Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-03-20
Nix LANES HOSTING Works Indie.

Nix LANES HOSTING WORKS INDIcA-
ToR.-The Chronicle of Virginia City |
and the News of Gold Hill try to make it
appear that Mr.. Lanes indicator was
modelled from like invention of Frank
Thayer, now, and for several years past.
in use in the works Of several companies
in Storey county. Precisely the same
kind of dial indicator described by the
RECORD" says the News, sis that of Mr..
Thayer's patent" Quite likely, and
still Mr. Lane may not have infringed on
Mr.. Thayer's mechanical principles; the
dial, with time, distance and degree char
acters, is applied to many different
pieces of mechanism. Mr.. Lane says he
knows nothing of the construction of
| Mr.. Thayer's indicator, and he is gen.
tleman Of veracity. If his continuance
is an infringement OF course he will not
true invention until the contrary is re-
ported from Washington.
ARRIVAL OF THE New LOCOMOTIVE
After a stormy and perlous trip the long
looked-for locomotive has at last arrived.
In honor of the superintendent of con-
struction of the narrow-gauge it has been
named "Col. j. +. Carter" 1t is from
the locomotive works of Dawson IL
Baily, Connelsville, Pa. 1t was con-
structed under the immediate supervis-
ion Of j. A. Lantz, and is of superb
workmanship and finish. The cylinder
is eleven inches inidiameter and hasa lG-
inch stroke. The fire-box is FIVE feet by
* lnahae & 1
+. Carter" with tender. wood and water,
IS II tons. 1t is now at the railroad
foundry, in Bullionville.
HE STocK FLUcrUATIoNs.-Th pres
tnt incessant fluctuation in stocks in San
francisco has no more effect on those
who have purchased here for the sake
Of the investment than water on a
ducks back They scarcely take the
trouble to inquire about the changing
quotations, as it is we'll understood that
the rises and declines have nothing to dc
with the prospects of the property repre-
sented by the stocks. The professional
SPECTATORS, however, are very nervous
over the manipulations of their brother
Spectators below. t.....
NEWS FROM WALLApI.-We have beer
shown private letter, just received by ,
well-known citizen of this place, from I
friend in Wallapi. The correspondent
says that times are very dull in Wallap
that there is no capital, and half tn
miners are out of employment-tha
some of the ores are good and ledge
well-defined, but that an infowing Q
water in the majority of the mines pre-
vents developing to any depth. H
encourages stampeding in that direction
JOE GOODMAN, of the Virginia Enter
Prise, is ruined man, financially, an
he were here we would pass hil
through a sausage machine. That lib,
suit against him has got to stick; "
make common cause with Lent, the di,
Mond swindler; his paper has delibe
q4lely libeled us, too; he says the ma
howe, whose jaw was dislocatedI /
gaping, in this city, the other day, W,
reading the RECORD at the time Of II
accident. SANDER most foul.
DISTRICT CouRT, MARCH 49, Raymor
&Ely Mining Co. vs.. Hermes Mimi
Co.: On motion Of defendants counse
plaintiffs counsel consenting, it is Q
uered that the number of mining exper
70 be sworn and examined as witness
IN the trial be and they are hereby I
stncted to six on each side. Court tn
adjourned till 10 o'clock to-morre
Thursday morning.
CALICO BALL.-Messrs. Smith & Diel
proprietors of Harmony Hall, situat
On Main opposite Lacour street, 81
notice under the head of "Spec
Notices" that they will give gra
calico ball on Saturday evening.