GOLD HILL DAILY NEWS. Billhead involice to Virginia & Truckee R.R. for "Advt. for Sunday Train," Aug., Sept. & Oct., 1878 with copy of ad with cut of train tipped onto billhead, the whole tipped on V&TRR Auditor's invoice.
Item #6106
4.75" & 7"x8.5"; printed columnar billheads, signed twice by Alfred Doten. Gold Hill & Carson, Nevada., Sept. 19 & Nov. 15, 1878. Both original invoice and V&T Auditor's invoice receipted on behalf of the Gold Hill Daily News by Alf Doten. Doten is primarily known to us for his Journals, edited by Walter Van Tilburg Clark; Paher, Nevada Bibliography 491: "Feisty Alf Doten is Nevada's premier diarist. No less than 55 of his rambunctious years are recorded in 79 leather bound journals containing more than 20,000 entries and about 3-1/2 million words.The final entry was penned just before his death in Carson City in November 1903. Noted novelist Walter Van Tilburg Clark devoted massive amounts of time in digging into archives from Plymouth to San Francisco to make certain what Doten meant. Starting as a carpenter, [Doten] became a rancher and miner in California's Sierra. In 1865 he began a 39 year journalistic career first with Virginia City's Daily Union, and then after 1867 at the Gold Hill Daily News where he became editor-owner in 1872. Under Doten, the News became Nevada's leading political and mining journal.He was also a horse breaker, a surgeon's assistant, a musical entertainer, a politician, mining expert, lime-burner, hunter, fisherman, insurance salesman and vigilante truly an Alf of all trades. Of unusual social historic interest is Doten's coverage of the Comstock after 1878" V&TRR ad is for the Sunday Excursion Train--Carson, Bowers' Mansion and Steamboat. Fine. |
