Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-09-12

Scraps from the Notebook Of the
SeuttneEs Reporter.

Scraps from the Notebook Of th,
SentineI's Reporter.
Comstock shares are again way off.
Miss Jennie Wethered left yesterday TO
California.
The dull times are growing somswha
m~on0tonous.
On September l the Albion had an in
debtedness of $265, 900.
Last night was cold enough to max,
~seasonable heavy overcoats.
The main tide of emigration ever til,
Central Pacific is eastward.
Johnny Garrette left on Yesterday,
train for his California home.
Sacramento is said to be crowded with
bunko men, who expect to reap o rich
harvest during the State Fair.
Uncle George Thacher came In from
White Pine Thursday night, and left for
| California on yesterdays train.
The assessed valuation OF the property
of Lander county this year is 81, $780,
| 228 80, or $50l 81 less than last year.
It is said that there are at least 80. 900
| tons of speiss in the Eureka Cons Stag
| dump that will work upwards Of 81 ,0O0, 900.
B. Berg is making preparation to re-
move his store into more spacious quar-
| tiers, to accommodate his increasing bust
ness.
Henry Bishop left yesterday for Salt
Lake City, where he will remain q few
days, and then return to his home In
England.
A dispatch was received here yesterday
from Phoebe, stating that Mrs. DR.. Reece,
formerly a resident Of this place, was
dangerously i'll.
We are pleased to note that travel on
the e. & P. K. II. is improving. The
mining outlook in White Pine county
seems very fiattering.
The assessed valuation OF Ormsby
county,s property this year will aggregate
about 81, 800, 900. which is very near the
amount returned last year.
The absence OF Shoshones from town
during the past week has been very
noticeable. II is believed they are off in
the mountains gathering p%inenuts.
County Commissioner Arlington yester-
day took Q spin down to Palisade. aud will
return home to-day accompanied by his
wife, who has been visiting in California.
The numerous friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. L. Fitzgerald will be pleased to learn
that their condition was much improved
yesterday, and that their speedy recovery
is now hoped for.
Snow and rain fell in town early yester-
day morning. The ioftiest peaks OF Pros-
pect Mountain were white with the feathery
substance for q couple of hours after old
Sol made his appearance.
A new grocery store was inaugursted
yesterday OF South Main street. A man
who has the nerve 10 start q grocery store
In this town, ct this stage Of the game,
ought to succeed. whether he does or not.
The four now private boxes at the Ly.
oeum Theater are about completed. The
proprietors OF this pleasure resort are
evidently arranging to stay on the Base
Range at least during the coming Winter.
Silver. on its down grade, has reached
81 03k. Unless the price i'm.
proves shortly miners having ores for
sale to the reduction works in town will
probably have to suffer poorer rates for the
same.
The Candelaris Water Works and Mill
ing company. limited. has just completed
a contract for the erection OF q thirty-stamp
mill at C~andeiaria, and J. 4. Gignoux, OF
Dayton, will at ones make surveys for the
connection OF Trail Canyon with it's mill
at the town.
American District, q mining section on
the east side Of the Lower Humboldt
range, about twenty miles south Of Union
vile, in which there was In early days
quite an excitement and then abandoned,
Is about to be resurrected by some sanguine
~prospectors there.
Philo ]. Parmatsr. who cam to Union.
vile, in Humboldt county, from Nevada
county. California, in 1862, died al
Elkhart, Indiana. August 23. leaving q
widow aud daughter. In 1866 Mr..
Parmater was elected In Humboldt county
to tho Assembly on the Republican ticket.