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Transcript of interview with Emma Ellsworth by Clark Ellsworth, March 5, 1980
On March 5, 1980, Clark Ellsworth interviewed his grandmother, Emma Ellsworth (born 1902 in Payson, Utah) about her experiences in Southern Nevada. Ellsworth first talks about growing up in Utah and getting married before moving to Pioche, Nevada during the Great Depression. She also talks about bringing up a family in Las Vegas as well as her and her husband’s work in running Beneficial Life, a life insurance business, in Las Vegas. Ellsworth also talks about the Mormon churches in Las Vegas, the schools her children attended, and the number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren she had at the time.
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Map showing proposed new 12" well and pipe line changes at Water Springs, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1920
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Pall Mall restaurant menu, June 20, 1903
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Arlington, supper menu
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Thanksgiving dinner menu, Windsor Hotel, 1908
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Christmas menu, The Sherman
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Letter from J. T. McWilliams (Good Springs, Nevada) to J. Ross Clark (Los Angeles), February 1, 1903
McWilliams' handwritten letter in which he explains that the discrepancy in water measurements of the Las Vegas Creek stem from differences in what the surveyors refer to as a miner's inch. Colonel Moore's reply, mentioned in the letter is referenced below.
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Correspondence, King, Burton and King, Attys, to Levi Syphus
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