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...Carson City, Nev., following the visit of inspection to Virginia & Truckce Railway paid by Ogden Livingston Mills and Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Hoover (TIME, April 10), it was announced last week after a meeting of the road's directors that Mr. Mills had purchased a controlling interest in the road. Built (to connect the Comstock silver lode with Reno) in 1869 by Darius Ogden Mills, grandfather of the present owner, Virginia & Truckee was controlled in recent years by the Mills and Sharon estates of San Francisco. Rising silver prices, discovery of a new lode at Virginia City have made prospects...
...Comstock Lode on the side of Mt. Davidson at Virginia City, Nev., has always been a surprise package. Discovered in 1859, its glory holes enriched Sandy Bowers, an illiterate Missouri teamster, made his washerwoman bride, Eilly Orrum. Queen of the Comstock. Its abandoned workings, bought in 1872 for $100,000, in four years yielded $100,000,000 to its four new owners-Irishmen William S. O'Brien, James C. Flood, James G. Fair and John W. Mackay-father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Mackay. In 1907 a fall of rock disclosed a $1,000,000 pocket of gold...
Herbert Clark Hoover went to Reno, Nev., to "enjoy a ride over the Sierra," with his onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills. Early next morning a little brass-trimmed locomotive pulling an ancient yellow coach took them out of Reno. It was the first equipment used on Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railway when Mr. Mills's Grandfather Darius Ogden Mills built it in 1869. The train stopped while Mr. Mills inspected the railroad's right-of-way over the south end of the famed Comstock Lode. Mr. Hoover remembered well when...
Married. Baldwin M. Baldwin, grandson of the late Elias Jackson ("Lucky") Baldwin (famed San Francisco mining, racing & theatre character); and Margaret Wilson of Indianapolis; in Reno, Nev...
When Citizen Roosevelt reached the Presidential suite of the Mayflower Hotel, slips of yellow paper were already accumulating: "Boise, Idaho . . . Acting Governor Hill today declared a 15-day bank holiday. . . ." "Salem, Ore. Governor Meier today proclaimed a three-day bank. . . ." "Phoenix, Ariz. Governor Mocur today declared. . . ." "Carson City, Nev. A four-day legal. . . ." "Austin, Texas. . . ." "Salt Lake City...