Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-10-02
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS,

Treasure-hunters are still busy digging
up the top of Table Mountain in search
Of the forty Thousand dollar road-ngen,-
hide.
The new pump engine OF the Buckeye
mine, in Gold Canyon, is of four-foot
stroke and eighteen-inrh cylinder. It is
being driven at the rate of fifteen strokes
per minute, and is rapidly clearing the
mine of water.
VIM. S. Chapman. the great land
monopolizer, asks the Supervisors of
Solsno county, C.l., to give him the
privilege of reclaiming and making use
full about 10000 acres of swamp land in
that county.
Sheriff Fife, of Lincoln county, ar
rived this morning. says the Carson
Tribune of the 9th ultimo, bringing
three new boarders for the Hotel de
Hyman. The names are as follows:
George Hadley, sentenced for two years
for the crime of assisting prisoners to
escape from Jail; Chas. Frendo, attempt
to kill, one year; Chas. Connor, bouse.
breading, eighteen months. They are
now safely ensconded in their new quar-
tiers.
The Salt Lake Tribune thinks 1t is q
pity that mining matters have come to
stand still in Lincoln district, Utah.
There ore said to be thousands of tons
of good smelling ore in sight. and good
furnace almost hid from sight by NAM
moth piles Of charcoal, standing within
| a stope's throw Of the mine. Bad man.
agement and litigation are responsible
for the stagnation. 1t affords, however,
a fine chancu for capital. The property
is likely to change hands soon.
From o party who has recently visited
the Webfoot mines at Railroad District
the Elko Independent learns that the
mine never looked as well as it does at
the present time. Supt. Roulstone has
1870 tons of ore at the furnace, 225 tons
on the dump, and is raising on an aver
age of - tons every "a hours. Tho ore
is of much higher grade than that here
tofore worked, consequently the com
pany anticipate an excellent run when
the furnace starts up, which will be
sometime during the present month.
About twenty men are at work on the
McCrackin mine, and few on what is
known as the Jumpers claims" A
shaft is being sunk on the McCrackin
and some good ore coming out. An in
formant of the Arizona Miner brought q
piece that came out 100 feet below the
surface that is quite rich, but nothing to
compare with the surface ore OF the Pecl
or Silver Prince, which it resembles
somewhat. He thinks the languid state
of the work is due to the uncertain con
dition OF the title to the mine. McCrackin
and Owen discovered it and located theil
friends who afterwards decided their loca'
tioDs to the discoveries. 1t was then
sold to San Francisco company, con
ditionally, and other parties jumped the
portion located and redeeded, as above
stated, 80 that the original discoveries
McCrackin and Owen, are unable tf
give possession, consequently have only
received part of the purchase money, ant
and are unable to put themselves in (
position to demand the balance until tn,
jumpers can be got rid of. Thus thu
matter stands and is likely to remain TO-
some time, materially retarding the de
velopment Of tho country.
Russia. Austria, Italy and America mr.
all disputing the honor Of inventing the
new so-called " steel bronze" which i
now the favorite gun metal. The mate
rial is perhaps not specially we'll named
/ the merit of the result, 1t would seem
| being rather due to new process Q
/ manufacture than to the supply OF ne,
, material for an old process. II is sal
that the guns are made of ordinar
bronze, ninety parts Of copper and te
] OF tin, and the bore is reamed out t
r about one quarter OF an inch less diane
a ter than 1t is intended to be ultimately
The gun being firmly secured, conica
plugs Of hard steel. gradually increasin
o in size, are forced through itby hydraull
0 pressure, COMPRISING the metal abou
a the bore, and rendering it stronger
harder and more elastic. The disput
about priority of invention turns out
T be the old one about priority Of perfe'
4 ton or of practical application. A.
cording to the Scientific American, or
of our countrymen, Mr.. Dean. Of Boz
Q ton, patented this process OF seourin
l. condensation of the metal around Il
a bore in 1869, in America, England an
= Austria. Colonel Laidley, Of the Unit.
70 States Ordnance Bureau. says that Il
'e records OF his Office show that an ord,
d was given in July, 1870, for a number
r. Mr.. Deans guns, but that through
!, want Of funds the order was counte
u manded. But Austria may probab
8 claim the credit of first practically intr
/. ducing the steel bronze guns.