Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-06-04
The NEW RAILROAD unpEE WAY.-About

The NEW RAILROAD UNDER WAY.-Abou
$50 men are now employed on the new uar
row guage road at one dollar day aud board.
They are we'll lodged and fed. Numbers OF
men who have recently been discharged from
the mines have joined the pick and shove
brigade aid there are new applicants daily.
No more applicants will De received, at pres
ent as the number employed is sufficient.
About one hundred Chin men have been put
to work near Walker Lake, barren and arid
stretch of country already described in the
APPEAL. When the road il completed it can
not help but benefit Carson by opening up q
vast mineral bearing district which will de-
pend upon Carson az source of its supply.
Prospecting can always be carried Old, a
hundred and fifty miles from the terminus
Of the road, and AS the road reaches sonth-
ward the country to be prospected which
may now be considered virgin oil will be
prospected and developed.
A FLux OF TELsGRAAs. Within the past
few days the telegraph operators have been
worked almost to death receiving the dis
patches from the Chicago Convention. Car
son has been well supplied With information
Oh the subject. The APPEAL and Times now,
take tn. regular Associate Press dispatches
and in addition to this number OF citizens
not knowing of this dubbed together and
paid $50 for the reports Of the Convention by
telegraph, these were posted up as fast as re.
ceived in front of the Court House, and sur
rounded by anxious crowds. On Wednesday
the Times issued An extra, and yesterday the
APPEAr issued ane 'ac. and these extras were
snapped up on t.. streets like hot cakes.
In addition to the regular Associate Press dis
patches the APPEAL received special dispatch
from member Of the Illinois delegation rela-
tive to the inside workings of the Convention
which reached no other paper in the State
PEKsoNAL.--W. S. Byrne, C@esier of the
Mint, returned from Sacramento yesterday
where he had been absent about.
month atten, et.t upon the bedside of his
who was supposed to be dying.
Within the past week however she i'm
proved so materially that tie physicians ad
7ised him to return to Carson, considering
hat the patient had passed the critical point |
New CANvAssER. A. Hamburg has been
appointed to solicit subscriptions for the AP |
ZEAL in Carson. Genoa and Empire. Parties
eeing him pass the house are expected to
ush out with their names and a handful of !
money. That is the only correct way to treat
canvasser.
Mr.. E. G. Johnston, formerly city editor OF |
he San Joss Mercury. has taken charge of the |
ocal department of the T:-scs, and began his |
uties with the first issus OF the Times as an
vening paper. Mr.. Johnston is an industrious
nd experienced reporter and writes with
eady PEI.
DEPARTURES The following passengers de- [
arted per southern stage yesterday morning:
I. Wa :, H. Butts, John Gilroy. ]. Lo-
z, Nj, Said, James Commerford, j.
Iennesey, 4. B. Winsox, ID. Gogsin, W.
:. Heinz, Il. NJ. Eddy.
As the Chicago Convention is the absorb
,g topic a: present, good deal of space has
seq given to our telegraphic news and there
as been less local in consequence. For the
resent Chicago has the CALL -----.---~-----
ARsIvALs.-Ths following passengers ar
we'd per southern stage yesterday afternoon:
oil. A. G. Dunn, Judge F. K. Bechtel, r.
!. Brown, Mrs. F. D. Higson, G.. B. Plat,
[rs. E. d. Langley. r.