The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-12-15
STATE ITEMS.


tin, White Pine and Phoebe, recently
died in poverty, somewhere in Arizona.
The coinage at the Carson Mint during
November, 1883, was as follows: Double
eagles, 100000; standard dollars, $780,
OOO Total, 1920, 200.
DR.. Terry, who is in the vicinity OF the
Cnur dAlene mines, writes to the Eureka
Sentinel, warning everybody to keep
away from there until the spring opens.
North Carolina produces nearly all the
mica used in the United States. There
is enough in Nevada to supply the mar
ket and it will be opened up by the time
North Carolina quits, so the country can
keep right on.
A bed of fire clay has been discovered
about fifteen miles from Carlin by w. I.
Robinson, of that place. Several trials
have been made of the clay, and the re-
suits have been satisfactory in every in
stance.
The Battle Mountain Messenger says
Capt. G. B. Dahlgren, superintendent of
the Dahlgren Mining Company, of Lewis,
has settled the company's indebtedness,
and work on the mine will be resumed by
Captain Dahlgren, who has lease of the
property.
Last Sunday Jud Dakin of Lamoille
Valley, had his leg broken by a runaway
team. He had but recently recovered
from injuries received at South Fork
some time age, when his team sprang
from the grade, throwing him to the bot
tom Of deep gulch.
At Virginia City, on Monday evening,
James Galloway, an old miner on the
Comstock, had his left arm horribly man.
gled by being caught in the belt of
blower on the ., 700 station of the Uuion
shaft. He will probably have to have
his arm amputated.
Virginia Enterprise: Capt. John
Kelly, the mining man, went on County
Treasurer Nevin's bond for $4,000.
Nevin says he will pay the ten per cent.
which his bondsmen have assessed them
selves for the purpose of carrying suit
to test his liability. Nevin says it will
cost them nothing to make the test.
Silver State: Reports from the north.
ern part of the county are to the effect
that two or three hundred of the exiled
Piutes, who have been in Grant county,
Oregon, for some time, will congregate in
Quin River Valley this winter, and that
many of them will starve unless arrange.
ments are made to provide them with
rations at Fort McDermit.
There are seventy.fve or eighty China.
men at work in the Spring Valley placer
mines. These mines are situated about
ten miles south of Unionville, in Hum.
boldt county, and it is estimated that
they have produced over 81, ZOO, 600
worth of gold dust. White men discov-
cred and located the mines, and then
disposed of them to Chinese. The scar
city of water is great drawback to their
profitable working.
The Ward Reflex said week before
last: 1.-THE jurors-grand and trial
who were put to the trouble and expense
of going to Hamilton, have returned It
begins to dawn upon many that this
court business is nothing short of an ex-
pensive luxury, and could well be dis
pensed with. When the ends of Justice
are regularly subverted, when it is next
to impossible to get anything that looks
like justice, it is about time for every
man to look out for himself and prepare
for state of anarchy"
The Winnemuca Silver State says:
A delegation of forty or fifty Shoshone
sports are here on the gambling expedi.
ton. The Piutes have also collected in
force from points along the railroad, and
gaming has been the order of the day and
night since Sunday Naches says the
Shoshones were, successful last night, and
broke the Piutes, winning money. guns,
blankets, shirts, and in short everything
of value that the Piute sports could
raise. Some Piutes who wore good
blankets and carried good guns yesterday
are to-day going about shivering.