The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1871-02-04
Nevada Items.

IHE ouIhon shipment OF Phoebe for the
week ending Jan. 81 was SIS, 462 80. The
Meadow Valley Mining Company shipped
during the week ending JAN 2lst, 1871, bull
ION amounting to S51, 253 81. The Raymond
q Ely Company Git being their first run since
Mr. Lightner has taken charge) shipped bull
lon amounting to Sl3. l56 on. Morgan,
Courtney, Flood and others shipped five bars
valued at SS,941. One bar shipped by Eel
senthal, valued at 1,122, and one bar by
Barnum W. Field, valued at 81, 900, making a
total shipment of SO, 1872 IS. The Meadow
Valley Company, by. their shipments, show
that the mines and mills are in good order.
and we expect to see them all doing the same
IN short time. Every one is anxiously
awaiting the erection of the Chicago mill at
Elyville, and ore is piling up there in readi-
ness by parties here who are anxious to have
1t worked.-Eiy Record.
PETR1F1Ep TURrLE.-A gentleman who
has been prospecting in the vicinity Of Dine
Grove for some weeks. yesterday arrived in
this city, says the Virginia Enterprise of JAN
18th, bringing with him as the result of his
laoors petribed turtle, or Mt least the head
end OF turtle. The head, fore feet and front
part of the she'll are perfect, but the animal
appears to have been broken in two about the
middle and the ''lAtter half is missing. So
natural Is the petrifactiOn that several who
looked at 1t said that IL was no curiosity mt all
Its nothing but an old dried turtle, ~ said
ahu 1htN NtIt hSlOulSDtU Wnen tleN telt
the weight of the thing. Then they said:
why, it's stone" and began to examine it
with some interest. There was also found
half of fish some two feet in length. The
head was as perfect as though the fish had
been sailed and dried, and no one seeing it
would believe that it was stone.
RED MIS.-Half-a-dozen Red Men from the
Carson "Campoody" were up in this city last
night, assisting the members Of the Tribe in
aifx iF,a stal-, t,,fE
or six of our citizens are Red Men to-day who
yesterday were but common ''pale-faces." 1t
appears to be purely benevolent institution
at least We notice that all who Join the
Tribe here are men Of purely benevolent
proclivities- A bald-headed man-however
benevolent he may be-can not become a
Red Man. Hair is of the utmost Importance,
and no man can Join the Tribe who has not a
scalp that can be taken. They scalp all apos-
tates. The FIRST thing done by the Examining
Committee when a man applies for initiation is
70 take the applicant by the scalp-lOck and lift
him some three feet from the floor Wigs are
no go.-EateTprise, Jan. 2Sth.
Fun FOR The ON AND YoUSG.-I.ast night,
says the Carson Register of the 18th nit,
Moore Parker's spacious hall was the scene
OF grand carnival of i'm, made rich and racy
by the ground and lofty tumbling Of our leg
islstors and fair damsels upon Piimpton's eel
ebrated paTlor skates. The hall was crowded
at an early hour and all seemed anxious to try
the experiment of skating on the floor. One
fellow, q bright youth from Damariscotta,
(the icy regions of Maine) attempted to put
on little style, and sailed out with the most
unbounded confidence upon the slippery floor
only to land flat upon his back, almost ill.,
simultaneously, to the merrime Mt Of his friends
The girls got tumble or two as well as the
boys, but, unlike them, they generally man.
aged to double up and fall on softer place
The SHEBA MINE.-All who have visited and
examined this mine, says the Silver State
concur in the opinion that fine vein Of quartz
and mineral has been found-not as hereto
fore, in detached masses, punches and depos-
its, but in a regular, well defined lode, with
smooth walls, castings and clay seams. When
the Sheba mine went down il carried the
Humboldt mines down with it, in public es-
timatioD, as 1t was adjudged to be the repre-
sentative mine in the district, and should it
now come up again it will do much to restore
confidence abroad in the pernanence and
value Of the mines in this section.
THE mines about Silver City, SAYS the En-
terprise, are attracting considerable attention
at present, and most of the mills in that place
will soon be running upon ore mined in that
immediate vicinity. The Dayton lead is be-
ing properly opened, and bids fair to become
permanently productive. A new mill is being
built to work the ore. Gold predominates in
per cent. in silver, and 1t is supposed that at
the depth os 200 or 300 feet it will run almost
altogether to silver.
MISUNDERSTANDING l.. X. Bradley, saws
the State Register, has commissioned the fol-
lowing named gentlemen on the staff Of Brig
adler General John Is. Winters, Second Brig
ade, Nevada State Miitia-each with the rank
of Major: A. NJ. Edgington Quartermaster;
+. F. Osbiston, Judge Advocate; w. II. Smith,
Engineering Officer; Jewett w. Adams. Ord
nance Officer; p. III. Clayton, Commissary; j.
NJ. Daniels, Paymaster; DR.. II. Weber, Sur
geon; and j. p. Smith, Brigade Inspector
Rich BULLION. Ogden, Dunno & COMPANY
are producing bullion Of great value at their
the week has been over $500 to the ton, and
on Wednesday several tons were smelted that
sssayed S715. This is the richest bullion that
has ever been produced in this fabulously rich
camp. We want twenty furnaces in addition
70 those we now have, to work up the ores of
the district that are now lying on the DUMP
Eureka Sentinel, Jan. 27m.
PARDoNED.-We learn from the Register
that the State Board OF Pardons on the Goth
ult., pardoned two State prisoners. NJ. Gull.
nan, committed March 18th, 1870 from Storey
county, for two years, for forgery of mining
stock. Culinan Is dying of consumption and
can not live exceeding GO days. The other
man pardoned Is Charley Smith, sent from
Storey, for 81 years, for killing Mickey Free.
Smith had been in prison just six years. The
killing occurred in Gold Hill in 1864, over a
game Of cards.
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