Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-08-02

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Work has been discontinued on the Mo.
hawk mine at Stafford.
Mountain Lodge No. 27, /. O. O. F.,
meets at 1880 O'Clock this evening.
Berg has immense quantities of all the
various kinds of fruit and vegetables.
Eureka Tunnel shares were yesterday
quoted in the Board at thirty-fve cents.
A shower of rain, accompanied by hail,
cooled the air nicely yesterday afternoon
Fees collected in the county offices will
make a very poor showing for the month of
July.
Four contracts have been let for run
ming as many drifts in the Richmond.
Twenty men employed.
1t is rumored that the working force at
the Richmond mine will be considerably
increased in the near future.
Candidates for the various county Offices
are becoming very numerous. Many of
them will be doomed to disappointment.
The county officials will receive their
salaries for July in county scrip, there be-
ing no money in the funds to appropriate
for salaries.
On Sunday Ruby Killers were treated to
a regular old-fashioned rough-and-tumble.
AS usual, the brunette tonsorial artist got
away with the racket.
There is now a much better prospect for
the unemployed miners than for a long
time past. They will probably be in de-
mand before the snow flies.
During the past ten days there has been
a decided improvement in all the prom
inent mines in the district, and also in a
number of the small mines.
One of the b~loodhounds used in Uncle
Toms Cabin jumped out of a window at
Genoa, Nevada, thus suspending himself
at the end of his chain, and was choked to
death.
The Wood River News-Miner says: The
immense collection of mineral specimens
which were gathered by Nose Haynes, who
died here last Summer, is to go to the
Denver Exposition.
There is an apricot tree in Fresno Coun-
ty, Cal, that measures sixty inches around
the trunk three feet from the ground. 1t
is estimated that there is not less than a
ton of fruit on the tree.
On the evening of the 9th there will be
a literary entertainment at the M. E.
Church, Ruby Hill, at the close OF which
the lads will have a chance to treat the
lassies to fruits, ice cream, etc.
A careless gallant undertook to boost an
equestrienne into the saddle yesterday by
a lift from under the arms. She got
nearly up, but came back and took a seat
on his head. Her feelings were hurt.
We learn from a gentleman recently
from Utah that the Gentle citizens of
Ogden and Salt Lake City intend giving
Congressman Cassidy a grand reception on
his return home from Washington.
Following is a report of the Eureka
Public School from Jan. /, 1881, to Jan. l,
1882: Whole number of pupils enrolled
during the year, SAG; boys, 1853; girls, 1914.
Average number belonging, 234. Average
daily attendance, 219.
The old Globe copper smelter, located
near Globe, Arizona. has now been running
nearly a month, and is said to be putting
through an average of over forty tons of
ore per day, with a bullion product of nine
to ten tons, running from 81 to SO fine.
The Mining and Scientific Press says there
is probably no other furnace in this coun-
try or Europe that can show any such
result.