The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-04
STATE ITEMS.

dozen cases of smallpox on the COmatock.
Dayton, for long time under o cloud
is getting to be quite brisk little town.
Track-laying has been commenced or
the Nevada aud Oregon Narrov-guagc
road.
N. Wcscoatt, says the Sentinel, haq
charge of the surveying for the Eureka
& Colorado Railroad Company.
Times are so hard in Virginia that the
Enterprise cautions its readers against
too close inspection Of counterfeit coins.
urging that everything helps in dull
times.
Times are rather tough at Silver City
just now. 4 Silvcritc says nearly half
the houses in the place are vacant, and
for most that are occupied no rent is
paid.
The Silver State learns from reliable
source that company has been organized
for the purpose Of shipping dressed beef
and other meats from Winnemucca to
San Francisco.
Ward Reflex: j. L. Middleton, charged
with killing Geo. G.. Blair in Osceola, had
q preliminary examination Saturday last
and was admitted to bail in the sum of
SO, 900 to appear before the next Grand
Jury.
Eureka Sentinel: The Dug Out mine,
situated on the western slope of Prospect
Mountain, and owned by Mike Lyons,
was bonded to Messrs. Billings and
Springer, Eastern capitalists, for the sum
of $5O0o0
The Gold Hill News says letters ad-
dressed to people in Hawthorne are
stopped at the Carson Postoffice. They
will be sent to the Dead Letter Office I'M
less called for. Letters and packages
sent by express will be delivered in Haw-
thorne.
Reno Gazette, May %: Track laying
on the Nevada and Oregon railway was
commenced to-day. The first spike was
driven at 600 o'clock by Engineer Nc
Clellan, and the work will proceed rapid
ly. A large amount of iron, spikes and
ties is on hand
Ward Reflex: From VIM. Peters, who
has been stopping at Silver Canyon for
some time past, we learn that &C tons of
ore worked in Dr. Brooks mill went Sl33
to the ton. Another report has reached
here by letter that forty tons were put
through that produced $50 to the ton. In
either case the showing is not bad. All
that is lacking is plenty of ore.
The Reno Journal says an investigation
of the charges against a conductor on the
Humboldt division of the Central Pacific
Railroad, who was alleged to have at
tempted violence upon the little daughter
of Mrs. Nancy A. Hamilton, while en-
route East, upon an emigrant car, has
proved that there was no foundation
whatever in the charge.
Tuscarora Times Review: The ground
is black with young grasshoppers at the
upper end of the Spanish ranch, in In
dependence Valley. although, we believe
there are none in great numbers in any
other place in this vicinity. It is to be
hoped that they will leave the valley be-
fore their teeth are sufficiently grown to
enable them to masticate the heritage.
Belmont Courier: Henry Raymond of
Pahranagat, formerly of the Raymond &
Ely mine. visited the Barcelona at Span
ish Belt Monday, in company with w.
L. Leon After a thorough examination
of the property and its resources, Mr..
Raymond pronounced it magnificent
mine. With its extensive bodies Of ore,
water-power and other facilities, he is
satisfied that it is one of those mining
ventures that will pay Eastern stock
holders fair dividends for years to come.
The Carson Index says Assuming
that all the amounts, now proposed, will
be taken IRON the fund, we find an aggre-
gate of $500, 900 coin which will be miss.
ing from our irreducible and Sacred
School Fund. On the lst of January,
1879, the School Fund contained of coin
and securities not far from $780, 900 AS
a State we have broken faith with regard
to the preservation of the school moneys,
and are rapidly exhausting the entire
fund that by the constitution is sacredly
devoted to educational purposes.
A large number of sheep are dying in
the eastern part of Humboldt county, so
A. D. Wilcox informs the Silver State
from eating wild parsnip and other
poisonous weeds. The stalk of the
parsnip is not poisonous, but the ground
is so soft in many places along the river
that cattle and sheep will pull up the
roots when feeding on the stalks and eat
them. As general think they die from
the effects of the poisonous root in few
hours but many of them live from TWEEN.
ty-four to thirty-six hours. Wild parsnip
kills horses and cattle as we'll a. sheep. ;,
Eureka Sentinel: Judge Rives yester-
day morning rendered his decision upon
the Salary Law passed by the Legislature
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