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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1905
Page
1
A large force works the Las Vegas rail yard amid steady progress. Sixty pound rails arrive for the main line while brick buildings rise north of the right of way. A general store is planned and anticipated housing for workers signals a growing community as construction nears.
An historic church meeting elected officers for the coming year. Dee Lith, Fred Fallas, Kramer, and others named as officers and council members, with installation planned for early January and September. The organization aims to grow membership toward a 100 member target by year end. Fundraising and material needs include pillows, sheets, blankets, towels, and bedspreads.
The article details a fractured scene in McKane district, mentioning a function at Indian Wining and a prominent developer known as We Beets Miner. It references local figures such as Walter R. Bracken and Millet, plus a storefront at 212-014 North Iglesias Street with mention of a sales room and equipment.
The county books audit by expert Wm H Moore is accepted by the commissioners after a special Monday meeting. Nesbitt repays 1780.00 and explains innocence while Goodrich’s 200 shortage is to be paid by his son. The report cites negligence, pending indictments, and a county debt figure as of January 1906.
Luelling and C Towner, returning from a six week prospecting trip near Daggett, locate a promising claim with five surface samples showing values. Partners Fal and Maxwell back the venture as assays forecast crosscutting the ledge within a few miles of the claim. Water plentiful for a small mill, with ore transportable by gravity to the nearby site.
A Tuesday evening incident near a First Street saloon ended with a shot fired but no injuries. The report notes a reconciliation between rivals and mentions McCrary’s Long Beach warnings, liquor seizures, and alleged sales. The piece covers local crime notes, census controversy, and tax delinquency context with town personalities and oddities.
Las Vegas postoffice will be relocated to elegant quarters in the First State Bank building facing Fremont street. Bracken bought a large cabinet with over 300 lock boxes and drawers and windows for general delivery and registry, to be installed next week. The layout places the general delivery window at the octagonal corner, with registry to the left and lock boxes down the passage to the right, plus a railway mail clerks compartment in the rear for improved service.
A Los Angeles Times report states J. Flood, GM of a new steamship line backed by the Salt Lake railroad, plans to start San Pedro to Orient service soon. The first Orient-bound steamer due in February will carry about 6,000 tons of freight, with most cargo already contracted for Salt Lake connections to the East. The China and Java Export Company, backing by Francis London and Senator Clark, already operates ships between Calcutta, London, and San Francisco and aims to devote one steamer to San Pedro and expand rapidly.
The Salt Lake Tribune declares Col. Blowhard aka Burtsem-up lied about Lincoln county affairs and calls his writings diseased. It touts Utah Idaho Wyoming and Nevada prospects for 1906 with railroad and mining growth, promoting the daily paper as a leading source in the intermountain region.
Fragmented OCR text notes location notices and certificates with garbled terms and names. It references places and entities such as localities and authorities but the readable content is incomplete and unclear. Further clarification is needed to produce a precise card.
Describes 10000 acres of first class desert land within six to twelve miles of Las Vegas open for entry under Desert Land and Homestead acts. Notes Las Vegas as mining camps hub and midway between Salt Lake smelters and San Pedro port. Promotes inviting landowners to list properties and proposing settler presence on every good tract.
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