The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1882-04-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

There are now seven mills in oper-
alton in the Bodie district.
James Keene is said to have given
instructions for the building of $500,
900 ..cottage" at Newport.
The measles are very prevalent in
Sacramento. In some cases whole
families are down with it.
The Elko Independent says Ne
braska corn is now been shipped to
California.
The Helena Independent states that
the Drumm Lummun mine, near that
place, has 81, 900, 900 in sight.
A soldier at Fort Cnnr d'Alene, l.
T., caught 626 trout with hook and
line during the year 1881. The larg-
est one weighed ten pounds.
The Salt Lake Tribune claims that
real estate has advanced from Is to
20 per cent. since the passage of the
Edmunds bill.
In Japan 90 per cent of the people
areable to read. In the United States,
only so per cent; in England, 81; in
China, so, and i'm India only five per
cent.
The San Francisco Call announces
that Hon. w. +. +. Deal. Of Virginia
City, will be a candidate for Governor
Of Nevada on the Democratic ticket.
The Virginia Footlight saws 1t is
rulnored that pool OF the large hold
ers of Albion stock intend to sell the
...ta In l,o M IN ha
Richmond mine.
AT Bodie the snow banks on Main
street averaged from eight to ten feet
In hight. They are about even with
the awning all the way up and down
the street.
The bullion shipments from the
Tombstone dis rirt for February
amounted to sils,0 200. Nearly all OF
the Tombstone mines are on a dIvi-
dend paying basis.
In North Carolina there are fifty
three cotton. mills in operation, and
six others are in progress and nearly
completed. There are also four or
five woolen-mils in operation in "the
old North State"
During the past month fifty pounds
OF specimen gold quartz from the
Ford X Mullen mine at Quaker Hill,
Nevada county, Cal. have been sold
to San Francisco jewels. Some ofthe
quartz sold az high as s25 per ounce.
CHARLES L. LOCKE has closed a
contract with Oscar Wilde for series
of 20 lectures on the Pacific Coast
between March 22d and April 18th.
Wilde Is to receive $4,000 and have
his expenses paid.
Those in search OF De Long are on
his tracks and have found records left
by him up TO Sep. "a, 1881. His last
note stated that reindeer were plenti-
iul about them, that there was no fear
OF starving, and that they were max
ing their way towards settlements on
the Lena River.
Senator Teller, from the Public
Lands Committee, has reported bill
TO shorten the period OF residence
necessary to acquire titles TO home
steads, making it three instead Of five
years. IL reduces the period allow
able for absence from six to three
months.
Cassidy has introduced bill into
The House whose provisions make it
compulsory on the part OF the Gov
ernment to have all the lands that
nave been granted to railroads sur
Veyed. patents granted for the same
after which the railroads must pay
their taxes ON the grants.
Sheriff Fitch Of Elko reports cattle
aud horses on the ranges between Ta-
coma and Carlin, for 59miles on either
SIDE OF the railroad, suffering greatly.
lie says stockmen have been feeding
ana are out OF hay. Nothing being
!eft for the poor cattle they are dying
IN large numbers. Fitch thinks the
loss will be very heavy.