The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1891-08-22
NEW York Quotations. = Silver
90. Lead, 81 40.

Louis Pollard was in from CieVe-
lands ranch yesterday.
The total number of school chill
dren enrolled in Nevada is 1881.
The showery season appears TO be
over and the days are now sunny ana
nleasant. with the mornings quite cool.
Postmaster Graham and family are
rusticating by the sylvan banks OF
Duck Creek.
The Enterprise says number oil
sw;ndlers are plying their vocation in
Virginia City.
Mrs. VIM. Peters departed for Os-
ceola Wednesday morning to JON
her husbaDd who has gone into busi-
ness there.
Last week two cases of smallpox
broke out in the Indian school at Car
son. The place has been quarantined
and no new cases are reported.
II. Johnson. an old-timer of Hamii-
ion. Ward and Taylor. but Tor a
couple of years past circulating
around the central portion OIL the
state. came from Cherry Creek We'd
nesday.
Ben Hampton, Superintendent OF
the Osoeola Gravel Mining Company,
with his wife and son, paid the county
a visit last Monday.
AR. Watson, of the Joanna bo-
nanza, has returned from Eureka and
is awaiting the final act of the sale
getting the money.
Captain Read, of the New Eber-
bardt Company, came in from Eoer-
hardt Monday. went to Taylor and re-
turned to the former place Wednes-
day.
Diphtheria is prevalent in the
western part of the State. Winnie
mucca. Reno and Virginia City all
have cases of a malignant type of the
disease.
Secretary of State o. IL. Grey has
zone to San Francisco. The gentle
man took the laws made by the last
Legislature along with him to he
bound.-Carson Appeal.
K.C. Davis, one of our we'll known
and highly esteemed young men, de-
parted for Phoebe last Wednesday,
where he will open first-class drug
store about the first of September.
The young man many friends in this
section wish him success in his new
business venture.
Colonel Grandelmyer. the great
mining rustler and operator, was in
town few days this week aud gave
the News pleasant call. We are al
pleased to see the Colonel. His ex-
tensive travels and knowledge OF
people make him always an entertain
ing visitor to our sanction.
Chris Disregard and John Berry,
who have been prospecting out in the
Duck Creek range for month or
more, are now prospective mining
miliionaires. They have discovered a
ledge carbonate of ore, running so per
cent. in lead. some anthony and from
12 TO Is ounces in silver.
In another column we publish the
correspondence between the Commits
sioner of the General Land Office and
John Berry. relative. to cutting timbe r
upon public mineaal land. 1t will be
seen from careful perusal of the
koCommissioner' letter that no permit
is required to cut timber on public
MINERAL land. but the burden of
proof as to the mineral character of the
land lays on the party cutting the
timber. The regulations of the Land
Office are very strict and should be
carefully read by saw-mill owners and
other parties interested
Cherry Creek is again in hard luck
The quartz mill has been shut down
there and the law mill again set to
work grinding vigorously. p. II.
Cannon commenced an attachment
suit in the District Court last Satur-
day against the Nelson Con Company
for over $4,000. Following on the
heels OF this came Sunday morning a
blanket mortage to parties in Ogden
TO cover the property. Of course when
the workmen heard of this they
hung up the stamps and quit work
Immediately. Whether the mortgage
was given to avoid vexatious lawsuits
OF to stand off the creditors, the effect
10 the same. 1t can hardly be expected
that men will work for a company
that IS slow pay when all avenues of