The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-16

general merchandise; p. A. Wagner
now living in Alameda was a dealer
in miners supplies and hardware, as
was Gillig, Mott & Co. The leading
hotels were the Spaulding House, the
Pollard House and the Jackson
House. The Jackson House still
stands and is at present kept by Mr..
and Mrs. A. T. Shields. The Bank of
California had branch here and
there were several other banking
houses, among them one headed by
Mccormick, now a rich banker of
Salt Lake. Travis Brothers and Ma
sier and Guptil were the leaders in
the livery business. Woodruff and
Ennor and Len Wines ran the stages
in those days, carrying hundreds and
hundreds of passengers iii and out
on four lines of Concord coaches,
hauling much express matter in, for
which modest charge was made of
- cents per pound. and loading with
bullion out. Judge Henry Bush, who
is here today, was the agent for
Woodruff and Ennor and receipted
for Wells-Fargo for over ST. ,O00,-
600 of the bullion output The drug
business was represented by Joseph
Armitage, the calico, woolens and
SIGH" by Joseph Finlayson and A.
| Haas, later of Virginia City. Coburn
/ and Caravan sold shoes to part
of the people, w. b. Drake kept the
,horse-clothes" in repair, Louis Ia
dow served the young cities with
meat, and is here yet selling meat
and general merchandise. The tracks
of Hon. A. c. Cleveland may be seen
to this day on Treasure hill and
around Hamilton in the shape oil
toll roads.
Here let me digress a little and
speak of the county as whole Inc
county was organized by the legls-
lature of the state in 1869 with full
quota of officers who took their seats
the following April. Frank Drake
who will be remembered by every
Dioneer of the state, (Red) FRANK
Wheeler. who had a reputation coast
wide and T. r. Conley, composed the
first board of county commissioners
Frank H. Kennedy was the first dis
trict attorney and NJ, w. Thales was
treasurer The first assessor was
Augustus Ash, who afterwards
moved to Virginia City and was Unit
ed states lDdISldl loi wv WI ~
Chs Ash has long since passed to his
reward. Dr. H. S. Herrick, now dead
was Superintendent of schools, ant
NJ. ]. Henly was public adminlstrat
; or. The county recorder was Warrel
T. Lockhart, who was afterwards
elected secretary of state, but is nov
known among men only in memory
for he. too, hes passed on TO the END
e. F. Mitchell WIS the county SUI
veyor.
The first election was held in 1871
and Hon. A. C. Cleveland was elected
state senator and served his people
with distinction. John Wagner, now
of Carson, and Thomas Brown, 2. T
(Pete) Canavan and Thomas j. Ten
nent and Clinton H. Hamilton We're
the four assemblymen from White
Pine county. Hamilton was White
Pines first county seat ant
remained as such until some time il
the early '70's. when the court house
was burned to the ground. Inc
county seat was aIterward moved b!
popular vote to Ely. Among the mos
; interesting relics of Hamilton nov
left is the old "side-wheeler" hant
engine, that did fire duty in SAL
Francisco in 1852 and stands toda!
on a vacant lot in the town, dis
. mantled and broken and has outllvet
its usefulness and has stood exposed
| to the storms of twenty winters. Ih'
: hose cart that once was manned b,
| strong young men, now stands he
side the old "Hyman," and the boy
who used to handle ii are now oil
men.
By the way, some means should BIZ
devised to preserve these relics o
j, former times The old fire bell stands
today on the same platform it wa
; placed on over 40 years ago, as doe
, the old church bell, just across thu
street. The bells had not been runs
for years before | climbed to thu
platform and gave them whirl
, They still retain the sweetness o
sound that they carried to worship
pers and readers of Holy Writ ant
awaked the sleeping populace from
their slumbers when fire made RIM
necessary, forty years ago. The oil
town at the kase of Treasure hill ha
future Many of the old stfueture
that graced the town in former time
have fallen to the ground, leavlnl
nothing but fire walls standing, bu
enough are still standing to SHOW
what Hamilton was in the good oil
days, and to make a monument 10
the brave men who faced privatlon
of all kinds and stood the rigors o
the winters in the mountains o
White Pine | paid visit to Ham
ilton's cemetery, but nothing re
mains to mark the last resting place
of 800 or 400 who died when thu
camp was a city, but lot of tumble
down boards. Time has obliteratet
every letter ever placed upon them
Time has rotted down the little
fences placed around the graves
i Sagebrush has grown over the grave:
and to find one is almost impossible
1t matters not whether anyone dice
of smallpox or pneumonia now; i
has long since become distinction
without a difference. In 1868 ant
SO men died in day with smallpo,
or pneumonia, and were hustled of
to God S acre and covered by mother
earth, and time has done the rest tC
make the dead of Hamilton forgot
ten by the busy world, so it matters
not from whence they came. Louis
Zadow, Alex. Muir, G. II. Allen, ant
a few others who were here forty
years ago are still in the saddle anC
as confident as they were in 1871
that the camp is a good one And
by the way, that fact has been proven
every year since the decline began
by shipments of high grade ore tt
the smelter. Charley Minolett
came a few years later, but he, too
has been here long enough to turf
his hair silver. He has made money
in the camp every year since 1883