Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-02-29
NEVADA NEWS.


The total yield Of the mines OF White
Pine county for the year 1875, as per the
returns OF the County Assessor. was
$3.50. 1896.
The Manhattan Silver Mining Con-
pany Of Austin shipped on the 22d twen-
ty-six bars Of bullion, valued at $685.
1872.
There Is some little excitement in
Austin about Jersey district and quite
number of persons ore talking Of going
there.
Austin rejoices in a new society COM
posed exclusively Of mothers OF babies.
The Reveille says that the first meeting
will be held as soon as the regalia for the
babies arrives from San Francisco. The
regalia is made Of India. rubber cloth,
and consists u piece cut on the square
and folded across the center.
The Virginia City Chinese fighters are
still in the field. They now appear to
be diminishing preliminary to q grand
battle. They now want little skirmish
every evening. The present shooting is
said to be done by Sam Sing men. One
Of the chiefs Of the Hop Sing faction says
that in case one OF their men is killed
they will take bloody revenge.
We find the following toey paragraph
in the Eurek Sentinel Of the Oath: On
Tuesday last County Physician Reece
amputated eleven toes from the feet of
two patients at the County Hospital; six
from the feet OF John Sullivan and the
remainder from those Of the man Sin,p-
son.
The Gold Hill News says: The Black
Hills fever. which has been raging with
greater or less violence for months past
in the eastern part of this State, as we'll
as in the States and Territories toward
and beyond the Missouri river. has at
last reached Gold Hill. Quite number
are afflicted with II in mild type, while
few, probably about score, have been
taken With very alarming symptoms.
Last Saturday two men were taken to
the County Hospital with broken legs.
One Of these was Raphael Lopez, whose
left thigh WAS broken by fall received
somewhere in the northern part of the
city; the other was Charles Webster OF
Six-mile Canyon, who had his left leg
broken by fall received while attempt
ing TO cross a small patch OF ice,
The Virginia Chronicle says the cavipg
ground at the corner Of A and Sacra-
mento streets sank about three inches
depper last night. No other ground has
as yet been involved in the cave, which
seems to confine itself within the limits
of the original oval crack. The Chief OF
Police has ordered IL to be fenced in.
and cautioned all the hill side toward B
street to brace their houses and be on
the lookout for accidents.
Yesterday says the Eureka Sentinel of
the oath, Joseph Sullivan died at the
County Hospital Of q congestive chill.
II will be remembered that deceased, in
company with man named Simpson,
some time since, started afoot for Typo,
and losing their way in snow storm,
had their feet badly frozen, and were
picked mp by the driver Of the Tybo stage,
brought to town and conveyed to the
hospital. Since that time both men
have been comfortably cared for. but
Sullivan, in consequence of the effects of
exposure. gradually grew worse until
death came to his relief.
All Is grist that reaches the Chinaman's
mill as will be exempted by the follow.
ing extract from the Gold Hill News
A Chinaman. was caught in the act OF
carrying away pinion weighing about
100 pounds from the Consolidated Vir-
ginia hosting works. The thief instead
Of being allowed to take his way down
the hill to his quarters in Chinatown,
was compelled to carry the casting to the
City Jail, at which place it remained this
morning. 1t seems that the Chinese
have reduced pilfering old iron and cast
ings from the various hosting works
near their quarters to . system, as
scarcely a night passes without some
being taken.
The Eureka Sentinel thus mourneth
over the plethora of trade dollars in the
base range: The trade dollars have be-
come SO plentiful Of late as to be nui-
sance. They have already gained the
appellation OF "stove-lid currency" and
by the time a man has carried few of
them in his pocket for time he wishes
that some one would hint the Govern
ment intended them for foreign countries
and. not to glut the inland towns. A day
or 30 since one mining company received
5000 Of them, for use on the next pay
day. and at least 10, 900 more are in cir
culation. Collectors will have to hire q
boy to follow them with o gunny sack If
the market becomes much further
glutted.
The rebuilding OF the International
Hotel at Virginia will be commenced next
month. The hotel will be Eve stories
high, 65 feet front and lOs feet deep. 1t
will be complete in every respect. and
modelled after tha latest styles of hotel
building. The dining-room will be As
feet square. and the kitchen 25x40 feet.
Twenty bathrooms will be connected
with the hotel. There will be separate
ladies' 'parlor and glsntlemen's parlor.
with reading room attached. The hotel
will be heated by hot air furnaces In the
cellar OF the building. and fire alarm
electric Thermometers in each room, CON-
nected with the clerks office, will pre-
cluds oil possibility Of fire.
The Virginia Enterprise OF the 23d
says; The Consolidated Virginia Com
pany took possession Of their new assay
Office, on the site Of their former Office at
the mine. last Sunday. II is said by
those who know whereof they speak
that the assay ONCE is superior to any in
the United States. not even excepting
those Of the several mints. There is a
hall ten feet in width running through
the melting-room and the rooms in which
the bullion assays are made, and in this
hall there were on Monday piled up silver