The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-07-20

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James G.. Rule well known min
ing man on the Comstock, and asso-
ciated with the Jones' Sharon combi-
nation and the bonanza firm, died in
San Francisco last Saturday.
The receipts of the State Land Office
for the week ending July ID, 1896,
are: Payments on application, ST.
751. 80; Interest on Contracts, 1885,
SO; Total, $28S8.85
Cattle markets firm; Native steers
settings at 1926 to $3.50; common
lots at 81; cows at $1.90 to So. 30;
The demand for Sheep is good; COM
mon to extra selling at from 80 to
81. 80; Lambs, $3 to 1913.
We are sorry to record the death
of the Infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
D, G. Mcdonald. 1t died at half past
3 o'clock Thursday afternoon. The
burial took place at II o'clock Friday
morning.
The probabilities are that genaral
movement is to be made against the
cattle men and others in South Dako-
ia, who have for years openly defied
the law by fencing government lands.
The drift from the shaft sunk on
the Chairman mine for draining pur-
poses is in about 80 feet and in loose
open ground. This is what the COM
pany have been locking for and will
continue drifting until the water is
tapped.
A number of the thirteen miners
who left the Comstock some time ago
to accept positions in Mexico, return
ed to the Comstock last week having
found Mining in Mexico, at least so
far as they are concerned, failure.
Enterprise
The rush for the Idaho placer dig
gings still continues uninterrupted.
Newspapers from all over the state
chronicle weekly the arrivals of cap
italists and miners. Idaho is steadily
and surely coming to the front.
| A Mason Valley rancher who was
leading span of horses to water, tied
their halters together for conveience.
The animals got away, started on a
run, and went on opposite sides of
cotton wood tree at full gallop. The
stoppage was SO sudden that it broke
both their necks.
The city directory of Chicago shows
that the city has population of l.
sos, 700 as against 1,61O, 900 in the
year 1898. The Johnsons, with 81
664 names, beat the Smiths of whom
1897 are named in the directory.
The Jones and Browns are close up
tothe Smiths.
| G. B. Jack one of Salt Lake City s
legal lights, was in Ely the first of the
week on business connected with the
White River Land & Stock company.
Mr.. Jack represents w. FL. Ell. Spaf-
ford, of Salt City, and filed the neces-
sary papers with the Clerk, for the
foreclosure of two mortgages, one on
real property, the other on personal.
The ranehers of Lovelock are be-
coming very much alarmed over the
water supply. Much of the grain that
was sown late will not get water
enough to make hay, while the grain
that was sown early has received near
ly enough water to warrant an aver
age crop.
Finance Minister Foster recently
gave notice in the Dominion Parlia-
ment that it is sxpedient to provide
for the payment of the snm not to OK
coed $3.50, 900 in five years to encour-
age silver and lead smelling in Cana
da; the payment for each ton of ore
smelted not to exceed fifty cents.
As long as Nevada imports hams.
bacons, lard, eggs, chickens and tur-
keys by the carload from the East,
while there are thousands of acres
of the most productive soil in
the world lying idle within easy reach
of the markets, on which these things
can be produced cheaper than any
where else in the world by intellig ent
effort, SO long will large element of
the population remain unthrifty grum-
blers. Elk
The Bald Eagle Mining company,
Sanford Cove, Alaska, transport their