The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1880-11-20
SILVER REEF NEWS.
For the Phoebe RscoRD.l

are wringing their hands in holy horror
over the seduction ego squawAa cop
per colored one-living in one of the
principal harems of that place. The al
lodged seducer was Gentle and dis
ciple of the Free Methodist Missionary,
Rev. Arthur B. Cort, and it seems, ac-
cording to the Brethrens accounts, that
he was Sort" in the act. Isn't it q pity
though, that such thing should have
happened right in the midst of such a
pure t?), moral and virtue-loving ~ peo-
pie as the followers of Latter-Day Saints
are.
In the Salt Lake Tribune of the llth
we noticed that S. j. Delavan, formerly
United States Signal man at Phoebe,
has organized minstrel troupe in Salt
Lake. AS minstrel man "Del." has no
superior on this coast, and we wish him
success in his endeavors to make the peo-
pie of Salt Lake believe it,
A few evenings since an inebriated citi-
zen of the Reef got an extension put on
over his left eye. Since George Miller
has recovered from his indisposition he
strikes an awful blow.u .tg i
The atmosphere is decidedly chilly.
Ice formed in the creek on the morning
of the 18th one-fourth inch thick. A
borrowed overcoat is indeed great lux.
| ury.
Fred Joy, one of the amalgamators at
at the Christy mill, is lying dangerously
sick in the hospital, under charge of the
Sisters Of the Holy Cross.
Arrivals to-day: Board bills, 8; whisky
bills, 81; bills receipted, 90. Departures:
A couple of big black dogs with oil cans
hitched to tails.
Jim Cronan arrived here from Ell Do.
RADIO Canyon on the 10Th, and reports
everything in the Canyon as looking
'way up" ~
Amount of bullion shipped for the week
ending Nov. 18th, as reported through
Wells, Fargo & Co., was SIT, 064.76.
Wm. Redkin was. thrown from horse
near Grapevine Spring, the other day,
and severely injured.
A stag race recently came off on the
course at Bonanza. Stakes. 100000.
The Stormont, and also the Barbee &
Walker, paid off on the 10th.
A former resident of this city, who
| should return to this town after an abb
sence of few months, could not help but
be impressed with an Air Of desolation
which pervades Silver City. Immediate
ly after passing through the Devils Gate
he would see a wide, open space where
formerly stood the Pioneer and Devils
Gate mills, with their strings Of sluices
stretched hundreds Of feet down Gold
Canyon; advancing down Main street he
would miss the trestlework which extend
ed across the canyon to the Hope mill;
directly back of this mill the old Sher.
man mill can no longer be seen; q couple
of hundred feet further, and for dist.
ance of four or FIVE hundred feet on both
sides of the street, the houses have dis.
appeared, and nothing besides few
blackened ruins mark the place where
once stood large dwelling and lodging
houses. At the foot of Main street the
old Bacon and Kelsey mills are no more
while the once familiar trestlework ex
tending from the side track of the Vir
ginia railroad to the Bacon and Trench
mills is gone Taken altogether the ap
pearance of the town is far from encour
aging, and nothing less than such DO
nanza as is reported in Benton, Alta ant
Justice will be required to lift her W
from her present depression and reset hel
in her prosperous way.-[Lyon County
Times.
The wires yesterday brought w. w
and DR.. A. G. Bishop, Of this place, tn
sad intelligence of the death of thei
brother Fred, in San Bernardino county
California. 1t appears that he was killed
by the falling Of horse. Deceased wa
pioneer of Nevada, and well know
throughout the State. He was an earl,
settler in Carson Valley, and also cam
early to the eastern part Of the State
he was IS years of age and unmarried
He was an indefatigable prospector, ant
seemed to delight in frontier life. Few
men in the State had done more in tn
the way of blazing the trails for other
than Fred Bishop. Mr.. Bishop had beel
in attendance at the Court in San Bernar
dino, and was returning to his home il
Ell Dorado Canyon, Lincoln county, thi
State, when Ne met with the unfortunat
accident which cost him his life. Hi
brothers here have the sincere sympath,
of wide circle of friends, in which tn
Sentinel joins, in their sad affection. :
Eureka Sentinel, 18th. Ia
The Victoria Colonist's correspondent
who spent the Summer in the Skagi
mines, pronounces the diggings palpabl
failure: He says $40, 600 is in excess @
the value of the gold taken out there
There were about fifty men there whe
! he left. Fully 300 men had left tn
mines disguised within the last month
Miles of dams, scores of water.wheels
numns machinery. tools. cabins. sluice