Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-31
BRIEF MENTION.

tHtIe Is NOV III cuIPty huuSo III
Dayton.
There is good skating in the bed
Of the creek, nearly all the way be-
tween Silver aud Dayton.
The Lyon mill has been closed
since the advent of the cold weather,
ON account of the ice in its, fumes.
A principal is to be elected in Vir-
ginia to-day, to replace Professor
Ewing Of the Fourth Ward school.
The Eureka Sentinel says that
Wells Drury, of the Virginia Chron-
icle, has " dot little fur cap on the
brain.
A miner who recently arrived in
this city from Mammoth, Lake Dis
trict, CAL, says that there are six feet
of snow out there, and that the wealth.
er is very cold.
T. L. Lyons has made his final
cleanup, and turned the Woodwork
mill over to Senator Westerfeld, who
will start it up again on tailings when
the weather moderates.
Smelling works are about to be
erected at the Ludwig & Carter mire,
in Mason Valley. The ore from this
mine has heretofore been shipped to
Dayton for reduction.
County Superintendent Young has
taken his daughter away from the
public school in this city. Mrs. Nc
Ginnis has done likewise with Jen-
ME Quintrall, her relative.
The Cosmopolitan Club social,
last Monday night, was well attended,
and highly enjoyed by all in attend
ance, quite number Of whom were
from Gold Hill or Virginia.
The delay in milling caused by the
recent cold weather may interfere
with the February dividend which
the knowing ones have been declaring
on Union shares, for q few weeks
past.
As soon as the weather moderates,
the smokestacks of the Bacon mill, in
this city, will be pulled down, and
the mill.site ground-sluiced. The
boilers will not be taken away for
some time.
The report that Sharon had re-
gained the control of the Ophir mine
was evidently unfounded. Had It
been true the Trench mill, in this city,
would have stopped crushing ore
from that mine.
Dallas's mail stage arrives In Sill
yer. Dayton and Sutro forty minutes
earlier in the morning, and leaves
forty minutes earlier, in the evening,
than formerly. This is owing to the
recent change IN railroad timetables.
Some of the residents Of Silver
complain that their woodpi!es are
rapidly growing less at all times, but
especially at night. This is com
plant which is very general through
out the country about this time of
year. ,..-t se .,,4t
Last Christmas night Professor
Bray and Miss Minnie Leslie, teach
ers of the Dayton public school,
were presented with hand some photo
graph albums by their pupils. Such
pleasant events help to smooth the
rocks on life's highway.
Mr.. Tangerman has I'D the mill and
'hoisting machinery destined for the
lDrexel Mining Company, of this city.
stored up in Virginia, to await the
termination of the suit involving the
title to portion of its ground, which
is now pending In the District Court
at Dayton.
j. j. Corbett and w. w. ("Doc.'o
Stephens, of Sutro, were in town last
Monday. They both looked happy,
but Doc. Stephens must have had
something unusually pleasant on his
mind. He was all smiles. A squarer
brace Of boys than these same two
never grew to mans estate.
S,me Of the boys of this city have
made a sled" by mailing an empty
fruit box to a stave, and then apply
ing nd-paper to the stave until its
surface is perfectly smooth. With
such an improvised sled the boys