cars were delayed several hours behind their usual time of arrival at Reno from over the Sierras.
140 Years Ago
Slaughtered Trout. Catches of from two to four hundred pounds per day, by a single fisherman are frequent on the Truckee River. Fish swimming upriver are caught at the dam at Verdi. At Wadsworth, there has been shipped by freight and through Wells, Fargo and Co., over 160,000 pounds of trout this season. When the Spring run closes, the fish will return to Pyramid Lake.
120 Years Ago
Yesterday five automobiles passed through this city on their way to Tonopah where they will be used for passenger service between Tonopah and Goldfield. When the five machines clogged through town, they certainly awakened the natives to the fact that the horseless carriage is the coming power for transportation.
70 Years Ago
Gov. Charles Russell announced today he will sign a bill creating a state department of economic development and will appoint Peter T. (Pete) Kelley as its first director.
60 Years Ago
Two inches of snow had fallen on Carson City by 9 a.m. this morning as the proverbial March lion finally found his bearings today to dump soggy snow, a half foot in spots, in Western Nevada and the Sierra.
Thursday
155 Years Ago
Yesterday was the most springlike day we have had so far. A continuance of this sort of weather will ensure “that early spring” vouchsafed by our weather prophets.
140 Years Ago
The roller skating fever continues unabated, and several young ladies are wearing pads on their shoulder blades, etc.
120 Years Ago
Six Mile Canyon and Flowery mining and milling industries will be unusually active during the coming summer. Butters’ plant, which is now employing only a small force, will be run to its full capacity of 300 tons per day next month.
70 Years Ago
Ormsby County became the first in the state to consolidate its school districts — even before the new legislation takes effect — by voting Friday night to include District 2 of New Empire in the Carson school district.
60 Years Ago
Richard Grundy, M.D. of Carson City, has been named president of the Carson City Rotary Club. He will take over the post from retiring president Ted Stokes.
Friday
155 Years Ago
Blasting at the state prison — Lt. Gov. Sligerland is energetically engaged in getting out rock in anticipation of an early movement toward the construction of the Capitol building. Yesterday he sent off a big blast in the prison quarry which for a moment filled the air with small and large rock which caused the convicts to hunt the safe side of stone walls until the shower was over. (Continued)
140 Years Ago
Gov. Adams is now reported as saying that he means to veto the anti-treaty bill, but it got mixed up with some other papers and was overlooked. It would be quite a study to see him in the next campaign smoothing out the matter to the saloon keepers on one side and the temperance people on the other.
120 Years Ago
Geneva, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brady of Empire, is very sick with diphtheria, but she is receiving every attention and care, and it is hoped that no serious result will follow. Little Geneva is a very bright child, and it is the hope of all who know her that she will improve rapidly.
70 Years Ago
Two atomic bombs were exploded in a single day today for the first time in Nevada test history — one a whopper so powerful it split a ceiling 75 miles away, the other a “baby” airburst of an undisclosed secret weapon in America’s expanding nuclear arsenal.
60 Years Ago
The 1965 legislature adjourned for probably its last weekend of the current session Friday after its committees cleared nearly all live bills for floor votes.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.