Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-24

Main street, Bodie, is SAT- feet above
the sea.
J. W. Orndorff has left the Comstocl
for New Mexico.
The Idaho Legislature meets on the 18th
OF next month.
There are 20, 200 cords of wood piled in
the outskirts Of Bodie.
Millions of grasshopper eggs have been
laid around Nephi, Utah.
Cotton has been successfully grown in
the Salt river valley, Arizona.
The Paymaster mine, near Boise City,
Idaho, is showing some fine ore.
Many emigrants from California are 60
ing into the southern part OF Oregon.
The winter terminus of the Utah North
ern will probably be at Camp creek, Mon
tana.
The Avalanche has seen q $685. 80 brick
as the result Of q small crushing from the
Republic mine.
1t is believed that the Northern Pacific
will cross the main range In Montana
through Priest Pass.
Cheyenne says q thousand cars Of stock
could be loaded at once at that station if
cars could be found.
Rosetta, a three.year-old Wheatley colt,
raised at Ukiah, CAL, was recently sold for
81 200, and taken East.
Olympia, Washington Territory, claims
the largest increase of population OF any OF
the Territorial towns.
The Manhattan mill at Austin, during
the month of October, reduced $50 tons of
ore, which yielded $l85, 965.
The Parratt copper mine, at Butte, Mon
tana, is about to put in a new smelter, and
expend $50. 900 OF their works.
The Anglo-American Stock Company
have located a ranch, with $500 head Of
cattle, on the Tongue river, in Custer
county, Montana.
During the past summer more buildings
were erected in Butte than in any other
town in Montana. Almost every third
house in town is a new one.
The bond on the Deer Tail mine. near
Phoebe, having recently expired, Jack Gill
mer gave the owners of said property SIS 900
to extend the bond ninety days longer.
F~reighters who nave recently arrived at
Rawlings, Wyoming, from White river, re-
port everything quiet at that point. and
building of quarters going on rapidly.
The " Mammoth Farm" in Washington
Territory, comprises 60, 900 acres Of wheat
land, Of which 20, 900 are fenced. The
crop this season is estimated at 400, 900
bushels of wheat.
Joe Petty, who went from Silver City,
Idaho, to Arizona, recently. writes to his
friends at the former place that he is moi
pleased with the new country, and expects
to return soon.
Nineteen hundred locations nave been
recorded in the Wood River District this
season. The number will no doubt reach
two thousand before Christmas, should the
weather continue favorable.
There are quite a number of idaho and
Montana miners in Salt Lake at present.
They claim to have made money last sum-
mer, and see a bright future for themselves
and the districts in which they have been
operating.
Plans for the proposed Insane Asylum
have been submitted to the Nevada Board
of Commissioners, by Mr.. A. Cook, of Sac
ramento. 1t is planned to use the walls OF
the State Prison at Reno in the construc-
ton OF the Asylum.
Lately four COW boys took San Simon,
Pima county, Arizona, by storm, and by
dint of firing their revolvers were in full
possession, having chased everybody out.
One of the s. P. R. R. engineers was forced
to take to the bush, leaving his engine in
their hands. but as the fire was out, they
could not use it.
The Madisonian (Montana) says that the
placer mining operations in Alder gulch,
during the season just closed, have been
very satisfactory to the claim owners. The
yield Of gold dust has been somewhat in
excess of that of last year, and the miners
have plethoric wallets to gladden. their
hearts after their arduous labors.
A fine silver ledge, eight feet in width,
has been struck in the east crosscut, 600
level, OF the Con. Pacific mine, at Bodie,
and a drift is now being run south in the
ledge, next to the west or hanging wall.
The ledge has a slight inclination to the
west, and the west wall is thirty-one feet
east Of the shaft. The ore next to the
hanging wall is of a high grade, carrying