Colonel William H. Dewey, a man who made a fortune mining in Silver City, seeing the advantage of 4 railroad lines, built the elegant Dewey Palace Hotel in 1902 for a quarter of a million dollars. Colonel Dewey died in his hotel in 1903, leaving his son a million dollars. The hotel survived the great fire of 1909, which burned several blocks of downtown Nampa, but was razed in 1963 because no one wanted to invest in renovating the grand structure.
Mailed from Pocatello, Idaho to Wellington, Kansas on October 9, 1939:
I got in here at 9:15 and staid till 6:45 am on the train now. Next time will take you along. Am having a good time. This is a big place. Tell Alvin hello. You ought to see the pretty lights. Tell all Hello. Will write when I get there. Your mama, Mrs. Luton (Hard to tell what the name says)
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