145 years ago
Business at and around Tahoe this season promises to be more lively than heretofore. There will be more lumber cut and transported to the flume than in any one previous year; and Captain Bray will saw and haul to town more lumber than he has hitherto done in any one season. The snow between here and the lake is still deep in places, sleighs being used for a short distance, but still travel goes briskly on.
140 years ago
Chalet, the ventriloquist, who appeared at the Opera House on Monday and Tuesday last, receives $200 per week for his twenty minute performance of an evening.