The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-08-08

/ 0faDOuD TWO uCuIS ducdu vi Vic hlleOlu
county Sheriff. and was rounded up
by band Of tie faithful, but as they
were unable to hold him, or the New
ada sheriff to take him without the
necessary papers, he was turned loose.
| He told lis ''herders" however. if
they were hard up, liz void return
with them to Certa III point in New,
at which the Lincoln county Sheriff
was supposed to be holding forth, and
deliver himself up and allsw his cap
tors to claim the reward of $50 offer
ed for his rearrcst. His proposition
was accepted but on arriving at the
appointed place, found to their dis
may that the officer had gone. Mr..
Wilson expressed his regret at their
oisa pointment and after taking drink
with the boys, departed for new fields.
Tive gold bearing quartz lodges
were discovered within the city limits
of San Francisco, recently.
At the Golden Scepter mine, Quig
ley, Mont. daily wages are: Supt.
$40; mine foreman, 81; miners, 50. :
90; miIlwright foreman, $6; mill
wrights "a to $4.20; laborers, 3.
The Wadsworth "Dispatch" reports
the sale of the lin Blaine mine, in
White Horse district, to San Francis
| 20 ma rtias for 81 600
The pension bureau reports that
the number of claims for pensions
aggregates 40, 1922 Thirty thousand
pensioners died during the year.
1t is said that 1, 913, 900 out of a
total of 900, 900 cotton spindles in
the South have agreed to shut down
49, per cent of the time between July
and October.
The Grass Valley and Nevada City,
Cal, mining district in forty years
has produced S148, $40, SCI. This
deos not include the Bloomfield min
ing district. OF this amount, Grass
Valley has produced SOB, 100000,
and Nevada City $40, 200, 900.
The Londoh Times prints Vienna
dispatch saying that Emil Flolub, the
African explorer, has definite infor-
nation concerning the discovery of
gold fields in tbs Orange Free State
which are sail TO rival those of the
! Tranayaal.
The Record says Mr.. y. Reynolds,
a miner of vast experience, has arriv-
ed to assume the position formerly
occupied by j. NJ. tieaiy, as lore
man Of the DeLamar mines.
Newlands in public speech in
Winnemucca last Monday evening
announced himself q candidate for
Congress next November. This, says
an exchange, is not wholly unexpect-
ed, but, ''there are others.
Cats at cents per bushel, corn at
20 cents, rye st Is cents and wheat
at so cents is not calculated to com
mend the present gold standard to the
farmer, nor does he feel much like
waiting for the consent OF Europe to
change the prices.
The Mason Valley "Rustler" reads
ton because wheat is being brought
from Utah to the mill in the Valley to
keep it running.
The richest piece of placer ground
ever disc vered was the famous Mon
tana bar, Confederate Gulch Mont.
The bar comprised less than an acre
of ground, but yielded $1,000, 900 in
three months as the result f the la
Dor of four men. The dust, which of
course contained some black iron,
weighed 1000 pounds, was packed i'll
nail kegs and foated on raft to st
Joseph, Mo-, in the fall of 1864.
Confederate Gulch produced in all
about SIS, 100000
The Jackson's Hole country, in
Wyoming, seemS to be a promising
field for placer operations. Men arc
making from $3.50 to $12 per day
with rockers, and few sluice boxes
are running, The country is full Of
fine gold and it has been traced to it's
source, which is described as "ce-
ment cliff, running clean from Nation
al Park to the Hobock mountains, a
distance of forty miles" 1t is COM
posed of lime rock and gravel, and
the fine gold is found in the cleavage,
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