Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-04-16
BRIEF MENTION.

Why should clothes rspairer' be
the most hopeful of mens Because
their business is always mending.
Claus Becker, Of this city, was
;i,itten on the thumb. Monday morn.
ing. while fooling with Mr.. Frett's
dog.
A break of q pump.bob at the
Silver Hill on Monday last caused
A forty.eight hours delay Of sink.
ing operations.
J.C. Casebeer has resigned his po-
,sition as principal Of the Dayton
public schools to engage in q mer-
camille business in Sutro.
McJilton, the arastra man, has
leased the Young g. Sirlott mill. for
the purpose of working lot of ore
from bis claim in Niger ravine.
II is reported that Mr.. Blauvelt,
agent of the Bank of California in
Gold Hill, will 60 out Bodie-w way, in
the interest Of the same corporation.
Over $50 men who had obtai ned
employment in the Sutro tunnel
have been discharged, within
week, 70 make room for competent
miners. The latter call the former
"hoodlums."
Although the weather, during the
past few days, has been 1uite warm,
the nights have been exceedingly
cold, and the fruit trees and bud
ding plants throughout the county
were severely frost-bitten.
A business letter from this office
to the County Auditor Of Dayton,
mailed last Monday. was not re-
oeived until Saturday. There IL evil
IDENTIFY . screw loose somewhere in
the postal service in this county.
George Barton has put = second
stage on the route between Sutro and
Virginia. This stage leaves Sutro at
half-past 8 O'Clock in the afternoon,
lays in Virginia over night, and
leaves there about half-past 10 in the
morning.
There was special meeting Of the
Silver City Miners Union last Satur-
day evening, At which it was resolved
to enforce the rule requiring all Gu
gagged in underground mining in the
jurisdiction of the Union to apply
for membership or cease work.
The hurricane last Monday dc.
molished two Of the retort smoke
stacks at the Eureka mill, and did
other damage. The men at work In
the tsilings reservoirs we're 80 blind
cd by the clouds OF flying dust
that they were compelled to take
shelter indoors.
Charles Bonnemort, ex-Superin-
tendent of the Sierra Nevada mine,
returned from San Francisco last
Sunday. He says that the feeling
against the proposed new Constitu.
ton 10 growing every day, and he is
willing to bet 81, 900 that that meas
ure will be rejected.
William SAddler, who IL better
known a. prospecting" Bill, has
started out on his annual tour In
search OF undiscovered bonanxas.
He has gone to the southern coun-
try, and intends to prospect Death
Valley before he returns. Perhaps
he will, Is he Is rather old, now.
Several wagon.losds of the man
ganese ore extracted from the Waller.
Defeat end of the Justice ground
have been hauled down to the Ex-
celsior mill, for reduction. II John
Briggs, the proprietor of that mill,
does not make that ore pay there will
not be much use in others trying to.
On the first Of May Messrs. Chad.
wick & Luce will retire from the
of the International
Hotel, in Virginia City, and Mr..
Hanak will take charge as sole lessee,
Mr.. Bateman having leased his inter-
BOT to him. Mr.. Luce will return to
San Francisco; Mr.. Chadwick has
not yet determined upon his future
place Of residence.
Thomas Copeland, foreman of the
mill. was in town yester-
lay. He said that forty.tive men
we're employed at the mill, and that
hs tailings on hand would keep
hem busy for . few months longer.