The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-04-28
BULLIONvILLE AND PANAcA DOTS

The brethren gave a dance in the
school.house Tuesday evening.
School commenced Monday morning in
Bullionvile with Il scholars in attend
ance.
Miss Clara Gentry and Miss Dodson
arrived in Bullionville Monday evening
from Utah.
The Dry Valley Company have CON-
menced shipping concentrations to the
furnace at Bullionville.
The Smelling Company shipped $75,.
900 worth of bullion during the past six
weeks, on 200 different teams.
Ho for Condor Canyon and Delmoie's
on May Day! where an old fashioned
barbecue will be given free to all.
Considering the little snow that we
have had during the past winter, the
are doing passably wall.
Billy Sprouse was down from Blind
Mountain the other day with some very
fine samples of galena ore from the Will
liam and Excelsior mines.
During the late cold spell wood was a
precious article in Bullionville, in conse.
quence of its scarcity, but those who did
not have any freely helped themselves
to that of their neighbors.
We attribute the unpleasantness of the
weather during the past two weeks to
the many poetic illusions of the Spring
crank who no doubt tired Mother Ma
ture with the rhapsodies of her many
| charms.
Nick Miller. ex-champion billiardist,
and expert shootist, is at present devot-
ing portion of his time to the instruc-
ton OF an Evolutionary and Shakesperian
class in Bullionville, with the assistance
of one of our prominent citizens.
April showers are very nice indeed,
when accompanied by an occasional
CLEAN of sunshine, but April showers
that have been refrigerated by some
northern blizzard like the ones that we
have been having during the past compile
of weeks, are anything but pleasant.
Messrs. Godbe and Hampton, of the
Smelling Company, Alfred Godbe and
St. PIERRE, arrived in Bullionville on the
10Th inst, and spent several days in
testing and measuring the failing pits
The party departed for home Tuesday
morning, with the exception of young
| Godbe who remained in BullionviTle.
The Chinese residents of Bullionvill.
boastingly remark that they will smoke
opium whenever they feel like it. They
not only boast thus, but they actually
take pleasure in defying the Justice o
the Peace of that precinct by smoking
openly in his presence, and when threat
ened with Imprisonment in the county
Jail, they laugh in his face, no doubt re
membering the picnic they had som,
weeks ago while spending brief tern
within the walls of that hospitable es
Enlistment.
Professor Cog, the celebrated ventrilo
quist and slight-of-hand performer, i.
going to give one of his popular exhibi
tions in Bullionville some time in May
One of the attractions of the show will
be the antics of trained donkey, tina
will eat at command all the old bootleg
and tin cans that the small boys MAJ
feel disposed to give him. The circu
will wind up with grand acrobatic per
Torrance on the flying trapeze by tn
donkey and small boy.
Supt. F. Godbe informs us that tn
visit Of his father, Ben Hampton, and St
Pierrie to Bullionville was mainly for tn
purpose of taking into consideration tn
reduction of the residue tailings, of whic
there are several hundred thousand ton
on hand. After making several practi
cal tests by the chloridation process, MI
Godbe was of the opinion that the tail
ings could be made give up their ASA
value of SIS per ton, and is at presen
anxiously awaiting trial test of tw
tons that is being made at Salt LAX
City.
If the Raymond & Ely and Meado'
Valley Companies had erected furnace
for the reduction Of their ores, instead {
, mills, they would have been over mi
lion dollars better off. We are led
,, reason thus, partly from the rich bonana
. that the Smelling Company Is no
reaping in Bullionville from tRe>reductio
of the tailings of said ores-they havin
d realized some $500, 900 thus far with
I twenty ton furnace, and partly from tt
enormous amount of quicksilver that WI
wasted by the mill process. 1t is yer
n true furnace was erected in Pioch
. when that camp first came into prom
8 inence, but the art of reducing ores /
r the smelling process was then in its il
5 fancy, and the venture could not prov
r otherwise than a failure.
One Of the most pleasing entertain
e ments that we have yet witnessed in Of
o village, was the school exhibition la
e Friday evening. The large school.hou
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