The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1892-01-18

other important hay growers among
us. Much of the hay is being con-
verted into
There are seven presses owned and
operated as follows: Marzen, Marker,
Joe Hill, John Hill, RuddelI, Car
penter, Harrison and Clark. Mr..
Marzen has two presses, one of which
is not operated, nor is Joe Hills
brand new one in operation. Most
OF the hay is shipped to John Stumpf,
commission merchant of South San
Francisco, and to George Morrow of
Clay St., S. F. Hay brings, delivered
in San Francisco, $1l.50 per ton.
Not all of the grain from the
valley has been shipped. Nearly
all has been, though. A word or so
about threshing and we will leave the
topic. There are three threshers in
the valley. Thies, Pitt, Downs and
Saxenheimer own 32-inch cylinder
machine. j. R. Brown, Henry Lar
son, Peter Anker and n. p. Damn
own 40-inch cylinder machine, and
John Hill and Jos. Dumas own A
inch cylinder threshing machine, of
the very latest improved pattern.
Under ordinary circumstances the
last named can run out from 40 to 45
and 80 tons of grains daily, If the
grain is good three sacks are extracted
per minute. The machine was built
by Bronson & Pitt Of Sacramento, and
has a cleaner in conjunction with it.
-Four men feed the monster, two men
alternating every twenty minutes.
They call themselves the hoe-downs.
The crew on the machine comprises
eighteen men: Engineer, fireman,
separator-tender and assistant, four
hoe-downs, two forkers, two derrick
drivers, one straw buck, two sack
sewers, one sack tender, one stock
man and one waterman. The ]. r.
Brown & Co. machine run thirty-two
days, with an average WELD of eight
hundred sacks daily. This concern
carries with it cook wagon, which is
a great desideratum with the fairer
sex and hence accounts for its popu-
larity. OF the third machine we know
nothing. All three consume straw as
fuel. During the last harvest there
were eight headers in operation.
Christ. Jesperson has twelve-foot
sickle, Larsen, Anker & Co., Car
penter and Marker each possess a
ten-foot sickle, while Dumas, Downs
and Pitt each have an eight-foot
knife.
THIS YEAR
We hay-necks propose to do more
and better work than last year. Two,
ii not four, combined harvesters will
be added to the valley machinery.
What we do need is a -four mill it
would pay handsomely. The water
for the mill could be used for irrigat-
ing purposes. Lovelock is to-day a
greater shipping point than Reno.
What a future she may have! We
cannot tear aside the veil that hides
the future from our view. OF course,
the tide of success cannot come all at
once, but the swell and murmur of
the coming billow has no uncertain
sound. Time ought to be an educator.
Its lesson ought to be written upon
the minds of men. The past and the
future make the circle of eternity and
it were sheer folly to deal with the in
comprehensive. We deal with the
present-the now. The past is gone,
it can return no more. We may sip
the cup of promise and with eager
lips drain its nectar till the fume
mounts kindling to the heated brain,
to realize, at last, that all is dead sea
fruit-that the one road to success is
work.
CAPTAIN FRANK COOK,
Who has just passed his sixty-ninth
milestone, is hale and hearty. 1t is
not our intention to give any biogra-
phies in this epistle, but last Fourth
of July we could not help but ap-
preciate the sentiments of the vener-
able gentleman when he spoke SUBJ
stantially as follows: A few years
ago this valley was q bowling wilder
ness where the Indian went prowling
around with his scalping knife to lift
our hair. Now look at it, filled with
honest True we have had set-backs /;
the Damms going out, but now there
are plenty of little Damms and and
there is no danger of their going out,
rs we have numerous Ankers to hold
them Down, and if there are not
enough we can call for Moore. The
traveller need not be afraid of getting
lost, as we have Markers enough to
place at each corner of the road to
point out the way; if the traveller
gets weary he can rest his head on
the pillows of the Downs. We have,
ipStaa1 III tha maunia onH huzvarI