Engine Explosion Kills Crew on Westbound Freight
An engine explosion near Kelso killed engineer Claude Bailey and fireman Wiley and injured others. The wreck occurred as a westbound freight train ran at speed. bodies were found along the track, a coroner’s inquest ruled accidental death with no blame.
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Arden
Claude Bailey
Wiley
Cieuima
Hornet
Abe Farrell
Ireman Wiley
Bret
Bailey
Bear
Lb. de Smith
Vanghey
L. Holcomb
Los Angeles
Kelso
Thomas Doyle
J. A. Woods
Smelter City Lot Sale Promises Water as Draw
Smelter City at Last promoters West Third Street Chas E Southworth and J C Touts are selling town lots in Ash Meadows Mter City. They offer no smelter yet bank on future water to justify purchases. A visit to Ash Meadows evokes the dam by a mill site but no mill. Plenty of water there and no danger of thirst unlike Velma Beatty Miner.
Hotel Nevada Arrivals and Local Notables List
A roster of hotel guests and residents including JP AS Eler owner, Maren sinteee, Mian CENA Santa Barbara, Frank Lambert, Harry F Sehulty Salt Lake, Idfield Morgan, Catherine Bloom Denver, Mrs Spurgeon Cheek, and others from Los Angeles, Sandy, Tonopali, Lake City, Virgin City, Crescent. The list notes several couples and individuals such as Mr and Mrs Carl Anderson, JA Murphy, and F Heizer among attendees and locals.
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Santa Barbara
Frank Lambert
Harry
Sehulty
Salt Lake
Idfield
Morgan Rebard
Phils
Catherine Bloomers
Denver
Dinklin
Los Angele
Spurgeon Cheek
Casey
Torres
Oil Lands Claim Virgin River Fields Under New Law
Bakersfield oil operator H W Thomas and Timothy Spell say any person can file and develop oil lands in the Virgin River district Utah under revised federal statutes, or lose the right to hold undeveloped lands. Los Angeles Utah Oil Co directors report an official test shows Virgin River oil is asphalt base and suitable for streets roads fuel and power.
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Virgin River
Utah
H.W. Thomas
Bakersfield
Timothy Spell
Mr. Thomas
United States
Eliiis
Leclares
Thomas
Los Angles
Utah Oil Company
Harms
Virgin
Vein Extension Found in Johnnie District Nevada
Reports say Mackle and Rathborne along with H L Smith located a potential extension of a substantial vein in the Johnnie district Amargosa Nevada. The ore is copper with minerals between porphyry and silver bearing lime. A shaft has begun on the property and the vein is described as traversing the country for miles with a width of four to thirty feet.
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Amargosa
Nevada
M. R. Rathborne
HL. Smith
Johnnie District
I T
Willow Creek District organized by prospectors in Greenw area
A meeting of twenty prospectors formed the Willow Creek district for four miners in the Greenw area. They claim properties in the Willow Creek basin with boundaries south to Sheep Creek east to the Dagger road north to Oddie's wash and west to Death Valley.
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Willow Creek
Greenw
Sheep Creek
Dagger Road
Oddie’s Wash
Death Valley
New Mining Section Opens North of India
A mining section eighteen to twenty miles north of India in Pine Mountain district opens as supervisors sink a well. Prospects arrive and establish camp. Free gold is said to have been discovered in the county during the district’s exploration.
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India
Pine Mountain
Drors
Petition on Charleston National Forest timber sales urged withdrawal
Judge M S Beal files a petition urging withdrawal of timber land entries on Charleston National Forest Reserve. Residents warn timber cuts threaten water conservation and local recreation. demand delaying sales to protect arid valley agriculture and wells. Las Vegas may host Salt Lake railroad shops with $350000 appropriated, location undecided amid competing interests.
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Charleston Peak
Charleston National Forest
Interior Department
Charleston National Forest Reserve
Irens
May Sutton Sues Salt Lake Railway in U.S. Court
May Sutton sues the Salt Lake Railway Company in the United States District Court at Los Angeles for 15200 damages from injuries in a wreck last year. She alleges that near Acoma Nevada on October 9, 2006 a train derailed causing permanent injuries.
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Salt Lake Railway Company
May Sutton
United States
Los Angles
Acoma
Nev
Head of Muddy Valley Sold to Colonizing Syndicate
The Age reports the entire head of the Muddy Valley west of the Salt Lake rail line, about 3000 plus acres, has been sold to a colonization syndicate led by Burtner and Livingston of Salt Lake City. Deals include Keiman ranch 360 acres, Jones ranch 544, Storer property 2000, Baldwin and Wilsker 190. Geo Baldwin reserves 80 acres for a home ranch. The promoters aim to bring 60 families this fall, build an irrigating canal and possibly an electric railroad from Moapa to the valley head, where soil is noted as highly productive. Geo C Win has shipped 400 crates cantaloupes this season and over 1000 dozen cucumbers from a quarter-acre.
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Muddy
Salt Lake
Messrs. Burtner and Livingston
Salt Lake City
Burtner
Salt Lake Road
Keiman Ranch
Jonesch
Storer
Baldwin and
Wilsker
Geo. Baldwin
Moapa
Geo. Cwin
Charleston Reserve Benedict Inspects Lincoln County Lumber District
Charleston Reserve Benedict and Supervisor Dave Barnett conduct a casual inspection of the Charleston Mountain reserve focusing on the Lincoln County Lumber Company rebate claim. They question the price of 10 dollars per thousand stumpage as market conditions soften with lumber futures.
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Benedict
Dave Barnett
Charleston Mountain
Lincoln County Lumber
Pioche Railroad Branch Not Extended to Ely
The Pioche branch of the Salt Lake railroad will not be extended to Ely at present. Mining deeds listed at The Age office.
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Pioehe
Salt Lake
Ely
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Lodge
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Eng
Engin Bailey
Otis
Vegas
Belgen & Son
Icers
M. J. Walker
Chris. No Brown
T. EB. Gibbon
J. H. Farnsworth
Ross Clark
John S. Park
Cashier
First State Bank OF
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First and
Fremont Streets
Clayson & Griffith
Gatta Fu Nnn
Canton Steel
Bnie
LAS Vegas Mercantile CO. Inc
Hotel Nevada
Eler
Mnt
Maren
JA Murphy
Tenney
Heizer
Crescent
New CF
Chevalier James Kt Clark
Virgin City
Johnnie
Willow Creek District
Machine Shops
Muddy Lands
Charleston
M.S. Beal
Wizens
Big Salt Lake
Frigerator
Armour Company
Salt Lake Railroad Company
Sues Salt Lake
Ead
Muddy River Valley
Colonizing Syndicate
Charleston Reserve
Borax” Smith
Lila C
Pioche Railroad
W. E. Hawkins
Fremont Street
Las Vegas, Nev
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Cigars van Dy Clear
Havana
Stanford
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Burns Dol Empires
Porto Rico
Harry R. Beale
Prop
First St
Arizona Club
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