Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-03-31
NEVADA NEWS.

The tenants of the Elko County Jail.
are being made to earn their grub by
digging a draining ditch.
At o mass meeting Of the people Of
Carlin, resolutions were passed inviting
all the citizens Of Elko county TO csle-
brate the Centennial on 4th OF July at
Elko.
Booms are being strung all along the
Carson river for the big drive from
Genoa, amounting to thirty thousand
cords, which will be turned loose in q
few days.
One G. A. Kemptoh. styling himself
the Centennial Pedestrian" passed
through Reno on the 23d inst. on his
journey from San Francisco to Philadel-
phia. He is q pretty good walker. and
calculates to reach his destination in $50
days.
Common lumber is retailed in Gold
Hill and Virginia at the rate Of $3.50
per thousand at present; sugar-pine NO.
| II sells for $65 per thousand; redwood,
$40; clear dressed yellow pine flooring
and ceiling. $65; pine shingles. IS, and
redwood shingles, IS.
News has been received that ore has
been struck in the lower working Of tho
Leopard mine at Cornucopia. The
miners came upon o deposit of good
looking ore in the 300.foot drift east.
| Samples were taken to the surface. and
assayed, yielding variously from 500 to
$500 per ton.
The Gold Hill News Of the Oath says:
Last evening Edward Bigelow, while on
his way to his lodging-house, was over
taken in front OF McGurn's store, on
Main street, in this town, by two burly
Dutchm en-Mat Bay and brother-wbo
struck him over the head and left temple
with bar of iron. During the night
Bigelow became delirious from the ef-
fects OF the injuries received at the hands
of the Bay brothers, and is at present in
critical condition.
A letter published in the Rochester
Democrat OF the 30th, has the following
1.-THE Virginia and Truckee Railroad is
the crookedest and best paying railroad
in the United States-a railroad so
crooked that with long train of cars a
passenger standing on the platform Of
the rear car can shake hands with the
engineer in bis cab. The male popula.
ton Of Storey county is. in proportion ia
the female, In the ratio of five to one,
and il you will send along q cargo oil
good manageable young women, our
miners will 60 after them as eagerly as
the Romans went after the Sabine women
OF old, or turkey after grasshopper.
We take the following items from thu
Eureka Sentinel Of the 25th: For TIL
last week or so only two men have beer
engaged at the Eureka CONSOLIDATED
mine. They were running the engin,
for the purpose OF hosting the water on
OF the works; but yesterday even tina
work was abandoned. Something about
the engine gave way,and we are informed
that nothing more will Re done until tn,
new machinery is put up. There are, VI
believe, two men at work at the Rich
mond mine hosting water; and since th,
closing down of the X X last night. the,
comprise the entire working force at tn,
Ruby Hill mines. The X X mine q
Ruby Hill was closed down last nigh
and all the hands discharged. We die
not learn the cause OF the suspension o.
operations. but was informed by the Act
ing Superintendent that work will no
probably be resumed until the arrival o
pumping machinery from San Francisco