Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-03-10
NEVADA NEWS.

Jonas Seely, of Virginia City. who is
in San Francisco, here he has been dan.
gerously i'll. is now fast recovering his
health.
When an application for work now ap-
proaohes one of the Virginia mining
bosses for job the reply invariably is:
"Oh, go to-the Black Hills |"
During the month of February at the
Carson Mint the coinage was as follows:
Eagles, $25, 800 Trade dollars. $50. 900.
Quarters, $4,000. Dimes, SITS, 900.
Sixty-seven bars of fine silver were
made. aggregating in value. $137, 765 II.
Total coin and bars, $454, 565 II.
The Reno Journal Of the 4th remarks
Night before last an old-fashioned storm
sprang up, and continued without inter
mission throughout the entire night.
No wires were up yesterday. But the
latest news was that freight train was
ditched between the Summit and Cisco.
the engine and seven cars off the track.
Next land slide occurred between the
same points and the Summit
taking away some of the snow sheds,
and making matters q great deal worse.
Scarcely q day passes, says the Reno
Journal, that there is not some new and
favorable development in the Paymastei
mine at Peavine. In the last two days
the ore that has been discovered and
brought to the surface surpasses any
thing in richness heretofore found in
the mine. The recent strikes have beer
so favorable that the owners have great
ly increased confidence in the more than
usual wealth Of the mine. On the 100.
foot level large bodies of black sui
phurets are being daily opened up and
taken out. The slopes show width o.
not less than five feet OF solid ore. In
the center OF this body there ia two feel
Of black sulphuret ore. assaying from
$3.50 to $500 per ton. From seven e
twenty tons Of this ore is being milled
daily.
The Virginia Enterprise remarks: W,
do not hear any further complaint in re
gard to the "shaky sickness" in th,
mills. an account Of which we published
not long since. The proper and thorough
ventilation OF the mills seems to hav,
caused its disappearance. We have re
oeived the following letter in regard e
the IN after from gentleman in Illinois
who encloses our item descriptive of th,
peculiar sickness. The remedy he men
tons may be OF use in case the workmer
in any OF our mines are still Ill from in
haling the vapors from the pans
Princeton, H., February 25.-Edito
Enterprise: From your account OF tn,
illness Of the miners recorded in the in
closed slip, feel satisfied that the cyan
ide OF potash used in amaleamation il
the principal cause. 1t is used by pho
tographers to remove silver stains from
their hands, and I have known palsy
tremblinRs and exceeding annoying itch
ing and burning to proceed from it's use
Its vapor ia poisonous in the extreme
Inhalation OF ammonia is an effectus
remedy"
Dan DeQuile IL at it again. He ha
quit eyeless fab and has taken to am
tated feet-not pigs feet. but the rea
human institution. Here IL Dams las
We learn some curious circumstance
connected with the amputation Of II
leg OF William Scion. 81 account OF th
serious accident to whom, ON the VII
ginia and Truckee Railroad. was pull
lished In the Enterprise few days sino,
Our readers will remember that III