Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-08-30

present time, with the prospect that II
will be more so when other business
houses, now in course OF erection, shall
have been completed. and the occupants
engage in their different svocations.
There are already many here who are
broke, out Of employment and unable 10
get any, and the list is increasing da'Iy,
owing, perhaps. 10 the exaggerated &C.
counts Of exctable correspondents.
Indian Agents are getting to be OF
discoun. on the Missouri river. The
new manager at Peck, Montana. won't
allow any communication with the
people of Montana. He does all bis
business in the East, and Is determined
to guard against any possible unpieasah'
revelations.
A drunken painter and baker at Pueblo.
Colorado, recentently constructed ra''
aud embarked on the Arkansas river Tor
Wichita, Kansas. After travelling short
distance the raft overturned. and both
parties narrowly escaped drowning. The
men, and the liquor they had swallowed.
were more cargo than the raft could
carry.
At the Imperial Consolidated hosting
works they have the largest steel'wire
cable in the world. Its length is 5000 |
feet. its weight "a. 22S pounds. and its
cost $500. The freight from San
Francisco amounted 10 $3.50 SO. The
cable was manufactured IN San Fran
cisco, and is the first one Of the kind
ever made on the coast. and perhaps the
| first in the Unite States.
An unusually wonderful feat was per-
formed at the Blakely mill. Olympia.
last week. Four sticks Of timber, 20 by
"a inches and 1874 feet long, were sawed
| into lumber. One Of the sticks scaled
over 1000 feet. The four logs, "a they
came from the woods, scaled &c, 900 feet
1t is estimated that they would weigh
between seventy and eighty tons. They
were cnt at Varney's camp. near Olym.
pia. 1t is presumed that the 9,000-foot
stick, which weighed about 10000
pounds. was the largest stick ever moved
on the ground by brute force.
A skeleton was recently found few
miles north Of Virginia City, was picked
up and brought to the city, and handed
to Tinker & Shepherd. to be presented
to the Pacific Coast Pioneers at their
next meeting. The skeleton had evil
IDENTITY lain there for years, as the bones
are bleached white as snow. The person
to whom il belonged died young, as is
evidenced by the teeth, all of which were
in place and perfect when the skull was
picked mp. The form OF the Uranium ID
such as to leave some doubt as to the
nationality Of the man. but II he was an
Indian, as the perfect teeth would in
dictate, he was no ordiaury one, for the
brain cell is large and well developed.
Elko and vicinity are just now being
excited over new strike west Of Tusca
, rora, and already several parties hav'
; been started out to examine the locality
The lead recently located is situated
about IL miles northwest OF Russell
} Bradl-y's cattle camp on Willow Creek
{ and fourteen miles west Of Tuscarora
Some of the ore, which was taken from
the surface and brought to this place
r was assayed. and gave the most flatterinI
= returns. Another piece, which wa
burned in forge at Phillips shol
!. showed silver in large quantities. th
precious metal standing all over it il
y small globules. The ledge is trsceabl,
u Tor about the distance of mile and
half, and is said to be very regular an
contains large amounts of mineral.
A Santa Rosa correspondent OF tn
Louisville Courier Journal has seen tn
Easiest stage driver in California,
l. This is the story: 1.-THE tallest time
II ever made was when o wager Of $40, 90
was pending between the old Calforni
Stage Company and the Pioneer Stag
= Company. drove for the California
y The track was from Virginia City to Sa
Francisco. Old Lent telegraphed me I
drive him 55 miles on the way. l stral
~ ped myself on the box and Lent and tw
n other fellows jumped into the stage, al
0. | laid my whip on. There were 81
horses as fine flesh as You ever seel
a | never took the whip off during Il
whole SO miles. We were going dow
grade, down the Sierras. The road WI
ia pretty rocky. and sometimes l didn
miss the cbasms, q thousand feet dee
by more than two inches. 1t makes II
flesh crawl to think of 1t, but then WI
Just nerved up to do anything, and v
come down that grade a.huking. Tayl
AZ was to drive the next so miles, and
starts down the road and me after hin
and we run each other five miles befo
p We could check up and change passe,
IS. gers. was black and blue all over, b
ga | made 80 miles in four hours. III
times Oh record or | wouldn't tell
The California beat by one hour al
st twenty minutes the whole distance"
al A correspondent in the Sioux count
writes: This system of Indian rune
To- seems to be little understood. II il
w portant news is to be carried. an Indit
gorges himself with meat, takes she
* nap, mounts one OF the fleetest OF the
a, ponies, and rushes along like the vii
until his horse requires feed, when
mods few tines while his horse satisfi
on its hunger from the luxurious meadow
he when the ride is renewed. The rum
on needs nothing for his pony, and tax
nothing for himself bat his arrows a
blankets, aud will, in the manner i
hu dictated, ride two or three days a
'ro nights, passing over from sixty to o
re. hundred miles in each twen,y-four houl
In. The speed with which the news trave
depends upon its Importance, but in Il
way the Indians often beat the teleera
Nv and their first reports. II they col
'ill direct, are usually to be relied upc
to The runner who brings great news
I'd. feasted from one tepec to another, and
he is not until the story begins to grow @
that he let's loose his Imagination al
adds to the original in order to keep ,
OF the interest in him as the bearer of gre
p. news. There are always volunteers, al
he frequently two or three will start for Il
* same points, but the one that gets in la
nv is bound to tell the biggest story, if
has to deny the statements Of his riva
or cut his story out of whole cloth
IL ! ~ I, 81 Hanoa ha onp oti In