Nevada Items: cholera outbreak to roads bond and oddities
Nevada reports hog cholera on 14 ranches near Yerington with a quarantine and university expert efforts. Las Vegas chamber pushes Clark County road bond of 50000 dollars. Reno shows a cash balance after tax receipts and bills paid to Jan 10. Nevada cattle sheep and horse shipments rise, while Elko hosts poultry prizes and county road expenditures total 92240 dollars.
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Yerington
The
State University
Chamber of Commerce of
Las Vegas
Clark County
Reno
Philip Heer
George Wingfield
A. D. Taber
Elko
Utah
Ogden
Elko Free Press
Elko County
Death of Roger McMenamin Pioneer Rancher of Nevada
Roger McMenamin a former Newark Valley resident and long time Nevada rancher and stockman died at his Reno home on January 20 at 62 years, 9 months and 25 days. A native of Ireland he settled in California in 1872 and moved to Nevada four years later, living in Eureka before relocating to Reno fourteen years ago to work in teaming and contracting. He married Mary Darrah in Reno and is survived by three daughters. He had a wide circle of friends across the state.
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Newark Valley
Eureka
Reno
Roger McMenamin
Jcrty
West Third Street
Ireland
Nevada
Pacific Coast
California
Mary Darrah
Honor Roll List for Month Ending January 21
Honor roll includes students with perfect attendance and grades at or above thresholds. First through eighth grades list names such as Johnnie Minoletti and Robert Davin, plus several teachers. Baby Hill section also notes Pupila and multiple names, with several misspellings preserved from OCR.
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Johnnie Minoletti
Robert Davin
Milfred DeSantela
Baby Hill
Marie Harris
Pearl McNaughton
Vide Kitchen
Carl Harris
Raymond Pastorino
Mase Kren
McGillivray and Party Reach San Francisco
A telegram from Eureka reports Angus McGillivray his wife and child and Mrs Mary Fulton arrived in San Francisco Friday for medical treatment. They left Eureka a week earlier and were delayed by a landslide at Keddie delaying a Western Pacific train until Thursday night. The telegram says McGillivray’s condition worsened after the journey and hospitalization due to exhaustion and lack of nourishment.
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Eureka
San Francisco
Angus McGillivray
Mary Fulton
McGillivray
Palisade
Western Pacific
Keddie
California
Woolgrowers' convention seeks 10000 fund for Washington trip
Salt Lake City hosts the National Woolgrowers' convention as it raises ten thousand dollars to send a committee to Washington for legislative action benefiting western graziers. The group fears new land laws may push grazing outfits out of business amid growing regional crisis. Also noted is use of paper strip sacks twisted with vegetable fiber for ore transport in Chile.
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Woolgrowers’ Convention
Salt Lake City
Washington
Utah
Chile
Snowfall Reports From Tonopah Area Brace Stockmen
Telegrams from Tonopah and Goldfield detail six inches of snow at the Stone Cabin ranch with two to three feet on the summit and eight inches around Tonopah. Joe Clifford notes sheep snowed in Monitor valley, ownership unknown, while Eureka stock interests report light snow in Goldfield and thawing conditions.
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Sentinel
Tonopah
Stone Cabin
Isadore Sara
Eureka, Land and Stock Company
W. H. Thomas
Joe Clifford
Ranch
Monitor Valley
Sheepmen Seek Wintering Ground After Snowbound Travel
Cobb returns to Eureka from Duckwater with a four horse team of the Fletcher Bros. and six Elko County sheep owners who traveled south to arrange wintering of their bands in Nye County. They crossed Pinto summit to Fish Creek ranch, then Duckwater, where snow depths ranged from 18 to four inches. The party secured saddle horses and teams to locate bands further south, with one large flock already in Duckwater. Hay in Duckwater is plentiful for sale as stockmen plan hay storage for winter browse.
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Cobb
Eureka
Duckwater
Fletcher Bros
Elko County
Jook
Nye County
Pinto Summit
Fish Creek Ranch
Fish Creek Valley
Pogue’s
Mangers
Heavy Loss of Sheep in Northern Nye County
Ely Record reports a severe sheep depopulation in Nye County due to extreme weather and heavy snow. Owners accuse deputies and Nye County of causing losses while planning a damages suit, though no official confirmation exists. Also noted is the suicide of Mrs. Thomas Munn, 39, of Refio, by carbolic acid due to ill health.
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Nye County
Ely
O’neil Brothers
Elko
Thomas Munn
Refio
Goldfield
Munn
Canada
Prospector Brought in With Frozen Feet After Snowstorm
J C Bish a prospector from Antelope valley spent four days lost in a big snowstorm before Casey Jones found him near Willow Station. Bish, now at Eureka County Hospital, was weakened but expected to recover. Elko County commissioners levied a 3 1/2 cent tax on the $100 to fund rabies control. bounties on coyotes were raised to $1 each.
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J. C. Bish
Prospector
Eureka
Antelope Valley
Hickerson Ranch
Casey Jones
Bush
Jones
Willow Station
Regis Ranch
Elko County
Quicksilver Prices Jump After War Start
A further advance in quicksilver has jumped the price up to $200 per flask, as compared with $35 per flask shortly before the war opened. Ship your hides pelts and raw furs to Elko Hide and Junk Company Elko Nev Advt.
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Reliable House
Elko Hide & Junk Company
Elko, Ney
Adyut
Elko, Nev
Notice to C F Wittenburg on Bird mine removal
We, owners of the Bird mine on Adama Hill in the Eureka District Eureka County Nevada, notify C F Wittenburg to remove his men location notices and posts from the old Bird mine as we owe the Bing mine and hold lawful title. Signed by J J Peve W J Hanum RT Fanny.
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Bird Mine
Adama Hill
Eureka Mining District
Eureka County
State of
Nevada
Old Bird Mine
J. J. Peve
W. J. Hanum
RT. Fanny
Grazing Permits Notice for Toiyabe National Forest
Applications for grazing cattle horses and sheep in the Toiyabe National Forest must be filed in Austin Nevada by March 1 1916. Full information on grazing fees and bank forms will be provided upon request. Veron Metcalf Supervisor.
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Totyabe National Forest
Austin
Nevada
Veron Metcalf
Purebred Livestock For Sale By University Of Nevada
Purebred livestock from the University of Nevada offers registered stock in Holstein Friesian Hereford Guernsey Jersey cattle Cheviot Dorset Hampshire Rambouillet Shropshire Southdown sheep Daroe Jersey Berkshire swine and Percheron horses. Prices to Nevada citizens cattle 140 sheep 25 horses 25 females on application. Extensive pedigrees on request. Apply University of Nevada Reno Nevada December 27 1915.
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University of Nevada Bee
Jersey
Dorset
Hampshire
Shepshire
Southdown
Berkshire
Nevada
University OF Nevada
Reno
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