Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-08-31

wife be not informed OF what be bad
done until she had arrived at her home
in Michigan, and requesting that be be
buried with as little expense as possible.
The Fresno (Cal.) ETpositor says:
The Excitement regarding the new mines
does not seem to be very great, though
number OF persons continue to visit
the new placeTs. The reports from
the mines are conflicting. A few
assert that the mines are rich and
will pay handsomely when opened. The
majority Of those, however, who have
visited the mines say that while gold
exists ii is not plentiful enough to pay
for working, the bed of the creek being
full Of heavy boulders, and the water
being too scarce to permit the use ofany-
| thing but the old-fashioned rocker.
Tho immense number OF grain sacks
received at Winnemuccs station gives an
observer some idea of the tremendous
quantity OF grain raised in that appar-
emily sagebrush desert. Last week
Reinhardt a. Co. received fifty thousand.
and on Monday Frank Naramore re-
ceived for Davis & Pierce, Of Paradise
Valley, l5i bales. each containing 500
sacks. John Guthrie on Monday took
| five or six bales, capable OF holding
about 300, 600 pounds of wheat and bar
ley.
The Santa Rosa Democrat says:
Harrison & Carey have discovered that
the water flowing from their copper
mine, known az the Harrison mine" "
contains in solution large quantities of
sulphate Of copper, more commonly
known as bluestone, or blue vitriol. The
percentage has not yet been accurately
ascertained, but the fact has been demon
Btrated that the water can be readily con-
verted into blue vtriol. We have been
shown sample and it appears to be
very strong. These gentlemen also
claim that this water readily converts old
iron into copper by dispacenent-by
decomposing it and leaving copper in its
place.
J. D. Wright, formerly engineer at the
Justice NINE hos invented very useful
appliance for cages in mining shafts,
by which II will be impossible for the
cage to run up too high on the gallows
frame, in danger Of going over or smash.
ing the shehve-wheel. An engineer may
fail to close the throttle at the exact
moment. or something may happen to
the machinery, and the cage will run
into the sheaye. making an immense
strain on the cable and sometimes stop
ping the machinery. BY means Of Mr.
WriRbt's invention, should anything OF
this kind occur. the cage is detached
from the cable and falls back on chairs,
while the cable continues winding on the
reel. II is said to be perfectly safe and
always effective. Mr.. Wright has ap.
piled for patent.
The Virginia Chronicle says; 1t has
been reported about the city during the
past few days that fifty English miners
had arrived here, to work ON the Com
stock at reduced wages. To-day Chron
icle reporter made inquiries in variou,
quarters where knowledge OF such ,
fact, il it existed, might be looked for
but could find nothing to corroborate tn,
report. 1t seemed to have originated
from the fact that dispatch from New
York, published in most of the coast pa
peIs, stated that gang Of fifty English
miners had arrived and that their desti
nation was Virginia City, The arriva
of English miners in New York is Il com
mon and almost every day occurrence
and from that point they are sent It
Mexico, South America and the Yves
Indies, 1t is the general opinion tina
no company on the Comstock would i'm
port miners, when SO many experienced
manipulators Of the pick and drill ar
out of employment in Virginia.