Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-11-26

supply, If properly conserved and used
amply sufficiently to irricate it all
ArteNian "aterIs also found, and there
are now i'll the neighborh00d of FORTY
small flowing wells in the valley. which
are used mainly for domestic purpose
and for watering lawns and gardens.
In this valley. at the base Of the Enftv
Sierras, a most picturesque location.
nestles the States capitol, Carson City
the garden city Of Nevada, with its pop
ulation Of 1900 souls. Besides being the
seat of the State government, there are
located here the State Prison and State
Orphans Home, also the United States
Mint, United States Lane Office, United
States Circuit Court and the Government
School for Indians. The city is also the
headquarters of the Virginia and Truckee
and the Carson and Colorado railroads.
and the shops of the former road arc
located here. But the homes of Carson
feature. Many of the cattle kings and
wealthy mine owners of the State have
heir residences here, and in the spring.
and summer it is a veritable garden.
CARSON CITY NEVADA.
Before writing of the Carson of the
present wes shall a k the liberty of briefly
glancing at the Carson of the past. Over
it's earliest history there hangs a cloud of
doubt, of pioneer fiction, perhaps. with
which this necessarily condensed sketch
has nothing to do. 1t is a matter of his
are now known as Carson and Eagle
Valleys in Nevada were visited as early
as 1888 by the chief of frontiersmen. Kit
Carson, who headed an exploring party
of white men and Indians the notorious
Jim Beckwourth being of the party.
Beckwourth claimed to be of Indian
blood, but was really a mulatto. born in
the Indian territory. Asa romancer he
was the peer of Baron M~unchhausen.
Again in 1916. the year of the memorable
Bonner disaster, Kit Carson, as guide t.,
General John c.. Fremont. passed
through this then unsettled country on
his way to California.
The lower or South end of Carson Val
ley was settled by white people as early
as 1919 or 1850, as the early enigrants to
California found white traders, princi-
pally Mormon, in this part of the then
Territory of Utah. In those early times
county seat of Douglas County, was
known as Mormon station, and was q
trading post. The first emigrants to
Eagle Valley. some of whom are st i'll
living here. claim that there We're a few
white men in these parts as early "a
1852; but no one claims that Carson had
al existence as a regularly laid out town
before 1888.
Mr.. 5. A. Nevers who arrived here in
J 1857, built the first house in this portion
of the valley. about one mile west of
Carson City, and was among our first
permanent settlers.
: All of the valley east of the Movers
= Ranch, and extending to the Warm
, Springs, was claimed by John Mankin, a
! trader and trapper from Missouri, who
: sold or traded the property to Abraham
f Curry for $500 in coin and four horses.
Mankin, thoroughly satisfied with lis
part of the bargain. as Curry undoubt-
edly was with his, left for California, &C
e c~olnpanied by his three daughters, in the
a Fab Of 1858. The Morm,ns east and
u north of Carson, comprising quite a com
munity, about this time received a call
from Brigham Young, and the faithful
r returned to Zion.
II The town site of Carson was surveyed
I in 1858 by Curry, Proctor, Green ant
MusSer, after whom streets were named
The first house in Carson. which stands
i'll the rear of the office of Adolph Waltz
> was built by Nevers and Manifold
h toll building, was erected by Proctor.