Early Nevada Warrant, March 31, 1881, Signed By State Controller, James F. Hallock

Carson City, Nevada: Nevada. State Controllers Warrant, 1881. A very early Nevada state document. The major source on early state documents is Robert D. Armstrong, Nevada Printing History: A Bibliography of Imprints, 1881-1890, between the census of 1880 and 1890 Nevada with a serious decline in mining lost nearly a third of its population, which fell from 69,066 to 47,355. There was talk of returning Nevada to territorial status. From the first and second annual reports of the Attorney-Geneal for the Years, 1879-1880. There were sixteen companies that had printing presses though Carson City with the state printing office the largest. In the earlier period, Douglas C. McMurtrie, the chief bibliography of early printing in the West, often found state imprinting in the 1860's were printed in the East. The city directories of Arizona, Idaho and Nevada as well as the larger books were often sent to San Francisco. A fine copy signed by State Controller, James F. Hallock (1833-1903).