The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-11-03
1857.
Sllort Sketch Of Settlements
and Settlers.
A WORD FOR ONE OF WAsHoE's
lhlrty-seyen years of Residence. O.
Grsgory's Qualifications for County
Uommissloner-An Honest,
Reliable and Able
Pioneer.
| WORD FOR ONE OF WAsHoE's

Ihirty seven years is an average life
time, yet it is thilty seven wears since
j. y. Gregory first saw Truckee Mead.
ows and a life time that he has madt
Washoe County his home. In 1857
Theodore Winters, John Winters, Geo.
Heperly, Bill Sides AID J. o. Gregory
came into Washed valley. The real 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 Mornions came shortly after and
built y 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
four years after Gregory arrived that
Washoe City was laid oft and the Atcl,i-
ION mill built, with the LOOMS, Buck
eye, New York and Minnisota mills
quickly following to crush Comstock ore
and boom Waslioe. These were the
young days of H. H. Besk, DR.. Hogan.
Dick Shackelford, Tom Hynlers, John
Richardson, Dan Boyd, Bill Gregory, j
Porter, George Smith, Jim Smith, Jack
Foulks. Joe Jones and W. II. Joy.
These were the days that everybody
was generous, haypy 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 un-
dersigned jurors in the case of Waslloe
county vs.. Murphy, find that the COW
was MIXED in the second Decree"
These were the good old times at Ophir,
Galena, Crystal Peak, Hutfasers, Glen.
dale and lakes Crossing, when Jim
S%turtevant. Dick Sides, Bill Champion,
Rube and Harvey Perkins, Ross Levers
Billy Musgrove, rule Frank, Andy Sauer,
Theo Winters, L. A. Read and sucl, pio-
neers were just in the prime of young
manhood. Lew Drexler and jim Greg
DRY were ranch partners and helped dig
the first irrigating ditch AM passed the
Sundays racing horses with Hank Miller
Big Sandy, Jim Slingerland, Sol Gehler,
Bill Libby, George Smith, Barney Glow,
Jim lloolbrook aid Granville Huffaker,
or watch Dan Wheeler ',whoop her up"
while the fiddler played "Lannigan's Ball
and George Alt danced as a youth Of
tw~enty-one. At Crystal Peak "Old Buff
and "Old Piute' were in their glory;
Jim Foxwell came later.
At Glendale John Stone, Charley
Gates, II. M. Frost, Lem Savage, ii. C.
Blasdell, Henry Whistler, Ben Shaber,
Orrin Ross, +. L. Updike, John Lee,
Dan O'Conner, Jonn Klipbe, William
Steele. f. G, Sessions, Jim Sullivan,
Henry Orr, Charlie Chase, Henry Step
hens and a host OF others were "boys"
who made things lively around the Glen
dale Hotel.
The fret building Of fond recollection
at Reno vas Alhambra Hall now the
blacksmith shop at the left OF the APP
proach to the new iron bridge. Lake
built it for a flour mill but il was turned
into a place for smusements of various
kinds, attended by such pioneers as Dick
Arrowsmith, J.J. Becker, G. j. Brook
ms, Alvaro Evans, Newt Evans, l.. j.
Haslund, S. NJ. Jamison, B. +. Leete'
f. Lennon, M. Nathan, Henry RUNE,
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
~irrigating ditch, the improvement from
sayebrush land into beautiful farms.
log cabins give way to %pretentions houses
of modern architecture, the village
school make place for the high schools,
seminary and university, and the entire
develpement from a few settlers to
what is destined to be the most popu-
lous county of Nevada. He is person.
ally acquainted with nearly all oil
Washoe's people; he knows every vii
lage, town and city; every settlement
and every district; every industry n
the people who follow it. His extensive
acquaintance with peopleand territory
fits him to know their needs n to lei
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