The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-03-26
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| Washoe Lake.
Gold Hill News: Ben Smith and his
Fremont gun "Betsey" declare that
Mackay and Fair are both likely to be in
Virginia before the month is out.
Lyon County Times: The Ludwig cop
per furnace is now running successfully.
About 35 tons of ore per day are worked,
| and the closeness of the working Is very
satisfactory to the managers.
The bonanza kings have not given up
their fight to escape paying the penalties
that they incurred through the non-pay-
ment of the tax on the proceeds Of the
California and Con. Virginia mines.
Virginia Enterprise Ernest Burke, of
of this city, day before yesterday sold
his interest in the Snow Point garvel
mine, Nevada county, Cal, to party of
San Francisco capitalists for $40, 900.
Eureka Sentinel: Robert Hall, miner
Oh Prospect Mountain, had his hand
nearly blown off yesterday afternoon by
the explosion of stick of giant powder
which he was endeavoring to thaw out.
There are four prisoners in the Hum:
boldt County jail at present, two serving
sentences for petty larceny, one for debt,
and one, a Chinaman, who is awaiting
examination upon a charge of selling
woman.
Washoes of more or less veracity say
that the reason why so few trout are
caught in the river above Wadsworth
now, is that the Piutes have dam near
the mouth of the river, which stops the
fish from coming up.
From a friend, says the Silver State,
we learn that the mining troubles at
Lewis have been amicably settled. The
Miners Union carried its point, and
about forty miners have been or will be
put to work at $4 per day.
DR.. Hogan of Reno has purchased the
press recently used in the State Printing
| office at Carson. 1t is to be used in
printing the new paper to be started by
him in Reno, and has already been
shipped. The paper is to be run in the
interest of the Greenback party.
Reno Gazette: c. H. Merrill is now
running" the chicken ranch north of
the Fair grounds. He matches out
chickens in hot-air incubators. Four
weeks ago he Matched out It's chickens
from 200 eggs, and yesterday he got 100
chickens from 10 eggs. Tomorrow an
other hundred chickens will be fighting
their way out of the shell. The chicks
which were Matched four weeks ago are
looking we'll.
Gold Hill News: People from Silver
City say men are making good deal of
money there by mining and milling rock
from the surface or near the surface.
Scheel is doing remarkably well with his
mine. The arastras and mills along the
canyon are all busy. A bowlder weigh
ing 3, l60 pounds was recently milled
from near Silver City, and yielded over
$500 in gold. Another from near the
same place, and weighing 1000 pounds,
gave $97 in gold. Men have been running
around these rocks for years, and there
are more of the same sort left.
Enterprise: About 10 o'clock last night
a huge cloud mass Of inky blackness at.
tracted general attention. Crowds col
lected upon the streets to look at it. 1t
was about the blacklist patch of vapor
ever seen, and there were many con-
lectures as to what it might portend.
From knowledge of the extent of the
mountain ranges over which the cloud
stretched an observer estimated it to be
over 300 miles long and sixty miles wide.
1t was all of that For long time per-
sons were pouring out of saloons and
other places of public resort to see what
was called "the devil in the sky"
Lee Winnemucca, who, with othe,
Piutes, was taken to Yakima, at the close
Of the Bannock war; writes from that
place to Matches, the Piute Chief, as fol
lows: "The agent at Fort Simcoe inform:
me that the snow is very deep in Nevada
and as am very anxious about our PEG
pie, l want all the particulars. Fathe
WILDER wants us to remain here, but al
Inspector who came here, and to whom
gave all the facts relating to our remova
to this place, says he will do all he cal
to help us. We want to get back to GU
home, as our people are dying off rapidly
We get all We want to eat, but it is yer,
hard for us to get clothes We want t,
return to our own country, so do wha
, you can for us. Our hearts are heavy
and / think if you work hard for us W,