Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-09-28
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.


Monterey claims to have the first brick
building ever raised in California. It
was erected in l847.
Mrs. G. M. Wheeler, OF San Francis
co. he's inherited nearly $1,000, 900 from
a New Orleans friend, lately deceased.
A daughter of Robert E. Lee, the ia.
nous Confederate General, is stopping
at the bonanza city.
An extensive lead OF cinnabar in the
vicinity of Gilroy Hot Springs is about
to be opened up. a company having been
organized for that purpose.
A cinnabar mine is reported to have
been discovered on one OF the tributa-
ries of the Saptiam, in Oregon, which
turns out metal superior to the New
Almaden," OF California.
The first shipment Of ore from the
Sunday mine. American Fork canyon,
was made on the Oath The ledge, it is
said. "holds its own i" both as to quality
and quantity OF ore.
Rumor says that the rich vein of
quartz lost at Carson hill in 1862, after
million and half OF dollars had been
taken from it and its vicinity, has lately
been struck again.
On the 22d the sales OF local tickets at
the Reno Central Pacific Railroad Office
amounted to 81, 5G4. 80. The total sales
OF tickets for the month of September,
up to the 223, were S7,9S7.S5.
Two ex.Roman Emperors are in part.
nership in the restaurant business at
Fairyiew, Idaho. The firm name is
Titus h Constantine. How have the
mighty fallen
An immense ledge of mica is reported
discovered in Ada county. Idaho Terri.
tory. The ledge is in the mountains
near the Horse Bend, on the Snake
river, is about thirty feet wide, and i;
encased in wall of barren quartz.
The Catholics of this part of the Stat.
have begun. the Journal says. to take tb,
initial step toward the founding of con
vent in Reno. They are now looking
for favorable piece Of ground on which
to locate the proposed structure. Tn,
new school will be open to both sexes.
The large immigration into Arizon,
has reduced the price of labor. and many
men are out OF employment. More dis
coveries OF rich ore are chronicled. The
dispatches foreshadow the same trouble
In Arizona about Spanish grants O
land that has been experienced in Cali
fornia.
J The FIRST prosecution under the Leeis
lative Act prohibiting dromedaries fror
running at large in the State Of Nevads
says the Virg. Chronicle, came up /
Judge Hicksy's Justices Court At Ds,
ton on Monday. The citizens of Wake
River have got their backs up and wan
the unsightly animals properly r,
strained. Nothing is safe from thes
voracious critters, as they will bolt dow
a Murphy wagon, four rods Of rail fenc.
Yankee stoneboat or anything else,
single meal. As pack animals for us
across desert waste, they can't be beA
but when 1t comes to bump Of destru,
tiveness, they have one as big as
Brooklyn preacher.
At the Reno State Prison the wall hi
8 oeen completed all the way around u
2 even with ground, filling the trenc
8 which was eight feet deep. On II
| south and west sidaa tha xralIr n.a a;ol
or ten feet high. while the other tw
sides are not being raised. Only sixtee
, men are now employed six masons. tw
cutters and eight laborers. Rock il no
being brought to the ground on cars /
addition to that brought BY the wagons