The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-11-05
STATE ITEMS.

The Supreme Court term commenced
on the Sd instant.
The Reveille estimates the grain yield
of Lander county, for which Austin is
the market, at 800 ions,
The Tuscarora Times Review will here
after be published weekly instead OF
daily. Cause, dull times in that camp.
The Gold Hill News says the ore in the
breasts of the lG4O level of the Savage
shows marked improvement as it is fol-
lowed upward.
The Winnemucca Silver State tells of
a man who carried a piece of quartz in
his leg for twelve years, it having been
blown there by blast.
The Census Bureau at Washington
furnishes the following as the creal pro-
duct of the State for the year 1880: Bar
ley, 10, 399 acres, 5l3,47 bushels; corn,
4S7 acres, 1881 bushels; oats, 5,937
acres, lS6,S60 bushels; wheat, 1914
acres, 60, 29s bushels.
The Reno Journal says John Mcguire,
the Central Pacific mail agent detected
in robbing the mails, has been unable to
furnish the 1000 bond required and will
| have to stay in the Ormsby County Jail
until the United States District Court
meets in February next.
The Austin Reveille learns that M.
San Pedro and partner have made con-
tract in San Francisco for the construc-
ton of 20-stamp mill at Gold Park,
which is situated about 40 miles west of
Austin, to be completed ready for use by
the first day of January next. The mill
will be started with ten stamps.
Tuscarora Times Review: 1t is again
confidently reported that the White
Rocky group of mines are sold to an
English company. The patents for
the twenty mines included in the
group have been issued, and there is
now little or no doubt but what the pur-
chase money will soon be paid over. So
say the anxious ones. We hope the re-
port will prove true, but there are many
a "slip twixt the cup and the lip"
Virginia Enterprise: United States
District Judge Hillyer, of Carson, is SO
ill that his physician recommends rest
of at least six months from all mental
labor 1t was reported that DR.. Bronson
had prounced the Judges illness soften
ing Of the brain. DR.. Bronson denies
that he said this. He says, however,
that the Judge has serious brain trouble
and should rest from mental work for sew.
eral months.
Ward Reflex: Tom Sutherland and N.
B. Dunton discovered ledge in Cooper
District last week, between Cooper Pass
and Steptoe Creek, ore from which assays
$3.50. They are we'll pleased with the
prospect and work will be commenced at
once. 1t appears that there is a continu-
GUS mineral belt running through Ne
vada, Cooper and Taylor districts, dis
lance of fully fifteen miles.
The Reflex says the people of Ward
have somehow got it into their heads
that the ore body encountered is mar.
velously rich, and in that respect nc
mine anywhere approaches it,. also that
the ore body is very large, but, of course,
they don't know it for fact. The Su.
perintendent is evidently more than sat
isfied with what is in sight, but prefers
to underestimate rather than make &
mistake on the other side.
The Lyon County Times has the fol
lowing in regard to the little red fent
that slaughters the mighty grasshopper
"The grasshoppers of Churchill county
were killed by small red bug or louise
The insect was very small, but on SOM
of the grasshoppers they were so numer
GUS as to give them a red color. Some
times immense flights would rise from
field which they were devastating ant
fly to great hight, and a shower tina
looked like red dust would fall from
them"
| Articles of incorporation of the Nevad
Midland Railway Company, with capita
stock at S5,000,O0O divided into so, OO
shares, have been filed in the office of tn
Secretary of State. 1t is to be con
structed from a point on the easter
boundary line of the State of Nevada il
White Pine county, to and through tn
counties of White Pine, Eureka, Nye
Lander, Churchill, Lyon, Douglas, Is
meralda, Ormsby and Washoe, to poin
on the western boundary line of tn
State, in the county of Douglas.
. Belmont Courier: While two youn
Indians were playing football in Eas
Belmont on Tuesday last, they found
{ stocking partly filled with gold coli
} They took it to the nearest wikiup, an
in few hours the coin was divided b.
: tween the men, women and children
> the Shoshone tribe who happened to |
: in this section at the time of the disco
: cry. Some of the Indians say that Il
E money found amounted to about $40
l while others claim that the amount WI
Q not less than $1,000. At any rate IL
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