Carson City past pages 5-9

130 Years Ago

The measles have appeared in this city in an epidemic form. One-third of the children in town are down with the complaint.

110 Years Ago

April Fool. With the payment of $25,000 into the banking house of Wells, Fargo & Co. an option on the April Fool mine at De Lamar, passed into the hands of A. H. Wethy of Butte, Montana.

70 Years Ago

Seventy-eight temblors that hit Boulder Dam in the last few days have had no damage to the gigantic construction project. No movement has taken place according to readings of "tilt meter" in the dam.

50 Years Ago

Construction of three tunnels at the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada test site is expected to get underway. The tunnels will be between 40 and 500 feet in length into the side of a mesa at the northern boundary of the site.

20 Years Ago

Gov. Bob Miller has formed a task force to determine whether illegal price-fixing has caused a sharp increase in gasoline prices - this following the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

10 Years Ago

Restoration of the Brewery Arts Center is nearly completion with Joe McCarthy as executive director. The building once known as the Carson Brewery, is one of Carson City's most prominent historic buildings.

- Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.