Show (Jtuieuto wm bore a lusty brawling tent town at rail junction It has grown Into progressive little village with 1000 boosters CdDemrSe was harassod by gunfiro on road to respectability by II 1 1 e 1 B Lincoln in CALIENTE Nevada is red by rugged hills and sandstone cliffs that rise like the back drops of a stage setting straight up from the valley floor Through sunsets rains and morning mists they change to pastel tints to delight and challenge any artist Ribboning its way into Ca Rente from Las Vegas High way 93 climbs up through desert Joshua forests Still higher through vast stretches of cedars and pinons to Dela “I StoppedSioking So Easily Vith BAM” ’tf x' ' ' ' V sJl i '! V ' U '' V Deaton mar summit then drops into the curves among the forbidding monoliths of Newman Canyon Moments later the tracks and bridges of the Union Pacific Railroad come into view But where is Caliente? Sir it's dozing among the Paul Bunyanlsh cottonwood trees that line most of its streets Caliente was fathered by two railroads one building in from Utah orte from California During 1904-’0they met at this point A tent town harboring at one time more than 40 saloons mushroomed upward Gangs of foreign track layers mostly Japanese and Austrians drank gambled and fought with each other around the clock on paydays Shooting episodes gave rise to rumors up and down the San Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake line that Caliente was a dangerous spot— the worst in the west Lincoln County sheriffs who frittered away their time burying men who had died with their boots on in Pioche were of a mind to don steel armor when calls for help came from down Caliente way 3 Lincoln Count Hoapital hags the hills Rente Women's Club and the City Youth Recreation Board Rotary added a barbecue the city moved in with tables and benches Family picnics and moppets’ birthday parties have now eased up for harried mamas Tourists find it a cool relief to get off the oil for a breather jiear the School the Dixon Athletic Park presented to the school children of Caliente by Mr Dixon Beautifully landscaped d it is for ball games one sizable corner cemented for tennis roller skating or square dancing Homecoming day in May of each year sees hundreds of former Caliente residents gathered there for handshakes laughs the and a free beef barbecue dinner Next to the dial telephones TUCKED away night-lighte- - st north entrance to instaUed last year we are proudest of our municipally owned light power water and sewer system and the continuous flow of mineral hot springs that gives us a healthful and sanitary public swimming pooL We have long enjoyed paved sidewalks gutters oiled streets Mrs Flora Mitchell (Mitchie) now near 80 here with her locomotive engineer husband as early as 1903 is conceded the "mother” of Caliente She was our telephone hello girl for 14 years BD (before dials) is CaRente’s forerunner of ADC (aid to dependent children) Having none of her own she took in any number of homeless and neglected ones and started them out on successful careers back-slappin- g MITCHIE’S pal and now “Aunt Lottie" Alquist CaRente’s first bus!-- ITS 31 years of “trial and as a railroad town village of 1000 enthusiastic citizens is emerging as “The Little Rose City of the Big Silver State” Mr Thomas E Dixon who left the INerror” Amazing New Formula Helps Jreak Smoking Habit in 5 Days lush rose lands around Santa Cruz Calif to dwell in our Easily and Pleasantly ! little mile-hig- h community Bntron hat atoppad my craving for allowed as how Caliente’s mild of nervous tha without any igarvUea sum-- I naion you might eipect” aaya Robert winters and Thorpe interstate truck driver mers would favor rose culture In a aeries of dramatic tests scientists Ilis rose garden with 200 (4 out of 6) of the roved that in 83 Men Bantron helped men and women choice varieties in bloom each stop smoking in 6 days Clinically season convinced the rest of roved Bantron it safe has no and in mot habit us On May 29 1944 Caliente Does not affect your taste Bantron was discovered la the re became an incorporated city g eerch laboratories of a greet American with its Mr Dixon Diversity It cornea in tablet form as first mayor Ten years later fou just take 1 tablet with water after Rose Memorial Park was dediach meat cated “Plant a rose for a Deter If Bantron Brand Smoking Twas a long ent Tablets do not help you atop or cut loved one" town smoking within S day Modem the time a but the tots' borning imptyboiand wading pool saw the water splash into its shallow depth U 11 drag on dedication day with eredit tores I 4ey ! laudibiy passed out to the Ca- re great-grand- s CaUente’s two business streets Front and Clover are separated by a wide area that accommodated nine Union Pacific tracks before the advent of Diesel engines Four of them were removed when Union Pacific fanned us out as a division point However Front and Clover streets still present a picture of busy activity with everything from a bop shop to a mortuary at your service UNITED States of Agricultural and Soil Con- servation Services maintains a busy office here with Mr Ferren Bunker as its agent Lincoln County Hospital hugs the hills at the north Highway 93 entrance to the city Our volunteer fire department and city jail building is tucked away against the hills behind Clover Street Cinemascope swim pool and our Rvely merchants’ make the shopping center of Lincoln County Problems? Not many But we do have false fire alarms wetbacks and scooters alley cats dogs that jump over fences sidewalk bicycle riders and drivers who park smack across well marked pedestrian lanes Never a dull moment in Caliente Nevadal Ca-Ren- after-effec- ts rose-raisin- i Bantron 20 H ness woman who having one daughter has added through the years seven grandchil dren 23 and three great-great- s She carries her 82 years like George V’s Queen Mary Caliente is church and orfour ganization minded: churches LDS Catholic Methodist and Episcopal 27 civic organizations With members in action no young bride rich or otherwise native daughter or just arrived ever goes unshowered and the sky is the limit on gifts TIE not-too-h- Caliente Water fiHa mow pool ai dedication of Rone Park te Salt lake City |