Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-04-04
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Marlette Lake, to W .ich the Virgin a
City auu Cold Hill Water Company
will extend its presept. mounta n
humefh about three months, through
astunnel IL ,arly 5000 fee in length, is
an artificial lake. 1t il, in tact a huge res
ervcir, formed by damning the mar
row outlet of a small circular valley
surrounded on all sides by high
mountains. The. dam across the natu-
fral outlet of this valley will he forty
feet In height when completet. The
reservoir will cover an area OF nearly
three hundred acres. 1t will be forty
feet deep In the deepest place, and will
hold ten thousand million gallons of
water,raIl-anaount sufficient no supply
Virginia and Gold HIM. and all the
mil and mining, works iu THAT part
OF the State, for all time; vet the com
panty has beside Hobart creek and 9th
o. sources of supply. y
Geo. III. KiDser, agent for the Bald
win Locomotive Works, vas caned at
Carson Guy last Wednesday evening.
THE operation was performed by ten or
twelve signatures of the V. " 4. X. X.
The cane WAS an elegant gold headed
one, appropriately inscribed, and Mr..
Kinser took it away with him.
Theodore A. Winters, the rich farm
er OF Washoe valley, Is breaking up
a very large amountgof sagebrush land
this Spring. He has a number Of the
heaviest kind of gang plews at work
and each pillow drawn by from eight to
twelve oxen. 1t is Mr.. Winters in
,ention to SOW alfalfa in all the new
ground. ,,4@
Emma Anderson, salsoiled dove, be-
came +" rashly unfortunate" last
Wednesday night and attempted 10
solve the great mystery by taking a
dose of laudanum ut No. So ID street,
Virginia City. She was pumped out:
ever issued is I'm what the San Fran
cisco CdU terms a suit about a shadow.
A minstrel performer is enjoined from
executing his "shadow dance" in = ri
val exhibition. .s43s Ed xls .sao3
The San Francisco reporters have so
thoroughly written up the dimens ons
and capacity Of their. PALACE Hotel,
that nothing now remains but to calcu-
late the exact number of hairs that
will be required for the butter-dishes.
The little boys in Virginia and Car.
son are commencing to save their
lines in Readiness Tor Montgomery
Queens Circus, which will arrive IN
Western Nevada about the 18th Of
June. .l,f sasses f~ss3snszss .tH4H'e
A prize-fight was announced to
come off in Austin last Friday between
a coupla of hruisars whose name fhe
editor offthe Rereitte had PLEDGED his
honor as a poker player not to mention
Billy Mills, Wells, Fargo & Cos
agent at Tyl,o, writes to a friend IN
Austin that in his opinion. Typo will
prove q second Eureka. We hope it
will.
At a spelling match in Virginia City,
"a few evenings ago. one of the Ortho.
graphical constructions of "bonny
clabber" was "baughneighclaugh-
baugher." tgF eF Gi i
Hank Monk, who contributed con
siderable to Horace Greeley's celebrity
is driving stage from Carson to LAX.
Tahoe.
~affun9taci AI
Only l56 names have yet been reg
istered for the city seiection. which
e .mes off in Austin during the pres
ent month.
James Lick has been unanimonsl,
elected all honorary member OF I'll,
Sazarac Lying Club of Austin.
Spelling, matches and moot court.
are all the rage In Gold Hill,