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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada).Gainer constructed a mill and ran 3,000 feet of mine tunnel on the property. He employed four men. Gainer modified the Model-T pickup shown here to haul ore down the South Twin Canyon. Al Bradshaw, a Tonopah resident, remembered riding up and down the canyon as a 10-year old child with Julius Gainer on the Model-T.
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This set includes: lighting plans, fixture schedules, HVAC plans, mechanical schematics, HVAC schedules, plumbing plans, medical gas piping plans, plumbing details and plumbing schedules.
This set includes drawings by Design Engineering Associates of Nevada, Inc. (engineer).
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Alberta Chloe Colvin was born on December 1, 1916 in Cherry, Nebraska. Chloe Calvin moved to Beatty, Nevada in the 1930s and worked as a schoolteacher. Chloe married Ralph Fairbanks Lisle on July 5, 1939. In 1955, the Lisle family opened a hardware store in Beatty. Chloe Lisle passed away on February 2, 2001 at the age of 84.
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E. J. Questa was born in 1898. He was the president of the First National Bank of Nevada and was an influential businessman in Nevada. He died on February 10, 1962 in a plane crash thirty miles northeast of Tonopah, Nevada while he and Newton J. Crumley were flying to Elko, Nevada.
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Nevada Banking History Collection, 1870-1976. MS-00257. Special Collections and Archives,
University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada
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