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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1907
Page
1
A large fire gutted the Mammoth Refrigerating Station and totally destroyed the Armour Car Lines facility. The blaze consumed seven hundred tons of ice as firefighters battled through the night. No injuries were reported, and the cause remains under investigation. Local authorities are coordinating with insurers to assess losses and salvage what remains of the complex.
A major blaze at Las Vegas wipes out the Armour Car Lines ice plant, the town’s largest facility on the Salt Lake road, with 125000 in construction cost and 700 tons of ice lost. Firefighters face weak water pressure and limited hose as authorities fear oil tanks and plan watch duties. Rebuilding appears likely, aided by water rights and railway junctions, though economic impact hits local dairies and ice suppliers hard.
A compiled list of names and places including Joe Fuller Montselier Idaho Thos Douglas G T Keene Rhyolite C H Smith Salt Lake I Greenleaf Beatty New M H Kern and Son Mrs J W Bollard Mrs W D Swain and family H Argensinger San Francisco RG O'Shea Los Angeles W F Sehnebly Los Angeles John O Stone Frank A Blake H Burris Los Angeles Eugene Gutier Jack Cart W H Lambert Los Angeles JF Phelan Rhyolite Nev M Marley M Mereles F W Bell Arapahoe Ned C M Kelly Searchlight Jas P Sprunt Salt Lake 1 C Thoresen Logan Win Hewett and wife eg JV Swain Long Re pall Los Angeles Mr and Mrs Ace Chareh Rhyolite AH Griswold Los Angeles Calvin Johnson Chicager E L Phelps Greenwater JL Zimpleman MS Hulbert Los Angeles Mrs W I Wilson Rhyolite AR Talamantes Salt Lake Ifield New Cal's
At 203 feet well drilling in Potosi area yields water from bottom sand. Potosi Zinc Company reorganized July 1 with Chris Brown as president to expand mining, install a 27 hp hoist, and ship ore. Patsy Clark bonds Kennedy property near Jean plan ore bins, shaft sinking, and immediate hiring as Harvey promotes new mining activity and railroad spurs.
Motion by Peter Buol to stop further boring of well No 1 and remove unnecessary casing, with perforation of casing where it passes water formations, plus thorough baying and sand pumping. Seconded by Ed Von Tobel and carried unanimously.
J A Ken ton former Linn county senator arrived from Caliente and will appear tomorrow with a governor's staff in the Carson City carnival parade. He traveled over fifteen hundred miles for the event marking his first appearance as a governor staff member.
The hearing of suits by five Nevada railroads against the State Railroad Commission to restrain enforcement of the Syphus Act was postponed at the request of Attorney General Stoddard. State attorneys were unprepared for the 10th inst., and Judge Farrington granted a continuance to the 29th of the month.
A man identified as Beatty, about 25, died after a lighted lantern ignited oil in an engine tank. He was taken to Las Vegas Hospital but died from uremic poisoning. His father in the east was notified. The notice appeared in The Age office under mining deeds.
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