Toivable Club Reports Fine Program This Year
The Toivable club of Manhattan offers a program studying history of allies including their customs art poets and writers. Focuses on current events music and child welfare with a recent card party funds buying a painting of the Taiyable Range. Mrs Prosser, a 70 year old widow, is the accomplished artist.
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The
Toivable Club of
Manhattan
Prosser
Ida North
Berkeley
Columbia University
New York
Nevada Weekly Industrial Review Highlights Mining and Town Developments
Tonopah West Arrowhead installs 25 hp mill. Lovelock to get a $40,000 three story Masonic building. Tonopah mining plans expand with Desert King strike and $35 per ton ore. Eureka Mineral Hill prospecting active. Candelaria installs mill for high tonnage ore. Black Rock desert to host twelve oil test wells. Imlay opens copper tin ore bodies. Fallon drills in oil fields. Mina Fagan consolidates to add 20 hp hoist. Virginia City opens $47 rock on 2150 level. Tonopah mining and townsite growth noted with new developments. Silverton boom anticipated. Tonopah area bullion ships valued at $250,000. Goldfield mill to operate by April 1. Carson City to issue $300,000 highway bonds. Rochester silver output logged in 1919. Eureka Nevada mine purchase and new machinery. New jittneys scrapped. electric lines expanded. Lovelock Masons to build $40,000 temple. Winnemucca courthouse cornerstone laid February 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tonopah
West Arrowhead
Lovelock
Winnemucca
Nevada Harmony
Eureka
Mineral Hill
Desert King
Candelaria
Black Rock
Imlay
McAuley
Fallon
Mina=Fagan Company
Virginia City
Virginia
Austin
Nevada
Birch
Unionville
Rileyville
Jefferson Canyon
Silverton
Ely
Old Mary Ann
Nevada Silver Shield
Lone Mountain Divide Company
Dixie Valley Potash
Humboldt Potash Corporation
Lowell
Strieff
Galena
Reno
Golfield—Mill
Goldfield Development Company
Hope
Newlands
Dayton
Harmony
Carson City
Bessemer Consolidated Mining Company
Brunswick Canyon
Here
California
Pioche
Old Mendah
Highland District
Silver Mines
Rochester
Salt Lake
Eureka Nevada
Jitneys
Elko County Auditor Reports Prosperity and Tax Figures
The 1919 Elko County auditor’s report to the county commissioners shows prosperity with a total assessed valuation of 40,853,835 dollars and taxes collected totaling 624,088.81 dollars. The county’s estimated population is 14,761 with 4,024 registered voters.
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Elko County
TO BENEFIT TRAVELERS Geiger grade still impassable for travel
An inquiry into the Geiger grade shows the route is not passable at present. A recent inspection found heavy snow and ice along the grade with sections hundreds of feet long four to five feet deep. The so called short cut remains rough and unusable for travel.
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Virginia City Chronicle
Land filings surge in Nevada under Pittman law
The U S land office reports heavy filings in Clark, Humboldt and Elko counties as applicants seek the 2650 acre allotment. A one percent per acre fee is due with each order and applicants must prove irrigation water for twenty acres within twenty four months and cultivate twenty acres profitably. Receiver A B Gray says filings rise as more sections with surface water await application.
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United States Land Office
Dur
Pittman
Clark, Humboldt
Elko Counbe
A. B. Gray
Land Office
Gray
Uncle Sam seeks report on poker winnings for tax year 191
The notice states taxable income includes gambling profits and that losses from gambling are not deductible. It cautions penny ante poker players with winnings on the lawful side to report gains, while indicating illegal gambling profits are taxable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Heavy Snowfall at Marlette Lake Reported
The Gazette reports extreme snow depth around Marlette Lake with twenty three inches recently and a total of fifty three inches on the ground in the region. Nearby areas show lighter accumulations with five inches at the summit and two inches at Truckee.
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Truckee
Carson
Marlette Lake
Smith Valley Notes Highlights Local Visits and Spring Outlook
A flurry of short updates from Smith and Antelope Valleys covers residents traveling to Idaho Oregon and California. Visits include A C Trieloff returning from trips and Lillian Dickson extending a San Francisco stay with sisters. The Olds and Beaman families report health and travel plans while a snow spell boosts crop prospects for summer.
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A. C. Trieloff
Idaho
Oregon
J. C. ‘Ola
Whiamsburg
Iowa
California
C. J. Foster
Lillian Dickson
San Francisco
A. G. Jones
C. K. Beaman
H. C. Jessen
Olds
Tacoma
Washington
Arthur Dickson
E. Beaman
Secretary of State records show motor license sales total
Receipts at the Secretary of State office for automobile license sales reached 71083.94 dollars by yesterday close of business. The figure covers 6810 licenses issued with a few motorcycles also sold.
Nevada Cowboys Forming a Union in Reno
In what may be the first cow puncher's union in the country the Nevada Cowboys organize under the Trades and Labor Assembly in Reno. Secretary G L James says 150 to 200 nearby cowboys are ready to act and will affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. He cites cow punchers and sheepherders as a major Nevada industry deserving organized labor benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
Trades and Labor Assembly
G. L. James
James
Cowboys
American Federation of Labor
Nevada
Licenses Rise Stateside With Mixed County Results
Reports to the state game warden show a notable rise in fishing and hunting licenses sold last year, with receipts totaling about 10 000 across reporting counties. Elko and Washoe counties show increases from prior years, while several others report declines. The overall year 1918 figures edged ahead of 1917 in some counties and lagged in others.
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Eureka
Lander
Lyon
Nye
Storey
Elko County
Washoe County
Also Mentioned on This Page
Toivabe
J. J. Wilson
GEO. F. Willis
President Cashier
W. F. Powers
Asst
Lyon County Bank
Foreign Exchange and Letters of Credit
Yerington
the Holstein Dairy
Larue & Son
Brunswick
House of Brunswick
Brunswick-Balke-Collender CO
Mission Street
Central
E. A. Dillon
H. C. Hughes
Chevrolet Motor Cars
Weekly Industrial Review
Poker Players
Smith Valley
Nevada Cowboys
Cletrac
TYE
Sierra Auto Supply Co
Reno, Nevada
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