Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-03-15
FLUE DUST.
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The funeral OF the little daughter OF
Sam. Friedman yesterday, was largely
attended.
The streets were thronged with la
dies yesterday. taking advantage of the
lovely weather prevailing.
A cablegram from London yester.
dav, quotes Richmond shares at $40 so
|, in that market.
The daily bullion output Of the X X
furnace averages about eight tons, or
$1,000 per day.
The value of the crude bullion
shipped since our last issue amounts
to Sl3, 1000.
Rev. w. G. Grav.s brother Of Parson
j.. A. GRAY, arrived in Eureka last
evening, en- route to Austin.
Foreman Davis. of the Richmond
mine, is quite i'll, his sickness necessi-
tating a suspension of his duties.
Eleven car loads of crude bullion
and refined lead were shipped to Pail
SADIE yesterday.
The Richmond Company are ship
ping an average of so ton of lead per
day.
Commissioner Page came in yester.
day from his home at Fish Creek Sta
ton. He will %sojourn in town for a
day or two.
The ledge in the east cross cut of the
$50 level of the Hamburg has widened
out into = body eight feet thick, the ore
being of very high grade.
The freight arrivals by rail yesterday
embraced five car loads OF m%erchan-
disc, two of wood, one of iron and
four OF charcoal.
The Eureka Tunnel Company's
stock has been listed on the Pacific
Board, San Francisco, and is quoted at
so cents per share.
The Eureka Tunnel is now in 40 feet.
A stringer of ore has beer encountered,
running parallel with the drift. The
rock in the face is getting somewhat
softer and easier TO work.
Bob Cavansugh received a telegram
from his father yesterday, conveying
the intelligence Of his serious Illness.
Bob. like a dutitul son, started to Car
son this morning.
Hugh McCrum, of the firm of
Shroufe ~ McCrutn, wholesale liquor
dealers of San Francisco, arrived in
Eureka by last nights train. Hugh
has a host Of customers aud friends on
the Base Range.
The locomotive Belmont, on the
Eureka and Palisade Railroad. is laid
up at the machine shops in Palisade,
receiving a new set of fines and under
going thorough repairs.
The freight traffic on the Eureka and
Pslisade Railroad. at the present time,
is taxing the capacity of the rolling
stock to the utmost. An average of
| - - la.1nl npa haxfaI .naI
way daily.
Felix MerZbach, a resident of Carson
City, who recently passed a creditable
examination before the Supreme Court,
has accepted a position in the law
town.
AS soon as the weather settles, a
number of important real estate i'm
p~rovements will be inaugurated. We
venture to say that there is more
building going on AT present in Eureka
than in any other town in the State.
More legs are noticed on the Com
stock. The spectacle of the Black
Crook is running at Piper's Opera
House. No use OF them coming here.
Our people do not run much to the
undressed drama.
Edgar Mills, President of the Eureka
and Palisade railroad, will arrive in
Eureka early next month, and after a
short stay will depart for Europe,
where he will spend the summer at
the Paris Exposition.
We are pleased to learn that Dave
Mannheim has so far recovered from
his recent serious Illness as to be- able
to sit up in his room. Hope it will not
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seen at his store.
James Kelley, the fellow who tack
led officer Causey the other evening.
was up before Judge Cromer yester-
day. His examination was set for
Tuesday next, and his bonds fixed at
81 900.
The Eureka Consolidated Company
have moved the main highway lead
ing down the canyon some fifty feet
eastward of its old location, gaining
thereby that much added space to their
Stag dump.
The cost of extracting, transporting
and reducing ores by the Eureka Con-
solidaied Company averages S2l per
ton. The Richmond estimate is a
trifle higher, the item of transporta-
ton being higher.
K"v. JOhn Lara VIII lecture this
evening on the "Origin of Man." tax
ing issue with Spencer, Darwin, Hulk
ley and the evolutionists. 1t will he an
interesting discourse, and We bespeak a
good attendance.
One of our county officers has adopt
ed a novel book-mark, his favorite
volume of poems containing one of
these articles in the shape of a hairpin.
George, we would not have believed it,
had we not opened the book at that
particular place.
At a meeting of the Institute of Min
ing Engineers, held at New York, a
paper was read by Prof. X, w. Ray
mond, on charcoal consumption in
blast furnaces. He claimed that two
and a half acres Of woodland was de-
nuded monthly to supply a fifty-ton
furnace with fuel.
The sOiree.
The party at the hall last evening
was a success in every particular, the