Past Pages for Wednesday, June 1, 2016

150 years ago

Mr. Ash, who owns an interest in and who for some time past has been engaged in prospecting some quarts leads in the hills west of the city, got a return on Tuesday from 100 pounds of quartz which he had worked at the Merrimac Mill. The result shows and assay of $20.63 per ton. Dr. Gabbs had some rock submitted to a like process and bets a return of $14 per ton.

140 years ago

Robbing a printer: The Gold Hill News of last evening says: “It may be safely alleged that times are getting pretty hard with the petty thrives of Virginia City. Yesterday between 12 and 2 o’clock one of the light fingered gentlemen entered a room on Washington Street, occupied by two printers, and surreptitiously and felonious lay abstracted therefrom the sum of $4 in silver and a pair of breeches. Such an instance is not recorded either in sacred or profane history.”

100 years ago

According to the Elko Independent, that city is to have a shale reduction plant. Tests have been made on the shale beds south of Elko and it has been found that crude oil exists along with paradise and bone-ash, the latter being used extensively in sugar refineries.

70 years ago

The coveted “Clover Leaf” crown, object of much discussion in Reno and Sparks newspapers, should now rest upon the brow of H.B. Coon, 603 N. Fall St. in Carson City. The capital city garden lover repaired to his garden this weekend and came up with a six-leaf clover. Upon being questioned about his horticultural monstrosity, Mr. Coon said, “Shucks, t’wern’t nothing.”

50 years ago

JoAnn Sheerin has been appointed Home Service Representative for Southwest Gas Corporation, W.F. Gulley, division manager for the utility, said today. Sheerin received her bachelor’s degree in home economics in 1960 from Mount Saint Mary’s College in Los Angeles, and her teaching credentials from the University of California at Berkeley in 1964.

Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.