Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-10-11
DRAINAGE AND MINING.
The Shrewd Device Of . Hotel
Keeper to Secure . Subterranean
Drain---S0me Random Writing.

Three or four weeks ago we alluded
to his eccentric enterprise in running
a tunnel from Gold Canyon, in the
middle OF the opposite block, to q
point underneath his hotel for the
evident purpose of drainage. When
the tunnel was started, the blasts that
were discharged in displacing the
hard porphyry resounded through
the town, and people wondered what
new mine was being opened so close
to their houses. When told that the
design of the undertaking was to re-
iieve the Bonanza Hotel of the usual
oifai about such places they invaria-
oily said that the magnitude Of the
undertaking was greater than the
judgment which it displayed. II
obey we're gln, to put Ia drain
iF.m iae,r premises To Gold Canyon
they anuIai SIMPLY dig "a ditch across
tae street in the surface sill aad put
!. cap.ciou, trough thereiu and cover
Is over. Ta-y were all wrong. Such
a iraia would cost not less than u
couple OF hun red dollars, and Of
course it would require rep ir> at
east once in geaer ti, III We did not
touch upon this matter rs closely as
could be wished Ia the issu, wherein
the undertaking was noticed, for the
reason that mans private stfairs are
often too delicate h. reveal in detail
before curious public, when the
motives, especially, are hidden in the
shadow of mystery. Now, however,
the motives are clear as that either
one party or the other will carry
Indiana, and we are pleased To place
Mr.. Frett Alright before the people.
Yesterday morning The TINES re-
porter visited the tunnel in question,
to note progress aud see if any min
eral developments had been made.
He was astonished to see tbs follow
Ing notice of location posted up on
the door, the latter being firmly
secured with heavy paddock:
Notice Of Location.
XNE THE UNDERSIaN CLAIM THIS
w lead or lode with all its dips, spurs and
angles. together with all the mineral therein
contained, for an area along its GO urse equiv
alens 10 600 feet square. or 400 feet square
for each of the undersigned. the claim will
be xnown ~ the Bonanza, and the public may
~ well take note here that whosoever at
tempts to jump ii will be shot on the spot,
and denied the rites Of Christian burial. We
mean business.
NJ FRETT. A. W. PIPER.
c. TRUE. D. yERMILLYEA.
Til, notice bears the mark OF gen.
uineness, and is signed by the min
ing recorder Of this district. As soon
as the reporter read it be was made
aware Of the designs Of the landlord.
1t was apparent that he had given
the matter of drainage considerable
thought, and arrived at the present
plan. He has at times lately been
confined to his room, and it was
when thus in the quiet OF his cham
Der, no doubt, that the plan was
matured. The brain, it is we'll
known, is more powerful when the
body is in u horizontal position than
when it is erect, and Tristram Shandy
pardon US for quoting 50 loose-ton-
gued an suthor) has shown, with
great logic and circumlocution, that
pleasure is heightened and pain les
sonel when one is lying. A certain
poetess (Mrs. Browning, we believe)
whose health, like Mr.. Frett's, was
none the best. used to have a black
board and chalk in her room, and
when on the verge of sleep touching
couplet would come to her mind she
would rise and go to the board with
her eyes shut and put it down. If
she even stopped to light the candle
il was gone, never, perhaps, to be re-
called. 1t made no difference how
many chairs she stumbled over in
getting TO the blackboard, so long as
she kept her eyes shut she held the
couplet. The reader will here
! naturally thiuk of her paor husband
Nhea the Muse taus tore his wife
iroia his arms, tn bear her on pin
ions of poetic thought to the black
BOARD. The Muse, it is important to
say (,ad n, doabt the husband
f,uad con, llti,n in the facO, i,
usually regarded as OF the femiaine
gan,,er. Poetry. however. and the
haoi,s Of poets (taes are a singular
psopie) is qaite foreign tn the mat
ter Ia maui. Tnis slight excursion
among then vas unavoidable. Tnere
Is one more point about the acton
Of the mind When lying that should
be noted before We again seaeh Nr.
Frett and his tunnel. 1t is not put
down, 80 far as our memory serves
US, in Burton's ANATOMY of Melan-
choly. the most complete work ON
psychology up to the date OF its pub