Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-12
STEALINGS.

InurSOayS lTRlUl4 CUTOTtCtc HAS
the following: "One of the men I'M
ployed at tho Consolidated Virginia
works had a most disagreeable adven
ture yesterday, and the works them
selves were in some danger. He was
engaged in painting n of the smoke
stacks-S4 feet in height-with an in
1ammable mixture of asphaltum, tur-
pentine, etc. His perch was q board,
by q block and halyard. 1t occurring
to him that a smoke would be a com
Portable thing, he lighted his pipe and
dropped the burning paper with which
he had lighted it, into the largo can of
paint hanging by his side, and it blazed
up at once. He called out for some one
below to loosen the tackle by which
it was suspended. The first mar who
came to the rope did not know how to
unite it, and the roasting individual
above VAS just in the act of cutting the
rope when a handy man arrived and
let the flaming pot down to the ground.
Even then the mischief was not all
over, for a bucket of water thrown
over it produced an explosion which
scattered flames in all directions with
out. however, setting fire to anything.
Had the man cut the rope and let the
pot fall on the roof, there would have
been great danger of a serious confia-
grafton.
The Bordr Miner gives the follow
ing extract from q letter written by a
resident of Darwin: DARWIN is a very
dull place, and what is worse, it gets
poorer every day. There are no quartz
mines here-simply bodies Of base ore
deposited in a purely limestone forma
ton, with no evidence OF permanence.
The New Coso furnace closed down
day hefore yesterday and is not likely
to start up again; If they should it will
be after they have built a mill. They
have not enough lead in the mine for
smelling, a. the body is fast turning
into milling ore. The Reddy brothers
are now building q furnace of from 30
to 35 tons capacity per day. and from
general appearances 1t VIII be running
within from two to three weeks. As
their mine, tho Defiance, Is conceded To
he the best in the district, l got q per-
NIT from their foreman, Archie Nc
Donald, and went all through IL. That
| 1t is q vast body of low-grade base ore
there can be no question; but it is in
pure limestone and all oil top, and no
ulOIO sign VI iOOHS eA"h sAcSO 10 va
the top Of = pine board table. pre-
dict that under favorable circumstances
it will last one, and possibly one and Q
half years."
Some fifteen years ago, says the Car
son appeal, Of the 9th instant, during,
or about the time of, the Indian war
Captain ellison, formerly Indian agent
tor the Territory Of Nevada, WAS in
formed by Winnemuoca, Chief of the
Piutes, of q rich quartz ledge near the
line of the present Indian Reser. alton
1t Pyramid Lake. Since that time and
until recently, MI. Gillson.has kept his
knowledge . profound secret; his rsa-
son for doing SO being the suppositior
that he would not be permitted o own
or prospect . mining claim that was
likely TO be proved to be within the
lines of the Reservation. Recently,
Mr.. ellison and others, living here and
hereabouts, have formed . company
for the purpose Of taking up and work
ing this ledge; and yesterday he and
Thomas Wells and others OF the party
returned from their mine, bringing
with them a bag of very rich speci'
mems of silver-bearing ore. Will know
more about it in a day or two.
Caffrey, the winner Of the recent
wrestling match with Gallagher At Gold
Hill. publishes in the News three chai.
lsngss: The hrst is 10 Henry Martin, o.
cold Hill, to wrestle American style
Ter $1,000 eide, Martin moi V weigh