From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Handwritten on verso: "Left to Right: Pat Goodall (Pres of UNLV); Caesar Caviglia (V.P. CCCC Advisory Board); Bucky Buchanon (Regent); Judith S. Eaton (President CCCC); Howard Cannon; Robert Cashall (Pres, Bd. og Regents); Robert Bersi (Chancellor)." Clark County Community College commencement exercises.
Oral history interview with Helen Mortenson conducted by Claytee D. White on May 06, 2014 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Mortenson discusses Cygnus Scientific, a consultation firm specializing in nuclear, radiological, and environmental issues. She goes on to describe the Ice Age Park Foundation, managing her husband’s political campaign, and her archaeological pursuits. Later, Mortenson discusses her discovery of a Shasta ground sloth at Devils Peak, Nevada in 1990.
Manhattan Dredge, Manhattan, Nevada, 1939. There is an inscription on the back of the image: "Known locally as the "Big Boat," the 3,000 ton dredge operation. The dredge began mining in 1938 and shut down in 1946. The operation recovered over $4,500,000 in gold. Water for the dredge's pond was piped to the site from Peavine creek across Smoky Valley." There is a date stamp: 1986.
Betty Ciliax was born in Bisbee, Arizona. She moved to the Las Vegas area in 1932 when her father found work in Goodsprings, Nevada. Ciliax graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1938.
View of the dredge at Manhattan, Nevada, circa 1938. The dredge began at the lower end of the canyon at Jamestown and worked its way up to the vicinity of the power station, the big cement-cast substation building at Manhattan. Water for the dredge was obtained from a pipeline which crossed the Smoky Valley from Peavine Creek. The dredge had a 90-foot bucket line on it and was anchored with two winches to a deadman. The dredge—when dredging was finished at Round Mountain—was disassembled and moved to Battle Mountain, Nevada. The make is believed to be a Yuba dredge. The man in the white shirt is Louis Cirac, long-time Nye County resident and father to Smoky Valley resident Don Cirac. From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada)