The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1876-01-01
WEEKLY ELXe INDEPENDENT.
SATURDAY. JANUARY !, 1870.

Atlantic. Why not around the Horn,
and II New York can fndI market for
fresh meats in the various cities Of En-
gland, why caRRot California, Nevada
mud Oregon We are emphatically u
stock growing country, mud con pro-
ducc more mutton and beef ON this
coast than any other equal section on
the earth. Let MS have England for a
market, snd we can make none in
supplying that market. We now raise
and export wheat, but there would be
much more money in raising and cx-
porting beef and mutton. Wheat cx-
hausts and inproverishes the land,
while beef and mutton enrichcs zlA ra-
pieniShes il. Wheat and meat can be
rniSed together with advantage to both
and to the land, and when we can send
both to the SAME market, and that so
extensive a ore as England will furnish,
VIC will certainly have n good agricul-
tural prospect ahead from State and
coast.-Rec0rG- Union.
IT appears that members Of the royal
family nre more completely the sub
jects Of Queen Victoria thar any other
person in the United Kingdom. The
Sunday TTme', a we'll known London
journal, contains this paragraph in its
Cont news: eve understand that her
Majesty has been graciousIy pleased to
consent TO the Princess Of Wales and
the royal children passing their Christ
mas n New Year ut Copenhagen. The
absence Of her Royal IIighness will not,
however, exceed five, or at the most,
Six weeks" Any other wife and
mother, whose husband is absent Oh
foreign travels, muy quit the country
unchnHangedr TO pass the Christmas
holidays with her children in her par
enIs' house c.! Of England, bat the
Princess oil Wales is compelled to ask
ana obtain the consent of the Queen,
her Inother-in-law, TO visit her parents
at Observation-Disclosures Press.
J. n. HILL, Wells, Fargo & Cos
agent of Palisade, informs the Winnie
muccn !Slrer STATE that there has been
shipped from that stntion during the
present year %, 42i, lag pounds of crude
bullion. This immense quantity OF
Dulllon, with the exception of some
small lots from Typo, was produced
from the Eureka mines. principally
the Eureko Consolidated, the Rich
mond, the K. X. Consolidated and the
Pleindes. Nearly 5000, 900 pounds
were shipped in the month Of July
last. During the present month, up
to h 18th, the shipment amounted to
l. Oo1,SIG pounds, which is considered
Ill excess of shipments for the same
number Of dnys at any prior period.
THE SRrer State Of December goth
says: Two bnrs OF bullion valued at
S3,73i were shipped from Wenban's
mill eight mills south Of Beowawe yes
tcrday. This mine ia located in Cor
tee Mining District, the oldest in East
ern Nevada. The mill now running
wns built i'll 1865, Icing before the IRON
horse coursed through the Humboldt
Valley, when White Pine was unLcard
OF, !ko had no place on the map, Eu-
reka had not been found, and Lander
the mother Of countics-cxtended from
the Humboldt to the Utah line.
RUSSIAN railway managers nre ex-
perimenting with the electric light as
headlights for locomotives. Successful
results were obtained on the line from
Moscow to Krusk. The apparatus CON
sists of battery connecting with the
front axle, the revolution Of which set
1t in operation, and the track was illu-
minated n distance Of 1900 feet.
a GENTLEMAN III New York has en-
larged on the first edition of Dickens
works to siIty-three volumes, by adding
to it all books in which extended ref
ference is mado to Dickens, and by in
t~crleaying it with tho rare cnprnyiups.
portraits and photographs relating to
tho text. Tho complete set is said to
be worth 5000.
a Highlander examining u picture
by n OF tho old masters, in which
angels were represented blowing trump
cts remarked; "Hcech, sirs, but they
maun be easy, ploasaI wi music! !
wonder they dinna borrow n pair Of
baG-pipes."
Tue BtRedm having entered upon its
twenty'frst year, took appropriate
notice OF this event by appearing OH
Monday in n new dress of c0pper-fnccd
type, md enlarged 10 the extent of n
column oh each page.
PHILOSOPHER PICKETT has sued the
Justices OF the Supreme Court To re-
cover $50, 600 damages for false i'm
p~riSonment for contempt OF Court in
his endenvor 10 Dust Justice Crockett
from his seat.
The hondsmcn Of William Hill, tho
%dofHulting Treasurer Of Fresno county.
have hecn judgncntcd for $3i.3I3.
ana interest at ten per rent. per annum
until paid from day Of Judgment.
THERE aro now seven colorcd men in
Congress, Three OF them could not
road I'll thc war elnancipatcd them.
Ono, Robert Small, served in the arms
nnd navy OH both sides.
THE San Francisco Ministerial Union
hns rnted TO invite Moody and Sankey
70 visit this conJt ut their earliest con.
yHnienco.
The eileen farm in Colusa county
contains ~, 0Dn ucrrg. IN whicj, z nm