Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-10-01
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS,

Steel rails are taking the place Oh TIE
old iron ones on the Virginia & Trnekee
Railroad.
The total valuation If Lyon county io'
assessment purposes is little over
81, 300, 600.
1t is said that the Mopgoliau residents
OF Montana somoke aboni sloo, VoO worm
OF opium annually.
John G. Ragsdsle has been appo'h eu
Deputy United States Marshal Tor the
District Of Nevada.
The prisoners in The NEBRASKA o'a'e
pen;tentiary publish a newspaper. but
the round OF the local reporter Is heees'
sarily contracted.
Two cars filed with California pears
leave San francisco daily for the Auan.
tic States. where pears retail Tor eisht
aud ten cents each.
A party of three men have lately ais-
covered gold placer mines on sma,i
stream that heads up at Mount hooo'
Oregon.
Tools have been ordered by the su'ro
Tunnel Company for the new artesian
well which II is proposed to sink IN tne
center OF Main street, Sutro.
During the month ending Wednesday,
Sept. 10Th, the Mint coined SHAUN IN
gold. and 1886 900 in silver. For the
remainder OF Sept operations VIII DO
confined to gold and trade dollars.
While tunneling into the side of Mt.
Mcclellan. Colorado, recently, the ex-
n,orers came upon ground solidIy frozen
| ninety feet from the surface. The ques-
tion ia how the frost got in, as there was
no creyice through which it could enter.
There are several causes contributing
to increase the body of water flowing in
the Carson. The principal one is that,
NV the ripening of the crops near the
source there il less water used for irriga-
ton.
The steamer Oceanic, of the Oriental
and Occidental Company's line, due al
San Francisco from China and japan on
Monday. brings the most costly cargo
that ever crossed the Pacific. 1t is made
IN of teas and silks. valued in the nggre'
ate at over 81 100000.
The Belmont Courier understands that
project is in embryo for the establish.
ing of line of stages between Belmon
and Eureka to be run either tri-weekl,
or daily The time for starting to be OF
the completion of the Eureka & Palisad,
Railroad to Eureka.
Whence come our aborigines
sternly demands the Baltimore Sun
, 1--WE don't know anything about it,
says the st. Louis Republican. " but it
easy enough to tell where they are going
: They are padding into the vast NJ
o known. as it were, over limitless ocea
I of cheap whisky"
Q The Nevada City California; Tran'
g cript learns that r. M. Fryer will hav
8 his machinery all in its place sometim
t next week. and in about week there
a after he will be in full operation upo
, his new process. 1t is said the first Il
u of rock will be tried from the Provident
IS the biggest mine in Nevada County.
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph say
/ Fully two hundred and fifty thousar
D. head Of cattle, being driven to marke
ii have crossed the Colorado river at ar
l. near Austin the present season. Averas
=, these cattle at $40 head. and il wi
- give the neat sum of $4,000. 900, vel
Is nearly all of which will come back int
81 the State as profits to the drOvers.
10 This is the way Montana editor +
10 fers to contemporary: 1.-THE venerab
20 fshwife who dishes up the biIlingsga
, for the local columns of the Madisonif
ar is the only individual in Virginia wi
ar hangs around the street corners waitil
a for a drunken bullwhacker to call up Il
- crowd, so that he can ring in for fr
10 drink.
=. OF the preparations making on the lii
- Of the V. & T. Railway for the emerge
= cies of the coming stormy season, 4
Evening Chronicle says that the col
pany are taking time by the forelock a,
" putting their road in trim for the col
y. ing Winter. Steel rails are being laid
ID all the dangerous portions of the roa
s. and an extra bracing is being given
40 the track to prevent its spreading.
n 1t seems the Pacific Coas. is not
r. only country that is bothered with
nd problem of Chinese cheap labor. 7
is almond-eyed Orientals are focking
'r- thousands into Australia in search
d. gold. Previous to it's commencement
month ago, the entire Chinese popu
ton of that country was estimated at |
g., over 80, 600. Within two or three mon
,re 10, 900 have appeared at Cooktown alo
=, the port of the new Palmer dggings
NO Northern Queensland, and there are
Try rivals weekly. just as IN Californa {
he Nevada, their presence has excited
bs bitter hostility of the white workm
the same difficulty is experienced by
authorities In protecting them, and
- same problem, how to restrict the
~. migration within such limits as may
80 20 desired, ia forced upon the AUSTRIA
authorities.