The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1880-12-25
STATE ITEMS.

The Enterprise does not admire tn
Alta boom.
An average Of $50 assays per day ar,
made at the Consolidated Virginia ASA,
Office.
A large number OF men at Osceola ar,
doing assessment work for themselves
and others.
Cherry Creek must be looming up. 4
is rumored that another paper is to b,
! started there.
A good deal of marrying going OF
throughout the State. May you ell in
crease and multiply.
Arthur McEwan was presented by the
Democrats of Storey county with fine
watch and chain for eminent services.
Josiah Day. an Eagle Valley ranch.
man, has offered to give ten acres of land
on which to erect the Carson smelling
works.
We learn from the Reveille that Col.
Harry I. Thornton recently arrived in
Austin and was to have spent several
days in that town.
The Enterprise Publishing Company
has attached the property of the Globe
Con. Mining Company, in Gold Hill Min.
ing District, for $l97. so. -, .-.
The track Of the Carson and Colorado
Marrow guage Railroad is now laid dis.
lance of seven miles below Dayton and is
being extended at the rate of one mile
per day.
The Bodie wagon road, to connect with
the Carson and Colorado Railroad, is 30
nearly completed that most of the work.
men have hsen discharged. The road is
thirty-seven miles long.
A man in Virginia City was complain.
ing that he could no longer make both
ends meet. A listener said all he was
trying to do was to make one end meet
" the end that eats.
x The Central Pacific Railroad Company
are carrying every pound of coal that can
be mined through to California. Com.
stockers may therefore make up their
minds to getting along with wood.
A shooting scrape occurred at Grants
vile, Nye county. on the 9th. between
Joe Phillips and H. Lockerman, we learn
from the BONANZA, and Phillips succeeded
in lodging q ball in Lockerman's thigh.
The Eureka Con. after paying last
months dividend has bullion surplus Of
sos, 673.03. There are over 400, 600
tons Of base bullion on hand which is
figured in this statement 1t $500 pen ton,
but it is worth In the market 1920.
Battle Mountain Messenger: Attached
to Thursdays east.bound passenger train
were four fruit cars loaded with silk
worm eggs, the contents of the four cars
being valued at 81, OOO, 900. They were
shipped from Japan to some point in
Italy. -
Tuscarora Times. Review Everything
mining, business and gambling-sesm to
have their periodical boomer. Gambling
is at present occupying the most atten.
ton, there being more activity about the
different games in the town than for
some time back.
We find the following card in last
Saturdays Belmont Courier, signed by
Robert Spence: "The young limb of the
law that borrowed 90 from the under.
signed, to take his girl to supper at the
last Thanksgiving ball, had better refund
the money" That young limb of the
law is as prompt in returning borrowed
money as old limbs Of the law.
Eureka Sentinel: Poor old Hamilton
All the old.timers in coming over from
Ward, Osceola and Phoebe and othe,
places, take the new-cut road to avoid
the pangs which linger in their hearts a
they viewed the deserted streets and cast
lingering look toward Treasure Hill
BY private conveyance and by stage d.
the passers-by arrive in Eureka, and with
one voice do they exclaim--"It ID de
serted camp"
Gold Hill News. DR.. Bergstein las
evening caused the arrest Of D. L. Brow,
Of the Footlight, and has taken the pre-
liminary steps toward criminal suit TO
libel. Mr.. Brown was taken befor,
Justice Brown, and gave bail in the san
of 500. The cause of the action 10 givel
as utterances in the Footlight derogator,
to DR.. Bergstein's capacity a. . physi
clan. Seven hundred dollars IL q pretty
big faro stake these hard times. -
John Corbett, Assemblyman elect from
Lyon county, who keeps saloon il
Sutro, was shot by his harkeepcr, Barne,
McHugh, last Monday and narrowl,
escaped getting big bullet through hi
diaphragm. McHugh was standing with
in few feet Of Corbett at the time Q
the shooting. The ball struck dirsctl
over the heart and entered small praye
book which happened To be In an insid