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TELEPHONE MESSAGE CENTER We have set up a Telephone Message Center in the Capitol for your convenience while you are attending the Carson City sessions. The telephone number is GR 2-1641. We will have attendents on duty to receive incoming calls for you and to place your outgoing calls, both local and long distance. For long distance calls you may use your tele- phone credit card, or you may pay the attendent when you complete the call. There will be two messengers on duty. If you receive a call or a message, they will notify you. If you are not able to reach anyone at GR 2-1641 (after hours), you may call FA 9-7532 to get infor- mation on the locations of any of the delegates. POINTS OF INTEREST: BOWERS MANSION?╟÷Twenty miles south of Reno on the way to Carson City. Built by one of the Comstock's first millionaires, Sandy Bowers, for his wife, Eilley Orrum Bowers. Their extravagant expenditures for the mansion's furnishings, mostly bought in Europe, have become legend. Bad invest- ments, together with the loss of their mine and mill wrecked the Bowers fortune. The mansion is now a museum. CARSON CITY?╟÷Founded in 1857, and named for Kit Carson, Fremont's scout, the town was chosen capital of the territory in 1861. Our state capital since 1864, it is known as the smallest capital city in the United States. The State Museum is located in the building which housed a United States Branch Mint from 1867 to 1892. Carson City silver dollars (stamped with a CC) are collector's items. PYRAMID LAKE ?╟÷ Twenty eight miles north of Reno on State Highway No. 33, this lake is situated in the middle of Nevada's largest Indian reservation. It was discovered in 1844 by John C. Fremont. He named it Pyramid because of the strange rock formations. RENO?╟÷Called Lake's Crossing for many years because of its important trading post, which stood on the present site of the Riverside Hotel. When the Central Pacific Rail- road laid out a town around Lake's Crossing, they named it in honor of General Jesse Reno, a Civil War hero. It became the county seat of Washoe County in 1871. VIRGINIA CITY?╟÷Queen city of the Comstock, the town has a record of production in excess of $750,000,000 in gold and silver. Gold first discovered here in 1848. At that time, miners seeking gold quartz threw away the stubborn dark bluish clay which interferred with their digging. It wasn't until 1859 that it was discovered this "blue clay" was rich with silver ore, assaying at $3,000 a ton.