The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-01

ment of Jimmy Clark. For DAY or Two
matters ran slowly but nov everything l.
running smoothly and sixteen tons
day are being crushed with the
ten stamps. The extraction for
the first four days was about ninety per
cent, and this is expected to be Increased
when matters get to working little more
smoothly. This Is an excellent beginning
and shows the jim Crow Monitor ore to he
free milling, a point which heretofore has
been a matter of doubt 1t will require
nearly two months to clean up the ore now
on hand, some 700 tons, and as it averages
$50, a very snug sum will be realized from
this trial run of the mill.
A band of nearly 200 fat sheep is ready
for shipment from Reno to San Francisco,
to be butchered on commission.
A few days ago seven carloads of Chinese
silk passed Winnemucca going east. The
cargo was valued at over 81 900, OOO--Silver
State.
The closing out sale at the Godbe Mer.
Co.'S store still continues. Better cash
prices on anything than buyers have ever
known here before, See what 81 cash will
do.
The most important objection to the
annexation of Utah to Nevada seems TO be
that in these hard times one wife is all that
any man can support Virginia City Enter
prise.
Seventy men are employed at the Union,
seventeen at the Big tunnel aud altogether
about 100 men are employed by the Austin
Mining Co. On the 18th of January the
company paid out SIG FOR December
1893. Austin Reveille.
A country editor who takes his advertise
ments out in trade will be gratiied to learn
that new pill just patented will keep
man alive whole week without eating.
All he wants now is a liver syrup that will
make one suit of clothes last seventy-fve
years. FIX
The Alabama Populist State Convention
will meet on February 9Th to nominate II
full State ticket The Jeifersonian Demo
Gratis will meet at the same time and it Is be
leved combination will be formed to de-
feat the Administration Democrats. Reno
Journal.
A startling political sensation was created
in Mississippi few days ago. When the
Legislature assembled in Jackson ont of
about 100 members elected as Democrats
twenty-five of them went into the Populist
caucus and declared themselves out OF the
Democratic party.
The Rule drift is progressing rapidly to-
wards the outh boundary aud the Best &
Belcher openings. Some very favorable
places have been passed through along its
course which will be heard from later, when
ventilation has been secured and explorations
have begun. Virginia Chronicle.
It is said there is nine year old girl liv-
ing near Huntsville, Ala, who bids fair to
eclipse Shadows greatest feats OF strength.
She weighs l62 pounds. and it is said that
she lifts with ease an anvil weighing 22J
pounds. She thinks nothing at all Of pick
ing up and carrying about her father, d
blacksmith, who weighs $50 pounds,
The Gait Cali Gazette says: 1t is a fact
that the cigarettes of commerce contain
opium, and that is why the habit once &C
quired is so enslaving. II boys want to fine
out how pernicous the cigarette is to health
let them blow the smoke OF one of tn,
things into the mouth and nostrils OF
young puppy few times, and they vii
find in time that they have a stunted dog
If the fumes of cigarette will stunt doI
they will stunt boy.
Virginia Enterprise; During the yea
1898 the sworn statements Of superinten
dents show that only two ore producin
mines along the Comstock lode paid
bullion tax on the net proceeds. Thes
were the Potosi and Consolidated Californi
h Virginia. The total tax paid during las
year on the net bullion proceeds OF tn
mines was s5l4. OF that amount the Con
soldated California 4 Virginia paid $40
and the Potos SS7.
DR.. Fald, the astrologer predicts dir
calamity for this country during the presen
year. New York will be inundated an
submerged by the waters of the bay and tn
east and north rivers by great tidal wav
which is predicted to arrive about July 3rt
or August 18th. At about the same tim
and from similar cause Florida is expecte
to be detached from the main land and I
sink beneath the waters, and California ma
become an island, These predictions arc r.
garded with concern by Columbia COLES
professor, and we are told to prepare for ii
worst. To make an island of Calforn
would split the Sierra's in twain, then win
picnic would be open to the prospecto
A business boom would result for Il
country similar to that following prolong,
war. r-t
A Denver man has perfected hay pre-
which he claims, will eclipse all other sir
j lar machines and become indispensable
the course of time. Henry Deitz IS the i
u vsntor and his machine has been christen,
: by him the Deitz rotary hay press, 1t
amounted, horizontal press, run by rota
power. In action it is automatic and c.
be operated either by belt or horse powt
J.. There are double chambers to the MACH