Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-09

Tribute TO the late Geo. r. Dfns-
more-The approaching state Cone
vention-C Changes In the MANAGE
ment of the Nevada Central-Pete
LoveIrs Coal Mine - The " Old
Hickory" Property-Mining and
Other Notes.
From our regular Correspondent
AUSTIN, Nevada, May 5, 1880.
EDITOR SENTNEL:-Our municipal cleo
ton is over and the petty excitement
which rippled the surface Of our usually
quiet burg has subsidized. There were three
tickets in the field with only one to be
elected, therefore two-thirds OF the jubi-
liant candidates Of a few days ago, have
folded their political canvass and taken q
back seat to MUNICH and worry over their
indigestible disappointment. The fortu-
nate elected ones are as follows: Mayor,
Albert Steinbach; Aldermen-First Ward,
M. Finnegan, Thomas L. Brennan and J.
s. Hammond; Second Ward, Joseph s.
Barnard, Charles Lund and J. E. Farrell.
The above named Board of City Fathers
took their chairs in the Council Chamber
last evening and elected the following SUBJ
ordinate city officers: City Marshal, John
Bicknell; City Clerk, Milo Taber; Night
Policeman, N. s. Gallagher; City Treas
urer, James Murray; City Sexton, Patrick
Lyons.
A loud Of sadness was suddenly cast
over this community by the somewhat I'M
expected announcement on last Monday
evening of the death Of our old friend and
respected townsman, George F. Dinsmore.
Mr.. Dinsmore was a Reese River pioneer,
and has stood by Lander county and its
Advancement from its incipiency. On last
Thursday evening Mr.. Dinsmore and fam
lily had just finished exchanging farewells
with their Austin friends and associations
intending on that night to start on a trip
to Oakland, where the family were to re-
side permanently. A few minutes before
train time he was taken i'll and to bed, from
which he never rose. He was unconscious
from. the time he was taken down to the
end, which came after four days sickness.
Lander county, its interests, and citizens
have lost a warm friend in the sudden TAX
ing off of George F. Dinsmore; a vacancy
is left which can hardly be filled. Many
of his actions may have been misconstrued
by those who may have judged neither
wisely nor too well; yet there was always a
halo of charity surrounding his lightest
movement. His enemies were few; friends,
a host; and now that he is laid in his bodv's
last tenement, let us hope for him that he
may be one Of the chosen who shall hear
the promised words Faithful servant,
come up higher"
The Republican side of the population
Of this vicinity is much qui vive and spec
ulation is rife as to what the strength of
the Blaine delegation from this State will
be. From advices received from the differ
emit delegates to the Republican State Con-
vention to be held in this city ON the 18th
inst, it may be reckoned that there will
not be more than one-third proxies out of
the 101 delegates elected to attend. There
is no doubt that Blaine will be well and
earnestly worked for, and that his cause
will be materially benefited by the action
of the Convention next Tuesday.
There has lately been a change in some
of the officers of the Nevada Central Rail-
way. R. Amerman having resigned the
Superintendency and accepted the Office Of
Treasurer. f. W. Dunn. an old railroader
and excellent train dispatcher, well known
on Eastern roads, has been appointed Gen
eral Superintendent of the N. c.. Mr..
Dunn is a railroad man in every way and,
although everything will be up-and up and
on the square, there will be no further op.
p~ortunity for the Stock Report to give US
such another pithy article as was the one
headed GA Pious Railroad" Perhaps not
so many of the N. G. r. r. boys will be in
attendance at the Battle . Mountain
praise meetings and Sunday school;
but, then, it may be all for the
best, for it is said that the railroad boys
played a little possum on the more pious
ones, and didn't always go to the switch of
a Sunday to "speak in meeting"
Mr.. Dunn the new Superintendent, and
Mr.. G. W. Hinchcliffe, the Nevada Cen
trails Secretary, passed through here to-day
on their return from a visit to Grantsville,
lone and Belmont. 1t is reported that
their trip was a paying one, and that much
heavier freight shipments for those points
will go via Austin in the future than in the
past.
Some one says that our old friend Pete
Lowell, Superintendent of The Telegraph
Company at Eureka, has struck aeoal mine
out west Of here some sixty miles, the
exact location is not known, and that he is
about to lay the thing before the Nevada
Central folks. Pete's many friends in this
vicinity will be glad to see the prospect pan
out well, and anxiously await further de-
velopments.
The Old Hickory mining property, re-
ferred to in my last as one of the promi-
nent properties of the Yankee Blade dis
trict, is being rapidly pushed to the front,
and is deservedly attracting much atten-
ton from mining men of experience and
Judgment. 1t has lately been examined by
Eastern experts, who report a ledge nine
feet in width stripped for 200 feet, and
showing fine foot and hanging walls, there
by having every indication of permanency.
They all agree that the Old Hickory is a
mine and not a mere hole in the ground.
The property, 1 am informed, will soon be
placed on the Eastern market, from which
movement the fortunate owners expect to
realize handsomely. 1t is a property
worthy the attention Of capitalists DESTROYS
of investing on a large scale, and one from
which such investors can confidently ex-
pect large interest on their money.
Mr.. E. s. Stokes, who recently purchased
the Victorine mine in Kingston Canyon,
has been in town and about the mine for
the past week. Dave W. Jones, late of Tus-
carora, and a well known mining man, has
been appointed Superintendent of the Vic
torine, and a force Of some twenty men
are to m work in a few days. The
old mill in the canyon is being repaired
and put in order, houses are about to be
erected, and altogether quite a burg Is
liable to show up there in the next few
months.
1t is stated that j. R. Williamson and
| others, who W a mine in Grass Valley,
in this county, have been offered $50, 900
cash for the same. The offer, l believe,
comes from the parties who are interested
in the mill and prospects at Jet district.
There are several representatives of East
ern capital here now and If one-quarter