The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1888-05-12
STATE NEWS.


% cents at Virginia City.
Hale & Norcross paid dividend of 50
cents per share on May s.
The monthly pay roll of the Comstock
for the month of April amounted to
$3.50, 9GG.
The mines in Palmetto Dist let, Esmer-
aida county, are to be developed and a
smelling plant put up there.
Nye county's assessment roll is ex.
pected to foot up between nine hundred
thousand and one million dollars.
The Belmont Courier predicts the
Crantsville, Nye county mines,
will become steady bullion producers if
worked for silver.
Work has been resumed on the Man.
haitian mine at Austin, and the people Of
that burg are rejoicing. The Chicago
creditors of the company have come into
possession Of the property.
The Carson Index. Union says the
mint /, overrun with work nowadays.
Plenty Of bullion coming into the rein.
cry all the time. Ooe hundred thousand
ounces wers melted last week.
VIM. Woodcock, who /; working the
Sheba mine 10 Star District. Humboldt
county, i, having ore hauled to Mill City
for shipment. As the Shebi ore works
from $500 to $3.50 ton, carload of it is
quite valuable.
The Times Review says that two
horses we're rescued from an almost bar.
rem rock in Snake river, just above Sho.
shone Falls, last week, after having re.
NAMED there for twelve days without
food, excepting drift wood and moss.
A strange grass has made its appear.
ance In the sloughs, on Staufer &
Sweetser's ranch, on the Humboldt, says
the Enterprise, where some rice seed was
planted. and the superstition is that
it is wild rice. Seed of the wild
rice furnished by Fish Commissioner
Carey was sown at that point last Fall.
Two young women in Reno, says the
Carson Appeal, have just sprung into no.
toriety by Engaging 10 public gum
chewing match The winner was Miss
Mansey, who chewed eighteen boxes.
The present gum-chewing craze is calcu.
lated to cause sensible people to pray for
an epidemic Of lockjaw that will sweep
the country.
The long pending suit of the Rich.
mond Mining Company and the Eureka
Con. Mining Company, growing out Of
the alleged infringments Of the first.
named companys patent for working
speiss, has been compromised and settled.
By the settlement the Eureka Con. Com.
psny has acquired full and complete
license to use the patents.
The Enterprise says Con. Cal. & vir.
ginia will declare its regular dividend,
aud, doubtless, Confidence will fall into
line. bringing the dividends paid for
April up to about 1921, 900. Before the
year is out Crown Point, Occidental,
Gould & Curry, Ophir and perhaps one
or two others are likely to he added to
the list, swelling the dividends to fully
$500. 600 q month.
We clip the following from the Enter.
prise in rsgarl t, the Tuscarora mines
The Navajo is still yielding the uaual
amount Of good ore. The slopes of the
Found Treasure are yielding as usual.
No. winzs on the 400 level Of the North
Belle Isle shows high grade ore in the
bottom. Tho Nevada Queen is showing
ore on the $50 level that assays s24l. In
the Commonwealth ore is found on the
100 and $50 levels that average from $3a
TO $500 ton. The richest ore 10 on the
$50 level. There is one place the car
samples from which ran up to $500 q
ton"