Show i HE WAS A PIONEER I The telegraph conveys the message that H M Yerington of I Carson Nevada is dead at the age of 82 He was one of the build builders ers of the Virginia Truckee railroad and the Carson Colorado I railroad and for years ye rs was a masterful force in the affairs of Nevada Yerington was one of the few men of wealth who remained loyal to his state to the extent bf of living and nd investing in Nevada He was at one time a powerful factor in the politics of his hist state and perhaps was highly instrumental in J t electing more govern governors I ors and United States senators than any other man with the possible exception of Tom Platt I i pride was centered in the Virginia Truckee rail railroad railroad railroad I road a short stretch of road extending from Reno to the mines of the famous Comstock At one time the 62 52 miles of track did more bus r 7 mess iness than any equal piece of road in the United States operating a atrain atrain atrain train for every evory mile of rail In death Nevada loses another of the dwindling number of pioneers who made the state famous Soon the thelast thelast thelast last stalwarts not only of Nevada but of Utah and other western states shall have left us and the world of tomorrow will be r poorer because of their absence |