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syndicate this year -- couple of weeks ago. 10,378 in the Little Beneficencia lottery, was the winning ticket held by him --
Thursday Jan 31
Stormy & cold -- One of the most wintry days of the season -- commenced snowing heavily about 6 AM, and followed it up till noon, 6 or 8 inches falling -- PM moderating -- quite a number of sleighs got out, the sleighing
18 -- Sleighing -- Big Snow of the Winter -- Cold Sharp cold snap -- Wintry -- Slippery 3 page Letter to Reno Ledger -- Oldest People in World CC (Black) Wallace Dead?
being pretty fair -- Legislature held AM & PM sessions, short, and adjourned to 11 AM on Monday, both Houses going to visit officially the State University and the State Hospital for Mental Diseases at Reno tomorrow by special invitation -- After PM adjournment I wrote a 3 page legal cap letter to the Reno Ledger, weekly, and delivered it at the evening train to Bert Crawford, the editor who is Sgt-at-arms of the Assembly -- Evening mostly at the Arlington as usual, the streets & sidewalks being too slippery for any extensive use by me -- Telegraph says that CC Wallace the great political boss of Nevada for several years past, died suddenly of heart failure yesterday in Mariposa county California -- Past 72 yrs of age -- was "Black" Wallace -- Evening cleared off very cold -- Bed at 12 -- street thermometers showing about 16[degrees] to 18[degrees] above zero --
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Wintry -- Only 4[degrees] above zero -- More Snow -- 1901 Sleighing -- 6 pages to Gardnerville Record 6 pages to SL Tribune -- Wife with $15 Chris Batterman in Carson
Friday February 1, 1901
Variable, wintry, light snow flirting through the air most of the day, variated with occasional warm sunshine -- PM I wrote correspondence for Salt Lake Tribune at al -- Bed 12 -- clear & cold as last night -- 15[degrees] above zero --
Saturday Feb 2
Variable, pleasant -- cold -- Rose at 6 and wrote a correspondence, 6 pages, & sent it to Gardnerville Record by morning mail at 10:30 -- PM fixed up similar dose & sent it to the Salt Lake Tribune by evening mail -- Got letter from wife with $15 -- Evening about town a little -- snowing and cold -- Bed at 12 -- 6 inches and still snowing -- Met Chris Batterman at the Arlington this morning -- He didn't know me -- hadnt seen me for several years -- He much altered but I knew him. Just back from Mason valley and his copper mines -- didn't say where or when he was going next, & I saw no more of him -- Thermometer stood at 4[degrees] above zero this morning, so Charley Friend says -- A few sleighs were out yesterday on the street, but sleighing didn't amount to much, and no good today --
20 -- Good Sleighing -- SF Chronicle 4 pages -- Queen More Snow Wintry-- 10[degrees] above z -- Geo I Lamy Reporting Legislature -- 4 page letter to wife -- Sime Ogg George Fryer -- Great Change in CP Railroad Proprietorship
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Sunday Feb 3
Variable -- About 7 inches new snow on the ground this morning -- Excellent sleighing and some sleighing parties out during the day -- PM wrote 4 page correspondence & mailed it to SF Chronicle on evening train -- Bed 12 -- cloudy and freezing hard --
Monday Feb 4
Variable and snowstorming in the PM and evening -- Big sleighing all day -- Thermom at 10[degrees] above zero in early morning -- Sent brief note to Geo I Lamy of Gardnerville Record in AM about my correspondence -- Legislature held AM & PM sessions, transacting a goodly amount of business -- I reporting as usual -- Getting down to their work -- At close of PM session 3:30 PM I wrote a 4 page letter to wife & sent it off by evening train -- Evening as usual -- met George Fryer, from Dayton, up on private business -- affiliated -- Bed at 12 -- 8 inches snow and still snowing lightly -- The Vanderbilts & Co have bought out the Huntington & other old originators & owners of the SP or main continental railroad and own it & all connections -- Grandest railroad transaction on record --
Over a foot of Snow -- I in Salt Lake Tribune -- 1901 My Govt Comstock Write up Received from Washington
Tuesday Feb 5
Snowstorming & wintry -- Much snow fell in the AM -- Over one foot of snow
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on the ground -- Finest of sleighing, and PM & evening many sleighing parties out taking advantage of it -- Senate held no PM session, but the Assembly did -- Evening was about town a little with my friend George Fryer -- Bed 12 -- cloudy and moderate with some more snow in the air -- No blockade or snow interruption to the trains across the Sierra as yet this winter --
Wednesday Feb 6
Variable, moderate, occasional light snowsqualls -- Legislature as usual -- Recd SL Tribune of Monday the 4th containing my correspondence of last Saturday, the 2nd -- 1 1/4 columns -- got up in splendid style -- Bed 12 -- cloudy & freezing hard -- Recd through the Mint here today a copy of the "Treasury Annual Reports 1900, Production of Gold and Silver in the United States 1899." It is better than any of its predecessors -- Has my Comstock portion of it better than was got up before -- 12 pages and 4 cuts -- really big cap for me as well as the Dept -- But still my
22 -- My Chronicle Failure -- I in Gardnerville Record Bert Crawford $1.50 -- Reno Ledger -- Washoe Seeress Legislative Adjournment -- 2 More Comstock Reports Two More Mint Director Reports Received -- Sleighing
Nevada Correspondence to the SF Chronicle of Sunday Oct 3 has not appeared so I think refused -- Hilarious sleighing & snowballing today --
Thursday Feb 7
Same -- Gardnerville Record had my letter in today, sent last Saturday --
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2 columns in good style, barring blunders -- Bert Crawford paid me $1.50 for my correspondence in the Reno Ledger of Feb 2 this PM and I sent another letter this evening to the Ledger -- Bed 11 -- cloudy & freezing hard --
Friday Feb 8
Same -- cold, wintry & disagreeable -- Each House of the Legislature held short AM sessions and adjourned till Monday at the usual hour -- Bed 12 -- very cold & gloomy with light snow falling -- Rec'd today through the Post office, two copies of Report of Director of the Mint on Gold & Silver Production of the United States for 1899, with my Comstock report in it -- These were direct to me from Washington -- I find that the other copy I got day before yesterday was from Colcord of this Mint here -- He received half a dozen and put that one into the Post office for me --
Very Cold Snap -- Salt Lake Tribune Weather Stations -- Garnerville Record -- 1901 My First Fly -- Coldest -- Below Zero
Saturday Feb 9
Variable -- more sunshine -- PM was busy writing up newspaper correspondence -- Evening cleared off very cold -- Bed at 12 -- Arlington thermometer showed 8° above zero -- coldest I have seen this winter at that time of night -- The first fly of the year (or century) crawled out of a crack and put in his appearance on my window sill in the morning sunlight -- He acted very
