The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-11-20

Stage Robbing and Horse stealing

This corner of the Hills has furnished
more stage robberies and newspaper
items relating thereto than all the rest
of the Territory. but will do so no ~ ore,
as the Stage Company drew off of this
route soon after the big robbery of six
weeks ago. and now runs around the
other side of the Hills, which has not
as b ID
REPUTATION FOR STAGE RoBBrNG.
Though a much worse one for horse
stealing. While the stage ran on this
route everyone that lived on the road
and had dealings with the Company
wanted to bet all he was worth that it
was the slowest and meanest on the
continent; but now that 1t is gone they
sorrowfGlly admit that it beat none.
considerably. Although the passenger
coaches had been robbed with great
regularity ever since the line started,
the treasure coach hadn't been attacked
for about year, aud then the robbers
let it go after capturing it, without try.
ing TO open thSsafe. saying that they
only wanted to see what it looked like.
Since then the Company has had
AN IRON CLAD COACH.
Lined with boiler iron, and bullet
proof. with a seven hundred pound safe
inside. expressly to carry treasure.
From three to six messengers accom-.
panied it, and they as we'll as the pro
prietors. considered it invalnerable.
The robbers however. stole a march ON
them by going to Canyon Springs
which is about 80 miles north of where
they have usually operated. They CAP
tured the station. and when the stage
came along took itin too, killing the only
passenger. dangerously wounding one
OF the three messeng .rs. capturing
another who remained in the coach.
and chasing the third out of the
country. They seem to have had very
little trouble opening the safe. and also
went through tbs mail, taking all the
registered letters The safe contained
about $25. 900. The stage company
offered
REWARD OF $1,000,
Aud parties secured the country in
every direction, but I have not heard
that any of the robbers have been cap
tured. Quite a number of horse
thieves and parties suspected of
previous robbaries have been arrested
however. aud if tue business is not
broken up altogether. it will hardly be
practiced SO much in the future. l
have not travelled around lately, bat
the Deacon has made
THE GRAND TOUR
OF the mines. aud gives glowing re-
ports OF everywhere in general, aud our
old stamping ground Rockerville, in
particular. He saw S742 sluced ont of
10 loads of dirt while there, which is
pretty good, even after making the
usual allowance for salt" an article
which am sorry to say the Rocker
VILLAINS are more or less prone to use
Lest some of your readers should leave
good JOB to go to R)ckerville. | will
state that / have known men to be
several weeks getting load of pay dirt,
and that the correct discount on "clean-
up" yarns in this, as in most other
mining countries. is about 81 per cent.
There is good deal of
DRY GULoH MINING.
Carried on along the Z ,steru slope of
the Hills the dirt being hauled to the
nearest water and sluiced or rocked
out. The gulches are generally small
and seldom turn out over $500 or 800.
and as they are few in number COM
pared with the non paying ones, dry
digging is not a very profitable bust.
ness. The larger gulches seldom con.
tain pay, and If they do are too deep to
bedrock to be remunerative.
QUARTZ ExoIrEMgNrs
On small scale are got up periodic