FROM
GOLDFIELD NEWSPAPERS
May 5, 1909
December 26, 1907
Building road from Rawhide to Wabuska.
For sale. The best Business in Southern Nevada; no exception $1,500.00. If you have the price call and see me. If not, nothing doing. We are busy. Best reasons for selling.

The most elegant line of oil painting by foreign renowned masters that cost from $25.00 to $75.00 slaughtered at $12.50 to $25.00.
We need the money.
313 Main Stree
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1908
Rhyolite Proposed dividing Nye County, they would be the County Seat.
September 4, 1908
Trolley car system proposed by George Wingfield and others to service from Goldfield to Diamondfield.
September 15, 1908
May 8, 1909
Goldfield post cards @ $ .20 per dozen at Polin�s News Stand.
Kentucky Liquor Co.
Tonopah & Goldfield R.R.,
36 hours from Reno to Goldfield, with refrigerator cars.

Mrs. Mamie Mullen was jagged & jugged, arrested for drunkenness!!
Sale:
Beer - per dozen pints                                      $1.00 
Per quarts                                                         $2.90 
6 year old whiskey per gallon                           $2.75

Guckenheimer (rye), Old Oscar pepper,
McBrayer @ .75  
Per Bottle Bottled in Bond Whiskies                  $1.20                                                                              Per bottle
Geneva Gin & Tom Gin                                     $  .75                                                                    (for the kidneys)
Cognac Brandy                                 $1.00  was $1.75
Pint flask whiskey                                                $  .40
� pint flasks                                                        $ .20

Fire Building limit, building in certain areas to be constructed over one story must be made of brick, stone or other fireproof material, roof will be of tin, copper, iron or other fireproof materials.
February 2, 1909
Contract for a two story hotel at Pioneer, 100x50�, to be open in 15 days with 50 rooms.

Pioneer is ambitious, less than three months old, it is the bidder for the county seat of the lower end of Nye County in opposition to Rhyolite. There is nothing like nerve when it is backed up by a train load of high grade!
February 11, 1909
�Anyone desiring to find a better camp than Goldfield will spend all his money in railroad transportation.�  Ole Elliot

Enrollment in Goldfield Schools.  915 and 60 in Kindergarten.

�Widows are so good natured it�s hard to believe they were ever wives!�
March 21, 1909
Holland House opened in Pioneer, moved in from Beatty

Pioneer, a camp that came up from sagebrush to 1200 people in less than three months.

�Alkali Bill� Brong established fast automobile, passenger and freight service between Springdale  on the T&T R.R. line, and the famous Pioneer Bullfrog and Mayflower mines.
15 minute service.
Auto fare $1.00 each way.
February 16, 1909
�THE LADIES�
�To their sweetness we give love, to their beauty, admiration, and to their hats, the whole sidewalk.�

The good things that come to those who wait are usually the things that no one else wants!
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