Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-07-28
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Iron tho Independent, July 81
The train going west yesterday
morning had on board $50 passengers,
the. largest number on o single train
for weeks.
Wells, Fargo & Co. have received at
their Elko Office, since Saturday last,
$53, 084 from Idaho, and $l7, S95 from
White Pine ; total, $70,959.
Married, at the residence Of C.. A.
Griswold, Ruby Valley, Nevada, July
,l2th, by j.. H. Dawley, j. p, Bill
Seamands (LoD to Miss Mary Griswold
LLo!). No cards-except second hand
decks.
The "Bloody British BLONDES"
passed east on Sunday last. They failed
to set the Bay Of San Francisco on fire.
The Thompson troupe has been
more successful, and Is now perform
ing at Virginia.
From X. B. Scott we learn that the
crops In Ruby Valley are looking bet
ter than ever before known since the
settlement Of the valley. There are
about 1000 acres of barley growing,
every acre of which promises a.heavy
yield.
The emlgrant train going west on
Sunday evening last had three cars
loaded with Portuguese and goslings,
families of retired sailors now engaged
in farming In the valleys Of California.
The women and children came by way
of Naw Redforj.
Died near Battle Mountain, Nevada,
July 23d, Billy Seamands, son Of the
Chief of the Shoshone tribe. Little
Billy was an intelligent and promising
boy, about $50 year DID," and all the
Indians are In mourning for the loss Of
the Prince Imperial.
A number of newspaper men from
the Atlantic States, en- route to Call
fornia, left Chicago on a special Pull
man car on the 22d, and may be ex-
pected here this morning. Among
them are representatives from the New
York World, Tribune, Independent,
chronological Journal, Hearth and
Home, Rural Ne1 Yorker, and other
papers.
Whitney & Co. have shipped within
the past three days the following
amounts of ore from the Maryland
mine, Pinto District: 10 G. w. Stew
art, San Francisco, 480 sacks, weigh
ing 80. 1925 pounds to G. w. Stewart,
San Francisco, $50 sacks, weighing
49, $50 pounds. and to William AIRING
ton, Reno, 2l3 sacks, weighing 2l,S72
pounds; total, S43 sacks, 1Ol,177
pounds. Also. from the Champion
mine, Pinto, to j. j. Dunno, Reno, l75
sacks, weighing 1884 pounds.
A back-action wagon attached to one
Of Bowman's teams, bound for Cope
District, and loaded with general mer-
chandise, took frs eleven miles from
Elko on Monday afternoon, and was
entirely consumed, together with Its
contents, three trunks containing a Ia
dy's wardrobe beingall that was saved.
The fire originated in q crockery crate
stuffed with straw, and Is supposed to
have been caused by matches being
left on the crate. The principal losers
are Mrs. o. f. Turney, Chapman &
Co., Loomls, and Dyer & Waller. The
trunks saved contained the wardrobe
of Mrs. Turney, but she lost heavily In
other household goods and supplies.
Parties from Snake river inform us
of the existence Of a den known rs
Rock Creek Station, near the Big Can
yon-a kind Of central stopping-place
between mining camps-which miners
seeking their fortunes In that region
will do we'll to avoid, or visit only In
numbers sufficient for self-protection.
The place Is kept by three or four OF
the worst and most desperate charac.
tiers who ever infested the precincts Of
Bear river or Promontory, and If they
cannot induce u miner to get drunk on
their tarantula juice and lose his dust
Mt "put-up" cards, they will "gc
through" him by main strength and
force Of numbers. The miners at the
camp above have been talking of get
ting up n hanging excursion for the
benefit of the country, the objective
point being Rock Creek Station.