The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-12-13
STATE ITEMS.

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disc Valley Mining Company, returned
yesterday from California. He did not
hear of the destruction Of the Company S
mill by FIRE until last Sunday, as he was
off in the mountains of Tuolumne county.
He could not say whether a new mill
will be built this Winter until he goes
to the site Of the old one and studies the
situation day or two. There were
some 500 tons Of ore at the mill when it
burned.
Walker Lake Bulletin: Mason Valley
is the best place to winter cattle. There
are probably 100000 tons Of hay, which
can be bought for from So to So. so per
ton. Stockmen take their cattle to
other places, where the climate is not so
good and where they pay more for hay,
but the valley will be well patronized
as soon as its advantages become known.
The White Pine Reflex says: The
Monitor mine is just now opening out
big in two places. In the incline west of
the Spar Chamber, which has been sunk
twenty-five feet, body of ore has been
struck, which, at the time of our visit
Monday last, had opened to between
eight and ten feet. Assays show the ore
to average 500. Three feet of chloride
on the bottom goes $50. There is also
an irony looking rock mixed up with it
that assays as high as $500. This strike
looks like second floor In the south
drift another fine body of ore has been
struck, which was all of eight feet wide
at the time of our visit, and still widen.
ing. Assays from the top show the ore
to go about Sl25 to the ton, while three
feet Of chloride on the bottom goes $50.
We learned yesterday that another strike
had been made on the west side of the
ravine and that large body of rich ore
is now exposed.
Virginia Enterprise: 1t is reported
that the harrington brothers, of Garfield
District, on the line of the Carson and
Colorado Railroad, have sold one of their
mines to an English company for $780,
600, and that Archie Harrington has
gone to Europe with several members of
the company who came here to examine
the property, for the purpose of obtain
ing the purchase money. 1t is said there
is more than 81 100000 worth of ore in
sight in the mine, which has been con.
stantly improving in prospects ever since
the Farringtons took hold of it. They
went to Garfield without bean" three
or four years ago, and are now rich, sole
ly by dint of pluck and industry. The
mine just sold is about twenty miles
from Hawthorne and twelve miles from
Soda Springs, on the Carson and Colorado
Railroad, situated in magnificent min
eral country, which has hardly been
touched by prospectors.
Casper, the latest arrival at the Asy-
luni, says the Reno Journal, is not very
violent, but he appears to think that his
mission on earth is to suhdue witches,
and whenever he finds man whom be
thinks is bewitched, he jumps on his
back and proceeds to choke witches,
wind and everything else ont OF him.
The Virginia Chronicle says: A solemn
popularity of the magnificent Lake Tahoe
is that there is no instance recorded OF
the recovery of the body Of any person
drowned in its deep waters. Mr. Rob-
inson, proprietor of the Lake Shore
House in Glenbrook, has by soundngs
recently made discovered that there are
at the bottom of the lake several large
cavities or openings, resembling the
craters OF extinct volcanoes. These cav.
tiles are in some instances over 1000
feet deep, and are invariably surrounded
at the mouth by rim OF rocks rising to
a considerable height above the average
bottom OF the lake. As gentle current
setting towards these submerged craters
is perceptible in their vicinity, the rather
plausible theory is advanced that the
bodies of drowned persons are borne to
these dark unfathomable caves, there to
be undisturbed till the trumpet shall
sound.
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