Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-03-08
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An extensive cave has been discov.
cred on Prospect mountain.
The White Rose mine, at Silverado,
is developing into good properly.
w. S. McC., Palisade. We received
your letter. but paper tailed TO arrive.
Lead was quoted at 3s cents if the
New York market yesterday.
The value ofthe crude bullion shipped
yesterday morning was Sl5, 900.
The Hamburg Company will pay
their employees o.morrow.
The X X Company will paw their
miners and furnace men on Monday
next.
Frank Lealand was the only passen-
ger on the incoming Austin stage yes
terday.
DIR. Terry is considering the propriety
of establishing himself In business,
either at Elko or Tuscarora.
Do not forget Rev. John Laird's lec-
ture this evening. 1t will be both in.
teresting and instructive.
New York parties made an offer of
$S0,000 for the Bald Eagle property. 1t
was not accepted.
The snow fall Wednesday evening
was much heavier at Ruby Hill than
in Eureka.
Superintendent Everts is visiting
Pali>ade, and will remain at the ter
minus Tor a couple of days.
The st. Louis Republican notes the
arrival at the Planters House of j. IL.
Lockwood, of Eureka, New.
OF all the n%nisances with which Eu-
reka Mas ever cursed, the dripping
awnings are much the worse.
The snow on Prospect mountain
still interferes with work on many Of
the mines situated in that locality.
Ten carloads of crude bullion
and refined lead were shipped to Pal
isade yesterday.
The freight arrivals by rail yesterday
embraced four carloads of merchan-
disc, two of wood and seven of coal.
Pete Hansen is shipping daily from
Pine Station an average of l 800 bushels
of charcoal.
The ella Mining Company. Reveille
five cents per share.
The snow storm Wednesday evening
extended to Palisade. Six inches of
snow fell at that point.
A letter addressed to VIM. White,
San Francisco, i held for postage at
the Eureka Postofice.
An Italian Yesterday fell in a fit in a
saloon on North Main street. Medical
assistance was rendered, and he recov-
cred.
Application for a patentto the Barton
lode WAS Yesterday filed at the Regis
ter's Office by Messrs. Powell and
Foley.
The hobby OF a local politician to
hold two County Republican Conven-
tons WAS vetoed. III fact, it would not
work.
The grand larceny case, mentioned
elsewhere, will make it necessary to
call a Grand Jury during the March
term OF the District Court.
J. c. Corey, a distinguished mining
expert, and a gentleman largely inter
ested in the fortunes of Eureka Con-
solidated, arrived in Eureka last even.
ing.
Frank Robbins will start his assay
office in a few days. He has secured
the premises adjoining Wells, Fargo &
Co.'s office on the south.
over ! 900 shares of the Eureka Tun-
mel Company were sold yesterday.
Miners and business men have great
faith in the enterprise.
The Secret Canyon highway is co M
pletely blocked mp with drifted sno W.
All parties visiting that section have to
travel 10y way of Pinto.
Several new ore bodies have been
encountered in the Hoosac mine. and
that properly gives much future
promise.
Babbling brooks coursed down the
highways yesterday, the result of the
snowfall, and mud and slush pre-
dominate again.
The newly discovered ore body in
the Industry mine promises to prove
n of the largest deposits ever found
in that locality.
Flour sacks are utilized by provi
dent hou~sekeepers. They make them
up into shirts and chem icals can be
used 10 oblit-rate the printed letters.
Messrs. Hillhouse and Davenport
leave for Belmont to-day by private
conveyance. The Duck water water
war engages their attention and en-
ploys their services.
The new engine. for use in the ninth
level of the Eureka Consolidated
mine, will be put in operation in
about two weeks. The motive power
will he compressed air.
Some fellow with a name "a long as
one of Evarts' sentences, flooded the
mail Wednesday evening with a lot OF
circulars. The clerks bestowed on
him numerous eft. handed blessings.
J.. b. Mcdonald, of Chicago, repre-.
sentine a wholesale hat mandatory of
that city, is in Eureka, interviewing
our merchants as to the policy of pur-
chasing their supplies in the Lake city.
One ton of ore from the Industry
mine, worked a. the edmond fur
naces, yielded $S42, gold and silver.
Plenty more of the same kind OF ore
left in the mine.
Frank Durkee is a most ingenious
workman. His latest production is a
star p~ostoftiee stamp, used for marking
letters, and 1t is far ahead of the article
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