News Clippings from Searchlight, Nevada 1897 - 1909

The mining was great, Searchlight, Nevada was a boom town. There were land arguments and agreements, dredging in the Colorado, railroad, stages and new roads. Shortages of wood for housing, with people still coming to town. They found turquoise and lots of gold.


Family names include: Aleode, Allen, Arramdsen, Atwell, Atwilt, Baker, Ballant, Barnes, Barrett, Beattie, Beatty, Belgar, Bell, Benjamin, Bennett, Black, Bodie, Bowman, Bradley, Briggs, Bowman, Brockenbrou, Brown, Buckler, Bullock, Bunch, Burdick, Burns, Busteed, Butts, Campbell, Carter, Cassidy, Censer, Church, Clark, Clayton, Clements, Coleman, Colton, Conault, Conway, Cook, Copp, Courtaright, Coyle, Cox, Crawford, Creek, Crowley, Curiston, Dack, Day, Dean, DePuy, Detmers, Dexter, Doherty, Dunn, Durell, Earp, Egan, Ekelund, Elsen, Emerson, Enick, Erkenback, Ewing, Faber, Farguson, Fenton, Fisher, Flanagan, Fletcher, Forney, French, Frye, Garvin, Green, Greenley, Gilroy, Griffin, Grugan, Guston, Hal, Hansen, Harding, Harlan, Harland, Hawkins, Henderson, Henning, Hinke, Hitchcock, Hobson, Hodges, Hodson, Hopkins, Howard, Howe, Howell, Hunt, Jaberwood, Jacks, Jackson, James, Jennison, Johnson, Jost, Kearney, Kelly, Kennedy, King, Kittring, Kramer, Larsen, Latimer, Lewis, Lindstorm, Lindsay, Livingston, Loffer, Lynch, MacKinnon, MacReady, Martin, McClintock, McDonald, McEuter, McGregor, McIlvane, McLaughlin, McVey, Mathews, Mattman, Mauer, Merrill, Messiner, Metzkou, Middleworth, Mighton, Miller, Mills, Mitchell, Mitt, Monaghan, Moncreif, Monohan, Murphy, Myers, Nagle, Nelson, Ord, Paddock, Pauff, Peck, Perew, Perkins, Perocca, Perry, Phillips,Prescott, Previne, Price, Randolph, Rawson, Reals, Reeder, Reid, Rice, Robinson, Rose, Rouselle, Runcorn, Ruff, Sanford, Sayers, Scott, Shannon, Sherman, Sherwood, Simmons, Sinclair, Smith, Stack, Stevens, Stewart, Stiles, Stotler, Sulzer, Suprenant, Sutton, Taber, Taylor, Ulman, Vanina, Vaughn, Visscher, Vutch, Wallbeecht, Walte, Ward, Wardlaw, Watkins, Watt, Weaver, Webb, Webber, Wellman, Wharton, Wheatley, Wheatly, White, Whitson, Williams, Williamson, Withers, Woods, Wright, Wyle, Young

Newspapers seen in this book: The Central Nevadan (Battle Mountain, Nevada), Churchill Standard (Fallon, Nevada), Churchill County Standard (Fallon, Nevada), The Courier (Genoa, Nevada), Daily Independent (Elko, Nevada), The Daily Silver State (Winnemucca, Nevada), Eureka Weekly Sentinel (Eureka, Nevada), Las Vegas Age (Las Vegas, Nevada), Las Vegas Times (Las Vegas, Nevada), Lincoln County Record (Pioche, Nevada), Lovelock Tribune (Lovelock, Nevada), Lyon County Times (Silver City, Nevada), Morning Appeal (Carson City, Nevada), The Pioche Weekly Record (Pioche, Nevada), The Record (Gardnerville, Nevada), The Silver State (Unionville, Nevada), Wadsworth Semi-Weekly Dispatch (Wadsworth, Nevada), Tonopah Bonanza (Butler City/Tonopah, Nevada), Walker Lake Bulletin (Hawthorne, Nevada), Weekly Independent (Elko, Nevada), The White Pine News (Treasure City, Nevada), Yerington Times (Yerington, Nevada)

Please keep in mind that these articles are well over 100 years old. They have been stored, microfilmed, digitized and some may be not a clear as we would like.