Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-09-14
SPIRIT or THE PRESS.


Tie Montana Territorial Fair will con- y
nence September 9th, and last until :,
October I'd. II
The Consolidated Virginia Mining 6
Company has declared lis usual diyi- 3
dend of $40 per share. asgregating ST. i
OS0, 900, payable Saturday last. Sep'em' :
Der IL.
At the Stockton races on the oth there
was a very large attendance. The first
race-mile heats, best three IN hye-was I
won by Morphine. Time, Ia, laSI9'
i:59. The trotting race was won by John I
Rock. Time, 2A9. 2AS, 246llgs. 2Af.
The Eagle mill. in Humboldt county,
which has been shut down for some time
past in consequence OF the scarcity oil ,
water, started up on the 9Th. The mine
is represented as looking well, and at the
greatest depth attained, nearly 2OO ieet
from the surface, the ledge Is over len
feet wide.
In the action brought by the United
States against the Central Pacihc haii-
road Company to recover 81, 1886 635.lo
due for interest on bonds, the company
| has filed o general answer admitting tne
enactment of the statutes mentioned In
the complaint. The defendant therefore
prays to have tho action dismissed WIN
Judgment for its costs.
Among those who volunteered to go |
from Eureka to tho White Pine Indian
war was Baron Won Hum, late OF the
ROYAL Guard Corps Of His Majesty. the
Emperor of Russia. He was attached to
Capt. Hubbard's command, and as he
gracefully bestrode q prancing cayuse,
pressed into the States service from an
, indignant coal teamster, he looked every
inch soldier.
The Railroad Company is changing
. the main track at Palisade. They are
/, moving the hotel and Wells, Fargo x
. Co. Office at that place about hun
bred feet back, and laying the track on
the ground where they were situate.
The change was made necessary by the
: large quantities of freight for Eureka
"A and the camps south of that place.
which accumulate at Palisade while be-
ing transferred to the Narrow Gauge.
|, Thursday's Silver State published the
:, following startling rumor: News reached
- here Yesterday from Battle Mountain
=. that eight white men had been killed by
the Indians forty miles south OF that
place. II such is the fact it Is strange
10 that the information has not reached
,e here by telegraph. A rumor to tina
ID effect was afioat here yesterday, but w
did not consider it authentic.
Last official report from the Gould
Curry says: We are still engaged in re
Of timbering the 10th station and the in
he cline below this station; this work wi
require some two weeks to complete
~ The balance bob at this station has bee
Dr. completed. Our progress in cleanin
nd out the cave and timbering the drift o
"a the 17OO.foot level is very much retarde
:. by intense heat, yet the work is bein
IN prosecuted with oil possible vigor.
w The Morgan mill at Empire city hi
~ been purchased by the Pacific Mill an
,oS Mining Company, aud was started II
80 last Saturday on Consolidated Virgin
Vi ore. II contains forty stamps and ht
ell a capacity of eighty-five tons per da,
3D. This addition to the milling facilities {
an, the Consolidated Virginia Company wi
enable them to turn out two million dc
Ole lars in bullion during the current fisc
The month.
IN John Thomas informs the Aust
ian Reveille that no Indians have left Rees
Try River for distance OF twenty miles III
Dur All the Indians who usually stay in th'
o a vicinity are still there, many being
res, work threshing grain for Thomas an
, of George Dyer. Mr.. Thomas has lived o
"a. the river for twelve years, and is person
"e ally acquainted with all the Reese Riv,
ent Valley Shoshones. and says they al
hts peaceably disposed and industrious, an
.ov. that trouble with the whites is somethir
,,s, they in no manner desire.
the The excitement which prevailed in tn
allv city, says the Austin Reveille, over Il
onr Indian news from White Pine and Lii
Pima coin counties, has oil died out. A lar
= number of brave men came forward NJ
We expressed willingness to go to q
Iair front, but on receipt Of dispatch fro
I'M General Rocker that no more men we
,;la needed. they dispersed to their home
The men Offering themselves were no
re- of them of the class of iuffians or Q
,reat venturers, but quiet, law-abidipg a
the Industrious men. many OF whom wor
rams have been obliged to leave their work
IT, order to 90.
OF the Belcher the Gold Hill Ne
SAYS: There are now about 5000 &c
of ore accumulated in the ore dunn
m Of ready for milling. This surplus is
, thu tirely occasioned by the inability of
mills on Carson river to crush their
"ha' capacity of ore, on account OF the
,sca- stage OF water. As soon as the sup
,ph OF water will permit, the amount OF
that extracted can be greatly increas
nan. There are no new features in any of
ths prospecting operations on the differ
"a an levels of the mine. Work on the 1G
Land foot level is going ahead as usual. q
mis- the air shaft is nearly completed do
, ''''' to the 1300-foot level.
.rx." Speaking of the walla walla Va
critic fruit crop the STATESMAN says; VI
roba- this date august 2Sth) we have not s
! his q single peach in the market, and he
Wa we infer that the wheat crop isalmosi
, :, entire failure. Of apples there seem
. . " be sufficient supply, but tho qualit
'un' Indifferent. Plums come into MAJ
said quite freely, and seem to have esca
delu- injury. 1t is rather early for pears,
n, We incline to the opinion that the |
,old" weather of last Winter. Altogether
The reputation of this valley as o fruit