The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1888-12-29

exhibition at Salt Lake City. She
weighs l,Sl4 pounds.
The alfalfa fields of Kern county are
the largest in the world and cover up
wards of 10000 acres of land.
An old hunter settled in Fast Side,
Los Angeles county, has an armchair
made of elk-horn that is worth $50.
Gold, silver, anthony zine, lead iron,
marble, bismuth, borax, soda, salt and
sulphur are all found in Inyo county.
The Anaconda mines and smelters at
Anaconda Montana. have been closed
down until next May, thowing 1900
men out of employment
Three prospectors from San Bernardno
have unearthed ledge on the Colorado
river, 40 miles from the railroad, that
assays S454 % to the ton.
1t is said that Postmaster Barratt of
Salt Lake bet so high on the presidential
election that he had to put $1,000 chat.
tel mortgage on record.
The California Legislature will be
petitioned to appropriate 5000, 600 for an
exhibit of the products of that State to
be made in London, England, next
year
Thousands of fish are dying in the
Mokelumne river from the water that
is drained from the Lancha Plana copper
mines. The water is low in the river,
and the copper is strong enough to faint it
for miles below.
The Phoenix Herald of the 10th says:
The Wratten strikes in Centennial dis.
trict isssaid to be the biggest thing in
the mining business ever discovered in
the Territory. Three men took out
S36, 600 in seven days.
All efforts to quench the flames in the
Franklin mine, thirty miles southeast of
Seattle, have been abandoned and bull.
wark is being built in the tunnel ap-
preaching the scene of the fire, in hopes
of shutting off the air
At Central City, Colorado, a retort
containing $40, 900 in gold was placed in a
bank for safe keeping. The gold was all
produced in single day by one mine.
! The amount is the greatest ever taken
from any mine in the same length Of
| time.
j. j. Hill of the Big Horn Basin in,
forms the Buffalo lWyo.l Echo that q
grizzly bear was killed near his ranch
q few days ago that weighed 100
pounds. A hundred and nine shots from
nine rifles were fred before the brute
was killed.
Banker Hellman owned an interest il
cable roads at Los Angles that cost him
| $50 900. 1t was likely to cost him an
other sixty thousand, and he from Chiagt
offered him $50, 600 cash. and he took it
The day after he forwarded his stock, NJ
assessment of $50, GOO was made, and h.
had to choose between paying the assess
ment and loosing the sale. lie paid ant
came out Just $4,000 loser.
| The following actually occurred in
certain locality in this place lately, say
the Truckee Republican, A lady teacher
was instructing young class in the
meaning of different words, principally b,
illustration. At length the word hus.
band" was reached. To make it clearer
for them she says: "Supposing ! shoult
get married, what would it be that
would have:H For few moments thei
little heads were busy trying to compre
bend what it ould be, when one brigh
little fellow a his countenance beam
ing with satisfaction at having solved tn
problem, shouted out; "A bah,
ma'am.
The silver STATE SAYS: A rumor ha
reached here that ten year.od DO,
named Baker, at Loyalocks, produce,
some strychnine and cndcyorcd to 20
some Of his schoolmates to eat it. Fail
, ing in this, he prevailed upon Put
child IN eat Sno,p nf .ha a.nW al al