Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-09-16
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

An assessment OF S2U per shaie HAS |
been levied by the Surprise Valley Mil
and Water Company of Panamint.
Gov Stanford has purchased Lulu, who
beat Goldsmith Maid, and will take her
to California.
Deposits Of silver of extraordinary
richness at Rife river, Michigan, are re-
ported.
During August the Carson Mint coined
$454, O7O, of which $29i,97O were in
gold and S1G2, 100 in silver. Arrange
ments are in progress for the purchase
of $500, 900 in bullion; the bullion fund
has been increased to 81 ,500,O 600.
Overland shipments of treasure, by
express, for the week ending september
9Th, were $2G6, 728.78 silver bars, and
$4,000 gold coin - total $3.50. 728.78.
Overland drainage of gold coin alone for
New York has been $18, l81 124 80 far |
this year, against 50, 42S,000 same time !,
last year.
There is an urgent demand just now
for gold bars for coinage purposes, and
the refining works recently erected at the
new Mint have been called into requisi-
ton. This auxiliary, in connection with
the San Francisco Refinery. will furnish
the Mint with material to meet the in
creased demand for currency.
Reindeer is the name of the newly dis
covered ledge in Arizona, seven miles
from the Peck in the Bradshaw range,
by J. s. Nelson and Charley Rice. The
vein is from six to eight feet wide, with
a 3-inch pay streak on the surface. The
ore carries large percentage of silver in
combination with galena.
The sidewalk in front Of Flood &
O'Brien's Nevada Block, San Francisco,
cost $4,000. Some of the flags are by
IA, some by Q, and oil are from 6 to 8
inches thick. The freight on them from
New York was two cents pound. That
sidewalk ought 10 last two or three years
at the least.
The funeral OF Captain William Nc
Neil, pioneer who came to the Pacific
Coast in 1916, took place at Victoria,
British Columbia, on the 7th instant.
He was seventy-four years Of age, and a
native of Boston. In 1882 he joined the
Hudson Bay Company, in whose service
he became chief factor.
Since 1862 the Internal Revenue col
lections for Idaho have amounted to
$532, 345.47. This is more than Ave
times as large as the amount collected
! from Arizona, and is almost equivalent
to the collections for that period from
Utah Territory, where the population is
nearly ten times greater. The collections
from Washington Territory amounted to
$3.50, 1896.
About eighty of the men usually en-
ployed at the Belcher mine were dis
charged on the 10th. This was rendered
necessary, because about 1900 tons of
= rock accumulated at the mills on Carson
river. The managers finding it was i'm
possible to crush the rock as fast as ex-
tracted, were reluctantly forced to dis
Q charge tho number of workmen above
/. stated.
j Last evening, just at twilight, says the
n Borax Miner of the 4th, when James
: Mooney and Tom Perasich were leaving
e the slaughter-pen at the western end Of
$ town, they saw something unusual or
8 the Benton road, about half mile dis
a tant. Prompted partly by curiosity
they started out to SEQ what it was tina
D bobbed up and down among the sage
= brush. They found an almost naket
d man in crazed and perishing condition
= After they brought him in to Gregovich'
j" cabin and got him food aud water, b,
!. proved to be Mexican named StepheI
q Lopez, who left Lone Pine on the 15tl
n of August to reach this camp San
3. Davis gave the poor creature an entir
new outfit of clothing. and some of th
D. Mexican citizens took him to Mrs. An
tones house. where he is rapidly recoy
= ering from the effects of his almost fats
# trip.
IS OF the California the Enterprise says
80 On the 1400-foot level the main drift t.
N ward the Ophir has passed the norther
" limit Of the ore body, and is in barre
n porphyry. Cross-cut No. 3 is still NAL
" ing toward the west. and is still in vel
n fine ore. From cross-cut No. on Il
~ 15OO-foot level, the winze which W,
i, started to connect that with the 1855
A. where the main drift north will reat
% and intersect with it, is making goo
ba progress, the bottom still in ore. On Il
Nv l550.foot level, the north drift and Il
east and west cross-cut under crosse
ID No. 3 of the l500-foot level are MAXI
| ha m q
II ceedingly rich, except that OF the DR.
IL. north. where the quality is still infer
to that penetrated further back. AT
y battery mill the work is well along.
it cept the placing of the engine and DO
ers, which remains yet to be done.
in II is a matter of no little surprise
.se every rejecting person that Califor'
or should be dependent on the East to gu
"a great extent for her agricultu
ets machinery. So far as We can lea
The every attempt which has been made
bo manufacture such machinery here !
" met with reasonable success. The IL
for such industry is large and promisil
T., as will be seen by the following enum
'Ao alton OF the several shipments to t
ich port TOR a single year, which has bt
nd carefully compiled by the Sacramel
ees Bee There are annually shipped to =
Coast some 5000 wagons. 1000 buggi
1000 moving machines. 500 heade
,re 200 threshing machines. 1900 gr
sowing machines, 5000 horse rak
nat 1000 harrows, 1000 gang plows, 81
en- single plows, and 1900 portable Ste
led. engines, ct an aggregate cost Of 50, 10
OOo, which could as we'll, and should
in rights, be manufactured in this Sta
Az There are also enough Of the smaller
PIGMENTS to nearly double this sum.
The San Luis Park is vast ellipti
bowl between the sangre de Chr
9th Mountains and the Sierra San Juan,