The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-07-28
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oiouShb III iohi houHu alley, I'LL
evening, Just as we were going to press
Dan Hendley, who is suffering from
couple of knife wounds received in row
with Oliver Rifle, at his place in Mounc
Valley, last night. Hendley's wounds
will not, it is thought, prove serious.
The joint Union Consolidated and
Sierra Nevada west crosscut, on the
1900 level, is still being driven ahead.
The Virginia Enterprise says the crosscut
found the ore vein cut on the $500 Level
to be thirty feet in width on the 5000,
whereas on the level above it had a width
OF but eleven feet.
1t is now proposed to have the Board
of County Commissioners, at the next
meeting, says the Virginia Enterprise,
appoint night Waterman whose duty it
shall be to see that the firemen do not
burn up while asleep in the Corporation
House. All the tax payers say they will
not grumble at this extra expense.
Eureka Sentinel: We learn that an
important mining sale has been made in
Osceola, New, to San Francisco parties.
The machinery for quartz mill is al.
ready at the terminus OF the Utah South
ern Railroad, ready for shipment thither
by team. Lumber is being delivered on
the ground for the building. Jim White
is in charge of construction.
The Winnemucca Silver State saws
young Piute buck who had been off on o
counting expedition, and succeeded in
capturing bride at Big Meadows, re.
turned here and attempted to make love
to dusky maiden, with whom he had
been on intimate terms formerly, as they
sat on the sidewalk near the postoffice.
She Indignantly repealed his advances,
and getting her arms around his neck,
squeezed him until he was almost choked
to death. When she relin9uished her
hold, she remarked In Ineligible Eng.
lish that she was not Mormon, and
would not become his or any other In
dams second wife.
Virginia Enterprise: The present low
stage of water in the Carson river is
causing serious trouble both to miners
and mine owners, particularly at Gold
Hill. The Crown Point Mining CON-
pany were last evening obliged to dis
charge fifty men. About week ago the
Yellow Jacket laid off twenty-four men,
and as things now look more must soon
go; also, more may yet be laid off at the
Crown Point and Belcher. Owing to the
low water the mills on the river cannot
reduce the ore. The capacity of the
Brunswick mill is $50 tons per twenty
four hours, but at pre- ent only forty tons
can be worked in that time. The Next
can mill and all the other mills have
fallen off in the same ratio.
Speaking of the country just tapped
by the Carson and Colorado Railroad, the
Lyon County Times says: From the
Mount Cory District, where there is a
great quantity of ore already extracted
and ready for working, stream of bullion
will soon flow, as reduction works are
now in course of erection. Other dis
tricts in that neighborhood are also ready
to supply ore to the mills and furnaces as
soon as they are built, and a number are
in contemplation by men who are able to
carry out their plans. Garfield and Santa
Fe contain some of the best mines in the
State, some Of those in Garfield having
paid their way from the surface. Far.
Their south, along the White Mountains,
are large mineral fields containing in.
Vulnerable lodges, from which poor but
energetic miners can make good profit
from their labor. Sampling mills will
soon be built at two and perhaps three
points, and great deal of money will
come from the districts within reasona-
bic reaching distance.
Lander county has often been called
the mother of counties When she
was organized December 10, 1862, she
contained about one.third of the area of
Nevada. In 1866 another slice of Utah
was added to Nevada's Territory and thus
Lander secured three square degrees of
Territory and comprised 2S per cent. of
the entire State. From this large area the
Legislature began to carve county after
county until old Lander, which received
its name from Gen. Frederick w. Ian.
der, who in 1860 ran government road
across the State and was afterwards
killed at Paw Paw, Virginia, March 2,
1862. while fighting for the Union, be.
came known as the mother of counties.
In 1869 the counties Of Elko and White
Pine wandered out from under her pro.
lection and set up business for them
selves. In ISL Elko took another slice,
and this, with still another piece, was
formed into Eureka in 1873. The same
year ten miles was taken from her and
given to Nye. But we got little back
by adjusting the boundary line between
Humboldt and Lander by which very
generous slice of Reese river valley was
thrown into our county. Lander now
contains 8, 200 square miles. Her terri.
tory came from Humboldt and Churc.
hill counties. This was shortly after the
whole State ceased to be known as Car.
son county, Utah Territory. Austin
Rsveille.
A Tennessee girl, Is years old, says
she wants to become "traveling man.
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