The bank of California closes it’s branch in Virginia City, a clerk in San Francisco branch of the Bank of California is drowned in the Bay. The Big Four are left to plunder the Comstock Lode unchallenged
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Palisade becomes major railroad terminus
Eureka – Palisade RR is completed and Palisade is the principal transfer and shipping point on the Central Pacific RR
Virginia City Burns
5:30 am a fire starts in the basement bathroom of a lodging house where men and women were partying all night.