The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-09-05
DE LAMAR DOTS.

Deputy Shurf Clark is with us for few
days.
Everyone here got good look at the
eclipse Tuesday evening.
BoRN.-At DeLamar, Nevada, August
3Oth, 1895, to the wife of Walter Reeder
daughter.
The lunch stand at Schaefer's is now kept
open all night and everything served is of
the first quality.
The number of sick continues about the
same Those on the road to recovery are
extremely weak.
Work is being done on the pipe line of
the DeLamar Company and the pipe will ba
covered over extra in order TO keep it from
freezing this coming winter.
All of the aluminium coins issued by the
DeLamar Company are being replaced by.
silver coins. This is good move and every
one is well pleased with the change.
A man named Fred Miller, who has been,
sick for several weeks, died at three o'clock
yesterday afternoon. The burial took place.
! this afternoon. He was between thirty-five
and forty years of age.
Hans Olsen has determined on the cree
ton OF a two story brick on the lot above
the old Wertheimer store. The ground
floor will be used as a saloon and the upper
! hoor laid off for public hall
r. II. Terhune, who was employed as
Assistant Superintendent by the DeLamar
Co. about a month ago has resigned to
accept a position with the Rico.Aspeu Ce.
and left for that place last week.
The Justices Court will be occupied to-
morrow with the case of Ed. Hing VS.. II.
H, Cooper growing out of the sale of lot
by Cooper to which he is charged to have
had no title, and his refusal to return the
money.
A proposition of contract and lease on the
Flagstaff mine has been made by its owners
and work is expected to start within a
month. The favorable appearance of the
claim during the last workings induces the
belief that further work will open it up into
a valuable property. The ore thus far
found is not high grade enough to bear
transportation.
After stay of week, General Manager
G. H. Robinson of the DeLamar Company
left by private conveyance on Sunday for
Salt Lake, He did not stay as long as ex.
pected but was active in viewing the various
workings and improvements of the Com
pany and goes prepared to furnish pipe,
pumps and other material for both pipe line
and other improvements now in progress so
that little or no delay will ensue.
Another shipment of ore to Salt Lake
from the April Fool mine has just been
made. In quantity and value it is about
like the two former ones and will net about
$4,000 to the shippers. This represents
the best grade ore produced. In mining it
large quantity of ore of less value 10 pro.
duced and more still left in the mine. This
it will not pay to ship and works nearer
home must be secured. The pay chute in
the April Fool was thought by some to be
worked out last year but present and recent
developments dispel this idea. The mine
bids fair to rival its neighbor, the Monitor.
Jim Crow tho property Of the DeLamar
Company.
The DeLamar Company is sinking for
water in Meadow Valley Wash. A well
twelve fee. in diameter is being put down
on forty acres of ground recently taken up
by the Company between the Colburn and
Garden ranches The well is down now
some eighteen feet and is practically flooded
with water. A pump will have to be erect.
ed to drain the well if it is carried down
much deeper and the appearances indicate
that an abundance of water will be obtained.
II is proposed to pump from the well to the
pump station recently put IN at Indian
Springs situated several miles from the
Wash. With this new line in working
order it is thought the water question for
the DeLamar Company at last will be
solved.