Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-07-20
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

been attached LOT ihueu'euhese'
Utah papsrs claim that the Territory
will turn ont mineral products this year
OF the value of S12. 100000.
1t is reported that cattle are dying
rapidly from some unknown cause on
the Big Meadows, Humboldt county.
The Daney mine has suspended oper-
atoms and about sixteen men discharged.
Cause is unknown, bat probably dis
count on silver.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany have contracted for the building oil
the great bridge across the Colorado river
at Yuma.
1t is announced that the Consolidated
Virginia and California mines VIII
| nav out no more trade dollars to Their
| workmen.
H.R. Whisehill, State Mineraloglst,
has returned from the Centennial. de
| will very soon start ont Oh his usual
tour of exploration among the mining
| districts.
The Enterprise says there is no truth
in the rumor, started in San Francisco,
TO the effect that the tailinRs OF the Con-
soldated Virginia and California mines
have been sold for $4,000 900. They
have no tailngs to sell at their mines.
A Chinaman in Santa Cruz, California,
stabbed to death one Of his countrymen
in a quarrel over fifteen cents. The
question arises. what would he have
done if the difference between them had
been quarter of dollarH
Virginia Chronicle: When Kettle
By Brown read in ono of the papers
last week that the whisky manufactured
in Nevada this year would only furnish
two gallons apiece for each inhabItant,
he sat down on a cracker box in Mallon' 8
store and wept like child.
II. II. Vance, one Of the earliest
pioneers OF Ormsby county, and one of
the original owners of the Ormsby
House in Carson, died in New York
City on the 9th instant. Mr.. Vance WAS
the first great photographs artist of San
Francisco, and sold his business TO
Bradley and Rulofson. He was genial
gentleman, as associated with all that
pertains to tho most interest.
The Salt Lake Herald says a report il
said to be in circulation among the
northern Indians that the war chief al
Fort Hall, sent scout ten days ago &c
warn old Washable to keep awsy from
General Crook az An ally during the pres
ent campaign Some persons interpret
this to mean the tomahawk which has Sc
long been uplifted between the Shosh
ones and Sioux il about to be buried IL
view of the probability Of general 10
dian war.
A workman recently fell from thu
scaf1old of building in course Of cree
. ton at Carson, and as is usual, GROVE
, gathered about the injured man. A
! Teuton rushed to the scene of the acct
dent and inquired "vots der muss2'
He was answered, "a man killed.
"Oh. bonner and blitzen," tort 1t vo
a fight" and then he went off on hi
ear; and after he got whipped by tn
injured mans brother. wiped of hi
chin, pulled down his vest and left tina
place u wiser American citizen.
A Los Angeles dispatch says that Col
, Crawford has received dispatches to tn
effect that jay Gould's party are to max
personal survey of the extension of tn
Utah Southern road toward Los Angeles
There is now little doubt here, in wei
informed circles, that the Utah Souther
o Company have agreed to construct 40
=. miles of road to meet the Los Angelo
= and Independence road at Point o
" Rocks. This would leave the latter con
I pany less than $50 miles to build to st
Z cure connection with the Union Pacif
d at Ogden.
8 Reno Journal says: Bishop Whitaker
) whom We are indebted for the EpiscC
: pal Seminary, has been in town a coupl
of days looking out for the interests {
the institution, and is satisfied with til
n progress that is being made in its cor
:, struction. He informs us that ever,
thing will be in readiness to start by th
q LIST OF October There will be for
/. teachers. and they have all been engaged
# Mrs. Stevens, of Washington. d. G
. will be the Matron, and Miss Annie Sill
" a graduate of Vassar, is the Principal.
Il. J. Mack, gentleman living in vi
81 ginia, claims to have discovered som
"a thing new in the motor line. He says
D. will supersede steam, electricity al
I'd every other power. The Kelley motto
4. if oil that is claimed for 1t by its invento
-, would not be sufficient TO serve as
- marker for the new and wonderi
discovery evolved by this genth ma
q. All that ia required is about $4,000
"dt velop" the " scheme" The pla
If from which the "power " is extracted
n common in all parts of the world. and
d will move anything that has wheels a,
is on the land.
The Gold Hill News says the trat
o. dollar clinks so soundy in the conv,
~ sation of Virginia rs to drown all 9th
I" sounds Very little else is talked abo
70 than the action of the merchants in l
solving to take it for ninety cents onl
nj Many are resolved that If storekeep
~ will not take their trade dollar at p
o. they will go where they will be take
a To accommodate this class and increa
their custom. several of the leadi
clo,hiers and grocers have to-day put o
~ signs announcing that trade dollars W
:, be taken at par. This causes no end
- i'll feeling and good deal of eYciteme
Va among the dealers. The saloons, wi
hardly an exception, take the dollars
of old. Kuots of men on the cornt
be are talking silver and one can pick
C. any amount of valuable knowledge {
~ the financial problem by listening
= those curbstone savants.
Through parties from Tuscarora. Il
ef EIko Independent learns Of another. al
III the riches. strike yet made in that eItr