The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-10-31
WORD FOR ONE OF WAsHOE,s

FNaIo 10 al dN eli age U1t
time, yet it is Thirty seven years since
J.. y. Gregory first saw Truckee Mead.
WI and Il life time that he has made
Washoe County his home. In 1857
Theodore Winters, John Winters, Geo.
deperly, Bill Sides a-d J. U. Gregor,
came into Washed valley. The year fol-
lowing came Watt Sturtevant, Lem
savage, Barney Glow, George Quick
and Peleg Brown. The first settlement
in the valley was at Franktown in 1852.
The Mormons came shortly after and
built q saw mill. Among the settlers
were Clark. Dodge, Rose, Campbell,
Summon, Alex Cowan and wife, (now
Mrs. Sandy Bowers) Jennings, Clayton,
Hawkins, Walker and others. 1t was
iour years after Gregory arrived that
Washoe City was laid ont and the Atcl,i-
son mill built, with the LOOMS, Buck
eye, New York and MINNESOTA mills
quickly following to crush Coinstock ore
and boom Waslioe, These were the
young days of Fl. H.. Besk, Dir. Hogan,
Dick Shackelford, Tom Hylners, John.
Richardson, Dan Boyd, Bill Gregory, }
Porter, George Smith, Jim Smith, Jack
Foulks. Joe Jones and w. IL. JOY.
These were the days that everybody
was generous, happy and whole-souled
and full of fun; when Murphy MIXED
Barnum's COW, was tried for petit lar
ceny before Judge Bennett, the Jury
bringing in the verdict: "We the uh-
dersigned jurors i'll the case Of Waslloe
county va. Murphy, find that the COW
was MIXED in the second decree"
These were the good old times at Ophir,
Gsleaa, Crystal Peak, Hutfaaers, Glen.
dale and Lakes Crossing, when Jim
S%turtevant. Dick Sides, Bill Champion,
Rube and Harvey Perkins. Ross LEVER.
Billy Musgrove, ule Fran. andy saA !,
Theo Winters, I. A. Read and sucl, I,lo-
neers were just in the prime Of young
manhood. Lew DrexIer and jim Greg
DRY were ranch partners and helped dig
the first irrigating ditch an | passed tie
Sundays racing horses with Hank Miller
Big Sandy, Jim Slingerlaid, Sol Gehler.
Bill Libby, George Smith, Barney Glow,
Jim I~inolbropk ai.d Granville HuHaker,
or watch Dan Wheeler, wi,oop her up''
while the fiddler played "Lannigan's Ball
and George Alt danced as a youth OF
twenty-one. At Crystal Peak 'Old Bull
and "Old Piute" were in their glory /;
Jim Foxwell came later.
At Glendale John Stone, Charley
Gates, IL. M. Frost, Lem Savage. IL. G.
Blasdell, Henry Whistler, Ben Shaber,
Orrin Ross, +. l.. Updike, John Lee,
Dan 0'Conner, Jonn Klipbe, Willism
Steele. E. G., Sessions. jim Sullivan,
Henry Orr, Charlie Chase, Henry Step
hens and a host OF others we're "boys''
who made things lively around the Glen
dale Hotel.
The fret building Of fond recollection
at Reno was Alhambra Hall now the
blacksmith shop at the left Of the APP
proach to the new iron bridge. Lake
biilt it for a flour mill but it Was turned
into a place for amusements of various
kinds, attended by such pioneers AS Dick
Arrowsirith, J.J. Becker, c. j. Brook
ins, Alvaro Evans, Newt Evans, l.. J.
Haslund, S. M. .Iamisor, B. F. Leete'
+. Lennon, M. Nathan, Henry Ruhe,
George Avery, Amos Alt, Fred Stad-
muller, Joe Peers, N. J. Rolf and others.
10. Gregory has seen the introduce
ton Of alfalfa, the digging OF the first
irrigatiug ditch, the improvement from
saxebrush land into beautiful farms,
lox cabins give way to precautions houses
Of modern architecture, the village
school make place for tine high schools,
seminary and university, and the entire
deyelpement from a few settlers tt
what il destined to be the most popu.
lous county of Nevada. He IS person
ally acquainted with nearly all O.
Washoe's people; he knows every VII
lage, town and city; every settlemen
and every district; every industry ant
the people who follow it. His extensiy'
a~couaintance with peop!eand territory
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