The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-01-11
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Mrs. DIR. Davis mas s1dI 1ou d pr
vate school and has quite flock of
little fellows under her supervision.
County Commissioner Muir of Ham
ilton, left for DeLamar, Lincoln conn-
ty, yesterday, on business.
Quarterly statement and "bills al
lowed" by County Commissioners are
ito be found elsewhere in this issue.
A. G. Cleveland expects to ship
over a hundred head of horses, blood
ed stock, to eastern markets about
the first of February.
For the fiscal year ending Novem-
Der 80 the output of the lib salt plants
in Michigan was 8, 675, 751 barrels.
In 1910 Venezuela rose against the
Spanish yoke and in the following
year the independence of the territory
was proclaimed.
John verzan and Thos. Sylliman
were in from Taylor Sunday. They
report times quiet, aside from an un-
usual amount of prospecting, nothing is
being done.
A dispatch from Victoria. B. c.,
says that none of the sealing feet will
90 into Boring Sea next season. "They
did not pay expenses last year.
American Wool and &c tton Repor-
ter: Wool of all kinds can be bought
at date nowhere else in the world as
cheap as IN the principal markets of
the United States.
The members of the State Board of
Health have filed their bill for sala-
ries for the year just passed. The
\ total amount claimed is $50, or 800
{ ach for the years work.
Z Virginia City and Austin, it is said,
are the only towns in the state that
won Chronicle cup on Christmas.
Tom Wren did his best to have Eure-
ka duly representated but
Reports from Cave Va Icy, show
that some valuable finds have been
made there o. late. Ore taken from
some of the locations, running high in
gold and silver.
Sales of land in the State land Of
fee for the month of December, 1885,
aggregate IL, 497,87 acres, the lar
gest sales for any month during the
past three years.
The Santa Fe railway system was
sold at auction in Topeka recently, in
accordance with the plan of reorgani-
cation The Purchasing Committee
made the only bid, $50, 100000.
The receipts of the State Land Of
fee for the year just ended were
Sill, S2S,82, which is good year.
The selection of lands last month,
nearly 1900 acres, is the largest
made i'll any one month for years.
Colorado's mineral production for
1895, was: Gold, 16, 995, 919. 81; sill
yer, S12, 1858, O75. So; lead, 3,O46, 514-
81; coppor. 1928 ,849.68; or total
of 1913, 1874, 258.12.
Some very fine specimens CT white
granite were found about a mile north
of town on Sunday last. The pros
is owned by z. G. Weber and others
and it is understood they will begin
operations shortly to investigate the
extent of the body.
4. Geo Holmes who has been at work
sDeLamar, for the past six months,
returned Saturday. Like all who
left here for "New" De Lamar, he re
ports it a lively camp and growing
fast, bat that it is by no means a de-
airahle place to live.
The Virginia Chronicle says par
ty of thirty miners is being organized
on the Comstock to go to Cripple
Creek, Colo. The party will go in
box car, and the expense will be
about $I2 for each miner.
The gold mining exchange of San
Francisco was organized Saturday last
with several prominent men as char
ter members. It's purpose is to bring
owners of mines and prospects into
direct contact with capitalists willing
to develop mining properties.
The assay office at Boise City has
completed the returns of the mineral
produce of Idaho counties, excepting
from counties where the producing is
small. With these estimates the total
for the year is: Gold, 50, ZOO, 900;
silver, So, 900. 900; lead SIS, 900, 900.
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