Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-07
BRIEF MENTION.

Fish Commissioner.
The second wood-drive of the sea.
son is expected to reach Dayton dur
ing the first part of next week.
Leon Rochou has decided to Samuel
Savage, for consideration of $500,
an undivided one-half of lots Nos.
8 aud 4, in Silver.
Luther Davis has located o mining
claim in the Brown g Murphy Dis
trict. which is situated about a mile
north of the Sutro tunnel.
MI. McManus has been elected
Foreman, and Robert Rowland First
Assistant Foreman, of the Sutro
Volunteer Fire Department.
The saloon. keepers Of Sutro COM
plain that the majority Of their pa
irons skip ont Of town over the grade
without settling up their accounts.
The County Commissioners have
effected a reduction of the cost of
boarding county prisoners, from
sl.25 to eighty cents per day, ia
scrip.
Florindo Raggio has sold an undi-
vided eighth interest in the old
Lagomarsino ranch, on the Carson
river, to Paolo L. Cassazza ct al, for
$4,000.
Attachments are pouring into the
office of the Sutro Tunnel Company.
They are put on at the request of
Virginia and Gold Hill creditors of
employ
The Eureka mill will be started
up on Sierra Nevada ore US soon as il
can be got ready. The mill has been
purchased by the Sierra Nevada
Company.
County Commissioner Burrier
states that hay is growing rapidly on
the ranches in Lower Carson Valley,
and the appearance, now indicate a
full average crop.
The Pacific mill is being over
hauled and repaired, preparatory to
being started up on Justice ore. This
mill has a daily capacity OF 10 tons.
w. d. Gray is superintendent.
The machinery ut the Kossuth
mine is being overhauled. The
President Of the company is daily
expected here, when he will fix
date for resuming active operations.
About 200 tons of ore extracted
from the new vein recently discovered
in the Waller Defeat end of the
Justice ground have been hauled to
the Pacific mill, which will be started
up shortly.
The wreaths and crosses con-
tributcd for the Memorial Day cele-
bration in Virginia by Mrs. James r.
Shaw, of Dayton, were probably the
freshest there. They were raised by
herself, while the bulk of the others
were raised in California.
Albert Harris having resigned his
position as telegraph operator at
Dayton to attend business college
in San Francisco, John Lothrop has
been appointed to the vacancy thus
occasioned, and has removed the tel
egraphlc apparatus to the courthouse
building.
Quite number of residents OF
Dayton and Silver attended the oper-
attic performances at Piper's Opera
House last Wednesday and Thurs.
day evenings. Among the former
were Mr.. and Mrs. J. l.. Campbell,
who had not attended a theatrical
performance OF any kind, away from
home, since their arrival in Dayton,
seventeen years ago.
The force ut work at the William
Penn mine has recently been in
creased, and the ore.vein is being
laid bare. About seventy tons of
medium grade ore are on the dump,
awaiting the completion of the mill
No more will be extracted until the
mill is started up, as Superintendent
Langridge wishes to save the expense
of handling, Once the mill is work.
ing the ore can be dumped into the
wagons without second handling.
A Sight For EVERYBODY.