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Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute. Photograph with Rex Bell (George Francis Beldam) (right) and other unidentified people at a dinner event at an unknown location. Stamped on back: "Las Vegas News Bureau, Las Vegas, Nev. - P.O. Box 28, Photographers Don English, Joe Buck, Jerry Abbott."

Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute. Studio photograph from Universal Studio Pictures Corp. film "Battling with Buffalo Bill." Rex Bell (George Francis Beldam) in costume with gun. Labeled on back: "The Universal serial,"Battling with Buffalo Bill" with  Tom Tyler, Lucile Browne, Rex Bell, George Regas, Chief Thunder Bird, and Yakima Canutt."

Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute

Copyright notice on back: Freulich, Universal Pictures Corp.  Also labeled: Rex Bell who is featured in the Universal serial "Battling with Buffalo Bill."

E.G. Tilton, Chief Engineer of the The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, replies that the railroad company has no intention of drilling any wells in Las Vegas because of the abundance of spring water in the area.

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley). Doby Doc Caudill lived in Carlin, Nevada, and had amassed a large collection of memorabilia of early Nevada history. He later sold his collection to the Last Frontier Casino in Las Vegas. One of the items in Doby Doc’s collection was this old steampowered locomotive, which was hauled to Las Vegas by way of Highway 50 and the Round Mountain turnoff out of Austin, then on to Tonopah and Las Vegas. The side of the train says "PAT McCARRAN SPECIAL".