New Nevada gleams with Tonopah gold boom and rail hope
Fresh high grade ore discoveries south of Tonopah attract investors as Goldfield serves as a supply base. Amargosa prospects expand, water and access improve with a projected railroad. Nevada’s gold output rises, Cripple Creek declines, signaling a bold, new gold producing era for the Silver State.
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Nevada
Tonopsh
Tonopah
Amargosa
Death Valley
Comstock Lode
Golifield
Cripple Creek
Will Extend Golconda Railroad to Kennedy
The narrow gauge line between Golconda and the Adelaide mine, 14 miles, will be extended to Kennedy for 40 more miles. Humboldt County mining developments create a great need for railroads, and the Golconda extension will substantially aid future county growth.
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Golconda
Adelaidea
Kennedy
Humboldt County
Silver State
Nevada Tax Valuations Rise in 1904 Reports
The 1904 tax valuations for Nevada total $36,088,710, up $3,390,246 from 1903, marking the largest year over year increase and signaling continued growth. The figures, filed with the Controller, exceed last year’s rise by $514,160.
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State of
Nevada
Roosevelt message to Congress dominates national agenda
President Roosevelt delivers a comprehensive 18 000 word message to Congress. Lt Gen Nelson A Miles accepts appointment as Adjutant General on the staff of Massachusetts Governor elect William L Douglas. Fire in Los Angeles destroys Standard Woodenware stock and damages a four story building, loss estimated at 100 000 dollars. El Paso sees first snow in two years, storm lasts six hours with rain and sleet, cattle losses feared. Livestock champion Clear Lake Jute II sold to New York firm for 36 dollars per hundred pounds, garnering over 1100 dollars. Kruger is lying in state at Haguenet Memorial building in South Africa. Eight union miners returned to Telluride after a strike, arrested and ordered to stay away.
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Congress
Nelson A. Miles
William L. Douglas
Massachusetts
Los Angeles
Cal
Standard Woodenware Company
el Paso
Texas
Iris
Chicago
New York
Cape Town
South Africa
Transvaal Republic
Paul Kruger
Haguenct Memorial Building
Telluride
Geyer
Congress Opens as Memoir Tributes Lead the Session
The Fifty-eighth Congress began in Washington with opening day formalities and tributes to Senators Hoar and Quay. The President's message was read. Wells Fargo pursues a $15,000 theft from its San Francisco forwarding department. A two headed child in East Somerville draws medical interest. Immigration shows net loss in male arrivals and a rise in female arrivals. A West cold wave brings zero weather and the season’s first East snow storm.
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Congress
Washington, D.C
Senate
House
Hoar
Massachusetts
Quay
Pennsylvania
Wells Pargo
Wells, Fargo & Co
Express Company
San Francisco
Two Nevada Births Recorded in Late November 1904
In Prospect Eureka County Nevada on November 25 1904 a daughter was born to the wife of Peter Repetta and in Virginia City Nevada on November 28 1904 a daughter was born to the wife of R L Douglas Mrs Douglass formerly Eleanor Ernst
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Prospect
Eureka County
Nevada
Peter Repetta
Virginia City
R. L. Douglas
Douglass
Eleanor Ernst
County Officials Given Salaries and Allowances December 5 1904
County commissioners approve payments to named individuals including Alex Fraser P Phrout John McNaughton Hy Hoegh A W Clayton Walker Olsen William Dougherty B H Bealley Daborg K P Co merchandise Eureka Water Works and M Ferrall Latto for road work and indigent relief and other clerical fees as of December 5 1904 with names and amounts listed for salaries mileage and services.
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Alex Fraser
Mil P. Phrout
John McNaughton
Hy Hoegh
Calary
A. W. Clayton
Walker Olsenilliam Dougherty
B. H. Bealley
E Duburg
Daborg Et al
I. On
Evarks Sextinen
Roosevelt policy priorities outline in congressional message
The document surveys Roosevelt's policy categories from labor to immigration. It calls for public interest governance of capital, safeguarded labor rights without violence, stronger railroad and child-labor data, curb on interstate rebates, urban reform and public playgrounds, and strict currency and immigration standards. It ends noting no greater patriotic duty than unity.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Bureau of Labor
Government to complete land grant talks for scrip creation
In forest-reserve matters the Government will finalize negotiations with land grant owners to enable the creation of scrip. Too many Government reports are printed and most are never read, reflecting an issue in official communications.
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District of Columbia
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Eureka Nevada
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Moune
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