Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-11-10
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.


800 acres. r
The Arizona Citizen claims thst The il
yield of gold for The Territory last year !
was 81, 500 600.
A lump OF pure birthstone has peen c
sent from Winnemucca to the C'h'' hhia' |
weighing 1000 pounds.
The Humboldt Mill and Mining Com
pany are making regular shipments OF !
bullion two and three times q week.
No, less than $500. 900 worth Of oysters
will be sold from the Shoalwater Bay
beds this season, the gathering and NOV
| inc OF them forming one of the chief in-
dustries of Washington Territory.
The Southern Pacific workmen have
completed grading from San Gorgonia
Pass to Indian Wells, on the Colorado
Desert, fifty miles out. and are pushing
| on for the Colorado.
A correspondent who has been over
the proposed line Of the Northern Pacii-
ic railroad, thinks II can be built for $780,
900 per mile to Helena, Mon, although
the 452 miles already completed cost tho
enormous average Of $GG,37 per mile.
The retimbering Of the main shaft at
the Ophir is completed, and donkey
engine was set to work on the 18th pump
ing the water from the lower levels.
| Preparations for putting in the powerful
machinery obtained from the Combina-
ton shaft are in progress.
Up to 4th inst, bullion OF tho value OF
500, 900 was recovered from the ruins
Of the Consolidated mill. It is expected
that this amount will be doubled when
the work of clearing away the debris
shall have been completed. A large
quantity OF quicksilver has also been
recovered.
Friedlander, the wheat king, like Sena-
tors Jones and Sharon, has been com
PEELED to borrow heavily, and gives one
i. per cent. per month interest. Jones pays
one quarter per cent. month, and
: Sharon one per cent. The interest that
, either of these gentlemen are paying Is
equal to first-class income.
8 The Denver News says: 1t turns out
+ that many OF the tramps seen trudging
along the Union Pacific. with bundles on
their backs, are merely members OF the
. Wyoming Legislature, which meets in a
8 couple OF weeks, walking from the west
1 end OF the Territory to the Capital.
Q A ton of ore from the Golden Fleece
b mine was. on the Sd inst, put in sacks
Q and shipped to Nevada City to be worked
d by the Fryer process The Reno Journa
thinks if the Fryer process is worth {
- cent it will take lots of bullion from tina
= ore.
The credulous and easily frightened
Or are again in spasms of terror over tn
st prediction of Mrs. Bowers, the seeress
r who happened to predict the burning o.
2 Virginia, that the city is again to be de
a stroyed, this time by an earthquake
- Many of those who believe in her hum
buggery are making strenuous exertion
I'd to leave the city.
no The Bank of Thomas Findley & Co. "a
VI Grass Valley, CAL, will. it is stated, re
sumo business shortly under the oil
management. The house was crippled b
1o | COuucCtlOu Will Juo uulAoW Fhut
IN. railroad recently built between Cola
% and Nevada, but arrangements are bein
~ made by which all the banks affairs wi
,ar he mt mon stable foundation for il
speedy reopening.
ost The Grass Valley Union says: Th
we telegraph from San Francisco informs u
Ok; that Senators Sharon and Jones heade
I'LL q subscription for the relief of the Vii
ginia City sufferers with a thousand do
y's lars each. These Senators are million
aires. Jenkins, OF Grass Valley. threw
two-dollar- and a-half piece into the funi
st., for the same purpose, the other day, an
tbe it was the last cent he had in the worl(
-. The telegraph will not say apythin
ssS about Jenkins subscription.
Quite number of Oregon Indians n,
now locating homesteads under the pre-
on visions Of the Act of Congress regulatin
the settling and pre-emptine of publ
Yo- lands by the natives. The applicant Il
icb a homestead is required to ioreswear b
|, tribal relations, and to understand Il
l. nature of the right he acquires by th
~, pre- -emption; also to know what ia e.
MS pected OF him by the Government, ii
ties length OF time be must reside upon an
low cultivate his land. etc, before he il Ell
lien titled to sell or in any way dispose I
his Claim.
The Inyo Independent of the 3O
'e.' says: Lieut.. Birney, commanding par
'ide No. 9 of the Wheeler Expedition h
Tue about completed his surveys in this Sc
of ton, and in few days goes to Calen
to disband his party for Winter. Par
No. /, Lieut Bersland commanding. HI
the already disbanded at Los Angeles. NJ
test o. Loew. OF that party who. with NJ
A.. Brookdof. called on us II day or two ae
'ho is making sort Of an individual surv
That of this country through to Virginia Git
collecting mining and other facts
publication in a German journal. Fart
Bal quake phenomina, particularly of O
,out little affair of March. 1879, will recei
!. a. due attention.