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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-12-31
Notice of Assessment.

MARTIN WHITE MINING COMPANY.
WI Location Of Principal Place OF Bust
ness, San Francisco California Location
of Works, Ward, White Pine County, Me-
vada.
Notice is hereby given that at meeting o f
the Board of Directors, held on the 10Th day
of November, 1892, an assessment NO 28)
of Twenty-Five Cents per share was levied
upon the capital stock of the corporation,
payable Immediately in United States gold
coin to the Secretary at the office of the
Company, 100 Suffer Street, Room 81 San
Francisco, California.
Any stock upon which this assessment
ment shall remain unpaid on the 10Th day
of January, 1898, will be delinquent and
advertised for sale at public auction, and
unless payment is made before, will be sold
on MONDAY, the 10Th day of February,
1898, to pay the delinquent assessment, to-
gether with the costs of advertising and
expenses of sale.
By order of the Board of Directors.
K. l.. ROSS, Secretary
Office--120 Suffer Street, Room 81, San
Francisco, California d1O-td
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-12-31
Close of the Monetary Conference


The Conference has ended in talk.
No resolution except one of gratitude
to the United States for giving the
delegates the happiness of meetings
has resulted from it's deliberations.
The nominal adjournment is to May
3Oth next, but as this is conditional
on the approval of the several govern
ments, it gives the gold men the oppor
tunity to repress further discussion by
finding an excuse on which to prevent
a further meeting.
The conference has been far from
justifying the hopes with which it was
called. The European governments
almost without exception sent delega-
tions controlled by the gold men.
Hardly an indication of the rising
demand for bi-metallism in England
was offered by the British delegation.
Two of the members were bi-metal-
lists, but they were hampered by their
instructions. Lombard street the
British banking and speculative inter-
est-controlled the British delegation,
and it's influence was wholly obstruc-
tive. Germany followed England and
Austria followed Germany. Russia,
whose interests are with the silver
using nations, threw her influence
with the gold men. France and the
Latin Union took the attitude that
they had done enough for silver, and
would begin to talk about increasing
their stocks when some of the other
nations equalled them in the amount
of silver they coined.
But it would appear that nothing
but the sharp distress and commercial
disturbance that must come from the
contracted base for the currency sys-
TENS of Europe will bring the gold
standard nations to bi-metallism.
The wiser fnanciers among them
recognize the danger to the immense
fabric of credit that has been built on
the slender foundation of gold. But
the majority of the bankers ignore the
danger or hope to strengthen Europe
by Withdrawing the 5000, 900, 900 of
gold from the United States. The
United States is in good deal better
condition to protect herself than is
Europe, and probably will have
enough brains to keep what it needs,
and if a crash comes the gold stand
ard nations are the ones that will suffer
most from it. -Examiner.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-12-31
NOTICE OF REDEMPTION
Of White Pine Comfy 6 Per Cent
Bonds.

TN PURSUANCE OF AN ACT OF THE
Il Legislature of the State of Nevada, ap-
proved March 3, 1885, Sealed Proposals will
now be received by me at my Office in Ely,
for the redemption of White Pine County
Six Per Cent. Bonds. There is over One
Thousand $1,000 dollars in said Fund.
Bids to be opened by me at my Office in
Ely, at II o'clock A. M. on Monday, Janu-
airy 2, 1898.
J. d. WILLIAMSON,
County Treasurer White Pine County
Nevada. d10-4t
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-12-31
James Phelam Dead.

James Phelan, capitalist, and one of
the best known of California pioneers,
died on the morning of the 21st after
an illness of few days. He leaves
an estate of several millions. He
anticipated celebrating his 73d birth
day in true Irish style some time soon
and had imported ton of peat and
other things peculiar to Ireland, but.
he passed away before the day came
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-12-31
FOR SALE.
A Small Band of Stock Cattle.

THE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS FOR SALE
4 a small band of nice stock cattle, lust
the thing for any one starting in the stock
business, or would make good addition to
a herd. My reason for selling is that am
physically unable to attend to the stock
l will sell the cattle very cheap. Any one
wishing cattle for less than their actual
value can get them by applying a once to
IRA J. MCKNIGHT
Shekels' Station, White Pine County, New
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-12-31

ment securities and the other half in
Nevada State bonds. What they
will have to do now, in order to main
tain State Government economically,
will be to cut down the number of
officials and reduce salaries. The
Legislature ought to be reduced to
nine Senators and eighteen Assembly
men.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-12-31

The Montana Legislature is very
close. The Democrats and Republi-
licans will be tie on joint ballot and
The three Populist members Will de-
eide the contest for United States SEN
ator. The Populists hold balance of
power in California as well as in Mon
tana and should cast their vote for an
avowed free coinage candidate for
United States Senator, as they are
certain to do in Montana.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-12-31
AUDITORS
DELINQUENT TAX NOTICE.

Motto ELS HEREBY GIVEN BY THE
IN undersigned, County Recorder and
Ex-officio Auditor of White Pine County, Ne
Attorney of said County a list duly certified
to by me of all delinquent taxes upon the AS
sessment Roll of said County, for the year
1892, where the delinquent tax, exclusive of
poll tax and penalties exceeds $500, to wit:
San Jose Mining Co-Tax ...........$ 1910 81
Delinquency "a 05
Total Observation-Disclosures. 1914 80
2O-Stamp Quartz Mill in Egan Canyon,
l Fuller Mill in Egan Canyon, so acres
of land in Egan Canyon, 80 acres of
land at Hot Springs, one mile south of
Cherry Creek.
White River Land and Stock Co
TaXS;;;.;;:..::..'Sl' 2 2oa ~
delinquency. 40 IA
Total. 1900. $500. .............. ,32l DC
114SO acres of land in Townships IL, II,
13, IA, IS, Ii and II N. Ranges 50, 60, 81 ,
land in Townships II, II and 13 N,
Ranges 81 and 62 E.; 240 acres patented
land in Township Ii N. Range G3 E., and
water right to Murray Creek.
Aud said delinquents are further notified
that unless the delinquent taxes above speci-
fled are paid to the Treasurer of White Pine
County as EX-OfficiO Tax Receiver, within
twenty coy days from the date hereof, action
will be commenced by the said District At
torney for the collection of said taxes penal
ties and costs.
County Recorder ard Ex-officio Auditor of
White PINE Count. Nevada.
Dated, Ely, Nevada. december II, 1892.
dist
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-12-31

Fort Worth Gazette: The New
York Worlds demand for a division of
Texas finds no favor among Texans.
They intend to hold Texas together
until it's population is SO large that
New York will amount to no more be-
side it in Congress than measly pup
in contrast with bulldog.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-12-31
DELINQUENT TAX LIST
OF WHITE PINE COUNTY
FOR THE YEAR 1892.
TREASURER'S NOTICE OF SALE.
OF WHITE PINE COUNTY

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
IN Tax on the following pieces or parcels
of property, belonging to the within named
persons has this day become delinquent,
and that ten per cent. will be added to the
original tax and costs of publication, and
that I, J. B. Williamson, County Treasurer
of White Pine County, will sell ON
Monday, January 16, AID. 1893,
In front of the Court House door in Ely, all
pieces and parcels of property on which the
taxes and said ten per cent and costs of
advertising have not been paid, for all of
said sums subject to redemption within
six months from the said 10Th day of Janu-
airy, 1898, by the payment of said sums, with
interest at the rate of three per cent. per
month thereon from said 10th day of Janu-
airy, 1898, until paid, as provided by Section
]. B. WILLIAMSON,
County Treasurer.
Ely New, Dec g. 1892.
Eli Bishop-Tax ......................$ 40
Del1nquency... IA
Advertising. .............. w
House in South Taylor.
Peter Bennett-Tax. .......... .$27 %
Delinquency. u
Advertising. ......... 90
Total. .$s2 OIL
4sO acres of land situated on Benefits
Creek, Steptoe Valley.
John Bews-Tax Observation-Disclosures 40
Delinquency. ........... A
Advertising ............ 2 90
.
House in Niptown, Cherry Creek.
w D Campbell-Tax. .................$21 0 48
Delinquency. q O4
Advertising. .......... 90
%
1920 acres of land in Steptoe Valley,
known as Campbells Ranch.
P. T. Dolan-Tax. Observation-Disclosures 5 48
Delinquency. .......... 81
Advertising. ............ 90
Total. ............. ......... $50 OF
16O acres of land with Improvements,
situated about miles north of Cherry
Creek. 100 cres of land with improve
ments about Is miles north of Cherry
creek. 40 acres of land at Bakey's Point
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-12-31

IN the IOIlOWlng, reported interview
with Ex-Governor Blasdell, at the
Golden Eagle hotel in Sacramento, by
the editor of the Casron Appeal:
The Ex-Governor says: "Nevada is
not prospecting but on the other hand,
Is retrograding. The mines that have
been worked for thirty odd years are
nearly exhausted, the big bonanzas
have been worked out, and low price
of silver has caused the abandonment
of many mines heretofore worked at a
profit on low grade ore.
"The shutting down of the Con-
soldated Virginia and California will
soon be followed by the closing of
many other names on the Comstock.
People are getting tired of putting up
assessments at regular stated periods,
when there is little or no prospect of
their ever becoming paying proper
ties.
"Real estate in Virginia City and
Gold Hill has deprecated so that it
is impossible to dispose of any of it,
except at great sacrifice, and many
business houses, and residences, that
years gone by brought large monthly
rentals, are now tenantless.
agriculture and manufactures are
what will make any country prosper
GUS. The mineral has been taken
out and shipped to the markets of the
world, and there is nothing left to
show for it. It has erected palaces
on Mob Hill in San Francisco, palatial
residence in Oakland, furnished
princely mansions in Paris and Lon
don, made millionairas of many who
have become globe trotters, and left
to Nevada abandoned shafts, crumb-
ling mills, hundreds, of impecunious
miners, and population scarcely
equal to that of Sacramento Coun-
ty.
cit was mistake admitting Ne
vada to the sisterhood of States.
fought the proposition, although l
was elected her first Governor. I
maintained them as I do now, that
there is no premanence nor stability
in any mining section, where it is not
backed up by agricultural land, and has
natural facilities for the establishment
of manufactures.
s'Carson, the capital, is a pretty
town of some 1900 inhabitants. It
is not dependent wholly on mining,
and will always bea prominent place.
Here you find the State Capitol, the
Mint and the State Prison. The town
is well laid out, the business portion is
we'll built, and it contains many beau
tiful homes. Reno is constantly grow
ing in size and importance.
'sIt is true that Nevada has large
area of grazing land, and her most
prosperous citizens to-day are those
who are engaged in the rearing of live
stock. One thing about the s'sage-
brush State" is that, as soon as the
people accumulate sufficient wealth,
hey remove their families to the more
climate of California. Many
Of them have pleasant homes in Sacra-
mento, San Francisco, Oakland,
Alameda and Berkeley. The climate
of Nevada in the Winter months, is
very vigorous, and those who have
means sufficient to Winter their fami-
lies on this side of the Sierras do
30.
"The only hope for future in Ne
'ada is the organization of irrigation
similar to those in the neigh
borhood of Fresno and Bakersfield.
Turn the water of the Humboldt and
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-12-31
NOTICE OF REDEMPTION
OF WHITE PINE COUNTY SCRIP.
TREASURER'S OFFICE,
WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEVADA,
ELY, December 9, 1892.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
IN there are now over Five Hundred
$500 dollars In the Redemption of White
Pine County, and that sealed proposals,
directed to me, will be received for the sur
render of County Warrants on the General
Fund of White Pine County until the next
regular meeting of the Board of County
Commissioners.
]. B. WILLIAMSON,
County Treasurer of White Pine County,
Nevada. d1O-4t
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-12-31
1I8tKn.

BAIRD-In Los Angeles, California, Deem
Der %, 1892, James Baird, u native of
Scotland, aged IS years.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-07-09
Illexible AddresseS,

When posting letter it is an excellent
mistake has been made in writing it.
If people would cultivate habit of doing
this, nine-tenths of the present errors
due to deficient or erroneous addresses
would be prevented. At desk in the
museum rooms of the Dead Letter Office
at Washington sits clerk whose duty il
is to decipher illegible addresses and tc
rectify the mistakes in them. To judge
from some Of the specimens shown she
must bring her Imagination to bear OF.
many of these blindy written directions.
If not, how could she divine that letter
addressed "Senatorine, Washington, 1"
was intended for Senator Ryan, WASH
ington, D. c., or that "Mr. James R.
under Wood gea banton Con Kan" was
intended for James R. Underwood, Gear.
Barton Co., Kansas; "St. Tullia" fci
Centralia, or "Caf Creek" for Buffalo
Greek? Some writers are decidedly SEN
timental, for there is found "Beauxville"
for Bowlesville. Others are fond OF
British rhetoric, as "Eyewood, Hill
linoie," for Highwood, ILL.,. and large
percentage are illiterare, as exhibited by
John l. eads, opisiteon, torrance CO.,
for John l. Eads, Opposition, Lawrence
Co.; "Saragordy Post Office" for Cerro
Gordo, "Seneki" for Seneca, and "Pagea.
way" for Padua. A letter recently re-
ceived was addressed to Dakota Terra
tory, Lock Box $685. This was mailed
before Dakota had matured into State
hood. 1t was found that Fargo was the
only postoffice possessing lock box OF
that number in the then territory, and
the letter was duly delivered. Probably
two of the most unique specimens of the
"un-Lost Art" are the following: Mr..
Wilfred -, New Haven, Conn.-Please
believer this to the owner and obledge, az
do not know the last part Of his name.
He mails his letters in the New Haven
Postoffice. This contains letter thai
belongs to this party" The other, OF
which the person addressed could not
truthfully say after Dryden, "The well
come message made was soon received, !"
read as follows: Postmaster, please de-
liver this letter to my son, who works on
the railroad. He drives yoke of red
oxen and railroad passes through his
place." 1t would seem from these ex-
tracts that illiteracy is by no means at a
discount in some parts of this country,
and that painstaking on the part of cor
becoming time-occupying pursuit
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-07-09
sOUDANEsE SOLDIERS.
II Takes q Bold Commander to Restrain
Their ImpetMOsity.

The SoudaneSe troops are vastly inter-
estng. The jet-black creatures, resem-
bling amiable gorillas in face, of all
heights and only one thickness, narrow
hipped, thin chssted with no backs to
their heads and no calves to their legs,
IRE liked and trusted by their officers tc
u remarkable extent. There is little OF
the Red Indian in them; they would not
fire into sandhill or stand still to be cut
down.
The Dervsh is their oppressor and
natural enemy, and they only desire the
opportunity to "get at him" at as close
quarters as possible. They are children
in their love Of decoration and their
whims and their devotion to their Off
GERS. They are savage in their dislike OF
discipline and their passionate impa-
tience of restraint on the battlefield
For this reason-to keep them back
they have more English officers to bat
TALON than Egyptian troops. They de.
test drill and blank cartridge. They are
enthusiastic over every rumor Of APP.
preaching fight
was told a delightful story OF one re-
cent action in which they took proml-
nent part. The enemy was under cover
not far off but the firing line of blacks
were blazing away at him as fast as they
could open and close up their rifles. In
vain their officers tried to stop them
The waste of ammunition threatened to
become extremely serious and their COM
manding officer, Scotchman who had
seen many fights with them, losing his
temper, rode up and down behind the
line. cursing them with every abusive
epithet in fairly adequate vocabulary
of Arabic invective. But entirely with.
out effect.
At last one Of them happened to turn
and discovered the beloved Bey in evil
IDENTITY a very excited state of mind. lie
at once rose, ran back to him, and, pat
ting him reassuringly on the boot, lie
said, Don't be frightened, Bey. It's AL
right. We're here-well take care of
you'll"
The Scotch Bey, however, was equal to
the occasion. He rode out through the
line, and walked his horse up and down
in front of the rifles. Nov" he said,
if you must fire, fire at me-" After
this it is not surprising to read in dis,
patches that this officer has twice re.
Gently had his horse shot under him.
Contemporary Review.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-07-09
NIuaicaI Stonea,

Twenty five large flints, suspended
harmonicon fashion from two parable
wooden rods, and struck by two smaller
flints by way of hammers, constitute the
most curious of musical instruments
The stones ale not cut down to any par
ticular weight or form, but are virgin
aints of various shapes and sizes, rough
as when first dug out of mother earth.
The inventor, Flenchman, states that
it has taken him thirty years to perfect
his collection. When struck the finite
give out a clear metallic sound, like the
note of a very heightened bell. Strange
to say, the note produced appears to have
no direct relation to the size or shape OF
the stone, tn O of which are exactly alike
in weight, and yet there is more than at,
octave interval between their respective
tones. Similar paradoxical relations
may be noted between others of thu
series.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-07-09
Iron Sheets Very Thin.

A competition has for a long time pas,
been carried on among the English iron.
masters as to the degree of thinness to
which cold iron could be rolled. In one
case the sheets have been rolled to an
average thickness or thinness Of the
eighteen -hundredth part of an inch--ir
other words, eighteen hundred sheets OF
this iron, piled one upon another, woult'
measure only one inch in thickness.
And this marvellous tineness of work
may be more readily understood when
the fact is borne in mind that the great
number of twelve hundred sheets OF
thinnest tissue paper measures a slight
fraction over an inch. 1t also appears
that these wonderful iron sheets We're
perfectly smooth and easy to write
upon, Notwithstanding the fact of their
being porous when held up in strong
light
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-07-09
Disappearance of Deserts.


What were supposed to be deserts are
civilization. There was time when
the United States had one of no small
size, when it was considered that all the
land west Of the Missouri River was a
barren waste. The farmers of Kansas,
Nebraska and Dakota have disposed Of
much of the Great American Desert.
Once upon time large portions of the
interior of Africa were believed to be
arid and uncultivable. Now we learn
that they are fruitful and well populated.
The interior of Australia has been
held up as an awful example of howl
ing wilderness, destitute of water and
animal or vegetable life. That illusion
is now beieg rapidly dispelled. Recent
explorers report that inner Australia is
no Sahara waste, and that, though unin-
habited, it can support large popula-
ton. There are grassy plains, large
lakes, and also traces of gold and prec-
.ous stones. A north and south railway
is now being made through the center
Of Australia, and doubtless with its COM
pletion the last trace of the desert will
vanish.
The iron horse is wonderful dispeller
Of illusions of that kind. The truth is,
there are vast regions in America, Asia
md Australia, which are barren from
the standpoint of primitive and ignorant
agriculture, but which, when taken in
hand by the educated farmer of the
present day with his modern implements,
develop into fertile fields and pastures.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-07-09
Antiquity of the Plane.

A very interesting discovery has been
made at the Roman city of Slchester
The excavators came across dry well
which, on being explored, proved quite a
little museum of antiquity. Some fifty.
five feet down the diggers found an urn.
shaped pottery vase, about a foot long,
quite intact, and curiously enough. pro.
lected by Jumps of chalk built around it.
The vase, which probably originally
contained some precious substance, wa:
quite empty. Above it was deposited :;
humber of iron Implements, most of
which were in wonderful state of pres
ervation.
The principal specimen is a carpenters
plane of quite modern type. although
unquestionably more than fifteen hun
bred years old, three or four axes retain
ing their fine cutting edges and still
quite servceable, number of chsels
and gouses of all shapes and siz S, ham.
mers, ADDE'S, saws, files, etc. Among the
smiths tools may be specified brazier
for burning charcoal quite complete
two OF three anvils of different sizes ana
shapes, fine pair of tongs adapted fol
lifting crucibles, curious tripod candel.
abrum lamp OF candlestick, and severa'
other curious objects, the precise uses OF
which have not yet been determined. In
addition there are several large bars o
iron, a couple of plowshares and a broker
sword. This is undoubtedly the most
important find at Silchester since this
discovery of the bronze Roman eagle now
at Strathfieldsaye, some years ago.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-07-09
QUEER WAYS OF CATCHING Ours.


The slip Nooses of New Orleans nnt
the Nets and Lnriats ut Frisco.
In New Orleans the dog catchers who
ICED the pound with vagrant ours pro-
:red about their work with a slip moose,
Hhich they hold in front Of the dogs
head or under his feet In San Francisco
the street ours are captured with big
hand nets that look like exaggerations of
the tools with which entomologists chase
butterflies. But the net is a new thing
for San Francisco, and before its use was
Introduced that city boosted the most
ientific and interesting dog catchers in
the Union. They did the work with
!ariats, used as cowboys use the flying
loop. such as was introduced in the
Southwest by the Mexicans.
1t was a source of never failing interest
10 the San Francscans and to all who
visited their city to see these wonderfully
expert men catch dog. The dog would
ne ahead of the man or across the street
The man would have his coil of ropo hid
den behind him, and would advance to
within reach of the animal, when, with
inerring accuracy, the rope shot out and
he dog was captured. The movement
WAS lightning like, and the accuracy of
aim was such that dog was known to be
doomed whenever dog catcher set eyes
IN him. The instant a man threw his
'ariat lie began to pull it in again with
log on the end of it. He always pulled
The dog up between his legs, gripped the
,nimal's neck between his knees, took off
the moose, and, catching the cur by the
neck, tossed him in the pound wagon.
The dogs became wonderfully knowing
around a corner. 1t was argued that the
method of capture was cruel and as
result the lariats are out of use and the
big butterfly nets have taken their places.