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RE:Yerington Gnufish Saloon and Bawdy House

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Funny you ask!  Or even if you didn’t.    Locally we have quite a history of such an enterprise, in fact that was the founding of our town.  The nearest thing that had a name at one time where the city of Yerington exists today was at first a tent down by some willows where a drink of sort was served.  They called it “Pizen Switch”, a corruption of Poison Switch as the proprietor was accused of adding unknown substances to his whiskey barrel when it started running low.  In those days whiskey had to be brought 50 miles by wagon from the Virginia & Truckee RR at Mount House just below Virginia City.  And speaking of VC, I object that it is unfair to Ol’ Virginny’s memory to assume he was drunk and passed out the night he fell off his horse and died.

Anyway, as the settlement grew, embarrassed by the name, the people began calling it “Greenfields”, a perfectly fine and suitable name.  But when Henry Yerington the gen.mgr. of the V&T began building the Carson & Colorado RR south from Mound House, the good people of this community changed the name to Yerington in hope that he would build a spur south 14 miles from Wabuska.  Unfortunately Henry gave the community of his own name a finger instead of the hoped for rail connection.

It’s long been an axiom of mining camps that a corner lot on Main St. could make a man rich.  Bawdy House my goodness how quaint!    I haven’t heard that one used for years, or by anyone under 90. 

I may indeed be biased as I have been a long-time, proud contributor to the Winnemucca Home for Wayward Girls.  You would be impressed as how appreciative those girls can be for even a modest contribution to help defray the cost of their shelter.   God only knows what might happen to them if left out on their own, out on the street.  I shudder to think.
 
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