Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-03-09
NEVADA NEWS.

At Eureka the Richmond Company on
the fourth drafted forty men from their
working force at the mine.
The Eureka Sentinel of the 4th says:
Joe Wilson, an old-time Austirite and
White Piner, arrived on Fridays stage
from Phoebe. He will remain few days
in the Base Range.
The Eureka Sentinel Of the 4th states:
We hear OF another rich strike at Secret
Canyon. The last development was
made in the mine owned by Pope & Go.
They claim to have struck q four-foot
ledge, assaying five hundred dollars per
ton.
The Austin Reveille of the 4th re-
marks: The most startling occurrence
that has transpired during the day was
the passing Of load Of wood up Main
street. The wind has ragged 30 violently
that the street has been all but aban-
doned.
At Eureka one hundred dollars side
has been deposited with Hank Knight by
Brennan and Farnsworth, the contestants
in the Roman wrestling match, which
comes of next Saturday night. One
hundred and fifty dollars more will be
deposited by each party by Thursday
night. which will complete the stakes.
The mines Of Austin are looking well,
the Reveille OF the "a remarks: In the
mines of the Manhattan Company two
rich and extensive chimneys have re.
Gently been opened up, but owing to
their locality they cannot be conven-
iently worked at present. The sinking
Of the Frost shaft is being pushed night
| and day to make a connection with these
bodies, and when it ia made and they
commence hosting ore from the new bo-
nanzas. q very largely increased produce
ton of bullion may be looked for.
The find of two lucky prospeciors is
thus described by the Austin Reveille Of
the I'd: A report has been for some time
current in this city that Joe Mayes and
Joe Kennedy, two old Austin miners.
had struck rich mine in the vicinity of
Belleville, for which they had refused an
offer of thirty thousand dollars. Mr..
Remington who has just returned from
that section informs US that the mine is
spoken of down there as being very
good one.
An old timer has made q strike; the
Austin Reveile of the I'd says: We are
pleased to learn that Ben Troxel, ex.City
Clerk, has made strike of rich chloride
ore on Lander Hill. Ben has been peg
cling away at granite for a long while, and
this is about the first streak OF luck he
has had. The extent Of the ore body is
not yet known, as only short distance
has been stripped; but so far as exposed
the ore is uniformly Of high grade.
Among the transfers fled in the County
Recorders Office of Eureka county was
the Richmond mine on Ruby Hill, which
was conveyed by the Richmond Mining
Company OF Nevada to the Richmond
Consolidated Mining Company OF Lon
| don. The title had to be perfected in the
name Of the former, which is local in
corporation, the stock OF which, how
ever, Is held by the latter company, and
the transfer above mentioned was merely
o matter OF form, to vest the title OF the
property in the real owners.
The Austin Reveille OF the I'd states
that from private letter it extracts the
following items in relation to Jersey
District: have just returned from the
new district, Jersey. It is about forty
three miles from here. Quite lively
town has sprung up there in two months.
Some fifty new buildings are now under
construction. The Jersey Mining and
Smelling Company have a fine vein Of
eighteen feet Of good smelling ore. They
have about 1900 tons now at the furnace
and about 1900 tons more on the dumps,
which they propose running through
their smelter. without asserting, to the
average of $50 silver and forty per cent.
lead per ton Of 1900 pounds OF ore.
The furnace is already to run, but is
being delayed on account of charcoal.
1t will commence running out bullion
on the 81 of March. expecting to make
about ten tons of bullion per day.