Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-02-15
NEVADA NEWS.

NEVADA NEWS.
Last Monday night heavy snow storm
occurred at Virginia City.
The Virginia papers say that the ir-
Cinnamon OF that city medi-
tate another war.
The Elko Independent Of the 9th says:
The westward bound train yesterday had
four cars OF soldiers. The troops are q
detachment OF the 4th United States in
fantry, in command of Lieutenant J. Fl.
Spencer. and are on their way to Arizona
via San Francisco.
The saw-boues Of Virginia City have
organized . medical society-the objects
OF which being self protection and mutual
improvements. Az the dead tell no tales
the question becomes pertinent a. the
parties against whom the members OF
the society seek protection.
Austin 10 blessed with ore. The Rev.
ellie OF the 9th states that the following
10 the result OF lot OF ore taken by les.
secs from the Blind Ledge In the Oregon
mine, and worked ct the Manhattan mill
yesterday: First.class, %. 4l2 SO; second
class. 1878 IS; third.class, $373.86.
Speaking Of Jersey District, the Silver
State OF the 9th says, miners, wood
choppers and coal.burners are focking
there from every direction. Lots are
selling as high as $500 each. Two hotels
and two whisky mills are In full blast.
To-day the furnace starts up. and II 1t
proves a. successful as anticipated, an
other Eureka will spring up in Southern
Humboldt.
We see by the following extract from
the Elko Independent OF the 9th that an
old Austinite has again come to the sur
face: VIM. Mpncey, who came down
from Tuscarors q few days ago, showed
US yesterday . sample OF the sulphuret
ore from the Grand Deposit mine. which
shows antimonial and ruby silver in
abundance. Ia fact the ore will assay
from $500 to 500 per ton. At depth
OF forty-three feet the lead is thirty inches
In thickness, OF which the ore described
Is an average.
The marked sympathy always evinced
by the miners for their afflicted is shown
by the following from the Virginia En-
tsrprise Of the 9Th: About two weeks
ago Michael Kennedy, o miner working
In the Imperial-Empire mine, had the
misfortune to break his leg. On the 80
instant. when the company paid of the
employees. one hundred OF the men do
mated the snug sum OF $40 for the as
sistance OF their disabled fellow-w work man.
Among NO class OF workmen in the world
do We find more universal, active and
practical charity than among our silver
miners.
Mark Twain wants pine nuts. He
thus addresses Dan De Quile. "For
the love OF Heaven get me apeck Of pine.
nuts at Your earliest convenience and
send them on here BY express! 1 banker
after them as Of old the Israeltes longed
for the fesh-pots Of Egypt" Where.
upon kindly dear old Dan thus replies
A man can stand it down east for time
on the the kind OF grub they have there
may linger along for years-but ultimate
ly his stomach revolts and his soul cries
out for that sound and satisfying fare on
which he fed when he stalksd the noun
taius prince of nature and q man able
to outstare the sun. He shall have the
pine-nuts.
The Virginia Enterprise very csndidly
and truly remarks: Persons who left
here after the big ERE and who are now
returning to the town are greatly aston.
ished to see what has been accom- plishsd
in the way Of rebuilding within tho brief
space of one hundred days. They say
that no other people on tho Pacific
Coast could have performed such wonders
aud are prouder then ever OF Virginia and
Virgnians. But for the fact that we
had here down in the bowels OF tho earth
that which was thing too good to leave
the chances are that we should hot have
done the wonders that cause all this as
constituent. The Comstock lode con-
taius the crude material for q vast amount
Of back. bons-miles OF il.
Concerning the Black Hills the vir.
ginia Enterprise OF the 9th says: A gen.
tleman OF this city yesterday received a
letter from his son. who recently left
here for the Black Hills gold fields.
The young man arrived at Custer in
eighteen days after leaving Cheyenne.
going through with pack animal. He
says no mining can be done where he is.
as everything is frozen up. He writes
that his pony Is doing well in the hills /;
therefore there can't be much snow
where be is stopping. At Custer there
Is gold, but no water. He thinks grub
can be sold at Custer about % cheap Is
at Cheyenne. He wants some money
sent him. when he will go to a place be
has heard OF called Spring Greek. This
seems to be about ali he knows about
GOLD. mi nj no in tia RiacH ptlis