Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-10-07


to wet the steel surface TO be welded.
then sprinkle it with powder composed
of calcined borax. iron filings and Prus-
state of potash. The two surfaces ere
then brought in contact and brazrd IN
about GOO deg or 700 deg. Fab. when
subsequently, roolIed or hammered
the joint is found complete and the steel
intact.
If any one wants to see town Sliding /
down hill. they can do SO by gong 10
Moore's Flat. The mines in the vicinity |
| have washed close up TO the town. and |
| the banks are continually csving. many |
| OF the houses have been moved to place
near the old town, which the residents
call Jerico.
The Board of Equalization OF Washoe
county has equalized the Central Pacific
and Virginia and Truckee Railroads OF
80 600 per mile. II is row announced
autboritatiyely that the Central PACING
will pay without further delay its taxes
for last year, amounting to something
over $4,000, and that hereafter Doth
railroads will pay their taxes without ii'i-
cation.
The University dormitory, says the
Elko Independent. is now assuming mag
nificent proportions. The studding Is
about finished, and gives one an idea as
to its size, The building will De two
stories in height. the lower one being
25x50 and the upper 25x4O, and VIII be
hard finished throughout. The sage.
brush has been cleared off portion OF
: the ground, and the fenceis beginning TO
make fine appearance.
Gold Hill is about to become the field
of an attempt at cooperation, the results
of which will be looked for with interest.
The Cooperative Company of Gold have
incornorated TO enable its members to
purchase merchandise and other necessa
RES and copyeniences OF life on the most
o favorable terms. It is proposed to oper
o about the middle of October q grocery
q provision and mining supply store. Thu
capitaI stock Of the company Ia 0,OO'
l. dividend into one thousand shares o
y $50 each.
- On the LIST instant Reno had yer,
narrow escape from fearful catastroph
n and much loss of property. In the Vir
a, einia & Truckee freight house (Which !
10 to be used as pavilion during the fair
10 several men were busy, when one c
70 them absently threw lighted cigar int
. a pile of paper that lay on the foo
y After little smouldering the flame
H. blazed up several feet and encirclsd Ike
OF powder which happened to be near I
s hand. The flames were extinguishet
v. but not until the keg was col
M siderably charred. There were three {
four men in the room at the time, ar
o. had not the flames been checked the
l. would have been blown to ATOMS, Il
8 Pavilion, Depot Hotel burned and
w we'll there is no telling where it won
, have ended
In its weekly mining review, the E
terprise says:
Gu 1t is an uudisguiaed fact that at Il
ia time the developments on the Comsto
NV are without precedentin its entire histoi
Gu Nothing like it has ever been know
err This has been comfort and sstisfacti
ok to all during the dark days throu
no | WulCu We EhNo puobcu' w 'opb 10
Comstock continued to give up its tres
ures, we were safe from stagnation. I
,,o ores, in the extraction and milling
'n' which the laborers found employme
uai could be. when converted into bullie
ols shipped to Carson and returns in coin
.es. received in three days thereafter. Tn
~. which was the benefit OF our positit
'ao was also what would have kept the We
Dc of development going on in the ore p
ducing mines, even though there b
been no resumption and no coin to be
out ceived from other sources. Now that
,ol. sumption is at hand, our situation is
.b,e the brighter on account OF our positio
49,, 1t is unfortunate, perhaps, for the W
uai fare OF the mines that the discoveries
to the Comstock which have been, as
were, the harvest OF the years prepal
tons, should have been accompanied
the such depression Of the money mari
mia and, consequently the stock mark
49,. There are many strikes which, in or
'l'y nary times, would have produced VIC
the derful excitement, but which now cal
not stir in the market. This is in &C
.. sequence Of the times, and is no fault
one the mines. The strikes are all the mt
mad valuable in themselves, whatever may
their marketable value.