The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-12-09
COAST NEWS,

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Diptheria prevails among Virginia City
| children.
Bodie IS now knows as "Deadman's
Station on the road to Mammoth City.
Work has been suspended for the winter
on most of the prospects north Of Tuscarora.
The Wyoming Legislature, is doing good
work in passing laws for the benefit OF the
live stock interest. ~. .mE
Owing to the scarcity Of bullion for coming
purposes, ~forty-three employees of the Carson
Mint were suspended Satuardy.
The West Side Oregon railroad will soon
be completed to Corvallis, and it is said il will
De pushed through to Junction as early as
possible next year. '..
An immense quantity of merchandise has
arrived at Ogden by late Union Pacific freight
trains for merchants atthe Utah and Northern
terminus. ..ir ....
Mining in the southern part of Calaveras
county, Cal, is going on slowly. Angels
camp has many arasJras at work. Some of
the claims that failed to pay with twenty
stamp mills, are now paying with the arastra
process.
At Carson, Nevada, the District Judge has
decided the law against opium smoking I'M
constitutional. The decision probably takes
the ground that opium smoking is a Chinese
religious observance, which, under the pro-
visions of the Burlingame treaty, may not be
interferIed with by American law.
The Mormon Church ownes 1900 cattle,
paid for in tithing. 1t also possesses thousands
of tons of rutabagas and squashes, derived
from the same source. Cash is scarce among
the Saints and they pay their tithing in
"truck," but cattle and grain are worth cash
and all is fish that comes to the Church's
net.
The cook of the hotel at which Grant put
up in Virginia City, Nevada, has a piece of
pie out of which General Grant took one
bite, which he offers for sale for $75. If it is
regular Nevada hotel pie, it is 1t wonder
that Grant took only one bite, and the relic
would ''keep" for a cabinet specimen.
A colporteur who has been canvassing for
the bible IN the Comstock, reports that in
Virginia, Gold Hill and Carson he found 800
families who refused either to buy the book
or receive il as a gift. The widespread god
lissness on the Comstock is undoubtedly due
to the wicked influence of the newspapers of
that section.
Work on the Northern Pacific Railroad is
being carried on al a rapid rate the grading
being done eight miles beyond Ainsworth
City. They are sinking wells, and when
water is plenty they intend increasing the
force, and pushing the work forward. Some
four HUNDRED Chinese, and about fifty white
men are employed.
The surveyors are reported as still at work
on the new route up Malad Valley, Tor a
railroad to Boise City, and thence to Oregon.
The Bannack mountain range is the chief
bugbear they had to encounter, but reports
say they have found a way to get past it. The
line of road would not likely touch Malad
City, as that is on the East side of the valley,
but Samaria would more likely be the point
for a station. It would give the MaIad City
people the chance to show their enterprise, by
building a sshorse'' railroad across the valley
to connect with the road.
Pinafore was a financial failure in Eureka.
The management lost heavily on the venture.
The opera took well for a couple of nights.
but the Base Rangers tired of it after that.
Eureka is probably the only place IN the
United States where Pinafore has not enjoyed
a long run, but there are some communities
in which there is so little aesthetic taste that
they would rather stand out on the street
and look at a dog fight without charge than to
pay $3.50 to see Pinafore. Well, there's no
accounting for tastes.
The people of the mining towns of Nevada
are not pleased with the business boom, which
s.arted in the East and has found its way TO
this coast in a shape unpleasant to mining
communities. The boom has carried up the
prices of all kinds of provisions and merchan-
disc, which has increased the cost Of living,
while a corresponding increase in wages is
not practicable or possible. The wages for
Nevada miners are high, but the cost of living
has always been c~orrespondingly SO, and now
the latter has increased largely while the
forme: remains the same. Consequently, the
miners don't like business booms. What is
one mans meat is another mans poison.
A way to make the Chinese go has been
found in Paradise Valley, Nevada. Some
Cinnamon were in the habit of stealing wood
from a whiteman's woodpile, and to break
them of the practice he loaded a stick with
a giant powder cartridge. The mooned-eyed
lepers stole that particular stick and used it
in their stove. When the powder got warmed
up there was an earthquake in the humble
home of the Cinnamon. They did not know
the cause of the commotion, nor did they stop
to inquire. They at once attributed it to the
enemy Of all Cinnamon, and, standing not on
the order of their going, the entire Chinese
population of the Valley gathered their traps
together and sexodusted," declaring that the
headquarters of his majesty the devil was
located there.
It is related that when President Lincoln
attended the Gettysburg dedication ceremo-
| MES an address was given in the evening by
| Mr.. Charles Anderson in q local church. The
audience arose as the President entered. An
| old man stability dressed followed him up the
| aisle, and on reaching the seat reserved for
| Mr.. Lincoln was about going In with him.
Governor Tod, who escorted the President,
put his hand on him and said, "No, old man.
you can't go in there" Mr.. Lincoln turned
| and said, sYes, Governor, that's my man,
and putting his arm about him brought him
into the pew. Lit was the old man who en-.
tered the battle of Gettysburg with his mus.
| ket and fought independently all day.