Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-08-08

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face lies hard pan OF stiff blue clay.
: In taking out the deposit, 1t Is dug down
to this clay bed in trenches three or four
feet wide. These ill inside OF twenty
four hours with seepage from the Sides
which very shortly crystalzes, forming
better deposit than the original. IL IS
just three-fourths salt to one-fourth soua,
giving a better chemical combination oil
the kind for ehlorinizing or chloridizin6
silver ores than any heretofore In use.
The mine is but recently opened, yet al
ready at quite number of the principal
mills in this vicinity the salb is being
used with excellent profit and effect,
IT is generally understood that our
townsman, b. B. Norton, is pretty
good judge of horse flesh, as well as OF
cattle. aSd is in no wise backward IN
backing his Judgment. Yesterday five
good little boys, whom We will call, in
order to give good shape to ourstory,
John Wilson, Chas. W. Pegg, John Elder
VIM. Mcfarland and David Mcfarland,
weighed strange horse that Nelse Ham
mond had just purchased, and then en-
ticed Nelse and Norton into little bet,
each man marking the weight. With re-
markable unanimity the five good little
BOYS each mark ID LIS pounds; 1t
wouldn't do to take any chances against
Norton's sound judgment in such mat
tiers, while Norton marked l 200 pounds.
The crowd then adjourned to the scales,
Just to show Norton how little he knew
about horse flesh. When to their pro-
found establishment and no small cha
grin, they learned that horse Just OF a
hard days drive over dry desert coun-
try, weighed 10 pounds less than after a
nights rest. good feed and all the water
he could drink. These good little boys,
Just to show their good will and friendly
feeling, offered to give Norton SOU
each if he wouldn't say anything about
the growth of that horse over night; but
Norton said no! they were good boys and
he liked them, and he couldn't take their
money for nothing; besides, they might
want it the next time Hammond bought
a new horse.-[ Reno Crescent.
WM H. SMITH. an Irishman by birth,
aged about AZ years, a soldier of the
Mexican war and pioneer of California
died at the County Hospital yesterday O
general debility, superinduced by par
tial paralysis, from which he had beer
suffering for many months. 1t will b'
remembered that Smiths wife died il
childbirth few months since in Seven
/ mile Canyon, leaving five little children
in destitute condition. Since that SAL
event the two female children have beel
cared for by the Sisters of Charity IN TIN
, city, and two of the boys were take
charge of by the Sisters of Mercy G
Grass Valley, California. The other lii
tie boy is still here, and is now in des
titute and pitiable condition. Williar
Il H. Smith was well-to-do merchant il
}, Aqua Frio, Mariposa county, California
e in 1850; subsequently kept the Ride
!. and Split Rock ferries across the Merce
river, between MaripOsa and COultervill'
y kept the Garibaldi Hotel i'll Bear Vale,
Y. was Postmaster of that town, and can
l. to this city some yeara ago and engage
in the lumber business on the Divid
i tie was a large-hearted, generou
whole.souled man, and old, gray-beardt
is miners climbing on the snowy sleeps
1S tut uOTll dLu lillllSuilS pIl lLlC ta,t'
plans of the south men who have re
c son to remember Billy Smith atfceto
s. ately, will mingle their signs with L
winds that sing a requiem over his gray
L Virginia Chronicle, 4th.
n W, W. Billy CoRYELL met with
st painful accident on the Virginia a
&C. Truckee Railroad, Saturday evening,
by falling from the cars going to Carsc
He struck upon some earth freshly I
turned, or he would have been crush
he to a Jelly in an instant. AS it was, be
mt bones of his right leg were broken j
Is. above the ankle joint, one Of the ragg
.oe bones shooting out through the skin
o the instep; his left shoulder was dis
he Gated and crushed; the flesh on the
Ill ankle was severely bruised, and
hands, face and portions of the be
40 were considerably scratched. The tn
", was stopped and the unfortunate n
req picked mp and brought back to Gold Ii
mt. where he was transferred to spr
ms wagon and brought to his residence
,si- D street and placed under the care
=, DR.. Bronson.