Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-09-07
SPIRIT OF the PRESS


pow-wow and war-dance tomorrow
night.
The next Legislative Assembly Of
Montana couvents the Cd Monday in
January.
The Humboldt River is full OF ducks |
and hunters are having q rare time, bag. |
ging the same.
The production Of the mines Of the
Comstock lode for August aggregated
over So, SOC, 600 in bullion.
The initiation fee OF the American
Mining Board If New York will proba-
bly, be raised from 500. the present fee.
to $3.50 within the next month.
The placer mines around Virginia
City, Montana. are paying well and
large amounts Of dust are received at the
banks.
The Salt Lake Tribune understands
that they have taken slSO,OOO in gold out
OF the Crsmon mine. since the new
strike.
According to tho Cheyenne Leader, a
lately with about 430 pounds Of gold in q
| carpet satchel.
An Oregon paper says that the Idaho
Avalanche is published nearer heaven
than any other paper on the Pacific
Slope. That accounts for its religious
proclivisies.
| The Reno Gazette says: The work
men In the Sierra Nevada coal mine, near
Verdi, came in yesterday and reported
that water had been encountered in the
shaft at depth OF forty-eIght feet. The
water is clear and cold, running like an
underground spring.
The San Bernardino Guardian says. A
wonderfully rich silver ledge has just
been discovered in Ivanpab, which. from
the specimens asssyed. Is very rich In
deed. The specimens assayed show
1921 900 to the ton.
A new and quite exciting discovery
has been made south of Beaver City
about forty.fve miles. 1t is gold. and
good assays have been obtained from ore
brought from there. John Early, o.
Minersville, and two OF three others are
the lucky discoverers.
Says the Elko Independent: Ever.
few days there are shipments of silve
on tho west bound train. Yesterday
there we're seven barrels of half dollars
each containing $1,000. making tota
OF $3o 900. This is occasioned by silver
being higher in San Francisco than il
New York.
The Silver State has this to say OIL
Jersey District: The Jersey mine. re
Gently leased by Salt Lake company
: continues TO improve as depth is at
e tanned. Some thirty men are now Ell
pioyed In extracting and asserting tn
ore. The first-class ore is being shippe
). to Salt Lake at the rate of fifteen tons
week, and the inferior ore Ia piled o
'. the dump to be reduced by smelling {
. concentrating.
The Gold Hill News is Of the opinio
; that the poetical person, who said tn
: the reason all men gaze with thrill
ecstacy upon woman's bosom was tina
y all had fed at that holy fount. Won
i have been in heaven had he flourish,
Or on the Comstock. The perfect coolne
ar aud Innocence with which the Piu
> squaws feed their young in public
shocking, or charming, according to
~ narsnp'a i'm m pAaaty pr mDlaaty
Says the Laramie Sentinel triumphal
ly: For some years past We have be-
th telling the world that the fifty miles
ct mountains opposite this city, lying
ia northern Colorado and southern Wyo
:, ing, and between the Laramie valley q
North Park, was the richest mini
eu country on the continent or in the wor
Ms Discoveries and Developments which
re now taking place there every day {
=. demonstrating the correctness of 4
~ theory.
nd Tbs Borax Miner says that lately at
p. Hale's ranch in Fish Lake Valley,
young Plute, called Owens River j
y" killed an old Indian known as Mob
TAT mack's Sam. The killing was done
oyn about half.past 8 O'Clock in the evenil
the weapon used being pistol.
all about daylight next morning. the sa
-" Joe killed another Piute called Jim Va
Oh at Harrell's ranch. II thess killings
las been done by whites. they would
an. called murder, but the Piutes seem
have a sort of vendetta system in ii
y" tribal code which admits of vengea
no. years after the injury. We are told I
some two years ago Piute died in
Lake Valley. and in pursuance of a tn
va honored custom among them. the dot
ia was killed because his patient died. I
Indiana whom Owens River Joe shot
brothers. and they too, with anot
AS brother called Big Mouth jim, part
me pated in the killing of the doctor. 10
md said to be nephew of the sagebr
Esculapeus whom the brothers sent
sn the happy hunting grounds, and this
~ his method of balancing justice ate
VI. lapse of years. Big Mouth jim feeli
heir may be said to border ON the nervous
.os The Stevens Silver Mine in c
Greek County. Colorado. is situs
IL. 500 feet above the level OF the sea
McClennan Mountain. A very curl
! a fact has been discovered during
re. operations in this mine. After de
like or distance of ninety feet from the &
ork face, the creviss matter in which
silver is found, is frozen solid. Suml
and Winter have no visible effect
at change its temperature, nor is there e
Two any perceptible thaw. Pick and
-, fail to work the frozen mass, and
~ only way the workmen proceed is
ma kind large fire at night against
matter, aud in the morning to pick
the disintegrated ore. After this curit
na fashion the mine has been protita
no conducted for two years. From min
tia feet, whore the cold was struck,