Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-22
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boarders.
Pleasant weather at Palisade yes
terday.
The Hamburg Company are ship
ping base bullion regularly.
President Hawkins and Professor
Price cave for Typo tomorrow.
Henry Kind is off this morning for
a business visit to San Francisco.
Al. Snetsinger is hauling twelve tons
OF Stag daily from the X X dump to
the Atlas furnaces.
Joe Mendes is applying a coat of
waterproof paint to the roof of his
new hall.
Freight traffic on the Eureka and
Palisade Railroad is slowly increasing
in volume.
Luther Clark is renovating and
Frightening up the Palace Saloon; a
regular spring cleaning.
Charley Grimm returned from the
Black Hills Sunday evening. He don't
want any more of that country in his.
AS we go to press it is showing
frosty moisture already upon the
ground.
Black Hills letters, pro and con, are
numerous and abundant. The major
ity ofthem have a depressing tone.
1t is not winter lingering, etc. The
old rascal has set right down in gentle
springs lap, and evidently proposes
to stay there.
The engineers at the Consolidated
were busy yesterday in overhaul
ing the machinery, blowers, etc., pre-
paratory to starting up.
John l.. Hinckley, mine host of the
Parker House, departs for Austin on this
mornings stage, intending to be alb
sent several days.
superintendent Shaw, of the jack
son, is back from the Bay. He saws
matters wear a gloomy aspect OH Cali.
fornia street.
One hunnred ton of salt are being de.
livered to the Raymond & Ely Com
pany, at Phoebe, from O'Dougherty's
salt works at Egan canyon.
The householder again wrestles with
the heating stove that had, in a mo-
ment OF confidence in the permanent
arrival OF spring, been relegated to the
seclusion of the wood shed.
The Hamburg Company are refining
furnace No. 2, and will start it up i'm
about two weeks. The ore reduced in
the furnace now running carries a very
high percentage of lead as well as the
precious metals.
A teamster, by the name of Arthur,
had the bones of his foot badly
mashed by being trod OF by one of his
team mules. He was brought to town
and the injured foot was attended to.
The boisterous customers of a Main
street saloon have, by their mid night
howlings, we'll nigh ruined the bust
ness of a popular lodging house in the
immediate vicinity.
j. b. Ayers received a letter from his
partner at Mineral Hill stating that the
Bonanza mine is showing up some
very rich ore. Bony is interested in
some other very valuable claims in
that locality.
Two drunken man attempted to 90
through the sash instead of the regular
entrance to the Corner Saloon. A
broken window was the result.
The starting up of the Eureka Consol-
idated furnace furnishes employment
for about 80 men. There has already
been over 400 applications for the po-
sitionS.
The boiler from the old Phenix
works is being put in place I'VE the
Skylark shaft of the X X Company.
David Davis is doing the stone work
and will have the job finished in a few
days.
Mr.. Chase has appointed G.. F.
Horn Deputy County Recorder. Mr..
Horn has had wide experience in mat
tsrs of this kind and will make an
obliging and efficient officer.
A batter feeling is noticeable here
with reference to the business and
mining outlook. Things will boom
when all the furnaces get in operation,
as they will, very
The ReUeitle, noticing the recent adj
vance in the shares of the Eureka
Consolidated, says sit is a big mine.
lawsuit or no lawsuit, tissure vein or
no iissure vein."
A. Benedict requests us to say that
he will organize his bookkeeping
school at Mendes' Hall this evening,
at which time and place all who desire
to take lessons are invited TO meet him
between the hours of eight and nine.
New pupils cannot be admitted after
the course has been commenced.
The travelling public should read the
advertisement of Tom Fitzpatrick
under the head of "new to-day" His
house at Pinto is one of the very best
in this section. First-class accommo-
dations for both man and beast are
always to be had at Toms.
DIR. l.. Terry has returned from his
wanderings to the northward. He
went as far as Tuscarora, and has a
good word for that camp. He says
the Grand Prize is a magnificent mine,
producing an abundance of ore to keep
the ten-stamp mill in operation, with
a force OF only five men.
An inebriated individual fell down a
flight of stairs the other night, and a
passer by, fearing him seriously in
jured, ran to pick him up. But the
man maiestically staggered to his feet,
and in response to the proffered aid,
roared out, "Now you jes let lone.
Wan no slobDerin' round me. I
allus come down stairs that way"
Failure of DIR. Spauldirg.
Among the recent failures noted by