Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-03-22
BRIEF MENTION.
nj Bray is in from Bodie.


syacapt houses in this city.
Miss Addie Powning is up from
San Francisco on short visit.
The stock market is suffering from
A sort of an equinoctial compromise.
william Hines has got the fever.
It's the Bodie fever, and attacked him
last Sunday.
Esther Summerfield, Of Sutro, has
made application for sole leadership.
See the notice in another column.
The stages to Bodie continue to
90 out well loaded with freight and
passengers. They come back al
most empty.
The friends of Mrs. John w. Grier
will be gratified to kaow that she is
surely recovering from her late Sc
we're illness.
Anotice Of interest to those con.
.csrned in the estate Of the late M. 8.
Garlin appears In the advertising
columns to-day.
Master sack Allen has learned that
It is dangerous to turn handsprings
on a side .hill. He sprained his arm
at it last Wednesday.
1t is held that some of the suffer.
ers by the FIRE are better Axed now,
with the relief they have received,
than they were before.
The Trench mas been shut down OF
"hung up" nearly all the week.
The Ophir doesn't furnish rock
enough to keep 1t running steadily.
Young & Sirlott have been making
improvements in the Nip and Tuck
and now crush rock from the McJilton
claim at the rate of five tons per day.
Mills Van WAgenen, formerly prin-
cipal of the Gold Hill schools, and
well-known in this city, will return
to the Comstock about the middle of
next month.
But forty men are 1t work In the
Sutro Tunnel. Adolphus will be up
in few days. however, and then We
are to see four hundred men put to
work on that sub. drain.
Constable Hill complains Of hard
times. He says there has not been .
criminal case In the Justices court
within the year. Evidently our peo-
pie are on their good behavior.
Property is selling very cheap in
this city. Last week good house
of four rooms, pleasantly situated,
and having the conveniences Of eel
lar, wood shed, &c, sold for $3.50.
A big game Of base ball is prom
Used for Sunday between the men and
boys. Three balls will he given to
The winning club. The men have
sent to Gold Hill for re- achievements.
A drift is being run from the new
ore End in the Waller Defeat ground
to the old Waller Defeat shaft two
hundred feet to the north. The OBJ
ject Of the drift is to afford better
ventilation.
A. Morley Stewart. the popular
young druggist recently Of this city,
returned to the Comstock Wednes-
day after a residence OF week in
Bodie. He Is now steward ut the
Storey County Hospital.
The Ophir mill, on the Carson
river, has been running about .
week on tailings. A cleanup will
be made by the last Of the month,
and the mill turned over to T. l..
Lyons on the first proximo.
The Soldering mill, American ra-
vine, has been renovated by Martin
& Co., the machinery being run by
steam and water power. They are
crushing ore from mine situated in
the upper end of Niger raviue.
The boys who are trying to organize
An amateur band have collected SIS
towards purchasing instruments. They
need $40 more. II this sum is not
forthcoming, the money already col.
lected will be returned to the do
majors.
The result of the late agitation of
the question - TO the direction of
the true Copstock has resulted in
. decision which everybody held