Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-17
FLUE DUST.
scraps from the Notebook of the
SentineFs Reporter,


Good singing is promised at the Metho.
dist Church this evening.
Some two and half feet of snow is re-
ported at HALEY, Wood River.
Rev. Mr.. Hammond will preach in the
Methodist Church at Z o'clock this even
ing.
The boys were playing marbles on the
streets yesterday. Is this Spring or
Winter?
The proprietors OF the skating rink are
not looking so pleasant as they were q
month CO..
The subject at the Episcopal Church this
evening will be, "The Rainbow Around
the Throne"
The Union Guard gave a very pleasant
social last Thursday night to a number of
invited guests.
The County Commissioners did not hold
a meeting yesterday, but will probably do
SO tomorrow.
Rev. Mr.. Hammond will preach in the
Methodist Church on Ruby Hill this morn
ing at IL o'clock.
The charming weather Of the past two
or three weeks still continues, and so do
coughs and colds.
We are informed that the ball at the
Albion clearinghouse Friday night was
not very well attended.
There is complaint in Grass Valley that
some of the Sunday Schools do not let out
in time for the baseball games.
The Queen mine at Silverado is still
looking well, and another shipment of ore
will soon be made to the smelters.
Maurice Hartnett has completed his
assessment work for this year on the Mezep
and Gauges mines on Prospect Mountain.
Libel suits and suits for SANDER were
the town talk yesterday. We think, how
ever, that nothing serious will come out
of them.
In the Industry mine, on Prospect
Mountain, they have very fiattering pros
poets. A small seam of very rich ore is
being worked.
The Red Bird Tunnel is in 80 feet from
the mouth, and a new shaft will be sunk
from this point, which it is expected will
cut an ore body.
Carroll and Nelson, two MINISTRIES of
Eastern repute, have been engaged to APP
pear at the Truckee. They will arrive
about the 25th instant.
The lovely weather last evening brought
out lots of promenaders on Main street to
view the holiday presents in the shop win
dows and dry goods stores.
Messrs. Brown & Godfrey are treating
their restaurant throughout with a coat of
paint, and the place will look very neat and
clean when the job is completed.
Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction
Was meant to mankind when thou vast made
devil
What a scorching hell invented
Comedy Of Monsieur Thomas, Acts, Sc. l.
The diamond ring keno pool will come
off at the Empire Saloon this evening at
8 o'clock. Another pool, with $50 in the
pot, will be sprung on the boys at II
o'clock.
Friday night some parties on Ruby Hill
took from in front of Ernest & Mau's store
a barrel containing AZ gallons Of whisky.
We suppose they were laying in a supply
for the holidays.
The Jackson tributers are shipping to
the furnaces the old lava beds dump,
which yields from $40 to $50 per ton.
There is still enough left to keep a furnace
running for a month or two.
There ara three men working in the Re-
public mine on Prospect Mountain. Some
very fine looking quartz ore is being eX-
tracted by one man. The other two are
tunneling into the hill to get under the
body.
1t is during these days Of business that
a clergyman. on selecting a chapter OF the
Bible to be read in church, first looks at
the end of the last verse to make sure
that no patent medicine advertisement is
hitched on.
The Eureka Con. tributers are getting
of ore. The ore dumps are all full.
and the tributers are anXiously awaiting
opportunity to ship it to the furnaces
for reduction, so as to enable them to
a raise for the coming holidays.
Messrs, Moline & Frazer, who took a
lease of the n~ortherly end of the Silver
Lick series about q month ago, have been
very successful. They have about $4,000
of ore on the dump, and are said to
now making AZ much as 500 each per
day. |
The Western Globe mine at Silverado is
Signs of Improvement. The tun-
mel haa been connected Will. the 9haft,
which has been carried to Il depth OF 43
feet below that level, whence a drift ls be-
ing driven south on a vein Of good ore
from six inches to u foot thick.
A party of miners working assessments
the Protection location, belonging to
the Silver Lick Con. Mining Company, ran
a cut into the groupings and discovered
some very good ore. They have since
a lease of the same, and are in a
very fair way to make money out OF their
venture.