Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-10-13
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

The Assessor returns population OF
1.717 for Nye county.
The Consolidated Virginia Mining
Company have declared their usual
dividend of $40 per share. ag.
81, 0S0,0O0.
lie Fevre, the crazy convict so long an
inmate OF the Nevada Penitentiary, on
the 9th inst was taken in charge OF two
men to Woodbridge. l#.5 .s.
The papers are publishing paragraph
concerning heterogeneous escape Of Chi
cago man who was captured by q band
of marauding Indians. They were about
to scalp him, but he began an Grafton
about the greatness of Chicago, and the
braves fled in dismny.
Bob Douglass. who killed H. Walker
at Rattlesnake Station. on the Whine.
mucca and Idaho road, August 20, 1874,
has Just been arrested in Pleasant Val
ley. Montana Territory, and taken back
to Boise City. The Avalanche says it
was an unprovoked murder. and doubts
if Douglass will escape the gal!ows.
The Silver State of the 9th inst says:
letter received here yesterday from
Carson says there are twenty seven cases
ahead OF Royer's, to be decided by the
Supreme Court, and that unless the
Court passes some of them and takes it
up, it will be some time before it will be
decided. The Supreme Court being the
highest tribunal in the State, does moth
ing in hurry.
The grand jury OF Lander county have
reported q true bill for grand larceny
against c. c. Schoonover, charged with
stealing cattle at Battle Mountain.
Schoonover was ordered into the custody
of the Sheriff. with bail fixed at $4,000,
which not being forthcoming he was
locked up in the County Jail All par
ties are DESTROYS to have it soon over.
In the Delta saloon, South C street,
Virginia City. is the following bill of
sale. 1t is framed, and protected by
glass from injury: This is to certify
that l, the undersigned, have sold to j.
Bisauf 10 feet Of mining ground in the
Dalmatia Mining Company utah Ter
ritory. Carson county, for the considera.
ton OF one white bull dog, considered
worth $25. W. A. Fry. In presence of
John Dennis. Carson, March 4. 1861"
The Chicago Inter Ocean says: There
is possibility which verses almost
upon probability that a fast mail train
will be run all the way across the cont.
nept. Not one OF these meteorio fast
trains, but one that will save day in
| going the entire distance; making FIVE
days from New York to San Francisco,
instead OF seven, as at present Ar
rangements are now perfected to reduce
the regular time to six days at any rate.
The Elko Independent tells OF mag.
nifcent piece OF ore taken from strike
recently made in the Hunter mine at
Mountain City. 1t is the richest charac-
ter of chloride ore, with horn-silver lib
orally distributed through the whole
chunk. The formation 10 which the
ledge is eDcased is granite, and the ore
bears q very striking resemblance to that
found near the surface in the mines of
Lander Hill. The body of rich ore re.
ferred to ia about two feet wide. and the
prospect is that this strike will prove the
most important one made in that distric,
for several years.
Not long since, says the Enterprise,
Will Hopkins. who is mining on the
2200-ioot level of the Savage, met with
a singular accident, which for a time
rendered his left leg useless. He was
turning drill, and az one of the sledge
hammer blows came down upon The
bead of the drill. a piece of the battered
steel therefrom flew off and struck him
in the left leg just above the knee. ant
completely paralyzed the broad musci,
OF the leg. The scraggly piece of steel
which was as large as big bullet, pene
trated the flesh an inch and half, an(
was fonnd imbedded in the muscle al
} inch under the skin. Since it's extrac
ton he has been recovering the use o
his leg, and is now at work again.
) According to the report Of the Govern
ment Director, the Union Pacific Rail
road earned in the year ending July 81
1875, little over 81. 100000. The ex
penses for operating were less than hal
OF this sum. There was, therefore, tn,
9 cum of $6,000,0OO in round number,
q available for three purposes, viz: payin,
interests on its bonds, paying dividends
70 stockholders. or purchasing evidences
8 OF its own Indebtedness. The Director
chose to declare a dividend. II is esti
| hat -
railroad will in a few years approach
$2O.OOO,OOO. Their business is rapid
, increasing and they are advancing rathe
than reducing rates. The erection Of
, rolling mill at Laramie and the discover
Of coal in the vicinity. materially reduce
the company's expenditures.