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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1901
Page
2
The Silver State announces its publication details with Windle and Bracket as lessees. It lists mailing subscription rates at one year six months and three months, and notes daily issues except Sundays. Address and business communications go to The Silver State in Winnemucca Nevada.
Weather report from Wilnenucca Station for 24 hours ending 4 PM local time notes mean barometer 29.61 inches. Maximum temperature 96 degrees, minimum 65, mean 78, normal 73. Prevailing wind north. Precipitation trace. Observer C H Hayden signs off.
Cloudy unsettled weather forecast for tonight and Saturday. Ex Governor Pingree of Michigan, who died recently, is quoted from a long interview attacking Presidents Cleveland and McKinley for abandoning the people after entering the White House.
The U S Geological Survey highlights irrigation driven by new storage reservoirs in Arizona near the Mexican border. Plans include large dams like the Tonto reservoir on Salt River to impound water for irrigation and land reclamation exceeding a million acres. The Tonto dam would span a deep canyon, create a water body over eighteen square miles, average 180 feet deep, and cost about 2.5 million dollars.
The article extols irrigation to flood 500000 acres boosting homes and productive farming in the thinly settled region. It cites Chicago importations of black workers to replace strikers, Governor Yates declining intervention, and political loyalties tied to McKinley. It also laments naval leadership disputes favoring a court martial for Sampson over Schley.
The piece notes growing trust formation and asserts health remains uncontrollable by trusts. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for stomach, liver, and bowel troubles and malaria prevention, and then advertises a cheese sale followed by DeWitt's Little Early Risers for liver relief with Brown Bros. as sellers.
A patent medicine claim notes that A Cup of Lane's Tea At Night relieves habitual constipation sick headache and indigestion with faster healing. It pledges lower cost than rivals and a refund if unsatisfied, priced 25¢ and 50c per package. Brown Bros. sell it. Cham berlain's Pain Balm treats cuts and bruises faster due to antiseptic healing, sold by Brown Bros. druggists.
In the Fifth Judicial District Court of Nevada Humboldt County the estate of F D Sweetser is addressed. Administrator H J Lorentgen petitions for sale of all property to pay expenses debts and costs. Hearing set for July 24 1901 at 10 AM in Winne mucca Courthouse. All interested must appear to show cause why order should not be granted. Witness J T Dunn clerk.
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