The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-21
some FACTS
CONCERNING
CHERRY CREEK
JOHN WEARNE'S UNTIRING Eff.
FORTS IN BEHALF OF THE
TOWN.
ARE ABOUT 500 RESIDENTS
Hon Charles Green, One of the Men
Who Made History In
Nevada.
ARE ABOUT 500 RESIDENTS

Editor News: John Wearne keeps
the largest general merchandise store
in Cherry Creek and carries every
thing from a fipe-tOoth comb to a
grindstone. He located In Cherry in
1874 and started business. He does
large volume of business in the
course of year with the farmers in
The valley and with the various min
ing companies. Mr.. Wearne has
been resident of White Pine county
since 1868, coming to Hamilton when
that town was city. He followed
mining for a few years, or until the
bottom dropped out of silver and par
TALLY out of the mining industry, and
then went to merchandising. He is a
man above the average in point of in
telligence, and Is known all over the
county as one of Its best citizens. He
is interested In several mining prop
critics. He Is the owner of the &C.
neva, which Is bonded to Eastern cap.
ital and the money for lis purchase
has been put up, so there can be but
little doubt 1t will be sale. Several
of the old mills put up in the early
days have fallen into the hands of
Mr.. Wearne. Some of them he has
bought and some were taken for debt
He is at the top of Cherry Creek S
good citizens Cherry Greek has first
the Wearne store, the Cannon-Taylor
company, general merchandise; the
Cannon Drug company. Charley
Wah, a good Chinese citizen, con-
ducts a general grocery establish
ment; e. v. Brainaard the same;
there Is a harness shop, boot and
shoe store, two restaurants, two
blacksmith shops. meat market, a
feed stable, four saloons and four
places where one can get bed. The
+, charges as much as is charged at the
/ Waldorf-AsIoria, but the accommo-
dations are not quite so elaborate as
they, are at that well-kMown hotel,
but they are comfortable, but don't
go there without $3.50 in your hip
pocket or you can't sleep-not in a
bed, ANY way.
There are between 400 and 500
people living in Cherry today. John
l.. Taylor is the postmaster. Cherry
has schoolhouse where between
eighty and ninety school children
learn to shoot The spring term has
closed now. There Is not vacant
house in town of any description.
Three new dwellings are now being
COuSOI uCIcu, anu tnC CO"h 40 nii iA0hS
or will be by fall.
Around the farm of Hon. Charles
Green, three miles due south from
Cherry, cluster many pages of White
Pines history. Mr.. Green is the old
est of pioneers, coming to Egan can
yon in the SOS, young man full OF
vigor, willing and able to undertake
or undergo any hardship of pioneer
life. In 1872 Mr.. Green settled on
the ranch where he lives today. Mrs.
Green, his sister, Miss Green, now rs
years of age, and a niece, Mrs. Kea-
gan, comprise his family, and hap
pier home cannot be found in White
Pine county. Charley" as his in
climates call him, knows every sage
brush in the cornty. He has lived
here during all the years of prosper
ity and depression, but has always
had his best foot foremost, in politics
as we'll as his neighborly acts. Mr.
Green represented the people of the
county in the senate in the session of
1901 and 1903 and was president pro
tenn of that body. He has also served
three terms in the lower house. That
fact alone shows in what high esteem
he isfheld by those who know him,
and when his task in this life shall
have been finished every one can say,
swell done, thou good and faithful
servant II any one wishes to know
anything about White Pines early
history let him hunt up Charles
Green, and We hunters knowledge
box WILDE filled by Mr.. Green to
overlooking He knows the story and