The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-03-05
STATE ITEMS.

| Grantsville bonanza: Operdtiohs win
be resumed on the mines at Downeyville
on or about the first of March.
The outlook for the future Of Cherry
Creek, says the White Pine News, is
brighter to-day than at anytime since the
district was discovered.
The Governor has approved the bill to
locate the Insane Asylum at Reno. This
will enable Nevada to keep within this
State about $200a day instead of sending
it to California. as heretofore.
Elko Independent In the District
Court this morning, Jose Lopez was
arraigned for sentence, and the judg-
ment of the Court was that he be con-
fined in the State Prison for term Of
ten years.
Virginia Footlight: There is no use in
giving the public long winded reports Of
the mines. All may be said of any Of
them are the words, "Sinking, and max.
ing the usual progress. The same thing
may be said of the condition of affairs in
the Offices of our mino managers.
The Ward Reflex of the 26th ultimo
says: A small body of ore was struck in
tho 1920 foot crosscut in the Martin
White tunnel Thursday night. Mr..
Sweetapple is of the opinion that the
find is in the foot-wall. Work is going
ahead in the 2900 foot, from which a
drift is being run to the 1920 foot cross.
cut.
Carson Appeal: The bill to relieve tax
litigants of the penalties incurred by an
attempt to dodge the payment of equit-
able taxation, came up in the Senate yes
terday afternoon, and was tabled by the
following vote: Dayton, Doolin, Farrell,
Hammond, Henderson, Hobart, Kaiser,
Meder, Perley, Powning, Rockbill, Toll
ley, Thompson, Wheeler and Williams.
The Virginia Footlight makes the fol-
lowing predictions: That Sierra Nevada's
next assessment will be heavy one.
That Sierra Nevada will sell for over
5000 per share before January lst, 1882.
That big boom will take place in
mine lying between the Jacket and Utah,
which is now selling for mere nominal
figure. And finally, that the old Com.
stock will come out brighter than ever,
before many days-and it won't require
reduction of miners wages to make it
so either.
Silver State: The Senate bill fixing tho
rate of taxation places the rate at 80
cents on the $780, This is an increase Of
IS cents over the rate of the past two
years. Were it not that the Legislature
has passed bill to authorize State loan
of 1925, 900, the rate would be entirely
too inadequate, such has been the de-
probation of taxable values in the past
two years. While the amount and value
of taxable property has decreased so
greatly, but little has been done by the
Legislature towards decreasing the ex.
penses of the State government for the
coming two years.
Virginia Enterprise: We are informed
that the Frenchman who owns the herd
camels ranging to the eastward in the
valleys bordering the Carson river will
utilize his "ships of the desert" this
Summer in carrying goods from the ter.
minus of the Carson and Colorado Rail.
road into camps far out in the wilder.
ness. The camels now number about
forty, all but two or three of which are
natives of Nevada. In our deserts these
animals find grasses and bitter and
prickly shrubs and plants suited to their
taste, and probably the same or varieties
of the same plants that grow in other
desert regions of the earth. It is less
trouble, and costs much less, to grow
camels in Nevada than to rear cattle in
the Atlantic States