Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-03
FLUE DUST.

A Mr.. Bailey has been appointed
telegraph operator at Palisade.
The bids for contracts on the Eureka
tunnel were opened yesterday.
The Eureka Bar will be well repre-
sented in Carson City this week.
Lead was quoted at39.lO cents in the
New York market yesterday.
The Metamoras shaft will reach a
depth of 400 feet by the LIST of March.
The value of the crude bullion
shipped yesterday morning vas $4,000.
A railroad team, loaded with freight,
left for Belmont this morning.
Lockwood & Remington yesterday
shipped a large lot of mining supplies
to Danville District.
The real estate and wood ranch trans
iers among our Italian residents are
quite brisk.
The M. q NJ. Trade Depot has bios
somed out with a new show window,
n other elaborate improvements.
Eleven car loads of bullion, refined
lead and fiue dust were shipped to
Palisade yesterday morning.
One car of merchandise, two of
lumber and seven of coal arrived yes
terday morning.
At Sherif's sale, yesterday. the Or
ange Consolidated mine was sold to
Patrick Moran for 1854 %.
A letter at the Postofice is held for
better direction. A committee of ex-
perts failed to decipher the name or
address.
The population of Ruby Hill is on
the increase. 1t has added 700 to its
permanent residents since last August.
Eureka stands second in the list of
volume of money order business done
at the Postoifioce, and almost equals
Virginia City, the first on the list.
The machinery to be nsed in work
ing the tenth level and the ground
below that point, in the Eureka Con-
solidated mine, is coming rapidly to
hand.
Furnace No. 4 at the Eureka Consol.
dated works, will be run down and
refined as Don as the repairs to No. 3
are completed.
1t takes a column of fulsome and
nauseating description to satisfy some
peoples cravings for notoriety. Their
real merits could be crammed into less
than one line.
The galvanized heater, manufactured
by Lockwood 81 Remington, is an ill.,
vention of Foreman Potts. of the Rich
mond. 1t is a very economical device.
A huge galvanized iron heater, an
attachment to the Richmond boilers at
the mine, has just been completed by
AfnEcT1 DA,Ns.fA.A f. rnI. -
placed in position at the tank.
All persons having bills against the
county will have an opportunity of
presenting them Tomorrow. The
Board of County Commissioners will
be in session.
The Eureka party which contemplates
visiting TEN Pahute district have been
been delayed by Unforeseen obstacles.
They will positively start on Tuesday
next.
Rev. Mr.. De Lamatyr informed us
that he would preach at Ruby Hillthis
evening. Last night we received a
note from the Hill stating that Rev. II.
Vincent would occupy the pulpit.
A. Benedict received a telegram yes-
terday, conveying the sad intelligence
of the death of his grandson. MI. and
Mrs. Benedict departed for Virginia
City this morning for the purpose of
attending Hle funeral.
A letter was received at Battle
Mountain last week from Eureka,
bearing the signature of one of our
prominent officials. 1t was a forgery,
and the sender will be prosecuted if
discovered.
A gentleman who is we'll posted
prophesies that when the Eureka
Mining and Tunnel Company's tunnel
penetrates the shale a large portion of
the water that runs through the X X
mine will be diverted into Goodwin
canyon.
The following mining patents were
received at the Land Registers office
yesterday: Prussian South and Jeffer-
son Lode and mill site, Mammoth.
Mobile and Equality, White Pine
county; and Adam, Farren and Deep
Lode, Adams Hill, Eureka District.