The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-06-10
STATE ITEMS.

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, last week.
Ward is gradually improving. Within
the last two months there have been sew.
eral new places of business there.
The Frisco Times says the water does
not seem to come as fast as usual. The
Frisco NJ. & s. Co. will not bring the
canal into Osceola this year.
The Ward Reflex says the Monitor
Mill and Mining Company shipped two
bars of bullion from their mill on Steptoe
Creek last week valued at So, 7l4.5l.
Elko Independent The returns of
School Census Marshal Craighead show
207 children between the ages of and Is
in this School District; l2l girls and Sc
boys.
Virginia Enterprise: The north drift
on the 26OO level of the Union is cutting
streaks of ore that would pay well for
working were they Of sufficient width to
be stopped out
Candidates ior State and county Off
GERS, says the Times Review, are thicker
than grasshoppers, and new ones are be.
ing Matched out daily. The dear, good
people need have no fear about servants,
the sagebrush is full of them.
The Ward Reflex says all reports agree
that the owners of the Monitor and Gore
ground, in Taylor district, have little
fortune uncovered and that it falls but
little short of the old Eberhardt. Tay.
Tor district has this advantage over Treas
ure Hill: the mineral belt is larger
Ward Reflex: I. c. Poujade, who ar
rived from Aurum Sunday, reports that
after examining the mines at Centerville,
Gen. Spencer and Maj. Roddy have de-
cided to prospect a few claims over there
to the extent of several thousand dollars.
They now have eight or ten men at work.
F. NJ. Smith has purchased the borax
marsh at Fish Lake, eighteen miles be-
low Columbus, and has commenced the
erection of extensive works there for the
reduction of that article to a salable
state. 1t is said that the works will be
able to turn out about 100 tons per
month
Eight or ten witnesses have been sub.
pGnead from Humboldt Wells and Cher.
ry Creek, to appear before the Grand
Jury of the District of Columbia as wit
nesses in Star Route case. The Win.
nemucca Silver State says the witnesses
get ride in an emigrant car and their
expenses paid to Washington.
Virginia Enterprise: Some of our min.
ing companies have already paid off, and
all will pay next week. Yesterday the
following companies paid: Union shaft,
$40, 9l4.50; California and G. & c. shaft, |
$l7, 343. Tomorrow Monday the Ophir
and Mexican will pay $ll, 1880; Sierra
Nevada, $l4. 2l0. so; Union Consolidated,
$50, 4S4. This makes total of SOL ,4OS
that will be paid ont tomorrow by the
named.
The Eureka Sentinel learns that on
Sunday morning last another ore body
was encountered in the Albion in the
northeast upraise. The ore is yellow
The body of ore is about
100 feet above what is known as the
Cave, and is about 100 feet from it in a
northerly direction. This strike is con.
firmatory of the opinion of Judge Leon.
ard, as to the value of the ore in the dis
puted Albion ground.
The Reese River Reyeille says old
Ophir Canyon District is looking up
again. Ophir Canyon Mining District is
situated about As miles southwest of
Austin, in the Toiyabe range of noun.
tains, and in the early days of Reese
river excitement was noted for it's rich
mines. The Murphy mine produced mil
lions in bullion, and during its season of
prosperity quite ropulous town sprang
up, which was known as Ophir. A 90
stamp mill was erected for crushing the
ores, and things went along prosperously
for some years, but like many other min
ing districts in this State, it had its back
set, and for the last seven or eight wears
but little mining has been carried on
there.