Elko County (Nev.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station Records
Collection
Identifier: AC 0239
Abstract
In 1887, when the Hatch Act provided federal funds, the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station was created by the Board of Regents. From the beginning, there was an emphasis on experimental work and extension services. It expanded its services under the Adams Act in 1906, and in 1925 the Purnell Fund was established for the further endowment of the experiment stations. This collections contains records of the Agricultural Experiment Station and agricultural issues. The majority of the...
Dates:
1921-1966
Agricultural Experiment Station Reports
Collection
Identifier: 88-23
Abstract
Includes reports on Nevada agricultural economics and management, including topics dealing with range and forest management in Nevada and northeastern California flood control irrigation the Carson, Truckee, Muddy, and Colorado Rivers grazing, the state Planning Board Water Facilities Act and the Purnell Act.
Dates:
1925-1944
Belonging: Wiseman, Woolverton, Griswold, Angel [family history]
Collection
Identifier: 91-40
Abstract
Helen Angel Fullenwider was a California researcher who researched their ancestors in 1991. Genealogical history of four families from colonial American times to the present. These families settled in Elko County, Nevada, beginning in 1859.
Dates:
1991
Bullion and Exchange Bank Records
Collection
Identifier: 82-33
Overview
The Bullion and Exchange Bank of Carson City, Nevada was established in 1875 as the Carson City Savings Bank. THe collection includes two volumes of manuscript drafts written by the Bullion and Exchange Bank on the Anglo-California Bank of San Francisco, one volume of daily statements, one ledger, and 7 folders of invoices and correspondence dating from 1877-1931.
Dates:
1877-1931
P. Walter Davidson Papers
Collection
Identifier: 90-23
Abstract
Included is correspondence to and from Davidson, his wife Sadie, and S.F. Hunt, President of the Rio Tinto; Sadie's manuscript history/biography of the Nelson Ranch and Estella Bish Nelson; a pamphlet, Elko County and its vast mineral wealth, 1907; and newspaper clippings about mining, Mountain City, and the Davidsons.
Dates:
1907, 1931-1939
Home means Nevada: the autobiography of Edna B. Patterson and the history of the Patterson family and their life in Nevada
Collection
Identifier: 94-09
Abstract
Edna Burke Patterson was a member of the State Central Republican Committee and the Nevada State Board of Education, on which she served as the first woman president. In this manuscript of her book by the same title, Patterson recounts her childhood days; married life with her rancher husband, John Malcolm Patterson, in the Lamoille, Nevada, area; descriptions of Elko, Nevada; her work as an historian and author; and the establishment of the Northeastern Nevada Historical Society. Dated 1992.
Dates:
1992
In This Land: A History of the Lamoille Area of Elko County, Nevada, 1865-1965
Collection
Identifier: NC357
Overview
A study of what was originally Lamoille Precinct of Lander County, Nevada including Lamoille, Pleasant Valley, Fort Halleck, and Halleck Station. The author discusses the development of the Lamoille region, including the areas of business, medicine, mining, ranching, water problems on the Humboldt River, and fraternal and other organizations.
Dates:
1965
Report of Irrigation Investigations, Duty of Water on Meadow Lands
Collection
Identifier: 89-20
Abstract
Report based on work in Elko County, Nevada, which investigated how much water was being used to raise good crops of grass hay near Lamoille, Lee, and in Star Valley near Deeth. The collection contains material from 1917 created by H.T. McQuiston.
Dates:
1917
Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station Records
Collection
Identifier: AC 0191
Overview
The Agricultural Experiment Station began with the 1887 Hatch Act, to develop agricultural research and education. In addition, during the 1930s, it worked with other federal and state agencies, including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, the Nevada Emergency Relief Administration, the Farm Credit Administration, and Indian Field Service on several projects. In 1939, the Experiment Station, together with the U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Nevada Agricultural Extension...
Dates:
1929-1942
Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture Records
Collection
Identifier: AC 0288
Abstract
Records are arranged into three divisions, the College of Agriculture, the Cooperative Extension Service, and the Agricultural Experiment Station. Records include correspondence with the deans and directors of the divisions; correspondence with university presidents and county agents; information of the Newlands Project, and the Nevada Farm Bureau; project reports; information on personnel; budgets; experiment record books; letterpress books; photographs; maps and graphs. Also included are...
Dates:
1889-1965