Nevada prospers on 1909 mining boom and mills rise
Editorial notes Nevada's expected boom as rich ore discoveries, new mills, and smelters proliferate across Goldfield Tonopah Rhyolite and other towns. It predicts an era of prosperity with money loosening, while mentioning Mark Averill pressing for immediate election certification before Nye county supreme court canvassers and Judge O Briens commission.
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Nevada
Focal
Goldfield
Tonopah
Yerington
Chatey
Gold Circle
Mark Averill
Nye
Supreme Court
District Court
O'Brien
Goldfield Tribune
Building Big Seven Troughs Mill Nears Completion
The Seven Troughs News reports the Harrie Demarest mill receives its first lumber, carpenters prep to raise the structure, and designer D H Shea returns from San Francisco to speed installation. Harris Demarest and Sken oversee coast shipments, with a $40,000 total cost and a cyanide plant as a feature. Huntington mill foundations and heavy machinery placements are nearly finished.
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D. H. Shea
San Francisco
Floyd
Mesurs
Harris
Demarest
Sken
Whes Sciuded
Skén
Hig
Huntington
Brokerage Office Moves to Goldfield
Tennant and Perry brokerage firm, after purchasing Kenneth Donnelan’s interest in Tonopah and Goldfield, closes offices in Reno and plans to move to Goldfield to continue business. Damages suit filed. A Labelle and logging camp seek $30,000 for losses from a wreck on a log railroad near Dog Valley.
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Tennant and Perry
Kenneth Donnelan
Tonopah
Goldfield
Abe
Reno
A. Labelle
George Labelle
Th Ber Company
Dog Valley
Bled & Watt
Rich placers developed in Midas district
Near the town of Midas and six miles from Berlin a Tonopah and Goldfield group has acquired twenty one placer claims. Nevada Placer Mines Company, with J T Coker as manager, plans $15000 in improvements. Expected returns lie near $19.30 an ounce gold, with beds six feet deep and over a million cubic feet of earth to be worked. About eighteen men are employed on site with water supply developed two miles away.
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Midas
Berlin
Tonopah
Goldfield
Nevada Placer Mines Company
Itate BE
Nevada
Bipe
Elias Aluice
Carnegie Banquet Attendee Photo Shows Edison Carnegie
F. G. Waterhouse, general manager of the Southern Nevada Consolidated Telephone and Telegraph, attended a banquet honoring Andrew Carnegie. The event, held November 23, 1908, at the Manhattan hotel in New York, was hosted by old-time telegraphers and also featured Thomas Edison among other notable figures.
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F. G. Waterhouse
Southern Nevada Consolidated Telephone and Telegraph Company
Allway
Andrew Carfiegle
Manhattan Hotel
New York
Waterhouse
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas Edison
Strike Hits New York Cab Drivers In Major Action
More than two thousand cab drivers and chauffeurs employed by liveries and cab concerns strike today in New York. Edwin Gould, secretary of the Liberty Dawn association, says 1000 more await the call of the Willenfojd in the movement.
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Streke
New York
Edwin Gould
Liberty Dawn Association
Willen Fo Jd
Bear In Mine Near Reno Sends Mining Man To Ground
W. W. Booth, pioneer mining man and journalist, stumbled on a huge brown bear inside a Tonopah area mine. He grappled the animal and knocked it unconscious with a ore boulder, injuring his side and hand but not seriously. Booth’s son Kenneth had a similar bear encounter in Mizpah tunnel ten days earlier. Old trappers note extreme cold has driven bears from mountains into mining tunnels seeking shelter.
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Bear
California
San Francisco
Reno
Chronicle
Nev
W. W. Booth
Tonopah
Big Southern
Booth
Kenneth Booth
Mizpah
Dog Delavan of the Desert Dies in Hospital
Matt Delavan known as Doc Delavan, a 75 year old prospector and millman, died of pneumonia in a Nevada hospital. A longtime resident of Goldfield and Rawhide, he was aided in illness by Harry Crowhurst and Colonel J H Slakey, with a weekly remittance and further funds from a New York charitable society linked to Mrs Russell Sage.
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Matt Delavan
Harry Crowhurst
Goldfield
Rawhide
Colonel Slinkey
New York City
J. Mott Delavan
Russell Sage
New York
New Assurance President Named for Provident Co
E. E. Tittenhouse Colorado insurance commissioner was elected president of the Provident Savings and Life Assurance company of New York today. He succeeds Arthur G. Langham of Louisville Kentucky. The move was announced in New York on December 21 by Associated Press.
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Associated Press
New York
E. E. Tittenhouse
Colorado
The
Provident Savings and Life Assurance Company of
Arthur G. Langham
Louisville
Kentucky
Barbershop Moves to Brokers Exchange Building
Heine and Brownie announce relocation from Alamo building on Main street to the Brokers Exchange building dated December 22, 2021, inviting old and new customers to visit at the new location.
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Alamo Building
Main Street
Brokers Exchange
Heine & Brownie
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