Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-09-24
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

U. s. Grant, Jr.. is in Virginia City.
II you were in Virginia City you could
get six pounds of grapes for twenty-five
cents.
The Belmont Mining Company has
levied an assessment Of City cents per
share. delinquent October "a
The hosting works Of the Golden
Chariot mine at Silver City, Idaho,
started up last week, and the pumps are
now running steadily draining the mine.
Peter SAKE, brother of John G. SAKE,
the poet, is in Virginia. He is an im-
porter of blooded cattle. and has large
herds in California and Eastern Nevada.
According to the veracious Virginia
Chronicle, when General Sherman on
the occasion of his recent visit to Nir
giuia City. was shown through the Calf
fornia, and told that there are $500, OOO,-
600 in the two mines, be murmured
Poor Belsnap! he ought to have been a
miner.
The American Mining Board. Of New
| York, has leased Duncan & Sherman
magn, tioent banking house, 40 by 100
feet, opposite the United States Treasury
| building. 1t is fIe-proof, has extensive
| vaults. and is one OF the most ,lGl crate
| pieces OF architt cture in the city
Last Saturday night, says the Salt
Lake Tribune of the Goth. while two
men, named Rufus Rend and Geo. Nc
Donald, were crossing over the wagon
bridge at West Jordan, the latter fell
through an opening into the river below.
The water being deep and Mcdonald IN.
able to swim, Immediately drowned.
About two months since orders were
received by the United States Surveyor
General of the State of Nevada to survey
and fix the boundary lines of the Sutro
, Tunnel. Su,ro's franchise gives bin
Q 600 feet on each side of the line Of the
tunnel, or 1904 feet from the center
line, the tunnel being eight feet in width.
The work was commenced last Wednes-
DAY.
. Now that our sneezipg and weeping
3 have sufficiently abated to enable US to
talk, remarks the San Francisco Stock
Exchange, we hereby demand an apology
from the Nevada editor for bis unac
couptable deviltry in sprinkl'nR red pep
per all over his last exchange that cam,
10 hand. That gentleman needn't hav,
taken such singing way TO show III
that his paper ia red hot. We know j
!, now. II was unkipd. to say the least.
. A correspondent OF the Virginia Eu
, terprise, writing FROM Paisade, says
The creduity OF western bound emf
grants has passed into proverb. and
when business was dnlI. q hnndre'
. prsnks were perpelrated at their expens
, and for their especial ben. At. For ex
4 ample, q halt-a-dozen Piutes. for
reasonable compensation, would submi
TO icing bound hand and foot and lai
!, on the platform during the stay of tb
- train, and around their PROSTATE bodie
T guard of citizens. armed with ,mmens
q yolyers, long fles and boodthirsty
. looking bowie kniv.s. would march wit
martial nein, mtanwhile eutertainip
the gaping, open-mouthed sreenhorn
, with blood curdling tales Of border wal
taTe Win tue DuOlt tCu tuhu tilht WOuI
e. shame the author Of dime novel.
8, the absence of the necessary Piute, sho
guns and revolvers were loaded wit
powder-bali omltted-and. as soon n
N the platform was tilltd with emigrau,
- seeking exercise and information. d..
80 perste repcontre, provoke by sou
g. drunken ruffian. would commence, an
in q moment the mir would reek wit
powder.smoke and profanity, and BLOOD
g pr-viously procured FROM the slaughte
ks house, be-prinkled the platform as p'et
ufnlly "a water. As the firearms we,
u exhausted. sympathetic friends carrie
of the dead and wounded to some Mig
o. boring saloon, there to recuperate fro
w the exertions of the affray. while q
nj frightened and bewildered immigran
OO crawled from under seats and b. hi
cars, their blapched faces and trembli'
limbs attestiug their belief in the gen
OF ineuess o! the fight.