Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-10-18
NEVADA STATE ITEMS


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The Sentinel, of Thursday, mention"
an important min,ral discovery II secret
CANYON. The discovers are J. b. US
borne. E. j. Ely and Geo. }. Gardner
ench of whom has located 800 fret.
The sentinel, # Wednesday contains
these:
A ,uau nv name 81 Wm. Dabney ha'i
be- working IN the Hoosac mine, anu
u.yipr been taken suddenly III day be-
fore Yesterday was brought to town anu
furnished with ROOMS at the lnletha'ioh-
nj Hotel. His friends and relatives ah-
,icipat, d nothing serious in his case, I'M
til Yesterday morning. when symptoms
indicats d dangerous turn, anu NJ e't'sh
a. m. he died. The funeral VIII tahe
place at 2 O'Clock this afternoon from
the Cour. House Deceased was pio,
noer on the Paciic coast, having arrived
carly i'll 1919. He was miner, ana hau
an extensive acquaintance, both IN TINS
State and California. 1t - hoped the
funeral of the old pioneer will be numer-
ous'y attended.
On Sunday the cabin Of Gus. Peterson
and partner, near the Tip-Iop Incline on
Ruby Hill, was entirely destroyed by re'
including clothing, bedding, ana every
thing else it contained. In rash EFFORT
to save his trunk, Mr.. Peterson had his
face and left land so badly burned that
he will not be able 10 work for some
time.
One of our dairy men having driven
off his cows for the Winter, milk is pref
ty scarce article in Eureka. we hear
that fifty or sixty families have thus oeeh
deprived of their regular supply OF the
lacteal fluid. Here is good opening Tor
some enterprising man 10 enter INTO
lucrative business at once
W. L. Pritchard shipped yesterday
for the Richmond Company, o,ooo
pounds OF bullion, and for the Ruoy
Consolidated, 1900 pounds. Total,
$1,000 pounds.
GOLD HILL.
We copy the following from the News
of the l4th:
James NJ. Legate was arrested IL Nir-
ginia City yesterday, for disposing OF a
plumber Of bogus checks on Saturday and
Sunday last. He lad an examination in
Justice Young's Court last evening, and
| was held to await the action of the Grand
Jury in the sum Of -, 900. Legate claims
that he got the checks while playing
poker in Silver City few nights before
that he did not know that they we're
bogus: and that when arrested he had
just come to Virginia City for the pur-
pose of redeeming them.
A large force Of track-men, under
charge of Mr.. Sullivan, tracklayer of the
Virginia and Truckee Railroad, were en-
gagged to-day making preparations for
relaying the track of the Gold Hill Di-
vision of the v & 7. L. L. with the new
steel rails lately arrived from England.
VIRGINIA
Billy Coryell, who had his right leg
and left shoulder broken some weeks
since, is now able TO get about the streets
on clutches. 1t will be some time, how
ever, before he will be able to run foot
race or stand up in good, square Cor
nish wrestling bout.
There now remains but ! Is feet Of drift
Of the Sutro Tunnel to be dug before the
connection will be made between the
main header and the drift east from the
bottom of shaft No. |. Already the
workmen in the two parts Of the tun
mel Gun hear each other when drilling.
There was rumor yesterday and Sun
day that the workmeu had been shu
down in the Baltimore Consolidated
mine, but We do not know that it is so
or that it would be likely to cause mucl
excitement If it should prove true. TIL
dodge is becoming somewhat ancient.
The locomotive Lyon yesterday got o
the track at the crossing of Main stree
Gold Hill. The engine was got on agai
in fifteen or twenty minutes. While
was off the track it caused blockade {
teams plying on the street.
! Antoine Silva, the man who had h
feet cut off by his falling under the car
a few daya since, at Gold Hill, is doin
well, and his ultimate recovery is Il
longer considered doubtful.
The Chronicle gives the followingiten
reminding us that Winter is approach
ing:
, Everybody looked cheerful and hapI
I this morning on turning out and findir
the ground covered with snow. We mig
except the ice man, whose sad eye SCENE
t to say ''the melancholy days have come
q as he plodded along after his shiveri
horse and snow-covered wagon, slappll
his hands under his arms to keep the
: warm. and occasionally STOPPING
n brush the snow from the sidewalk wi
Y the tail of his great blanket coat, so as
:. clear place for block of ice-all ii
:, while casting furtive glances toward t
doors of his customers, and listening f
: the countermanding of orders for ice