Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-08-25
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SPIRIT OF THE PREss'

The virg. Enterprise says: II IL
Tact rot generally known that many Oh
the drifts and galleries Of the mines
along the Comstock swarm with ra's'
The Belcher is chief OF all, where they
live in the deserted drifts and decayipg
timbers. They live on the remains OF
the miners lunches. OF this there Is an
Several hundred men eat
their lunches there daily, and the pieces
OF bread, meat and other eatables ore al,
thrown down. These. in the heateu
DEPTHS, would soon become OFFENSIVE
we're il not for the rats. His propensi
ties az scavenger stand both himself ana
the miners in good play, for not q oone
il left that is not gnawed clean OF meat I,,
These rats are never molested. lney
have free license to run up and down .ne
shaft and hold high carnival, sale rom
tabby or terrier. In the Winter mine
il q perfect paradise for furry rodeht,
While the snow is blowing and the mud
freezing, and his relatives on the surface
are subjected to all the periis OF poison,
pussy, and the terror Of the Jaws ana
teeth of the terrier and the trap, tue rat
Of the mine Ia luxuriating In tempeia.
ture 80 congenial os to sleeken and lat
him nm at once, safe from pursuit. or
even the wish Of harm. He is sure OF
his food no long as the mine is worked,
md sbould n drift DO abandoned, he soon
finds his way to the place where work
and consequent snstenance are sure to
be found. SO to no one is mino so
really mine of wealth as 10 the rat.
The Reveillc says G. Il. Blackfan mr.
rived there on the 18th instant with q
batch of ore from district recently dis
covered by him. The locality OF the dis
coyery is sixty or seventy miles southeast
of Austin. Mr.. Blackfan located fifteen
lodges. which he has recorded in Nye
county; but he has not yet organized a
district. The character OF the ore is SINH
lar TO the surface ores OF this dis
trict, carrying horn silver and highly
colored chloridea. The veins are mar.
row, and similar in formation to those OF
Lander Hill. the country rock being the
same--syenite. The ore brought in wal
taken from the lodges Unfortunately
from croppings. hanging. wall and foot
| wall, the intention being to get ns nea
an average as possible. The amour
brought in was 800 pounds, which wa
worked at the Manhattan mill and CAV,
q product Of $456 80 per ton. Blackfal
will return TO his "find" in couple o
days, and will organize district.
Governor Stafford, OF Arizona, is visit
ing Virginia City. But few men arc BET
ter known in Nevada than Governor Sal
ford. He was Recorder of Humboldt
county in the early history OF the cour
try, and afterward held the office {
United States Surveyor General for NJ
vada. In 1869 he was appointed Go,
ernor Of Arizona, wns re-appointed !
1873. and has lived in Tucson, the capt.,
Of the Territory. for the last six year
He has proved one of the most populf
Governors Arizona has ever had. He
an excellent judge Of mines, and is
frontiersman from natural inclination
He speaks in the highest terms of II
q silver bearing lodges Of Arizona, ar
!, thinks that when the Territory is opent
up by railroad and the depredations
the murderous Apaches are put an en-
= to, 1t will prove one of the richest mil
eral regions on the Pacific Coast.
On the 18th inst, as the Downievil
stage was toiling along the dusty rout
:, at a bend in the road two men suddenl
Jumped out OF the bushes, and, one sell
u the leaders by the bits, the other levele
Q n shotgun at the driver and commando
v him to pass out the treasure box. Co
4 Won Schmidt, who was seated by II
- driver, quickly drew revolver OIL
pointed it at the nearest highwayman, e.
claimed, "You - scoundrel, I'm G
>, the lay myself The robber quick
: dropped out of the range Of the revolve
l. and with his companion expeditiously r
, treated into the thicket. The presen
OF mind and courage Of Col.Von Schmi
u saved the WELSH Fargo Express Compal
8. about $4,000.
The Eureka Sentinel says; Sher
20 Gilmore received n dispatch on the 81
" instant from the Clerk of the Board
10 Pardous, at Carson. announcing that t
=. petition in behalf OF VIM Porterhel
WHO Whb 6tuttuCVu W Eou uhNS I
n County Jail for difficulty in which
was engaged in that town last June, b
been favorably considered and full p'
he don granted by unanimous vote of I
Oh Board,
n. A correspondent writing to the s
be Lake Tribune from Southern Utah. n,
lrt the Rio Virgin. tells Of singular d
coyery. In a series OF low sandsto
ridges and sand.hils ia found the
I a mains of large trees, petrified and strol
he " impregnated with mineral. What
pears to have been the bark of the I
~ carries the highest percentage of silv
- The piety of the new city of Sa
Monica cannot be large, judging from
ms Rev. Mr.. McFarland's experience. T
"a. gentleman went down there the OF
=. day, as the Colporteur Of the Bible II
He ETY., and succeeded in raising 80 80
the result of diligent days labor.
he Frank Yates, a disgusted and dis
ON pointed miner, has arrived at Cheye
ish from the Black Hills. He exhibits 8;
Ia gold dust aud says it was washed
by three men in fifteen days.
OF The body OF the unknown
ler drowned at Yuma on the 18th inst.
by been recovered and identified as tina
Henry Powell OF Montana. 1t is !
posed that he committed suicide.
'cn Since Andrew Jobnson's numel
aer obituaries every tailor in the country
: standing on his egg-shell dignity.
=. Austin taiiofs are making animated