Big Goldfields Camp Seen As Permanent Boom Town
Reporter Chris Snyder describes Goldfields Nevada as a rapidly growing mining camp with 5 000 residents including 4 000 permanents. New banks, blockfronts, a water system and electric plant accompany 15 saloons, 10 12 mines active within 3 4 miles, ore values up to 6000 per ton. Transportation between Tonopah and Goldfields expands with freight rates and booming passenger traffic.
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Chris Snyder
Goldfields
West
Snyder
Nevada
Tonopah
Tonopah Mining Co
Monthly Treasurer Report for January 1904 Balances
Treasurer Steven son filed with County Clerk Baker a January 31 1904 balance list across funds. General 478.95 Contingent 1 096.4 Road fund 2 939.00 Bridge 61 554 Sinking 2 796.37 School 23 310.27 City of Dillon 58.39 State fund 531.65 State Bounty 99.10 Stock Indemnity 16 Stock 10.17 Fish and Game 1.42 Free High School 6 686.64 High School Interest and Link 741.54 Institute Beauties 2.70 Total 36 959.13 Hand balance December list 40 479.07 month receipts 3 258.04 disbursements 6 777.98 hand January 31st balance remains.
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Stevenson
Baker
Dillon
H. S
Monthly receipts and state remittance figures recorded
During the month receipts from all sources totaled 3 258 04 with taxes 376 09 licenses 1 982 20 county officers fees 625 20 and other sources 274 75 A check of 255 69 was remitted to the state treasurer representing the state's share of money collected Warrants totaling 6 522 29 were redeemed during the month.
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Boyte
A Good Farce Comedy Attracts In Nelson October
Irish comedian James F Post leads a clever farce company coming to Nelson Opera House in October. Reviews from Vancouver praise him as a drawing card with crowds and laughs, noting a changing program each night and a strong supporting cast. First Dillon Theatre dates Friday and Saturday February 10 and 11 with tickets 50 and 75 cents and a dollar.
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James F. Post
Farcours
Nelson Opera House
Post
British Columbia
Vancouver
News-Advertiser
Jim Post
May Ashley
A& I
Dillon Theatre
Jasper Nelson
January Weather Highlights From Monroe Report
The January weather record by Prof. J. E. Monroe shows a mean temperature of 24.2 degrees, a high of 50 on the 2nd and 24th, and a low of 13 on the 13th. Seven days below freezing, total precipitation six inches, snowfall 5.95 inches, seven clear days, eleven partly cloudy, thirteen cloudy, with westerly winds prevailing.
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J. E. Monroe
U. S. Weather Bureau
Prominent Casper Irrigation Advocate Featured in National Issue
The January Irrigation Age presents a halftone portrait and sketch of Hon. J. W. Price of Casper Wyoming, praising his work to irrigate the arid West. It notes his opposition to moves to merge irrigation with the Trans Misssissippi congress and his stance against repealing land laws at the Ogden congress.
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Irrigation Age
J. W. Price
Casper
Wyo
L. J
Price
Mina Grove Ranch
Casper, Wye
Irrigation Congress
Trans-Mississippi Congress
West
Ogden Congress
Twelfth National Irrigation Congréses
el Paso
Unclear excerpt mentions irrigation act and state center
Fragmentary passage notes suspicion toward government officials and an attempt to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. It says resolutions could not be passed near irrigation activity and refers to a state outside the National Irrigation Act's scope.
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U. and I. Co
Jas. A. Post
Casper, Wyo
L. J. Price
R. W. Williams
Fred Willams
Thomson
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Consideraton
Wmn. A. Clark
Wim. C. ‘Clark Jr
Katherine
Beaverhead County
Montana
Frank A. Hazelbaker
Wisdom
Lyman Harley
Louie Kauffman
Bryant District
Charles H. Seybold
Wise River
Geo. A. Pyle
Cottonwood Creek
Polaris
B. UV. Fournier
South Fork
Warn Springs
Blacktail Deer Creek
H. B. Selway
Lost Cloud District
Eureka
Blue Wing
Thos F. Stevens Et al
Garnett
Buffalo Claim
Blue Jay Claim
Utopia
James H. Mackay
Caulin Ranchi
Utopia District
A. C. Hammound
Roosevelt
Louis Nelson
Joshua Benett
Triplett Dunbar
Virgil Dunbar
Big Hole River
Simon B. Dunbar
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Joseph Butola
Virgil M. Dunbar
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Bowen
Oscar Anderson
Sherman Sapp
Farlin
Big Hole Basin
Albert Belin
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A. B. Coon
Charles Gooch
Bannack S&t
Bannack St
A. L. Rife
A. L. Rafferty
Rife
Thos. J. Ellis
Vermont Lode
Utopia Dist
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Thos. IF. Stevens
Bell View Placer
Thomas F. Stevens
Sparrow Lode
Chewkee
Mountain Vein
W. W. Me. Dowell
Arctic
Bob Tail
Defender Jodes
R. W. Bammer Et al
Golden Eagle
Night Hawk
Milwaukee
Banner Brew
Yal
S. S. Patterson
Paul Brown
Merchant Tailor
Dillon, Mont
Kunzman’s
Geo. Kunzman
F. W. Vogler
Redrock
Salmon City
Gibbonsville
James L. Jones
Washington and
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Dillon, Montana
H. A. Bond, M. D
AE Reo
Kansas City
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Memphis
Springfield
Birmingham
Atlanta
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G. W. Martin
Western
Denver, Colo
Examiner
Pamir
Olmsted & Logan
Liquor House
S.S. Patterson
Apollinaris
Bethesda
Arcadian
Idanha
el Plantador
Flor de Erb
Rialto
la Coralina Cigars
Madeira
Gutedel
Burgundy
Muscatel
Catawba
Rhine
Malaga
Val Blatz
Chicago
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Rockies
Denver
R. F. Neslen
Billon Steam
Sebree and
Montana Sts
St. Paul Railway
Omaha
Union Depot
C. S. Williams
Second South St
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