95 years ago
June 25, 1915
That there is a steady increase in dairying in Carson Valley and vicinity is evidenced by the fact that the output of the Minden creamery is steadily climbing and is now turning out 3,000 pounds of golden brick per day or 90,000 pounds per month which is a splendid showing for the local factory, and exceeds, it is believed, the output of any similar creamery operated in Nevada. The Minden creamery has a world's market and last month 124 cases of Carson Valley made butter were exported to China and this amount will increase if the European war continues any great length of time.
80 years ago
June 27, 1930
Farmers above Gardnerville where large numbers of pheasants have congregated, report that with the cutting of the first crop of alfalfa, a large number of hen pheasants setting on nests have been cut to pieces by mowing machines and their nests destroyed. It is impossible to keep the birds from nesting in alfalfa fields and every year when haying starts, a large number of pheasants are unavoidably killed. Ed Godecke has one field in which a large number of pheasants are nesting and has delayed cutting the crop in order to give the birds a chance to hatch their young.
50 years ago
June 23, 1960
Well over 100 riders have signed up and are ready to ride designated five-mile stretches as part of the Pony Express re-run through Nevada, announced Earl Guton of Reno, operations chairman for the Nevada Pony Express Centennial Association. Horses and riders leave simultaneously July 19 from St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento on the 1,966-mile journey between the two terminal points, carrying pouches of U.S. mail just as their counterparts did 100 years ago.
25 years ago
June 27, 1985
Photo caption. The Pony Express rode again through Carson Valley. Riders were heading this way from Sacramento, passed through South Lake Tahoe, came down Kingsbury Grade and headed on Foothill Road to Genoa and on to Carson City and points east. Fred Dressler passes the mochilla to his son Frederick. The elder Dressler rode from the bottom of Kingsbury Grade to Genoa. On the right are Pony riders Larry Giurlani, Nevada Pony Express Association President Neil Mehringer and Bob Moore in front of the Genoa Bar.
10 years ago
June 24, 2000
For those who thought they felt a bit of a shake Friday morning, it wasn't their imagination. Two earthquakes, measuring 3.0 and 3.5 rattled through Douglas County at 6:55 and 7:02 a.m., according to the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at University of Nevada, Reno. Ken Smith, a UNR seismologist, said the earthquakes were centered in the same area that produced the powerful Double Springs Flat quake of 1994, 10 miles southeast of Minden. The epicenter of Friday's quakes was just north of Topaz Lake, along Highway 395.
A look at past issues of The Record-Courier by Sharlene Irete.
