The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1890-04-05
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W.
The smelling furnace will blow in early
in the month, and will find employment
to some 20 men. !.
Clover Valley has been heard from.
What is the matter with Pahranagat.?
Tree planting is INDUCED in to some
extent, but not as largely as we should
like to see.
Stud horse poker is the nightly attrac.
tion at Tommy Edwards.
What is the matter with our dudes for
where there is so much smoke there ought
to be some fire.
The population of Phoebe has doubled
in the past six months, and judging from
present indications it will continue to
increase until we have a live town of
several Thousand inhabitants.
Our old friend Nick Miller, is wrest.
ling with la grippe, superin duced by a
cold, which he contracted while angling
for DR. Alexander's Catfish in the Panaca
slough while on his way from Silver Reef
to Phoebe.
Notice to creditors Now that we are
employed on the reportorial staff of this
paper at the misery salary of $50 per
week. We give fair warning that the first
grasping monopolist that garnishee our
wages will get shot.
People who consider a miners wages as
far above the rates paid for unskilled
labor, readily change their opinion after
short sojourn in mining camp, where
accidents are of frequent occurrence and
death very often comes to stay.
l notice the occasional arrival of some
OF the old boys, the high rollers of early
days, when the citizens had a man for
breakfast every morning, and grave
digging was profitable business; but
Alas! where are the girls of that period?
The letter published in last weeks
RECORD by one of our citizens on the
filthy condition of the town, ought to
awaken this community to sense of its
danger, for the evil, unless remedied, is
liable to bring on epidemic here this
summer.
The District Court commences on the
first Monday in May, Hon T. H. Wells
presiding. So far there is only one case
on the Calendar although six months
have elapsed since the last session of
Court. This speaks we'll for the morality
and intelligence of the community for
none but fools go to law.
Ambrose Bierce, of the s. F. Examiner
is rather rough on the gentler sex when
he says among other naughty things,
"that the combined talent of all the
women in existence, directed in one
channel, is not great enough to invent
one steam engine" This philosopher
treats the ladies to sugar. coated pill
however by stating that there is one
service of great dignity. for which they
are eminently qualifed-that is to be
mothers of men.
After pretty thorough examination of
the ore assure on the l4th and 18th
levels of the Raymond and Ely the
company have decided to sink the main
shaft, lao feet deeper. This is the most
encouraging news we have had since the
mines were abandoned in early days, as it
proves pretty conclusively that the assure
vein in the lower levels of the Phoebe
group of mines has not deterioated in
richness or extent fIom that of the palmy
days of Phoebe when over Sis, OOO, 900 in
bullion was shipped from the camp.
AcCIDENT.-In the forenoon of last
Sunday our people were shocked by the
arrival of messenger from the Yuba
Mine with the intelligence that miner
had fallen down the main shaft and was
probably dead. DR. Nesbitt fastened to
the scene Of the accident by which time
the miners had brought to the surface
their injured companion, who proved to
be William Weller. Mr. Weller was EN-.
ployed at the time of the accident on the
10Th level of the mine and gives the
following graphic cursion of his terrible
fall of 100 feet into pretty straight and
hard rock shaft. ut being lunch time,
and having loaded car at the station,
the miners who were drifting below me
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