Mule-drawn freight wagon in front of Block 16 and the Arizona Club. Freight trains were used for transportation to mining areas. Site Name: Arizona Club (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Hotel Las Vegas on Main Street. It was the first hotel built in Las Vegas. Handwritten on the photo is: "Hotel Las Vegas in 1905." Street Address: Main Street
View of the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Railroad yards. In the background is a fifty ton capacity ice house which burned in the summer of 1907.
People standing by the bar and playing table games inside the Arizona Club. The handwritten inscription on the photo reads: "A gambling house in Las Vegas." Site Name: Arizona Club (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Surveyors on the railroad in the Manvel (now Barnwell), California area. L-R: Charles Whittemore, Judge Davis, and the person on far right is unidentified. They were surveying in preparation for the building of the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Railroad, circa 1905
Ranch house and southwest wall of Mormon Fort. The building on the left was the headquarters of the Las Vegas Ranch. Site Name: Mormon Fort (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Clayson and Griffith, an early tent store in Las Vegas. One of the founders was E. W. Griffith who later owned a building on 2nd and Fremont (Golden Nugget site). The sign on the store reads: "Clayson & Griffith, house furnishings, miners supplies, burros and saddles, new and second goods bought and sold."