The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-03-19
STATE ITEMS.

The Statutes of Nevada for the year
1881, will issue fSom the printing office
in about month.
The Lyon Mill and Mining Company
are about to erect a ten-ton smelling
furnace at Dayton.
Belcher has commenced clearing out a
west drift on the 400 level, preparatory
to searching for ore in that direction.
The Ward Reflex says White Pine
County scrip is not to be despscd. The
last lot redeemed ranged from IS to 60
cents.
Ward Reflex: The situation in the
Martin White Tunnel remains unchanged,
with the exception punches of ore are
encountered at short intervals.
The Leader says there are at present 10
patients in the Eureka County Hospital,
all of whom are doing we'll, with the ex-
ception of four or five serious cases.
Tuscarora Tines Review: The citizens
of Bullion, in this county, are without
mail facilities at present, owing to the
sub-contractor throwing up his contract.
Carson Appeal: Pat Holland, well
known in this city, is said to have struck
million in Arizona; but the commun-
Gator of the fact does not say whether it
is a million of creditors or what.
White Pine News: The Teacup mill is
now receiving the finishing touches. The
machinery is all in place, and it will
commence crushing ore Monday or Tues
day next.
Sutro is all right now; faro game has
been started in the town. The Virginia
Enterprise remarks that it is just as good
place as savings bank in which to
drop superauous coin.
Eureka Leader, llth: Yesterday morn.
ing the residents of Palisade were horri.
fed by the intelligence that Hiram E.
Ladd, an old and well known citizen of
| that place, had committed suicide by
hanging.
Gold Hill News: At the Sutro tunnel
they have got through the swelling
ground and are now in very hard rock.
They now have but few feet to 90 to
carry them through the Imperial ground.
Workmen are securing the ground passed
through.
Eureka Leader: We understand that
Mr.. John A. Wilson, of the Willows, has
made sale of between 300 and 400 head
of horses to Jot Travis, of Gilmer &
Salisbury stage line, and that the stock
is now being gathered on Mr.. Wilson's
range at the Willows, they will be driven
to Cave Valley, where the stage company
has already large band of horses as soon
as gathered and delivered
Virginia Footlight, March 18th: This
morning about 2 o'clock mining accident
occurred at the Union shaft. Through
some unfortunate mistake two men were
knocked off of scaffolding down into
the shaft. Murta McLennan foil eighty
feet and was killed. He was terribly
bruised. John Kavanaugh, the second
man escaped with few bruises. Nc
Lehman was single man, aged about So
years.
Battle Mountain Messenger: A new
forty stamp mill is to be built at Lewis
the coming Summer. Mr.. White, the
| gentleman who built the Grand Prize
mill at Tuscarora, the McCracken mill in
Arizona, and number of others in this
and other Pacific States, was up to Lewis
last week looking for suitable site. The
mill will be erected by an Eastern COM
pany, will be run as custom mill, and
give employment to quite a number of
men.
The Dayton Times says: As soon as
the Carson and Colorado Railroad reaches
the Walker Lake Reservation, trout will
be shipped into Dayton free of charge;
1t appears that when the railroad COM
pany treated for the right-of- way through
the reservation, the Indians agreed to
receive, in full pay, the sum of 800 and
the right to ship, free over the road, for
ever, any fish or produce which they
might wish to bring to market, between
Hawthorne and the Mound House.
Virginia Chronicle: James Mcknight
came into this city from Carson Valley
Yesterday. He said that several days
ago several farmers began to pillow, but
soon found that they were turning ur
perfect beds of grasshopper eggs, and moi
desiring to help hatch those pernicious
insects they quit their work. The farmers
. are in quandary. If they do not cult
vate their ground they will have no crop,
and if they do cultivate the grasshoppers
will eat up the crops before they can b.
harvested. Probably the wisest thing tt
do will be to let the crops go for veal
and thus try to starve the hoppers out
On the Truckee meadows the alfalfa il
covered with grasshopper eggs "cleal
down to the roots. Observing this
, many Of the farmers in that section will
! put in no crop this season.