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CA - Bodie,Mono County - 1897 - Walker Lake and Bodie Toll Road Company Items

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 300.00 USD
CA - Bodie,Mono County - 1897 - Walker Lake and Bodie Toll Road Company Items
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
Lot of 2 items. 1) Receipts For Tolls, Week ending Sept. 23, 1897. 8 1/2" x 7". Records include Date, Name of Teamster, Kind of Vehicle, No. of Animals, and Up/Down/Total Toll. Signed by M. Erway, Toll Keeper. On back is imprinted "W.L. & B. Toll Road Co. Toll Receipts for week ending Sept. 23 1897. $13.00." Original fold lines, very fine. 2) "Toll Ticket 2417 (Del Monte to Hawthorne) for Wagon and No. Animals, as Punched in Margin." This piece has July 14, Buggy, and 2 animals punched. "Andy Earl, Down" are handwritten in pencil on the reverse. In Bodie's early years, mail was delivered by rail to Carson City, then by stagecoach or express wagon through Aurora. Bodie’s Main Street, completed in 1864 as a summertime mail route, just happened to pass through the early site of the camp. While Aurora remained a transportation hub even after Bodie’s boom in 1878-79, it was not until 1881 that Aurora was bypassed by a new road named the Walker Lake & Bodie Toll Road, which passed through Del Monte Canyon to the town of Hawthorne [Ref: www.aglimpse.com]. The Southern Development Company of Nevada was incorporated in 1881, with trustees H. M.Yerington, D. L. Bliss, D.A. Bender, W. D. Tobey, and H. L. Tickner. Its stated purpose included the buying/selling of land, building/operating toll roads, gaining water rights/privileges for the construction of waterways and systems, and acquiring timberlands. The Walker Lake and Bodie Toll Road Company was incorporated in 1880, with similar trustees as the town of Hawthorne and its waterworks. Hawthorne was the terminus of the Carson and Colorado Railroad in April of 1881, a company whose directors were also shared by the Southern Development Company [Ref: www.knowledgecenter.dri.edu].