The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-03-23
STATE ITEMS.

TO resume work on some of the mines in |
Ward that have been lying idle.
The White Pine News says some tif.
teen men have been put to work in the
drift of the Eberhardt Tunnel.
The Carson Appeal says the Mint
theirs will be able to turn out $500 900,
and perhaps $4,000 per month,
Brown & Mahanny have again as
sumed control of the Footlght. one of
Virginia's lively theatrical papers.
The Times Review OF the 14.h says the
body of water on the lower level of the
Grand Prize is gradually decreasing.
The Esmeralda Herald says that MIR.
Frank Kenyon has gone to Hines Sui
phur Springs for the benefit of his
health.
The Times-Rsview says the chances
are very favorable that heavy Cornish
pump will be purchased for the Grand
Prize mine.
Reno Journal The Reno Working
men will orgapize next week, and the
Opera House has been secured for the
meeting place.
The Typo Sun in its issue Of the 10Th
gives very good account of the work
ing of the Typo Con. company. 1t says
the furnaces are running steadily with
good results.
Silver State: Two car leads of ma
chinery, consisting of hosting works for
the Blue Jacket mine of Bull Run Dis
trict. have arrived here for reshipment
to their destination.
Ward Reflex: The Martin White Com
pany, we learn from good authority. is
having made in San Francisco the neces-
sary machinery to start up the mills here
at no distant day.
The Gold Hill News says the ice
turned out by the freezing machine on
the Divide looks more like condensed
snow than anything else. 1t is not clear,
like the regular, natural article.
The Enterprise OF the 18th says the
big air compressor for the Gould and
Curry Mining Company. so long in pro-
cess OF construction In San francisco,
has at last been completed.
Belmont Courier: We saw on Thurs
day some specimens OF ore, rich i'll an
timonisl silver. taken from the S00-foot
level of the Ell Dorado South mine. Some
of the ore assays over $1,000 to the ton.
Eureka Republican: And now the H.
dustry wheels into line with strike in
the tunnel $50 feet from the mouth. The
ore body is eight feet wide now, is in
likely formation for making it extended
and has its regular dip to the east.
Carson Tribune: w. T. Hantord,
Deputy State Controller. has been allow
ed $500 by the Storey County Commits
sioners for copying the statements OF
the taxes on the net proceeds Of mines
for ten years, from 1865 to 1875 iuclus-
i've.
Doc. Bell and his companions in the
mail robbery at Cherry Creek were in
dicted by the United States Grand Jury
at Carson, and were to be put on tria
during the present week. The evidence
produced was very conclusive of theil
guilt.
Cherry Creek Independent: Ed. Bran
nam left here last Thursday for Munc!
Creek. with load of provisions ant
tools to work and develop some MINING
property at that place for Virginia Cit.
company, and of whom is McCarty o
the Chronicle.
Enterprise: Murphy, the Temperance
lecturer, says "cider is the DEVILS kind
} ling wood" Murphy is right. Cider,
new, ia apt to double man up like
four-bladed jack.knite. Old rye is III
r beverage. We always did have a goo
opinion of that Enterprise man.
Virginia Enterprise: The strap con
Meeting the main pump rod TO the nos
OF the surface bob, at the Ophir mine
broke yesterday morning, and will re
. quire thirty-six hours to repair. In th
\ meantime bailing-tanks viii! he used t
n prevent the water from making an
. headway up the incline.
Virginia Enterprise: Mr.. WillisI
8 Shewan. who says he is an "old anna
y gamator," requests us to announce tbs
u he has discovered process by whic
!. ores can be worked without the use {
tanks of any kind or Stun reservoir
:, and will yield a greater percentage of r,
turns than tho old methods, while ii
It mills may be worked to their usual CAPT
city. Ii Mr.. Shewan has any such pre-
J. cess, let him make it known to some {
: our mill superintendent.
Virginia Chronicle: A miner wor
il ing in the Savage incline some time a.
placed q raw egg to cook on set of tir
Il bers below the waters edge. The ne
day the water rose and the man ate b
II lunch minus the anticipated egg.
week ago the water was below the til