The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-12-03
STATE ITEMS.

Lyon county is renewing ISIS prosperity
of former years.
Big Meadows farmers are now shipping
potatoes to California.
Nearly all work in Como has been sus-
pended for the Winter.
A Chinaman was run over by V. & I.
engine near the Mint at Carson.
The dry kiln at the Monitor mill, says
the Ward Reflex, was completed Thurs
day last.
The Central Pacific Railroad Company
paid its taxes in Elko county amounting
to $685.
Johnny OKeefe, a l5-year old lad, fell
500 feet down the Eureka Con. shaft,
Sunday last and was instantly killed.
The Sentinel says Contractor Perley of
the E. & C. r. R. has all the men and
teams that he wants; no others need APP
ply.
Kerr, says the Virginia Enterprise, the
doctorer of postage stamps, has not yet
obtained BAIL therefore rests in the
"Bastile."
Dayton Times: 1t is reported that Mr..
Douglass contemplatos building a mill
next Spring on the site of the old Carson
Valley mill, about five miles below Day
ton. 1t is also said that a contract for
A g ,,,oa,l IN ha Io1ivara1 nt
that point next season has been let, and
that the wood is now being cut.
Ward Reflex: +. p. Pilkington who
had his eyes blown out and was otherwise
severely injured by the accident in the
Martin White tunnel, February 4th,
1880, writes to Henry Hip and M. j..
Garaghan from Alexis, Illinois, under
date of November llth, 1881. Dick is
even cheerful under the circumstances.
Ward Reflex: The ore encountered in
the Madre improves in quality as the
tunnel advances, and the hope is enter
tanned that ore of much higher grade
will soon be found. The ore body has
been penetrated forty feet to date, the
tunnel is still entirely in ore and the stu
alton is decidedly interesting.
J. r. Middleton, who killed the Hon.
Geo. Blair in White Pine county last
Spring with a pocket-knife, was con-
victed of manslaughter in the District
Court at Hamilton and sentenced to five
years in the State Prison, by Judge
Rives. c. w. Heath, for assault, was
also sentenced to one year, and ID. A.
Baxter, for grand larceny, to two years
in the State Prison.
Elko Independent: 1t is reported here
that vein of coal, two feet wide, was
struck on the east side of Dixie Valley,
about seven miles from Bullion, Railroad
District, some time ago, and that shaft,
now about twenty feet in depth, is being
sunk upon it. The coal taken from the
shaft is said to burn freely, and the pros.
pect of developing valuable bed of fuel
very hattering.
Virginia Enterprise; Not all the steel
wire hosting cables in use on the Com
stock are manufactured IN the East
Some of the best cables now in use here
are made at our mines. The steel wire
is brought from the Atlantic States anc
the cables are constructed on the lode
At the c. and c. shaft we, a few day
since, saw in process Of. construction
6rst-class steel wire cable 2700 feet il
length. As they themselves and thei
friends are liable to be lowered ant
hoisted on the cable it may be guessed
that no part of the work of constructing
it was sighted, yet two men were abb
to weave sixty feet per day. In the Eas
Indifferent persons might slight splice
and other parts of the work, but it is SAT
to say that nothing is sighted here a
the mines. A man is not likely to Sigh
a thing on which the integrity of hi