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Show HE WAS A PIONEER. Tho telegraph conveys the message that II. M. Yerington of Carson, Nevada, is dead, at the age of 32. He was one of the builders build-ers of the Virginia & Tmckee railroad and the Carson & Colorado railroad and for years 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 of living and investing in Nevada. He was, at one time, a powerful factor in the politics of his stato and perhaps was highly instrumental in electing more governors govern-ors and United States senators than any other man, with the possible exception of Tom Piatt. Yerington's pride was centered in the Virginia & Truckee railroad, rail-road, a short stretch of road extending from Reno to the mines of the famous Comstock. At one time the 52 miles of track did more business bus-iness than any equal piece of road in the United States, operating a train for every mile of rail. In Yerington's death Nevada loses another of the dwindling number of pioneers who made the Battleborn state famous. Soon the last of these stalwarts, not only of Nevada, but of Utah and other western states, shall have left us, and the world of tomorrow will be poorer because of their absence. |