The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-02-19
STATE ITEMS.

1t appears that nearly twice as man
married as single men are employed il
the mines of the Comstock.
At 2 o'clock Saturday morning tn
Mexican dam at Empire gave way, doinI
a slight damage and necessitating tn
temporary closing down of the Mexican
mill.
A meeting of newspaper proprietors
of Nevada, will probably be called a
Carson for the last Sunday in Febru
airy, to talk over matters of import
ance.
General John R. Kittrell has gone tt
Arizona, and will be absent severa
weeks. If the outlook is at all encour
aging he will undoubtedly locate in til,
Territory.
The new town in Mason Valley, thi.
side of the first crossing of Walker
river, is appropriately to be called Mason
after !" Hook" Mason himself, for whom
the valley was named.
Elko Independent: S. Wenban, o.
Cortez District, shipped west Tuesday
twenty-five tons of bullion, valued al
$500 1t was from ore reduced at hi,
mill in that District
Several carloads of rails and one O.
bolts and plates passed through Whine
mucca Friday for the Galena and Lewis
narrow gauge railroad, which is now
being built by the owners of the Starr
Grove mine.
White Pine News Now that Cherry
Creek promises to become the next
booming camp Of Eastern Nevada, we
wonld suggest that the proposed
Eureka and Colorado River Railroad
route be changed so as to come through
Egan Canyon instead of Hercules Gap.
Carson Appeal Closely calculating
astronomers, of which class one resides
in this city, predict that this planet will
in measure lose its equilibrium, and per.
haps be completely annihilated sometime
between the first of April and the latter
days of May. Yet in the face of this
fearful possibility, the Bonanza people
desire the repeal of the Bullion Tax
law"
Enterprise +: L. B. Hastings is in from
the Walker River country, where he has
been engaged in prospecting some copper
mines. He finds that the veins on which
he is sinking increase rapidly in richness
as depth is attained. He thinks Walker
River will be lively district next sum.
mer. There is world of copper there.
not to speak of gold, silver, nickle and
other metals.
Assemblyman Moriarity has introduced
a bill making it unlawful for any person
to have in hisor her possession any opium
pipe or part thereof; or to smoke opium
or sell Or give it away, except druggists
and apothecaries, and they only on the
prescription of legally practicing physi-
clans. Under the present law it is al
most impossible to secure conviction for
using opium.
In the Senate Senator Brumsey intro
duced a bill entitled can Act to prohibit
the employment Of fighters and prevent
bloodshed. The Tribune says the hill
is very stringent in it's provisions, and is
intended to punish hired fighters in
mines and other property in dispute
and to make their employers accessory
to the crimes committed while so en-
gagged as fighters. We understand that
the bill is instigated by the Miners and
Mechanics Unions of Storey county.
A dispatch to the Eureka Sentinel,
dated Cherry Creek, Feb. 10, says; At
about o'clock on Sunday morning a
party of about four or five drunken men
visited Chinatown, and while engaged in
some unlawful acts two of them, Jerry
Sullivan and Danny Mann, both of Eu-
reka, were shot by a Chinaman. Sulli-
van dropped dead in a moment, and
Mann carries his arm in sling, with an
ugly wound. The Chinaman will be
Operations at the Hale and Norcross
mine were resumed on the 18th instant
just month from the date of the fire.
The Enterprise says: The lower levels
must now be exceedingly hot. No sur
face air has been blown into them for q
month. An immense volume of steam
now rolls up from the top of the shaft.
1t is so dense that the eye cannot pene-
trate it. 1t would try the nerves of a
man unused to mines to require him to
descend into place showing such signs
of heat. Indeed, it is not the hight Of
felicity for the toughest miner to brave
the scalding heat of the lower regions at
present.