Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-12-03
NEVADA STATE ITEMS.

dispatches as having broken out near
Eureka, will probably turn out on close
did the Mount Butler vol
cano. near this city, few years sinee-a
mere surface fire. Our volcano was the
burning of a mass of pitchy vegetable
matter which had accumulated in a cave
in the rocks at the top of the mountain.
Pine twigs, leaves and other matter con.
tanning pitch are carried into these caves
by rats and squirrels and in the course
of ages there is a vast accumulation OF
pitch lit being almost indestructible)
and rotten vegetable matter. This, ON
being set on fire, will burn for days,
sending out great volumes OF smoke.
There was few years since, such a fire
in a cave near Lake Tahoe, another in
large cave in the Humboldt country, and
We have heard of them in other places. |
The gummy substance found in these |
caves might be passed of on a pilgrim
for lava, but it comes much nearer being |
guano, Of animal origin.
Or the two unknown men, found dead
by L. H. York and a companion in the
Death Valley region recently, We clip the
following from the Virginia Chronicle:
Riding up to the spring, York and his
companion found two white men lying
upon the ground, stripped to their draw.
ers, and quite dead. Their skulls had
been broken in, and their threats cut,
and the warm blood was still oozing
from the ghastly wound in the throat of
one of them. Not a scrap Of paper or
clothing (other than their drawers) could
be found, and no clue to their identity
could be obtained. One of the men APP
peared to have been miner and pros
pector, and the other man unused to
exposure; and the supposition is that
one was a prospector proceeding to
Death Valley to show some lodges to the
other, who is supposed to have been
Spectator or expert. The bodies were
buried together in a gray blanket, near
the spring, and neither York or his
whilom companion have ever been able
to learn anything of the previous his
tory of the murdered mel.
MICHAEL MoRIARTY, the young man
who waded about among the coin and
checks upon faro table few nights
since, who assaulted the officers and who
was arrested therefor, finally grew SO bad
that there was no longer any doubt about
his insanity. Believing it would be for
his benefit his brother-in-law night before
last, says the Virginia Enterprise of Sat.
urday, started East with him. He will
be taken to the residence of his parents
in Massachusetts. At the time he was
examined here DR.. Berthier gave it as his
opinion that he was not wholly right in
his mind-though not actually insane
and stating that he was liable to grow
worse instead of better. His friends in
the city soon found they could do but lit
tie with him.
CoNCERNISG the Suho Tunnel the Vir-
ginia Chronicle says: Things look lively
along the line of our famous tunnel, par
ticularly at the mouth, where force o.
men are busily engaged in excavating fol
the new compressor building which is t.
be erected there. In the main header 2.
feet have been run since the last report
making total length to date, 5,263 feet
Shaft No. 2 has been sunk 10 feet; tota
depth, no feet. Shaft No. 3, sunk
feet; total depth, 451 feet. Shaft No.
sunk II feet; total depth, 594 feet.
. SOME business messages directed fror
this place, says the Carson Appeal,
Stephen c. Hayden at his last know
residence in California failing to elicit
response, further inquiries bring the r,
port of his sudden death from heart di
ease. Mr.. Hayden was formerly q res
dent druggist Of Carson City.
. The Virginia Enterprise says the pria
fight between James Trevillian and Pa
: sey Hogan is arranged to come off Jan
airy 6, at some point not over forty mile
/ from Reno. To this the Reno Journ
replies We hardly think the officers
Washoe county will allow such brut
exhibition within its confines.
A GRAND time was had at the Grow
!, Point mine yesterday afternoon abo,
, two o'clock, says the Enterprise, the o
casion being the presentation of 81, on
: set of diamonds to G.. F. Kellogg, for
4 man of the mine, he being about to lea
. for California. The diamonds consist,
D.. of set of shirts studs, sleeve buttol
and a collar button, and were purchase
a by the men who have so long worked u
9 der Mr.. Kellogg's rule.
The Gold Hill News says that
) Balch has been appointed foreman of Il
: Grown Point mine. vice Kellogg, I
i signed. Mr.. Balch is very clever ge
q tleman, and an experienced miner al
+ will fill the position to the satisfactic
. OF all parties concerned, Mr.. D. Pend
CAST, 1st Assistant Foreman, has all
u had extensive experience in mimi
It affairs.
GOVERNOR FALL, who has been co
: fined to his bed with severe attack
~ pneumonia for the past three weeks, W
out taking buggy ride last Tuesd
7. evening, says the Silver State of the 21t
% The Governor had hard fight for Iii
=, and his many friends are pleased
note his copvalescence.
IT The Reno Journal editorially so,
e We are reliably informed that the init
2, tory steps have been taken by the far
" ers of Washoe county to organize
= Grange. This, Of all other counties
u the State, is the proper one in which t
Is ball should be started rolling.
SAYS the Gold Hill News, Of Saturdi
he There was quite plentiful fall of sn
st on the Sierra Nevada mountains i
night, which means renewed actiy
=. among the mills on Carson river.
of The Journal says black measles
worrying some Of the people OF Re
now. All the members Of one family
down with the same. --- es...