The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-04-19
INTELLIGENCE,

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PIocHE needs new stage route. The
old Eureka route should be, as far as
Phoebe is concerned, abandoned alto.
gether The route from Silver Reef
should be wiped out also. tits an un.
necessary expense to the Government, of
benefit to no one but the contractors.
Phoebe, Bristol, and this whole vicinity,
need line from Phoebe to Milford,
Utah, the terminus of the Utah Central,
and is the route by which this whole
country receive their supplies. By the
route to Milford there would be no long
delays in the mail, as we experience by
the present route, as the roads are the
best natural roads to be found in the
county, and the distance, by stage would
then be only 100 miles, instead Of over
200 miles, as is now the case, which the
stage men pronounce to be bad roads in
the best of weather. By such change
as this we would receive our mail from
the East two days earlier than at the
present time, and the mail from the West
would arrive one day later than the pres.
emit schedule time, and which is now
from ten to twenty days behind the
schedule. The line from Silver Reef to
Milford would carry the mail for this
vicinity to Milford at no expense to the
Government, when it would be conveyed
to Phoebe on regular established line,
also at no expense. For the past year
all travel, owing to the delapidated con-
veyances and Inconvenience on the stage
lines running out from Phoebe, goes by
way of Milford from Phoebe on private
conveyances, and many of the travellers,
especially those who are posted, come in
the same way.
In planting peach-trees in Pahranagat
Valley, the hole is dug, gravel placed in
the bottom Of it, chips and bark on top
of the gravel, then loan on the chips.
This is done for the purpose of prevent.
ing the roots going down deep into the
ground. When the roots of the peach.
tree go down deep into the ground the
cold water chills them and is the cause of
AohAAS buO AC0FCo Va Uu0 GEcCS tuIu yols
low. At Panaca we have frequently OBJ.
served, during the summer time, that the
leaves on many of the trees, and particu-
larly the apple-trees, are bright yellow
and appear dead; but it is the opinion
that it is caused there by the hot south
winds. As Panaca is on a low flat, with
big slough running along the west side
of the village, and large irrigation bitches
running through the town, might not
this be the cause Of the leaves of the
apple-trees turning yellow? Is it not
worth while, if the Panacans do not know
positively the cause of the leaves chang.
ing color, to investigate this matter?
BoNE.DusT AND Woop ASHES. A
farmer in Indiana gives the following re.
result Of an experiment with bone.dust
and wood ashes. He says: 81 applied
900 pounds unleached ashes to the acre,
and sowed wheat on that, and the result
was only six bushels to the acre. Ad.
joining this ] drilled in 200 pounds Of
bone. dust, and the three acres produced
twenty bushels to the acre, being an in.
creased yield of fourteen bushels over the
tract sown with wood ashes. The fol.
lowing year I used 500 pounds of bone.
dust on the plat where had previously
sown 900 pounds Of ashes, and the result
was forty bushels of wheat to the acre,
double what the bone produced alone.
This experiment satisfied me that ashes
alone or bone-dust alone would not give
yield that paid to my satisfaction.
This acre with ashes yielded six bushels;
the acre with bone.dust yielded twenty
bushels, but when the two were COM
bined l harvested forty bushels. This
shows what experiments and small ex.
penditure OF money will to for the pro.
gressive farmer" ..se5 aeb ~.
J. r. DUFF, Supt. of the Meadow
Valley Company, has attached the mill
and millsite Of the company for balance
due him. The property on which the
mill and tailings are located, through
mistake, was not attached by the officer.
for the purpose Of satisfying judgment
obtained by w. E. Griffin, they having
levied on piece of property some six
miles distant, and located the mill and
tailings on that tract of land. This mis-.
take was caused by the property having
been placed wrong on the assessment
roll; it was located on section 81, when
it should have been on rsction 6. The
ground purchased by Mr.. GriAin's agent
never belonged to the Meadow Valley
Company and is not worth two-bits ar
acre.
The patent whim on the Mendha shaft
was torn to pieces on Tuesday. As thu
bucket was being lowered the brake CAV,
way, when the man who was tending
the within threw it in gear, which tor.
the gearing to pieces. It was fortunat,
that this was done, for Dave Jolly was q
the station below waiting, and if the vile
bucket had Of hit him, Dawes spiri
would have started on its journey to tn,
place where the snow is not piled te,
feet high on the level. 8a
THERE are many things much softer