The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-01-25
meal AND GENERAL NEWS.

Ike ouinsy, but is getting better.
Little Jimmy Simpson, the three
raor.old child of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Il
S;mn,on, was very sick yesterday.
Ont of sixty of last Springs calves,
n T. McOditty lost all but twelve
This week, while feeding at bis straw
stack.
We are alive and kicking. But we
.ra anxious about our brethren of the
S,s,e nress. from whom we have not
heard in two weeks.
Truckee parents are signing petit
ton 10 have the Principal OF the school
removed.
Ross Humphrey was in this week
from Cherry. He says the old camp
is good place to get away from just
now.
The Sentinel of last Saturday says:
"No mails from the East or West
have arrived there in the past seven
days
Reports from all quarters in the
county are to :he effect that stock on
the ranges are doing much better than
was anticipated.
Hay, wood, flour and potatoes have
a strong upward tendency in this
market, but whisky-though scarce
is going down.
A. C. Cleveland was in from Spring
Valley yesterday. He reports the
snow very deep on the Schell Creek
range, but not so heavy in Spring as
il is in Steptoe Valley. He says cattle
and sheep are doing well out his way.
Dave Fesenthal, Taylor's enterprise
ing mer hant, came down with Cieve
Thursday afternoon. He reports the
denizcns ou the upper levels as con-
tented and happy, with no danger of
q provision famine.
During the past four or five DAYS the
weather has been clear aud the snow
settled considerably. but il has cloud
ed up again and now threatens con-
tinuation of the great storm.
1t Is reported-and the report APP
hears we'll the threat
ened litigation over the joanna mine
has been amicably settled in San
Francico. If this is true tie selling
pricc of the mine ought IN loom up
another quarter of u million.
Chinese New Year passed off very
quietly in Ely this week Mankind is
akin. and the doctrine of the Father
bend of God aud brotherhood of
man is true. Like American man
last Fonlih July VAS this Chinese
New Year. No muches money; no
muchee file crackers.
We are snowbnund. We have had
M communication with East or West
since the 9th. The Eureka stage came
in twice this week, but brought us
nothing but the local mail. The
trouble is IN the Eureka and Palisade
railroad, where the trains are blocked
in big snow drifts.
Here goes, even if we have no news.
We have held lack this issue OF the
NEWS hoping TO hear something from
the outside world. But our hope was
vain, an,l VIC launch the News with
out the help of any exchanges-save
the Eureka Sentinel and Piocehe Rec
ord-since the 9th-just 16 DAYS.
w. II. Stanley, mining expert
from Virginia City, said to have come
here in the interest of Senator Jones
to examine the Joanna mine, after a
weeks sojourn, went out TO Cherry
Creek with w. N. McGill Friday
morning and from there will take the
stage To Wells He took with him an
assortment of samples from all parts
OF the mine. II is to be regretted
that the gentleman, who is a thorough
mining man, should come here TO ex-
anime the property at such an mop
perfume time, when all the surround
ings are covered with snow to a depth
OF severn! feet, and when he could
form but a limited idea of the extent
ana richness of the great ore noun
'"'h aud the ground adjacent thereto.