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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
NO BLANKS IN THIS CONTEST.

This Is a competition OF rather an unusual
nature. 1t is common to offer prizes for the
best story or picture, or architectural plan, all
the competitors risking the loss of their labor
and the successful one merely selling his for
the amount of the prize. But the Press Claims
Company's offer is something entirely differ
ent Eaoh person is asked merely to help him
self. and the one who helps himself to the best
advantage is to be rewarded for doing 1t. The
prize is only stimulus to do something that
would be well worth doing without It, The
architect whose competitive plan for a club
house on certain corner is not accepted has
spent his labor ON something of very little use
to him. But the person who patents a simple
and useful device in the Press Claims Compa-
ny's competition. need not worry II he fail to
secure the prize. He has a substantial result
TO show for his work-one that will command
its value in the market at any time.
The plain man who uses any articles In his
daily work ought to know better how to i'm
prove IL than the mechanical expert who stud
les 1t only from the theoretical point OF view.
Get rid of the idea that an improvement can
be too simple to be worth patenting. The
simpler the better The person who best sue
ceeds in combining simplicity and popularity.
will get the Press Claims Company's twenty.
Ave hundred dollars.
The responsibility of the company may be
judged from the fact that its stock is held by
about three hundred OF the leading newspa-
pers of the United States.
Address the Press Claims Company, John
wedderburn. managing attorney, 6ls F street.
N, w. Washington. D. C.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
Cows and Milk.

To make the most profit from the
COWS on the farm there must be an
even flow of milk throughout the
greater part of the year. Getting a
large quantity at one time and then
little or none will not give the profit
that it is possible to receive. The
management is an important factor.
To begin with, the COWS must be
good of their kind. They must be
animals that, when literally fed,
will convert into milk the food over
and above what is necessary to sus-
tain animal life. The food must be
good, clean, nutritious and uniform
in quality. A change of food is APP
petizing and should always be pro-
vided, though the changes should
always be made gradually. Sudden
changes have tendency to check
the flow of milk. The more good
food good milk COW eats the more
milk she is capable of giving.
Of all animals on the farm COW
should not be stuffed one day and
starved the next. Bran, pease and
cornmeal we'll mixed make one of
the best butter-producing foods if
supplied in the right quantity.
Good pasturage, supplemented by
good soiling crops at any time that
the feed in the pasture gets short,
good clover or millet hay in Winter,
oil meal, ground oats and middlings
to make up variety are needed.
The quantity of the ration should
be determined by the condition of
the animals.
The stables must be comfortable,
we'll ventilated in Summer and
warm and dry in winter, with bed
ding enough to keep clean. Pure
water in abundance is necessary.
OF both water and salt keep a sup
ply where they can help themselves
to all they want when they want it.
The feeding and milking must be
done at regular hours. Milk is very
susceptible to odors, so the stables
and the cows should be kept clean
and the milk be taken to the milk
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST
VALUABLE.

Comparatively few people regard themselves
as inventors, but almost everybody has been
struck, at one time or another, with ideas that
seemed calculated to reduce some of the little
frietions of life. Usually such ideas are dis
missed without further thought.
why don't the railroad companies make its
car windows so that they can be slid up and
down without breaking the passengers backs?"
exclaims traveller. IF l were running the
road would make them in such a way"
what was the man who made this sucepan
thinking off" grumbles the cook. He never
had to work over the stove. or he would have
known how it ought to have been fixed"
Hang such a collar buttonv' growls the man
who is late for breakfast. "If / were in the
business I'd make buttons that wouldn't slip
out, or break off. or gouge out the back of my
neck"
And then the various sufferers forget about
their grievances and begin to think of some
thing else. If they would sit down at the next
convenient opportunity, put their ideas about
car windows, saucepans. and collar buttons in
to practical shape and then apply for patents,
they might find themselves as independently
wealthy as the man who invented the iron UNI
brella ring, or the one who patented the fifteen
puzzle.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12

house as soon as possible after being
drawn. Slow milking Or dallying
is an injury and will lessen the flow
of milk, as will also fast driving or
excitement of any kind. Milk gen
thy but rapidly, taking care that
the milk is all drawn.
1t is by attention to every detail
that the most milk and the best
milk for the longest season can be
secured, and it is this kind of pan-
agement that makes the dairy cows
return the highest profit.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
NOT SO HARD As 1T SEEMS.

A patent strikes person as an appallingly
formidable thing. The idea is that an inventor
must be natural genius, like Edison or Bell;
that he must devote years to delving in compli-
Gated mechanical problems, and that he must
spend fortune on delicate experiments before
he can get new device to patentable degree
of perfection. This delusion the company de-
sires to dispel 1t desires to get into the head
OF the public clear comprehension of the fact
that it is not the great, complex. and expensive
inventions that bring the best returns to their
authors. but the little, simple and cheap ones
the things that seem so absurdly trivial that
the average citizen would feel somewhat
ashamed of bringing them to the attention of
the Patent Office.
Edison saws that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous invent
ions have not been sufficient to pay the cost of
his experiments But the man who conceived
the idea of fastening a bit of rubber cord to a
child's ball. so that it would come back to the
hand when thrown. made a fortune out of the
scheme. The modern sewing machine Is mi
racle of ingenuity-the product of the toll of
hundreds of busy brains through a hundred
and fifty years, but the whole brilliant result
rests upon putting the eye of the needle at the
point instead of at the other end.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
Notice To Contractors.

CEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED
Sby the Board OF County Commissioners OF
Lyon county, up TO nine o'lock, A. M, of Mon
day. the Sd day of July 1898. for the construc-
ton Of a lookup or branch jail, at the town OF
Greenfield, In accordance with plans and speci-
ications on file in the office OF the County
and specifications may he seen on application
to W. II. Spragg, Chairman of the Board, al
Greenceld. Bidders will be required TO furnish
construction of said lookup to the satisfaction
OF the Board
Proposals should be forwarded To the County
Clerk. Dayton, marked Proposals for the Con
field"
The Board reserves the right to reject any
and all bids. as the public good may require
ny order OF the Board. Attest;
J. A. HUNTOON, Clerk,
Dayton, Nevada, June 9Th, 1893.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
NJ q TT I Q E .
In the District Court OF the state of
Nevada, Lyon County.
PETITION TO CONDEMN LAND.
J. NJ. Douglass. Plaintiff,


J. NJ. Douglass, Plaintiff
James D. Byrnes, Edward Mulyille, H. C.
Biggs, Andrew Charles George W, Debins,
Maggie Lee Mcmillan. the Red Jacket Gold and
Silver Mining Company, corporation, and the
south End Mining Company, corporation. de-
PENDANTS.
The above named defendants aud all un.
known claimants to or owners of any interests
in the tracts of land hereinafter described are
hereby notified that J. NJ. Douglass. the above
named plaintiff, has filed a petition in the
above named Court asking said Court to con
denim and appropriate to the use of plaintiff
right of way for a tunnel seven and one half
feet wide and seven and one half feet high
through the five mining claims lying thereon
adjoining the others between the Contact mine
and the Goodman mine in Devils Gate and
Chinatown Mining District, Lyon County State
of Nevada, commencing at a point on the uorth-
easterly line OF the Atlantic Consolidated min
ing claim, U. s. S. Ill, two hundred and ninety
nine feet south, 6s degrees and Is minutes west
from the mouth of said tunnel at a point on
said Contact mining claim on the south side of
American Ravine. whence bears the southwest
corner post of the Comet North Extension min
ing claim. which is United States mineral sur
vey No. $50, south 3 degrees 43 minutes west ut
a distance of 30 feet. and running thence two
hundred and sixty five and six-tenths feet to
the Annie mine, thence one hundred and sew
enty.one and seven-tenths feet through said
Annie mine to the Red Jacket mine, and thence
ninety and eight-tenths feet through the Red
Jacket mine to the South End mine, thence
hfty-six and three .tenths feet through the South
End mine to the clinton mine and thence one
hundred and forty five feet through the said
Clinton mine to the north -essterly line of the
Goodman mine. patented, on the course and in
the direction that said tunnel is actually con-
structed and exists. through said claim from
its mouth on the said Contact mine into the
said Clinton mine. and that the said Court has
by order duly entered appointed
Monday, July 18th, 1893,
as the time for hearing said petition, and you
defendants and all persons known and I'M
known claiming any interest in said mining
claims will take notice to be on said day before
the Hon. Judge of said Court at the hour of
10 O'Clock A. NJ. at the court room of said Court
in the court house of Lyon county. Nevada, in
the town OF Dayton then and there to show
cause II any they have or can why the prayer
of said petitioner, J. NJ Douglass, should not
be by said Court granted.
J. NJ DOUGLASS.
F. NJ. HUFFAKER and BAKER, WINES DoR-
sEY Attorneys for petitioners
Dated June s. 1898
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
Assessment Notice,

a LHAMBRA MINING COMPANY -. oca-
IAtiou of principal place OF business San
Francisco, Cal; location of works DEVILS Gate
Mining District. Lyon county. Nevada.
Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of
the Board of Directors, held on the four
teeuth C4thl day Of July. 1898. an assessment
mo. III of twenty Ave cents t2jc) per share was
levied upon the capital stock of the corpora
ton payable Immediately in United States
gold coin. to Mr.. +. }. Schwarze, the secretary.
at the office Of the company, No. 32i Washing
ton street, San Francisco, Cal
Amy stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the eighteenth tlsthl day of
for sale at public auction; and unless payment
is made before. will be sold on Monday. the
eleventh ulthl day of September. 1893, TO pay
the delinquent assessment. together with costs
OF advertising and expenses Of sale. BY order
Of the Board OF Directors.
FIJI. SCHWARTZ. Secretary.
Ofice-No 1924 Washington street, San Fran
cisco. Cal.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
A TEMPTING OFFER.

To induce people to keep track of their bright
ideas end see what there is in them. the Press
Claims Company has resolved to offer prize.
To the person who submits to it
the simplest and most promising
invention, from a commercial point
of view. the company will give
twenty five hundred dollars, cash =,
in addition to retunding the fees
for securing the patent.
It will also advertise the inven-
ton free of charge.
This offer is subject to the following condit-
ions:
Every competitor must obtain a patent for
his invention through the company. He must
first apply for preliminary search. the cost Of
which will be five dollars. should this search
show his invention to be unpatentable, he can
withdraw without further expense. Otherwise
he will be expected to complete his application
and take out patent in the regular way. The
total expense, including Government and Blu
reau fees. will be seventy dollars. For this.
whether he secures the prize or not. the invent
or will have patent that ought to be valuR-
BILE property to him. The prize will be award
ed by jury consisting Of three reputable pat
ent attorneys of Washington Intending COM
petitors should fill out the following blank
and forward it with their applications:
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12

Buying expensive eggs, says a
correspondent of the Rural Neu
Yorker, is buying in a bag" He
would buy improved chicks in the
fall, keep them seperate from the
other fowls and when the stock from
them is numerous enough, kill and
sell the old birds. He prefers Plym-
outh Rocks for these reasons:
"They lay mostly when eggs are
scarce and valuable, and the eggs
are of a favorite brown color; they
are excellent mothers; they are
hardy, both when chicks, and
mature; they mature very early;
they are choice table fowls, beauti-
fully colored meat being extensively
produced on the breast, where it is
of the most value; and they have
bare legs,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty-Five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner Has a Clear Gift of q
Small For tune, and the Losers
Have Patents that May Bring
Them in Still More.

Would you like to make twenty-five hundred
dollars? II you would, read carefully what
follows and you may see way to do 1t.
The Press Claims Company devotes much at
tention to patents. 1t has handled thousands
of applications for Inventions but IT would
like to handle thousands more. There is plen-
ty of inventive talent at large in this country.
needing nothing but encouragement to produce
practical results. That encouragement the
Press Claims Company proposes to give.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
Proposals for County Printing.

CEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED
Lyor County, Nevada, up to B o'clO X A NJ. OF
Monday, August nth. 1888 for all printing and
advertising required by Lyon county from the
LIST day of August 1898, up to and including tne
es the right to reject any and all bids as the
public good may require, Said proposals shai,
be addressed to the County Clerk ayton. lyon
county, Nevada and marked proposals Tor Lyon
county printing. The Board will require
good and sufficient bond for the periormance
of said work. BY order of the Board OF Souh'
ty Commissioners OF Lyon county, NevadG
Attest: ia, HUNT00N, CleIk.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
Delinquent Sale Notice.

DED JACKET CONSOLIDATED MINING
NCompany. Location of principal place OF
business, san Francisco, California. Location
of works, DEVILS Gate Mining District, Lyon
and Storey counties. Nevada Mott. e-There
are delinquent upon the following described
stock. on account OF assessment (So. n levied
on the oath day Of May, 1888, the several
amounts set opposite the names of the respect
i've shareholders as follows:
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
Farmers as Horse Breeders.

A contemporary discusses this
subject in common sense and sug-
gestive manner.
Farmers hardly appreciate their
advantages as horse breeders, at
their full value. The prevailing
idea with most people, including
farmers themselves, is that the man
who is merely farmer-the term
being used in contradistinction to
that of breeder--is expected to rear
horses that are merely farm horses,
and are nothing else. Now, for
work that is exclusively of those
kinds that belong to the farm
turning the sod, dragging the har-
row, pulling the seeder, the reaper,
or the mower, hauling the hay to
the place of storing or stacking,
hauling the grain off the field and
to the shipping point, and divers
other routine acts of mere drudgery
we admit that the farmer need
not place his standard very high.
The merest plug, provided, always,
that he is tough and strong, good
keeper and a long liver, will answer
for all these merely farm duties.
The mule has all the qualities
named, yet his place in the whirl
of business travel and mere pleasure
is very restricted one indeed, yet
it cannot lower the scrub horse in
the estimation of the public to say
that the mule, adorned only by the
despicable trappings of the street
car horse-the homely collar, names
and rope tugs-will outsell the plug
horse in the market, though he be
nearly covered with fine trappings.
In place of the farmer being tied
up in his breeding operations to any
particular sort of farm horses, he
can breed the better class, e. Their for
nse on the road or for draft. The
passenger locomotive may have a
capacity of forty miles an hour,
making this with ease attached to
its regular train, yet it can success
fully haul a freight train, doing the
work in the very best manner, at
ordinary freight train speed with
out damage to itself. 1t is, like the
well bred horse, a machine capable
of rapid going or moderate work, as
wanted. The scrub horse, like a
strictly freight locomotive, has a
limited capacity for speed, and be-
yond this neither of them can go.
A horse may be of fine quality and
finely bred, and yet, with safety to
life, limb and health, do the ordi-
nary work required of horsefesh
upon the farm, and, while doing
this, he may incidentally develop
very valuable qualities, and be
sought for at high figure.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12

And IN ACcOrdAnCe with law. and an order OF
the Board of Directors. made on the oath day OF
May 1898, so many shares of each parcel OF
such stock Is may I've necessary will be sold at
public auction. at the Office OF the company,
as Montgomery street. on Saturday the fifth
day of August. 1893 at the honr of II o'clock
NJ of said day to pay said delinquent assess
ment thereon. together with costs Of advertis-
ing and expenses OF sale.
SAMUEL NJ. CAPP. Secretary
AIS Montgomery street, san Francisco, Cal
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
Notes for Beekeepers.


Pine tar placed near the hives
drives off ants.
A good deal of extra comb is
needed when the extractor is used.
Strong colonies usually protect
themselves against robbers and bee
moth.
When the weather is hot the bees
will do much better if they can be
shaded.
The Italian is the best and the
most profitable of the different
varieties of bees.
1t is good plan to set the hives
in hexagonal form, six or eight
feet apart each way.
1t does not pay to neglect the bees.
They will work for you faithfully
and at the same time will board
themselves.
The formation of new colonies
should ordinarily be confined to the
season when the bees are accumu-
lating honey.
Hives should be set close to the
ground and be banked up close to
the entrance way with sawdust,
gravel or sand.
Queenless colonies, unless sup
piled with queen, will invariably
dwindle away or be destroyed by a
robber or moth.
Bees gorged with honey never
volunteer an attack and can always
be made peacable by inducing them
to accept liquid sweets.
While candying is evidence of
purity, the fact that honey does not
candy is not conclusive evidence
that it has been adulterated.
1t is not necessary to let honey re-
main in the comb to ripen. 1t will
ripen itself if left exposed to the air
in almost any kind of open vessels
1t is very important to store hon.
ey in dry place in order to pre-
vent it from graduating. With
care honey can be kept long time
without injury.
Just as soon as you find the combs
in your upper stories about full of
honey they are ready to extract
1t is not necessary to wait until they
are sealed over.
When combs are stored to be
used as needed they are often injur-
ed, if not entirely destroyed by
moth. The best remedy is to fumi-
gate occasionally with sulphur.
The best time during the day to
handle the bees either in extracting
or for any purpose is from 9 o'clock
in the morning until 3 in the after
noon. At this time there are more
of them at work than at any other
time.
The old queen bee comes out with
the first swarm, thus leaving the
parent stock queenless for eie int days
and then the first young queens
emerge from the cells. The first
swarm is always the cream of the
colony and from these we get the
greatest quantity of honey. They
shold be we'll cared for.
By placing your ear close to a
hive II or "a hours before the second
swarm issues you will hear the shrill
voice of the queen. It's called voice,
but it is the vibration of the wings.
The sounds are "p-e-e-p, peep,
peep" The next nearest mature
queen yet imprisoned in the cells
will answer "quack, quack, quack."
When you can hear these sounds
and the day is fine you may look
out for a swarm.
Buying expensive eggs, says a
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
Notice for Publication.
LAND OFFICE AT CARSON CITY, New.
I,,I.

July 18th, 1898. !
Notice Is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his Intention
TO make final proof In support Of mis- claim,
and that said proof will be made before the
Register and Receiver at Carson City, Nevada.
on the 9Th day Of September. 1898 viz: VIII
liam Becker. Homestead Application No; 80
NWA Sec. "a, Up. II N, X. 25 F., NJ. d. NJ.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon. and cultivation
of, said land, viz;
Terence NJ. McGowan, George Irwin, Bern.
hard II. Reymers and George W, Knierim all
OF Mason Valley, Nevada.
July a. 1888 o. III. GALLUP, Register
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
1898.

~ submit the above described invention in
competition for the Twenty five Hundred Dol
lar Prize offered by the Press Claims Company.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-08-12
QUARTERLY REPORT
or THE
Auditor and Treasurer.

Following Is the Auditors and Treasurer's
Joint Quarterly Report for the quarter ending
June 80, 1898.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-07
For the Youth Who Wants to Win.

HOW YOUNG WOMEN EARN THEIR WAY THROUGH COLLEGE BY
President seeey o Smith Coge President
Mean president OF Mount Hoyoke College,
contribute this symposium There will also by college
presidents
HOW YOUNG MEN THEIR THROUGH COLLEGE The Art
of Public Speaking
PROFESSOR BRANAID G. SMITH Professor
yerty Instructive valuable incidents
ing how extraordinary effects produced
THOMAS JAMES President Lincoln
General OF the United States Points About
HOW TO SPEAK PIECES BY Dr. John White
school William Of
school Boston The writers will give
tanning and valuable for young rectatons
stage expression gesture, illustrated
WIN c. JORDAN Simple Lessons in Cuvang Memory Observation
Mr. Jordan who was ormey editor
the past two years devoted himself ecturng training
and memory He writes the interesting and
full OF illustrative
his practical suggestions Some Of his subjects
The Trained Eye Examples OF
faces
THE Trained Ear Illustrative exampeshe musician mimic sounds OF
words remembering names etc
no" 10 Read How to observe in reading memory
you can constantly use what you read
"How TO Converse Wit
OF the art OF good talking