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Show ginla & Truckee road over which tup-plies tup-plies were hauled to Virginia City. In 1S72, Yerington was given general gen-eral supervision of the Virginia & Truckee road Ills greates pride was In the fact that, In nearly forty years of his service as head of the road, not one passenger had been killed. Yerington was the only one of the men who had made their fortunes in Nevada who remained a resident of the state throughout his life. He left a large estate, most of which Is in Nevada. Some of his holdings In Invo county. California, where, with Mills, he built the Carson & Colorado railroad, rail-road, were later sold to the Southern Pacific railroad company. PROMINENT MAN i OF WEALTH DEAD Carson. Nov., Nov. 26. One of the I at f the line of the famous old Nevada pioneer :ind empire builders, who made western history in the days of the Conistock mother lode, H M. -j Yerington. superintendent of the Virginia Vir-ginia & Truckee railroad, died at bis ' homo yesterday. ' lie was eighty-two years old and '1 had been In active service until a few weeks ago.' Death was d xe to old. age and a general breakdown lu health. hi the early days, Yeilngton was V the associate of the Late Darius O. f Mills, John Mackay and Senator Shar- on, all of whom made millions of dol lars In mining operations.. With Shar-1 Shar-1 ou and Mills, ho couslructe I tuc Vir- |