🍒 Elko: The First Years

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Fifth and Idaho Streets in A cafe, advertising meals for 25 cents, is where Algerio Real Estate is now located. Pioneer Saloon began business on the northeast corner of Fifth and Railroad. Population estimated at 4, Fire destroys most of the business district. Population estimate is Area mining curtailed causing a Nevada-wide depression. It was in use until torn down and replaced by the present structure in Photo: Northeastern Nevad Museum. Elko's 45 saloons outnumbered all other businesses in town. Still there. The state legislature formed Elko County from a portion of Lander County in With 17, square miles, it is the sixth largest county in the nation. Early in the year the town was made up of about sixty tents. Commercial Street in looking east. First school building was built at Court Street in It opened with 70 students and enrollment doubled to by the end of the first year. Now the Western Folklife Center. A building is constructed on the northeast corner of College Avenue and Ninth. Claire in Nevada's first community college was also housed in the building until it was demolished in to make way for the Green Acre apartments. Now you now where College Streets got its name. White Sulphur Springs Hotel burns down, rebuilt. Both sets of tracks relocated south to their present locations in New grammar school replaces older facility on Court between Eighth and Ninth. University of Nevada moved to Reno. Nevada Industrial School boys reformatory opens four miles east of town. Taken in Courtesy of Northeastern Nevada Museum. The school is called Number One until it was renamed to honor Kate St. McBride is first mayor. March 5, Elko County formed and Elko named the county seat. Now the Nevada Youth Training Center.

When Elko began it was a rough and tumble place populated by railroaders, miners, gamblers and a few merchants. Pioneer Hotel building completed. He was fond of animal names and simply added an "o" to Elk.

Early photo of Elko showing the Depot Hotel. County library moved from courthouse to the second floor stockmans casino elko history the old high school building at Court and Sixth.

A new KP hall was later built on the same site and is presently owned by Chilton Engineering. Humboldt Lodging House predecessor of the Commercial Hotel built.

It was torn down in Elko Flour Mill, Commercial between Seventh and Eighth, begins operation continue reading provides the first water system stockmans casino elko history the town.

The first church was the Presbyterian, built at Sixth and Pine. Christmas Day, The building had been used for only eight years. Elko Flour Mill torn down. Stockmans casino elko history of Nevada dormitory built on Ninth and Court. First street paving program begins.

It is a two-story building used until the present high school buildings were constructed on College. First Elko High School Band formed. Missouri Flats, in the vicinity of Silver and Ninth streets, is headquarters for freighters, their animals and rigs. Townsite laid out. Located at the corner of Ninth and College streets. After a new school was constructed five blocks east, the building was used as a Knights of Phythias Hall. First county high school in the state at Court and Sixth streets. Opened in , the operated until the new campus was built in The building, without its second floor which burned in , is now used for county offices. Where the "old gym" at the high school presently stands. Population estimated at 2, Elko incorporated as a city. Population estimated at 1, Elko Flour Mill generates first electricity and supplies power to a few street lights. Operated until Extraction methods developed there are still in use today. New elementary school built on same site. After the university was moved to Reno in The building was the county hospital for many years. Elko's first newspaper, the Elko Independent, begins publication on June Cosmopolitan Hotel built next to the railroad track, 80 rooms. Site of Chilton Engineering, different building. Population estimated at 5, First University of Nevada building. Present downtown parking area. Photo: Northeastern Nevada Museum. Population estimated at Western Pacific Railroad now Union Pacific lays track through town and builds a depot. The building, without its second story, still stands behind the present courthouse and is used for county offices. Elko designated an airmail station on the first transcontinental route. Elko General Hospital at College and Thirteenth around Built in , it was in use until demolished in for the present building immediately west of the old structure. Elko becomes the terminus of the first commercial airmail flight in the nation when Varney Airlines later part of United Air Lines completes flight from Pasco, Washington. Catlin Shale Products Company opens an experimental oil extraction plant southwest of town off Bullion Road. Elko Municipal Water Works established. The lodging place has 80 rooms, a dining room that seated , a billard room, bar and barbershop. Since then, gambling, tourism, modern gold mining and its many service groups have added to the economic slate. October 7, two-story brick school building opens on the north side of Court between Eighth and Ninth. In a newcomer remarked in a letter, "There were all sorts of games and vices in progress and only two men were killed the day I arrived. Elko cattleman, Lewis "Broadhorns" Bradley elected second governor of Nevada. Culture arrived early. An opera house in a tent opened. Elko General Hospital built at the corner of College and Thirteenth. Freshly oiled floors were blamed. First county fair held on the Garcia rodeo grounds located south of the river. Elko is selected the first site of the University of Nevada. Present County Fairgrounds built on part of old China Ranch were Chinese once raised vegetables for sale in town. Earliest existing photograph of Elko. Elko-Lamoille Power Company provides direct electric current to Elko. A brickworks at Idaho and the road to Mountain City begins business. From to the community was run by Elko County Commissioners whose motto was: "The best government is the least government.