The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-08-18
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

tOGOGO.
Mrs. A. D. Campton and daughters
are visiting in Steptoe.
B. M. Pearlman and J. c. Greenwood
returned from the Ferguson District
Wednesday.
The Fall term of school will open
in Ely on Monday the goth. A. T.
Stearns teacher.
Mrs. D. G. McQuitty and Mrs.
M. A. Baker spent several days visit
ing friends in Steptoe Valley the
asst week.
The people of Ely are considerably
indesposed, owing to the presence OF
the "LaGrippe" from the ravages of
which none seem to escape.
Mrs. W. B. Graham and Mrs. Sol
Hip left Wednesday morning by pri-
vate conveyance, for Elko County, to
visit friends.
DIR. Davis performed surgical OPP
Grafton upon Mrs. Thos. Lowell, of
Cherry Creek last Saturday, from
which she is rapidly recovering.
In another column will be found
notice that there will be "a II. eting of
the Peoples Party CO. Central
Committee at Ely on 9th.
Miss BERTHE Stewar rated her
eighteenth birth-daY 10y. At
the same time Mrs Ross Humphrey
celebrated the eighteenth anniversary
of her marriage.
The Secretary of State O. Ell. Grey,
says the Carson News, has sent to
Boston for 80, 900 sheets of election
paper, 26x36, to be used by the vari-
GUS counties at this Falls elections.
The first freight team for several
weeks, arrived here SATURDAY. to the
great satisfaction and relief of the
merchants who were running short of
the necessary supplies.
The Lode says that Tuesday the
9th, was payday for the DeLamar
Co. Upwards of $780, has been
expended in wages by the company
since they took charge of the mines
here.
Mrs. Frank Cook who has been Wis
iting with her mother, Mrs. Steve.
Tucker and her numerous friends in
Ely and vicinity, left for her home in
Tintic, Utah by private conveyance,
last Saturday.
George Parkinson who has been
suffering from severe attack of pneu-
monia for week past, is, we are pleas
ed to note, mending rapidly and will
soon be able to be about again.
James McOmie, A. D. Campton,
W. n. McGill and wife, D. D. Jolly
and wife, left Monday for an outing
on the North Fork of Spring Creek.
They were Joined next day by James
II. Harris, F. M. Clark and Walter
Rhynearson.
VIM. Erskine we regret to say, is
dangerously sick with the LaGrippe.
He has been in poor health for several
weeks but his case was not considered
dangerous until within the last few
days. At the hour of going to press
his recovery seemed doubtful.
The recent gold discovery made
near w. D. CampbelPs ranch in Step
toe Valley about 20 miles from Ely,
is a very promising prospect. The
ledge averages about four feet in width
and is traceable for over a mile. The
rock is white quarts and averages
about 500 in free gold.
James Ostergard and T. F. Oneal,
who departed from Ely about two
months since, the former for California
and the latter for Chicago, in search
of "greener fields" have returned,
fully satisfied that, while the "picking
in Ely is tolerably short, it is as good
if not better than in any place they
visited during their absence.
The Phoebe Record says the Gender
mill started operations yesterday the
8th., to work over the failing pit re-
sulting from the run on Jim Grow ore
from Ferguson. Additional settling
capacity has been put in and the ex-
traction will be close as the ore is free
working.
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