The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-03-26
COMMUNICATION.
SILVER REEF. March %, lSs

SILVER REEF, March %, 1881.
Ed. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, the usual
companion of Liberty, is somewhat
scarce commodity" in Silver Reef. The
miners have no orators, neither writers,
to defend them in the pending struggle.
consequently they have got to bear the
weight of keen writers who, beyond
doubt, are hired to blacken their names
in every possible manner. This, indeed,
is obvious, judging from the editorials
which certain papers bring to the surface
day after day. 1t is a strange state Of
affairs when writers of this stamp can be
hired who ignore the moral laws in order
to attain filthy lucre. If ever there ex-
listed in any mining camp on the Pacific
Slope peaceable men-honest, industrious
and frugal-they can be found among the
Miners Union of Silver Reef The
motto which can be seen as you enter
their hall is: "Be Just and Fear Not.
1t is true, they quietly escorted Mr.. Allen
out of town. But what of it? Is that
the reason that they are murderers and
vagabonds, as has been asserted by these
certain newspapers? Does it not behoove
the workingmen to defend themselves
against the monopolists, who are as hard
hearted as the Rock of Gibraltar?
MINER.
1.-THE strike at Silver Reef is terminal
ing just as We predicted it would to mem
bers of the Miners Union. True, the
miners have rights; so have other people.
The members of the Union went alto
gether too far when they usurped the
law and "quietly escorted Col. Allen out
of town." thereby bringing odium upon
their organization, and disgrace to the
citizens of Silver Reef for permitting such
an act to be committed. True, monopo-
lists are hard hearted; but they are not
any more hard-hearted than the working
men are, when they have it in their power
to be so. The Miners Union, in driving
Col. Allen from the Reef, cut its own
throat, and will have to abide the conse-
quences. -RECoRDl.
A CLIMBING Doc. Phoebe has the
champion climbing dog. A couple Of
days ago Dick Gordon went up to the
Burke tunnel, entered it distance of 400
feet, then went down winze 100 feet,
and went some distance in the drift at
that station, where chloriders were at
work, for the purpose of getting several
rich specimens that had been promised
him. The men had been sitting in the
tunnel talking for quite while, when
they were all startled by the appearance
of Dicks big dog among them. The dog,
missing his master, traced him to the
tunnel, entered an crossed the different
wines along the route till he came to the
right one. There is jump-off of six feet
to small shelf, where the top of the
ladder rests, and at the bottom of the
ladders, which are very near perpendiou-
lar, is a plank across the winze, for the
men to step off on. The dog climbed
down the 100 feet of ladders in safety.
When coming up rope was tied around
his dogship and a couple of man started
for the top to hoist him out, but they
had no more than reached the landing,
when the dog was at ther side, bringing
the rope along with him.
THE affairs of the Day Company are
progressing nicely. and we learn that al
the arrangements have been ratified by
the Trustees and work will be pushed
ahead as rapidly as possible.
QUITE an assortment of personal prop
erty, formerly owned by the Hillside
Company and ]. N Curtis, was sold yes
terday by the Sheriff at Bristol.
A GOOD assortment of Spectacles ant
Eye Glasses at the Golden Rule" DR.,
Goods and Clothing Store. I. LYMAN
HORN SILVER MINE.-In speaking o
the Horn Silver mine Of Frisco, tn
"Utah Southern Times" says: Durin,
this forenoon Times reporter called a
the private Office Of manager Hill, an,
upon inquiring as to the development
for the past week, learned from him tina
most of the working force at the min
had been laid off temporarily on accoun
of the failure of the railroad company t
furnish motive power to haul away tn
ore from the mine. Not only the eigh
mammoth bins holding hundreds of ton
each, but every available dump outsid
and even the mine itself is full to over
flowing, so that all work now being done
is Of some dead character. Just think c
: it A mine so productive as to turn GU
ore faster than it can be railroaded away
This is the condition of affairs at present
Major Hill informs us that they hav
J drifted between 25 and 30 feet and cross
/, cut south. They are carrying the sout
drift south on the vein all the way in ore
, Surveyor Buettner is now engaged i
. making complete survey Of the mine.
DR.. Albert Delaney, negro of pur
blood and six feet tall, who says he wa
born in Sierra Leone in 1850, and tn;
1 | h;c fo%bor who 10 1IA voaro old 10 No,