History of Nevada; . 1864, at the age offifteen, he enlisted, without asking for or receivingbountj, in Comi)any K, 102d New York Volunteers. In 1867 he became proof-reader on the ChicagoDaily Republican, the following year he went toAustin, Texas, in charge of |)rinters to execute theStale printing, and after returning became, in 1871,assistant foreman of the N(»w Orleans 1873 he started the Colorado Real Estate ami Min-ing Reciew, at Denver, Colorado, and the same yearcrossed the mountains and became assistant fore-man on the Territorial Enterprise, from whore howent, in 1S74,
History of Nevada; . 1864, at the age offifteen, he enlisted, without asking for or receivingbountj, in Comi)any K, 102d New York Volunteers. In 1867 he became proof-reader on the ChicagoDaily Republican, the following year he went toAustin, Texas, in charge of |)rinters to execute theStale printing, and after returning became, in 1871,assistant foreman of the N(»w Orleans 1873 he started the Colorado Real Estate ami Min-ing Reciew, at Denver, Colorado, and the same yearcrossed the mountains and became assistant fore-man on the Territorial Enterprise, from whore howent, in 1S74, to the Inlependent of that citj-, andbecame its local editor. On the fourth of July, 1875, he issued the firstnumber of the Sutro Iwlepemlent, in partnership withAdolpb Sutro, the latter furnishing the money. Ajear and a half later he became evening reporteron the Virginia Chronicle, and then business man-ager of the same, from where ho entered uponhis present duties as editor and publisher of the,Lyon County RESIDENCE «? , C» N EV. i7M mffT^oH a /Tfy. s HISTORY OF JOURNALISM IN NEVADA. :j()9 DAILY MININO llEPORTEIl. IJut littlo is romembored conccrnini; this paperexcept that it was short lived; it was started March10, 187G, bj the Reporter Publishing Company, K. being editor; was reduced to a tri-weeklj-publication in the fore part of May. and was a native of Silver City. SUTKO INDEPENDENT. This pajier was founded at Sutro.[in Ti3on County,in July, 1875. It was a weekly, published onSaturday. Adolph Sutro furnished the money andT. S. Picott the brains to run it. Xovenibor 1. lS7t),Prank li. Mercer, formerly of the Oakland, California,Daily Eoening Tribune, succeeded Picott as its pub-lisher, and the last of Februar}-, 1870, it sus]>OMdeilThis suspension resulted from the cessation of all workon the tunnel, caused by the unsettled condition ofaffairs pending the negotiations that ended in a com-promise between the tunnel company an
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