The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-16
STATE ITEMS.
Lyon oounty's tax rate this year will
be 3.05 on each 500.

A ten stamp mill is to be erected a
Aurora, and the Herald predicts boon
for that camp when it gets finally a
work.
Diaz, the Mexican shot at Tuscarora
is, contrary to expectation, improving
and it is now thought that his wound
will not prove fatal.
The Appeal has authority for the state
ment that there will soon be reduction
of forces and saleries on the V. & 7. r.
r. in all the departments.
Hobart, the V. & T. R. r. conductor,
who mysteriously disappeared from Car
son some two years ago. is said to be en-
ployed on railroad in Peru.
The Supreme Court declared the Act
passed by the last Legislature, increasing
the Communication of time granted prison
ers for good behavior, unconstitutional.
The Commissioners of Lyon county
have sold bonds to the amount of $25, 900,
payable in not less than five nor more
fifteen years. at 8 per cent. per annum in
! terest.
A postoffice has been established at
Gold Mountain, Esmsralda county, with
S. H. Squire as Postmaster. The post
office at Hot Creek, Nye county, has been
discontinued.
The Eureka Sentinel says the E. & P.
Railroad Company is about starting a
surveying party to the southwark. The
object is TO look out the feasibility of an
extension in that direction.
Or Tuesday night, says the Grants.
vile Bonanza, an opium den, just above
Gage g. Co.'S lumber yard, was leveled
to the ground by parties who considered
it nuisance.
The Postoffice Department having OBJ.
jected to the name of "Silver Canyon,
in White Pine county, the people of that
place took vote on it and decided to
call the place "Aurum."
Eureka Sentinel: The first installment
of mining tools and provisions was yes.
terday sent out to the Geddes & Bertrand
mine at Silver Canyon. Active mining
operations will be commenced at once.
Enterprise: The lower levels of the
mines are now much more comfortable
than they were week ago. The air has
been much less close and dead ever since
the late light fall of rain.
Elko Independent: A deposit of mineral
soap, similar to the Elko article, has been
discovered in one of the canyons on the
other side of Independence Valley, and
Tuscarora bids fair to rival in the near
future, the celebrity Of Soapville in the
manufacture of the latters principal ex-
port.
Virginia Enterprise: The Northern
Belle Mining Company not only continues
to declare dividends, but have now be-
come so robust as to achieve twins. They
yesterday declared regular dividend Of
fifty cents per share and an extra dividend
of twenty-five cents per share--a dividend
an after-afterthought.
The Enterprise has received letter
from Robert E. Sheeran, Agent of Miles
Orton's Great Mastodon Show" Hart.
ford, Ohio county, Kentucky, who wants
to know if the owner of the herd of
camels running on the range, between
Dayton on the Carson river, will sell any
of his animals. He is ready and anxious
to buy.
Eureka Leader: Evidently the festive
Bengal tiger was laboring under very
unlucky star last evening. and from all
reports he was very roughly handled by
the sporting element Of the base range
jungles. One of our prominent games
had over 81 300 drawn out at it, and the
boys seem to have tapped it all along the
line, for sums reaching from $50 to sew
eral hundred dollars.
In noticing the Manhattan company,
the Reveille says: During the past week
the mill has reduced l54 tons and |, 1875
pounds of the assay value OF S4S,4lS.6l.
Vi this amount 81 l, 235. 26 is from custom
ores, SIS, 02364 from tribute ores, S..
SS5. 80 from Curtis shaft and Sl3,274.4l
from Ruby incline.
Esmeralda Herald: Thursday and yes
terday there was not Piute, young or
old, to be seen on our streets. They had
heard of the breaking out among their
tribe at Walker Lake of the small. pox,
and left for Bodie to get vaccinated
Some OF them signifed their intention Of
rmainino in Cal;forc;o ,,.&;l A.. Ill.,.
had left Nevada.
The Silver State says: Both mills are
now running at Lewis, and another mill
is to be built Immediately. New build.
ings are going up in every direction.
Superintendent Boutwell,, Of the Starr
and Grove, has just completed very
fne residence, and Joseph Hill is build.
ing large house. The camp is one OF
the most prosperous in the State.
Reno Journal: The miners of Cotton.
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