EXTREMELY RARE – AUTO STAGE BETWEEN TONOPAH AND GOLDFIELD
(Nevada) Desert Auto Company. AUTO STAGE BETWEEN TONOPAH AND GOLDFIELD. Service begins MONDAY JULY 26th, 1915. 18 ½ x 13 ½ inches. The broadside advertising for an auto-stage between the Gold Rush towns of Tonopah and Goldfield, NV. 1915.
An article published in the Tonopah Daily Bonanza stated that the Tonopah to Goldfield auto stage would “alleviate the present difficulties caused by failure of the trains to connect at Goldfield.”
The Mizpah Hotel, which opened in 1907, was one of the first luxury hotels in the state, and was the tallest building in Nevada until 1927. Built for $200,000, with solid granite walls, leaded glass windows, the hotel was a major social hub of the area.
An extremely rare broadside, with schedule, advertising E.J. Wenger’s service, via an 8-cylinder Cadillac, connecting with all trains at Goldfield to and from the South. The fare was $3.50.
Lithographs on 2 pages, affixed together on verso. Expected tanning, overall in vg cond.