The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-02-26
STATE ITEMS.

The Herald, of Aurora, gives a good
accotnt of Gold Mountain. oh
At Saltwater, Churchill county, an as
ISOLATION Of ranchers are sinking an ar
tesian we'll LID,
A hurdy-house is in course of erection
at Cherry Creek. This is sure sign OF
a prosperous town.
1t is the general feeling of the people
throughout the State that the salary law
should be repealed. y
| A Washington dispatch says the ap-
pointment of Joseph MeMasters, of New
York, as the Agent for the Nevada
Indian Agency has been recently con-
| firmed.
White Pine News Our opium tiends
they are not native element, but i'm
| ported were little shy the first few
| days of the week. A few Of them have
returned to their native jungle at the
Base Range.
Senator Hobart has introduced bill
to fix the rates for official advertising.
1t provides for a charge Of g. so per
square for the first insertion and 81 for
each subsequent insertion. This is no
more than a fair rate, and the bill should
become law. 1r
Eureka Sentinel: The complaints
against the salary law are daily becoming
more general, and lawyers and litigants
alike unite in denouncing it. There is
no doubt but that it works greet injustice,
and the present Legislature would do .
good act should they repeal it.
Carson Appeal: A Chinaman was
circulating about the Capitol building
yesterday with plethoric sack to choke
off any legislation which might be
sprung on the tan games. The Chinese
are willing to spend 5000 to squash the
proposition.
The White Pine News says that the
Chinaman who killed Jerry Sullivan and
wounded Danny Mann, upon hearing
before the Justice of the Peace of Cherry
Creek, the burden of the evidence going
to show that he only defended his castle
IA dugout) and his home from midnight
attack, was discharged.
The Con. Virginia mine has produced
1854, $40, 777.95 in bullion, and paid $42,
930, 900 in dividends, and the California
mine has produced SAG, 1856, 1891. A, in
bullion and paid S3l, $4,000 in divi.
dends, making a combined product of
Sill, 707, Cos and S74, $50, 900 in divi-
dends.
The aneroid barometer with which Ed.
Raum has been taking elevations on his
way from Hamilton to this place, shows
that Hamilton is S,400 feet above the
level of the sea, Toll House $3.50, Hal
stead's 1850, Dutch Jake's 1900, Sierra
Valley $3.50, Cedars 1000, Robinson
Summit $3.50, Mineral City $3.50, Ely
$500. Ward s, 2O0.-[Ward Reflex.
Lyon County Times The officials of
Esmeralda county threaten to resign in
. body. Last month the Sherif,s ex-
penses exceeded his salary by $3.50, and
the experience of some Of the other Of
ficials was somewhat similar. The Dis
trict Attorney is said to have resigned
already, and the other officials will
probably initiate his example unless the
salary law is amended to their salts
faction.
Gold Hill News: The day after resum-
ing work in the south header of the Su-
tro tunnel they made about five feet,
when the men were called away to work
at some other point for time. The next
morning the foreman went to the front
to measure the work and came back with
his hair standing on hand. His measure
ment showed chat there was no five feet
advance at I'll. The clay had swollen
out and left them just where they
started. If he had not measured just
when he did they would have come out
four or five feet behind,