Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-06-20
NEVADA NEWS.

The District Court at Hamilton con-
venes on the goth Of July.
At Hamilton the Panther smelling
furnace will shortly be started up.
Three alarms Of fire in "a hours, the
Eureka Sentinel thinks is sufficient to
put the Base Rangers on their guard.
The Eberhsrdt and Aurora Company
shipped sl09,9ll, being the product Of
the month Of May.
Statutes were fred at Hamilton and
Eureka in honor OF the nomination of
Hayes and Wheeler.
An assessmentof 81 per share is-levied
by tho Crown Point Mining Company,
delinquent on the 18th Of July.
Sheriff Cooke of Lyon county has just
collected 1920 in Dayton to assist the
Miners Union Of Silver City in the cree.
ton Of Their new hall.
The other day $4,000 were received
at the State Treasury from the Virginia
mines. The State Treasury was empty.
1t can no pay all liabilities.
At Winnemucca knob of fashion ap-
peared on the streets, in the form of
young Piute, wearing high-heeled shoes,
pull-back dress and complete set of
furs.
One Fl. L. Babcock, who came to
Reno from Nebraska a short time since,
has vanished like beautiful dream,
leaving bis creditors to mourn his sudden
disappearance,
The Treasurer of Storey county re-
deemed thirty-tive of the Virginia and
Truckee Railroad bonds of the value of
81 600 each. amounting to $4,000, the
bonds being redeemed at par. There
now remains to be redeemed 1884 bonds
Of 81 600 each, or 1924, 900.
David Service. who lives at Quinn
Canyon, in Nye county. and MIR. Smith,
have during the last week had some
twelve tons of ore milled at the Eber-
hardt and Aurora Company's mill, from
Tempiute District. The ore is very
rich, going over $500 to the ton. The
Tempiute District was discovered about
1869 20.
At Virginia City on the 14th inst. Old
Jimmy Ray died very suddenly at the
Black Hills Saloon. He was found lying
at the foot Of a short flight OF stairs, in
the rear Of the saloon. He had been
talking with the proprietor OF the saloon
but about ten minutes before his body
was discovered and was in about his
usual health. 1t does not appear that
he was injured by falling down the stairs,
or that he fell down them at all.
Another cleanup has been made at
Pyramid District. The two.stamp mill
has not been behaving we'll at all, and
the last calculation does not speak we'll
for its work. The ore still holds out
we'll, each succeeding test agreeing SUBJ
stantially with those previously made.
About 1480 pounds OF ore were crushed,
and yielded $40 in bullion. but the tail.
ings went 1910 to the ton, thus show
ing that the mill was wasting bullion.
The bullion produced this time is 972
fine.
At Jersey District the furnace has been
shut down for about thirty days; twenty
men are now working in the mine; there
is about eighty tons OF frst.class now on
the dump ready for shipment, and the
company intends to ship about two hun
dred tons within the next thirty days.
The furnace in the brief period which it
was run, produced about fifty tons of bull
lion, lead and silver, the average value
OF which was about 1850 per ton.
Says the Reno Gazette of the 18th
Yesterday Governor Bradley came into
town. He is looking. finely. and in good
spirits as usual. The paralytic stroke of
few months since is fast becoming
| ON affection Of the past, and although the
Governor is man of seventy one sum-
| mers, he has fine hold on life, and an
iron resolution to live as long as possible.
1t was this tenacity OF life which led him
into the mountains about Elko, where
with an Indian boy, he hunted. camped
out, lived on wild game. rode, walked
and took frequent baths, some simple
medicine andlived on the most wholesome
diet. Such course soon gave him the
use OF his right arm and leg. and now he
walks about almost cured man. He
starts again for Elko, where he intends
to remain for several weeks further re.
cuperating. when he will return to Car.
son for short time and then do the
Centennial.
For many years il has been the custom
to unfurl the Stars and Stripes on the
peak OF Mount Davidson on the morning
of the Fourth Of July. This duty has
year after year been performed by Eagle
Engine Company No. 3, the first flag.
staff (of any size) having been raised on
the summit of the mountain by Tom
Peasly. the foreman OF the engine CON-
pany named. After Toms death HIS
company always attended to the raising
Of the flag on the Fourth, Andre wi easley,
brother OF the deceased foreman, being
particularly active In the business. Now
that Eagle Engine Company has been
disbandsd, Andrew Peasly has deter
mined to 60 it alone, and ia bound to
still continue the custom of decorating
the mountain top. as first commenced BY
his brother. This being the Centennial
Fourth Of July. he does not intend to
stop with the u,ere raising of the flag,
but proposes, provided our citizens will
stand in with him, to make the top
OF the mountain regular volcano. His
plan Is to build bonfire OF three or four
cords of wood. piling the wood on end in
tiers until he has formed tower some
three lengths Of the sticks. or twelve feet
In hight. This tower will be wrapped
with stout wire during the process Of
rearing It, aud when IL is done a guam
tity Of coal tar will be poured into it's
top. After this watch tower has been
fred cans OF cosl-tsr will from time to
time be hoistsd to its top and the flame
kept up. Such bonfire would be Wis
ilbe to q distance of forty or fifty miles in
all directions. Andy" also intends
from time to time to run Bengal lights