The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-06-04
sTArE AND COAST.

= I'LL COMPANY {. Navajo sruu 5 have .
been enlisted at Fort Wmgate, AriL Ina,
for a period o. five years.
r. c. Chambers, the millionaire, has !
purchased the Salt Lake Herald for
500, 600, and will make it first class
Democratic paper.
The trouble between the Anaconda
mining corr my and the Montana Union
railroad has led to the formation VI a
company to build competing line from
Butte to anaconda,
Truckee is much excited over the Don.
ner Like find, and prospecting parties
have fenced in ten acres or more of land
and are guarding it with shotguns, 1t
may lead to trouble.
A cloldburst near Boise City, Idaho
destroy I'd flume that diverted the
wat OF Cottonw God creek, which for.
merly ran through the city, and the
streets were flooded With several feet of
water.
The San Francisco Post says it is gen
orally believed that 50.eent dividend is
one of the certainties Of the near future
from the Con. Cal. and Virginia, with
good prospect of one years disbursement
at the sane rate.
James Walsh, young man 81 years
of age VITO was employed at the Boston
mine, near Nevada City, California, Sat-
urday evening had one of his arms blown
off and his face badly lacerated by an ex.
plosion of Giant powder.
S. L. journal: Almost every day
witnesses well prepared prospecting
outfit leaving the city, and yesterday q
light s1ring wagon pulled through the
streets loaded up with bedding and
camp equipment and a quarter of beef
strapped on behind.
Times Review; Quite number of
cattle in Smoky and Monitor Valleys aud
Meadow Canyon, Nye county, were re.
Gently poisoned by eating wild parsnip.
The Anderson brothers Of Meadow Can
yon have lost about twenty head Of
steers.
Candt laria Belt: We learn that Capt.
Baxter has received advices from his
, company stating that sufficient funds
will be deposited with Well, Fargo Il
| Co. to enable the Captain to commence
, operations OIL the Montezana mines
e about June lst
The wood ri er Qdaho) Times of re-
e cent date says: "rhere are millions of
3 crickets on Clover creek. They cover a
t stretch of country ten miles long by
r three wide, and are travelling northward,
e and lots more coming from the west. "
e Two or three years ago that region was
S laid waste by clouds OF grasshoppers.
The Bulletin of Hawthorne says
u Three miners looking for work arrived
"a from Candelaria the other day. When
: asked how things were in Candelaria,
one of them said: "She's TO good, say,
you. We haven't 'ad a square heat il
:. the bloody town, See" And with
blankets on their shoulders they started
for Bodie.
i Central Nevadan: The largest and
# richest antimony mine in the world is al
y present being worked III the Big Creek
n canyon, one hundred miles south of Bat
!. tie Mountain. 1t is owned by Jefferson
Il Hull, Simon Bray and Walter Hook, o
Austin, Who have twenty men at worl
extracting ore and preparing to carry Oh
=, extensive operations.
ID Va. Enterprise: The Overman ha
10 started up with new hosting machinery
10 The mine has been virtually closed TO
to the past two weeks, but now she will
n. sail in for all she is worth. The Over
h. man has plenty of ore and every facilit,
now for handling it. II. w. Stokes, tn
millwright, has engineered the work @
at putting in the new machinery, all @
It. which works spendidly.
of Central Nevadan: The partnershi
oh that has for many years existed betwee
Sc John Bradley and George Russell ha
e. been dissolved by John Bradley takin
de the firms Reno property and Georg
Russell becoming sole owner Of the cal
tie and ranges in the ueishborhood {
cd Battle Mountain and Elko. Their Idah
or assets were sold prior to the dissolutio
1t for $42, 900.
ng 49,,
ia The Carson Appeal publishes the 70
mt lowing give.away: Ranchers in Csr-o
Valley say they find it hard to sell the
butter here. They accordingly send
ne California, where it finds a ready sale
u. and is shipped back here when Nevad
ia, consumers pay extra freight and smac
ce. their lips over California butter
go There are more short.sighted fools
the acre in this State than any 9th,
State in the American Union"
Tor
10 More than twenty persons have bee
on drov ned in Lake Taho, but none of Il
T.. bodies have ever been known to come
the surface. 1t is said, too, by persoi
who ought to know, that dead e,
u, sinks in the lake aud never rises to Il
-, surface. The Lake Tahoe Chautauqua
IS anxious to ascertain the cause of tn
-, unusual circumstance, and will enterta
free of cost, during the coming session
Hot Springs on the shore of the lake, Il
Up. person who will explain it on scientii