The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1880-07-17
STATE ITEMS.


lation in Aurora.
| The placer mines of TuscarOra will
yield at least S25, 900 this season.
Rag-Town is becoming populous; quite
q crowd of Cinnamon arc working the
bed of the stream in that vicinity.
Lloyd HILL Sheriff of Ormsby county,
is missing. His accounts are 50, 300
short. He is supposed to have left this
country.
The population of Washoe county is
5,S7S. OF these about 500 are Indians
1916 Chinese, leaving white population
of about 5000.
A residence of six months in the State
and of thirty days in the district or
county, is necessary to entitle any Ameri-
can citizen to vote in Nevada.
The date of the commencement Of the
State Fair at Reno has been changed
from the 9th to the 9th of September.
1t will close on Saturday, October I'd.
The Silver State says that there is
prospect of a railroad being built from
Winnemucca to Walla Walla, in Oregon.
The route has been surveyed and found
feasible.
At Candelaria, July 4th, Ben Ferris, a
miner, was shot and killed by Perley
Plane. The two men met and COM
menced firing. Eleven shots were dis
charged.
Eureka Sentinel: Mr.. Dan Morris came
in from Osceola yesterday. He reports
that the Osceola Company are taking out
some very rich gold rock. There is but
little placer mining being done, for want
of water.
Eureka Leader: Ruby Valley is un.
doubtedly the most fertile spot in Eastern
Nevada to-day. The ranchers from that
section report an abundance of water in
the lake, and crops and stock doing
splendidly.
Sam Clay, Chief Justice of Oreana
informs the Silver State that the two
stamp mill built by J. J. Wait, at that
place, is running splendidly. 1t brushes
four tons Of ore daily, and as it is run by
water power, the expense is triaing
James H. Kinkead has sued the Reno
Evening Gazette for sl5,0O0 damages for
publishing the speeches made at the
meeting of the creditors of the defunct
Reno Savings Bank Tuesday evening,
and statements in connection with the
failure Kinkepd was the manager of the
bank.
The Reno Journal says: The Board Of
Pardons, which convenes next Monday,
will have its hands full of business. There
are already twelve applicants, with more
the most interest is that of ALT Chartz,
whose former application was unsuccess-
full, but whose present effort will doubt
less have different issue.
The Nevada Monthly says From
what has been said above in regard t.
the situation Of the Comstock, it will b.
seen that nothing is likely to occur dur
ing the present month to cause boom
in the market, but that something mus
happen next month that will either MAKE
things much better or great deal worse
We refer to the opening out of the 2, 4Ot
and 2, 500 levels of the north end mines.
A letter written to the Belmont Courie
| gives the following news of the mines q
Grantsville: The bullion product Of tn
Alexander mill, for the week ending Jul,
9th, was SS,l77.53. The total produc
of the Brooklyn mine for the month 0
June was $2S, 299. 80, the result of eigh
days run Of the mill 40 stamps). This j
the first history of this remarkable mine
Work was commenced on the Goth day Q
May last, and no ore crushed until June
9 The incline is now fifty feet in depth an
gives every indication of richer develop
ments as work advances. The Superin
!, tendent, NJ. San Pedro, assured you
' correspondent that the expenses Of tn
= mine had been unusually small, and whe
\ we consider that the mine is but littl
5 more than thirty days old, the result
certainly wonderful. The total shipmen
for the last month was Sal ,809.O6.
r Ward Reflex: Charley Wisel il
i forms us that new channel has bee
e struck in Osceola, near Jack Irvine
. water tunnel, which is thought to be tn
. = source OF all the gold in Osceola, and o
= which himself and others have locate
. 100 acres Of placer ground and inco1
~ porated it under the name of the "Ol
u Channel Mining Company" Work h,
been commenced, and if the locators Al
I. backed by correct conclusions they wi
e e more than realize the extravagant dream
X of the old 49ers. All the placers belo
the point named are spotted-pays we
,e in places, while in others they are con
N paratively barren. The place where the
Is are at work is between two distinct TO
le nations, and it is not improbable tn,
N the mother vein that many have searche
is for may be found there while workin
!" the placers. Mr.. Wisel says, from son
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