The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1886-11-06
WHITE PINE NEWS
GENERAL NEWS.
Gathered and Condensed from On
Exchanges.

Ormsby county, the best being had
for that price.
A miner in Helena, Montana, has a
go carat diamond which was found by
q Chinaman in agulch near that place.
Two years ago Nevada cast about
$4,000 votes. This year it viii not cast
over II ,000-3,00O of which are on the
Comstock.
Secretary Lamar has decided that
the marriage of single woman who
had acquired homestead will not in
validate her title.
Over $40, 900 worth of ore has al
ready been sent to the Reno Reduction
Works. They are nearly ready for
active operations.
William Gillespie Walker, neph-
sw of James G. Blaine, has entered
the Order of the Jesuit Fathers estab-
lished at Santa Clara.
Jacob Klein has been appointed pay
master for the L. 5. building ia Car
ION City, and filed bis bonds in the sum
VI YOOsOOO Ou
The marble capitol of Connecticut,
at Hartford, 300 feet long, is said by
engineers to be three inches longer In
Summer than in Winter.
The sick students at Bishop Whit
aker's School for Girls, Reno, are al /
improving and the regular course III
study has been resumed.
Next to Truckee Meadows, Big
Meadows, near the sink OF the Hum
boldt, is the most extensive alfalfa
raising locality in Nevada.
The First National Bank of Winnie
mucca has received certificate from
the Comptroller of the Currency, au
thorizing it to commence business.
An apple tree at West Chester,
Penn, which documentary evidence
shows to have been planted one hun
dred and eleven years ago, is still! in
full bearing.
Fruit raised in Douglas county is
being shipped to Sacramento. 1t is
said to be superior to that raised IN the
foothills of California anI will keep
much longer.
1t is estimated that 10000 tons
of coal are stolen every year from
cars in iransi'. The ihctts of coal at
one station on the Pennsylvania road
amount 10 thirty tons every night.
The Elko Free Press learns that It
telegram was received at Fort IIallcck
in Elko county. Wednesday. instruct
ing the commanding officer To make
preparations to abandon the Fort.
Orders were received Ia sell all the
wood, hay and other supplies on hard.
Russia is going 10 have railroati
tunnel three miles long, at cost of So
100000 she las $4,000 miles of raj
road, but her only tunnel is 700 "a: DIS
long. More great works of this kind
are contemplated, aud as Russian en-
tileers are ignorant of tunnel making,
there is demand for foreign skill.
The new contemplating machine at
Sumpter, Soutl Carolina, picks cotton
at the rate of $50 pounds an hour with
out injuring the plants or boils. When
it is considered that an average negro's
picking the entire day is between 200
and 300 pounds the importance of this
labor saving invention is better appre-
ciated.
The Wel!sburo, (Penn.,) Agitator
says: Coal miners frequently find cur
ious formations in vein of coal. An
Arnot miner took out piece of sulphur
few days ago which was perfectly
formed ear ofcorn, the kernels and rows
being very distinct. 1t was under
twenty feet Of solid rock and in the
middle of the coal vein.
The Elko Free Press says the George
Shepard ranch on South Fork, is mile,
from EIko, was sold to b. Reinbart fol
$2,450. There is balance of $470 Il
pay on part Of the land to effect ceal
title. This brings the total cost up tc
$500. We are informed that the i'm
provmsnts on the ranch are worth til,
money paid for the property.
The mining outlook in Tuscarors
has never looked brighter, even in its
palmiest days. The Times Review
hazards the prediction that the bullion
shipments from the North Belle Isl,
aud its immediate neghbor, the Ne
vada Queen, will astonish the work.
NV their extent before The close of thu