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...Baldwin, R. R. Barker, Gerardus Beckman, E. R. Best, E. R. Betts, R. B. Bissell, N. H. Blatchford, J. W. Bowden, D. W. Brown, Thornion Brown, H. S. Bullard, H. R. Byers, R. S. Chafee, R. H. Clarke, John Clement, B. H. Cohen, M. I. Cohen, C. R. Comstock, R. H. Cook, B. D. Davis, W. A. Dickson, J. D. Dorr, R. W. Drury, J. N. Edson, L. C. Farley, W. A. Francis, G. S. Franklin, A. H. Fuller, J. A. Garber, J. E. Gardner, P. E. Geier, R. W. Gilder, Justin Glickson, R. S. Goodyear, Davies Gratwick...
...visit of inspection to Virginia & Truckce Railway paid by Ogden Livingston Mills and Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Hoover (TIME, April 10), it was announced last week after a meeting of the road's directors that Mr. Mills had purchased a controlling interest in the road. Built (to connect the Comstock silver lode with Reno) in 1869 by Darius Ogden Mills, grandfather of the present owner, Virginia & Truckee was controlled in recent years by the Mills and Sharon estates of San Francisco. Rising silver prices, discovery of a new lode at Virginia City have made prospects of the road look...
Tentative scatings announced yesterday by Mason Hammond '25, are: bow, M. M. Johnson, Jr. '31; 7, C. N. Comstock '07; 6, W. M. Marvel '30; 5, H. B. Rood '31; 4, Arthur Smithies 1G; 3, Hammond; 2, W. O. Faxon '32; stroke, S. D. Peirce 4E.S.; cox, M. T. Nichols '31, M. A. Matthews 2G.B., or Irving Neiman '29. T. C. T. Buckley '32, G. W. Menke 1G.B., and W. G. Botzow 2L are also on the Ancient Mariners' squad...
...Comstock Lode on the side of Mt. Davidson at Virginia City, Nev., has always been a surprise package. Discovered in 1859, its glory holes enriched Sandy Bowers, an illiterate Missouri teamster, made his washerwoman bride, Eilly Orrum. Queen of the Comstock. Its abandoned workings, bought in 1872 for $100,000, in four years yielded $100,000,000 to its four new owners-Irishmen William S. O'Brien, James C. Flood, James G. Fair and John W. Mackay-father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Mackay. In 1907 a fall of rock disclosed a $1,000,000 pocket of gold...
...Reno. It was the first equipment used on Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railway when Mr. Mills's Grandfather Darius Ogden Mills built it in 1869. The train stopped while Mr. Mills inspected the railroad's right-of-way over the south end of the famed Comstock Lode. Mr. Hoover remembered well when he had had a mining engineer's job on the Comstock in 1895. Before the train snorted on, Messrs. Hoover and Mills and Mrs. Mills climbed into the locomotive's cab. Mrs. Hoover and Manhattan's onetime Congresswoman Ruth Pratt stayed behind...