Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-07-20

power engine furnish the power. A peculi-
arity about the engine is that the heaviest
pant of it only weighs 800 pounds, while the
boilers were also packed to The camp in Sec
tons and set up on the grounds. 1t is esti-
mated that the bolts alone used in putting
the engine together weigh more than an or
binary 40 horse power engine. The engine
is compound one having two cylinders to
each engine. Two new o Hara roasting fur
naces have been put up this year, and ten
more stamps are about to be adeed to the mi H..
A tunnel is being run to the mine from point
a of mile from the mill, for the purpose
Of draining the mine and running out ore to
the mill, whereby considerable hosting will
be saved. This tunnel, when completed,
will be about 5000 feet long. and is now in
about 1900 feet. The company has two
stores, one at the mine, and one at the mill,
which are both conducted by English people,
while there are six other stores in the town
owned by Mexicans. At the mill there is no
town, but few cabins in which the Mexican
employees live. The Mexicans Of Pinos AL
tos are not remarkable for sociability except
among themselves. The lower class, or Pc
ons, indulge in a great many social dances,
and on holidays, which are very numerous,
the elite turn out in full force and give grand
hightonei ball. At these dances, as we'll as
the social ores by the poems, dancing begins
not earlier than 10 O'Clock in the evening and
continues usually until sunrise the next day,
but sometimes the festivities are kept up for
two or three nights and days with an coca.
sional recess long enough to eat. The poems
wear pants made out Of white unbleached
muslin, breechclout, and for shoes, piece
Of sole leather fastened npon the bottom Of
the foot by laces drawn up around the ankle
and over the top Of the foot between the toes.
The women wear calico dress, and no head.
gear, except in cool weather, small black
shawl that they wear around their shoulders
and throw over their heads when necessary.
A s<yaba is worn by the men, it is sort Of
blanket, and answers for bed and covering,
They are dirty class Of people. Water
they abhor, and bath is something unheard
of by them. They live on the coarsest kind
Of food, corn, beans. rice, lard and occasion
ally bacon or dried beef In cooking they
use no salt, and very little other seasoning
The better class Of people live much as d..
Americans, but much to themselves, and
they are few and not exceedingly wealthy
No whisky is to be Obtained in the town OIL
Pinos Altos, but the natives manufacture a
drink called museat from the mnsesi plant
or cactus, which answers the purpose Of in
toxic aiing. 1t has the color Of gin; and 9
hot, bilier. though not altogether unpleasant,
taste. St. Louis beer sells for 81 per bottle
and another brand Of beer sold there, darker
in color, sells for 81 IS n bottle. MuseaI i,
81 cents a drink, SO it will be seen that bee,
is much The more expensive liquor for mar
to get light on. In the mountains the eli
siderable snow, while in the valleys the
weather in the hottest season is not more op.
pressive than the hot weather we have in
Nevada. II is dreary life for person 10
lead in such place, but there are parties
there who have been there for years. The
high wages paid to competent persons is the
main attraction, few going to the place for
any pleasure.