Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-12-05
STATE AND TOAST.

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the Bay.
Coal retails On the Comstock at ten cents
per pound.
Lovely weather along Puget Sound, and
as yet no rain.
John D. Baldwin, Of Virginia City has
gone to Mexico.
There are now twenty life ~convicts in
the Nevada State Prison.
The purchasing price of fine silver at
the Carson Mint is 81 -.
At Reno beef cattle are selling at four
and a-half cents per pound.
Mrs. Senator J. P. Jones and family will
spend the winter at Gold Hill.
There were %forty-nine deaths in Salt Lake
during the month Of November.
Gold is known to exist in over fifty To-
c~alities in the Territory Of New Mexico.
The Chinese in Grass Valley are circu-
lating bogus SIS pieces of the date of 1S43.
Fifty carloads of rails for the Carson &
Colorado Railroad, arrived the other day.
The mining camps of Utah seem to be
suffering from the fire fiend to an unusual
extent.
Ore will be encountered in the crosscut
in the Martin White tunnel by the first Of
January.
There are no potatoes in Idaho City.
Never before was that healthy article not
to be had there.
Last Friday, twelve miles from San Ber-
nardino, John Ayres shot himself in the
heart with a rifle.
R. R. Brouner, Special Agent of the
Census Office, is On the Comstock taking a
look at the mines.
The wife Of @. J. Hillyer, now in Wash
ington, has presented her lord with twins
"a boy and a girl.
Several young men living about the di-
vide between Virginia and Gold Hill are
preparing to go to Arizona.
The jury in the case of the State vs..
Thos. Parker, who was indicted for bur-
glary, brought in a verdict Of guilty.
Miners from the north are seeking COM
Portable winter quarters in Salt Lake.
They appear to be well supplied with due
ats.
The Arizona Concentration Company
has sent fifty men through Yuma to their
extensive placer grounds at Plomoso, near
Gutenberg.
The Enterprise says q gang of Chinese
placer miners sold gold to the Carson Mint
to the value Of 90, 900. They did, only
they didn't.
The Bodie-Staudard News has passed
into the hands Of H. 8. Crocker 4 Co., Of
Sacramento, who were large creditors Of
the concern.
Frank Chagnon is building a telegraph
line between Bodie and Mill Greek. He
expects to have it in operation by the first
of next month.
A short time ago three Mexican cut
Threats attempted to enter q store in Santa
Fe, New Mexico, and n Of them was shot
through the heart.
The Nevada Bank sold 100. 900 ounces Of
silver to the Government on Saturday, for
delivery at the San Francisco Mint, at
SLIPS per ounce.
F. Anthony, the well-known booKbinder
of Virginia City. expects to soon remove
his business to Carson. He 10 Q thorough
workman in his line.
Lew Meder, who Yves accidentally shot
at Carson, is doing well, but is not yet out
of danger. His wound has shown but lit
tie Inflammation as yet.
Salt Lakers who have been looking at
Butte, predict that it will be the largest
mining town on the Pacific Coast, r~ivaling
Virginia in its palmiest days.
MIR. Watson is in Reno from Pyramid.
He reports good fishing at the lake. Three
or four white men are fishing there for the
market. The average catch is sixty pounds
a day each.
Those Of our people who 60 to Arizona
| will do well to steer clear Of Tombstone.
A private letter from that camp says there
are about 5000 miners there, and only
work for about 400.
The delinquent tax list of Storey county
for the year 1880, has been turned over to
the Auditor. The total amount of taxes
levied this year was 1882, 223.l14. OF
this sum $40, 74S.57h are delinquent.
The tailings mills of the Comstock have
been shut down for the winter. This
throws 225 men out Of employment. The
Chronicle says most Of the mills are closed
permanently. as the tailings fail to pay ex-
penses.
The Truckee Republican say an order
has been issued from railroad headquar-
| tiers %forbidding more than seventeen cars
being hauled by one engine up the mount
aims. The object is to allow Of regular
time being made.
Saws the Lassen Advocate: The fall has
been SO dry that but little blowing can be
done. This will doubtless be a drawback
to the wheat crop next year, as the fall
sown wheat is the principal reliance where
irrigation is impracticable. The ground is
frozen so deep that no plowing can be done
before spring.
Salmon fishing on the Columbia river,
Oregon. is very dangerous, owing to GER.
tain tidal peculiarities. Two hundred
men, at least, are reported as lost during
the past season. Over eight hundred
and fifty boats are employed BY the cam
ming companies, and over four thousand