Local and Personal News from Golconda and Winnemucca
Local and personal notes report visitors and travelers in Golconda and Winnemucca, including Fred J. Birge Salt Lake City arrivals, battles with illness, and multiple residents in town. The piece notes railroad delays on No 3 and No 4, construction plans for Golconda hotels and a warehouse, and heavy Southern Pacific passenger traffic with limited seating. Stanley Macquisten travels after learning his mother is ill in Glasgow, and county officials meet to levy the 1899 tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bunker McBride
Golconda
Mre. McBride
F. M. Lee
First National
Winnemucca
Weasion
E. Crook
Alpha
Mill City
Chas. Nossinger
R. A. Donaldson
Southern Pacific System
Omaha
F. E. Chagnon
Unionville
Stanley Macquisten
Glasgow & Western Exploration Company
Glasgow
Scotland
Macquisten
Salt Lake City
Southern Pacific
Middleton
Carlin
Tuscarora Bonanzas and Western Mining Hopes
Metallurgist George Moore of Consolidated Kansas City Smelting and Refining reports rich ore at Tuscarora Nevada with crosscut reveals averaging 41 dollars per ton and potential to lift monthly output toward 100000 dollars. He notes the Dexter vein as promising and predicts a thriving camp with new equipment and fuller development in six months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuscarora
George Moore
Kansas City
Moore
Reno and Douglas County News Briefs from 1899
Farmers near Reno sow wheat while new laws price compiled volumes at six dollars single or ten for two. Reno offers free mail delivery as trustees order house numbering. Judge Cheney buys Virginia Street property for 3000. Genoa Courier foresees Douglas County farming boom with Comstock mining revival. Epidemic sickens 50 Reno residents. Montana bills approve twenty round prizefights and curb gambling. Ore shipments tally Eureka & Palisade railroad week ending March 3 1899. Night watchman Captain Robertson injured by fall. Dr Hood removes Fred Chattel’s eye. Walter Christian narrowly escapes death in Pacific Tunnel accident. Moseford plans Memorial Day monuments. One Minute Cough Cure endorsed. Eagle Drag Store and Richards Photography offer winter services. skylight added to gallery on Second Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
Montana
Lise
Eureka & Palisade Railroad
Eureka Con
Jackson
Captain Robertson
Virginia City
MacGurns
Dr. Hood
Fred Chattel
Walter Christian
Pacific Tunnel
Jenkine
Christian
Acetylene Gas Safety and Odd Notices
Safety notes on storing calcic carbide for Frank Browsmer’s gas plant emphasize dry sealed drums, ventilation and strong containers for transport. The section also relays a Reno marriage ad scam tale, ear cure explanations, and multiple ads for medicines, jobs, travel, and local goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Browsmer
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fred J. Birge
Salt Lake
G. W. Hinman
Battle Mountain
F. Silve
Lula Choate Ia
G.W. Williams
J.C. Ruppert and
BR. H. Barrows of
Kennedy
Town
Harry Pearce
G. W. Grayson
F. J. Botton
Groleenda
Chris Wolf
A. P. Mathews
W. Perry
San Francisco
Denver
Lafayette
J. A. Blossom
Mr. Holcomb
Jas, Hill
Ed. Rinkel
Reinhart Bros
Tuscarora Bonanzas
Nevada
Carson
Cenate
Ormady
Ludies
Garson Wave
The
Journal
Mies Richardson
Carson v Athletic Club
Ross
Comstock Pumping Association
Risdon Ironworks
University In
Stanford
Reno Girls
Berkeley Girls
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
New York City
E. Remnant & Co
Tim Dempsey
Hmite
Judge A
Cheney
Judge King
Virginia
Genoa Courier
Douglas County
Comstock
Moseford
Renogranite
Ata Maréti
Eagle Drag Store
Pap
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Hood
Shepp Company
Chestnut St
Philadelphia
H. B. McDoxarn
Eagle Drug Store
Steven Lars
Bulletin
E. Rusvnagr & Co
F. Moonr
Jet Ug
Armory Hall
J. Sheer
Sedalia
DeWitt
E. Burmarr & Co
Silver State
Care Rer
Scott
Scott & Bowne
New
Yok
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