Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-16

Sentimel's Reporter.
Miss Dody Zanfretta's benefit at the
Truckee tonight.
Senator Fair was expected on the Com.
stock yesterday.
NJ. M. johnson left this morning for a
visit to California.
George W. Baker, Esq, went to Carson
yesterday morning.
The Knights of Pythias meet at 1880
o'clock this evening.
The prospect continues good in the
Silver State Tunnel.
Passenger travel between Elko and Tus-
carora is being done on sleighs.
Eureka Tunnel continues to look we'll
and is turning out lots of very good ore.
Silyerado Mountain will be the scene of
great activity during the coming Summer.
There is o splendid prospect in the Hope
Con. mine on Prospect Mountain, near
Ruby Hill.
The Albion payday brought a large
number of miners down from the Hill
yesterday.
Alex. Morrison & Co. have started to
work on their contract in the Ruby Hill
Tunnel in Prospect Mountain.
At least $50 men have applied to NJ. H..
Joseph for a contract to run the Bergman
Tunnel into Silverado Mountain.
The tributers at the Jackson mine are
demonstrating the fact that the mine is
not played out, as some people have
thought.
The Senate is engaged in considering
the General Appropriation bill for the ex-
penses of the State government for the
next two years.
A bill will be introduced in tho Legis-
lature, now that the Salary law is repealed,
to reduce the fees Of county officers, to
take effect Jan. i 1885.
All the tunnels started in this district
are turning out we'll. There should be a
little greater activity in the Charter Tan
mel, as it is a good property.
The Eureka and Colorado River Rail-
road will strike along the northern base of
Silverado Mountain, and enhance the
mines of that locality materially.
1t is reported here that the speech of Mr..
Muldoon on a question of privilege was
composed for him by E. D. McSorley, As
sistant sergeant-at-Arms Of the Senate.
The south drift from the bottom of the
Uncle Sam shaft in the Uncle Sam Con.
mine, on Peel Stick Hill, is in quartz and
iron. The prospect for striking ore is very
good.
Mr.. Foley's bill to prevent more than
one taxation Of bullion has passed both
Houses of the Legislature, and requires
only the Governors signature to become a
law.
The contractors at work in the LOGAN
shaft at the Eureka Jon. speak highly of
the vapor oil lamp used there. Water
falls upon the light, but does not extin-
guish it.
Another Of those monster locomotives
for the Southern Pacific Railroad passed
Palisade yesterday. 1t weighs SO tons,
and is expected to do as much work as
three ordinary engines.
We understand that several of our
prominent citizens will leave for Carson in
a day or two. What's in the wind now?
Something out of the usual course Of
things will probably happen.
The Sunday law, elsewhere reproduced,
is practically q dead letter, the custom of
the long non-obseryance having knocked
it in the head. 1t is published merely as
a curiosity-a relic OF barbarism.
The Board of School Trustees and the
County Superintendent Of Public I~nstruc-
ton have been making daily visits of
inspection to the schools, n will con-
tinue to do so until they have examined
every department thoroughly.
It is rumored in financial and railroad
circles in the East that the Union Pacific
will extend their road from Salt Lake to
San Francisco, passing at or near Eureka
and Austin. There is some hope yet that
Eureka will become a railroad center.
The members Of the Canvassing Com
mittee for the Hooks & Knicks ball will
meet at the Justices Office or Saturday,
the 18th inst. at 7 o'clock p. NJ. The
committee Is composed Of Mossrs. Sadler,
Campbell, G. Provost, Carroll and Rossetti.
Joe Dosgoux has discovered a cave
nearly 40 feet wide aud about 100 feet
from top TO bottom in the Whip foor
Will mine Oh Prospect Mountain. Taere
are beautiful stalaotitos 10 1t, precisely OF
the same form as those in the Ruby Hill
caves.
Tom iseasoa he's taken a lease Of the
Silver West mine for one year. rhia mine
is situated on the western slope OF Adams
Hill, west of the Bullwhacker mine, and
OF one time was considered a valuable
property. There Ia no reason why it should
not be 30 again.
The New York Herald and Sun advocate
the calling Of an extra session of Congress
for the purpose of securing immediate
legislation on the tariff, which it is pre-
sumed cannot be completed by the 4th OF
March, on which day the present Con-
gress goes out of existence.