Virginia City was booming by 1864. Keith Bryant states, "In the largely treeless and waterless Washoe, the boomtown of Virginia City emerged, and thousands flocked to the forlorn site...As the population of Virginia City rose to fifteen thousand, an infrastructure developed to support the mining operations. Freighting, lumbering, and the mercantile trade became almost as profitable as owning a small claim. Above C Street in Virginia City, the ornate homes of the merchants and bankers looked down on the gaudy, vulgar town, which had swelled to twenty thousand people by the mid-1870s." Above and below the bird's eye view of the town are depictions of residences of well-to-do townspeople, prominent buildings housing all manner of commerce, and St. Paul's church. Within 5 years of the initial strike all of the necessary components of the town were in place - the assay office, livery, dry goods store, bookstore (and circulating library), banks, tobacconists, furniture purveyors, jewelers, hardware, and clothing stores. Missing from the vignettes are the abundant saloons (numbering 100 by 1880) and houses of "ill repute" that no doubt were in abundance as well. The Daily & Weekly Territorial Enterprise is part of a large building that also included a grocery and liquor store and the Langton's Express. Samuel Clemens was a reporter for the Territorial Express from late fall 1862 until May 1864 using the pen name Mark Twain for the first time. This view was printed by Grafton Tyler Brown, an African-American artist and lithographer working out of San Francisco. He established his own company at the age of 26 publishing bank notes, labels, maps, stock certificates, and illustrations. He was also a talented landscape painter. He died in 1918 in Minnesota.