The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-09-15
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SILVER kEEf, sept. Y, 1909.
Alta O'Clock this afternoon the ther.
mometer doesn't register more than $50
degrees between Silver Reef and st.
George, but that is hot enough to make
it quite uncomfortable, aud bring to mind
Puck's advice to 20 TO the North Pole
Summer resort, where ice and seal.skin
hasques grow wild, and where one can
sleep six months at time without being |
annoyed by the bloodthirsty bed.bug or
the busy fly. AT Silver K ,cf the mercury |
ranges now between los and 10 degrees,
and as the suns rays strike the sandstone
mountains that form the rim Of the basin
aud slant of in all directions, they strike
stranger singingly and make even the
acclmated saint aud sinner sizzle. Sill.
yer Reef, Of Observation-Disclosures
notoriety, is mining camp a little Larger,
perhaps, than Frisco. and of the same
Sahara. Desert. like appearance. Business
is at bedrock, and the dozen barkeeps sit
| in the shade and wonder who will be the
next reckless man to blow in two-bit
piece for drink. Capt. Lubbpck's long
absence in California has made necessary
the pa sing of payday, with a large
for of men. and in low-ebb camp
payday long deferred maketh the mer.
chant sick. The Captains anticipated
return on or about the 18th inst, lightens
up the gloom, however, and makes mat
tiers more methodically. Three five.
stamp mills are p''unding the silver out
Of the Stormont, Christy, Buckeye and
surrounding mines, so that the Refers
make more noise in taking out their SA5,-
700 worth Of liver than We Friscoites do
in uncovering one half the bullion prod
uct OF Utah. The Harrison Huose re-
tains its popularity, although it is easy
to see that the establishm .nt 10 Jumbo
on the hand, Of the proprietor. ju as the
Southern at Frisco has been ever since
, its completion. The mercantile business
of the place, not more than sufficient fol
me live merchant. is divided between
i, half dozen. and one good bar business
=. is held up by dozen, while two or thre'
semi professional gamblers pull out I
precarious living.
. Judge L ,uder, the new postmaster
has made many postal improvements
= and now contemplates the re.establisll
: nent of the defunct Silver Reef Miner a
4 an early day. He remarked. facetiously
il to-day, that the only drawback to tn
'e profitable running Of newspaper in tn
= camp lay in the fact that there was n
+ legal advertising, only few dollal
d worth Of commercial and and professions
'e ad-, a possibility Of but few paying sui
I, scribers, and the high price Of pugilist
d pencil pushers; he hopes, however, to
able to make the thing win by being b
own business manager, editor, compo
III itor, foreman, pressman and devil.
"a The only sensation Of the week W
:" the suicide Of Mormon over at Was
&c ington, because he was caught in 10
NC irregularities with servant girl, witho
co having first gone through the St. Geor
a. grease vat. Without entering into d
X gusting details, it may be said that,
e cording to rumor, the discovery caus
ng him to be cut off from the Church, a
re lie felt SO badly about it that for fo
Ok days he fastei in the hope Of starving
he death, but becoming weary with watt
Il he buried bullet in his brain.
'ea II don't get gone OIL the Pans
ri bellies, and Dixie wine, Ill write y
th more anon. REX