The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-06-02
STATE IrEns.


Extensive smelting works are shortly
to be erected at Do~neyville. ;
Starlet fever is appearing in the vari
Gus towns along the Central Pacific
The Carson and Colorado road is being
pushed south at the rate Of a mile and /;
half day.
Nothing definite is known Of the sale
of the Cammack mines of lone or how
soon they will be started up.
The Grantsville Sun says there is nc
truth in the rumor that the mines al
Jefferson have closed down.
Charles T. Hoffman, one of the best
known and most reliable mining engin.
GERS on the coast, has been in Grantsville
for some time examining the mines OF
that district.
The Leader says DR.. A. c. Bishop
writes from Butte, saying, Tell all my
old friends to 20 and get drink and be
happy" but did not state whether it was
boy or girl.
The Carson Appeal has it from reliable
authority that Mackay and Flood have
gone in with Jones and Sharon to make a
market and count Fair out, as they have
no condolences in him.
David A. Gibbs is wanted by E. w.
Roberts, Of Grass Valley, California The
estate of the late L. r. West is being
settled up and David will be apt to hear
of something OF interest if he writes to
Mr.. Roberts.
Eureka Sentinel: J. C. Powell, Super.
intendent. informs us that the nine
tributers at work in the Hamburg mine
have for some time been making an
average Of over s. day each, and that
the pitches are all looking well.
The Ward Reflex says Henry Marty,
who was shot three times at Eberharat
on the I'D by Ben Miller, is not danger.
ously wounded. Ben is at present re-
siding in the "cooler" and keeping up a
devil of q thinking about what it costs to
become the rival Of a married man.
The walls Of the round house at Wads-
worth, says the Reno Journal, are all up,
and the roof will be put on at once.
Work will be pushed from this time on
on the the machine shops. The company
are not employing as many bricklayers
as they would like, objecting to paying
S.. SO per day.
Elko Independent: Sir George, the
noted Bannock brave Of Fort Hall, ar
rived in town, arrayed in purple and gold
and fine feathers; the gorgeousness of his
apparel attracting universal attention,
and exciting irrepressible feminine admir-.
alton. George is almost as dangerous an
element in the society Of a rutabaga dis
trict As circus.man.
II reports be true, says the Cherry
Creek News. it now turns out that a
couple Of "youngsters" on Star Hill
were married last winter, and they have
kept it profound secret all this time.
1t is safe to say that but one woman knew
anything about it, and we can't imagine
how even one of Ewes daughters was
able to keep such secret 40 long. Won
derful thing, indeed.
Miss May Lundy. the idol Of Homer
District, celebrated her fifteenth birth.
day on the 10th. At the party given in
her honor large number of ladies and
gentlemen were present. The Index man
thus POLITICALLY remarks: "Miss May
was indirectly the discoverer of the mino
which now bears her name, and in that
relation she and this widest section OF
the Sierras are inseparably connected.
One day the romancer may find food for
his tale in the story of the little maid
whose name lives in the richest mine yet
found in the Sierra Nevadas."
The Silver State tells of the death Of
"Shake-hands John" who had grown-up
children when the first pale face made
his appearance on the Humboldt, in
1912. He and his immediate relatives
were always friendly disposed toward
the whites, andshis son-in.law, Cap Sou,
who died many years ago from the effects
Of wounds received while fighting hostile
Indians, led troops and settlers against
the hostiles on several occasions during
the Indian troubles of lS64-5. Shake.
hands John piloted Robert McBeth and
G. w. Fox from Unionville to Battle
Mountain when they discovered the
Battle Mountain mines and located the
present town Of Galena. The old fellow
had Is great passion for hand shaking
a. candidate for Office just before cleo.
ton, and he was known to all the old
settlers Of the county as Shake hands
John.
Virginia Enterprise: H. NJ. Yering.
ton, Superintendent Of the Carson and
Colorado Railroad Company, returned q
few days ago from tour Of inspection
along the line and some distance off and
beyond it. He reports much activity in
the various mining districts tributary to
the road. The country is rapidly filling
nm nth OrnnDoctnra wh0 ara wall ~ O.