The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-08
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.
The quietest 4th. yet.

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The quietest 4th. yet.
Cold ice for sale at A. S. Thomp-
sons.
Mrs. Mamie Kelly came up from
DeLamar last week to visit with her
mother.
Miss Annie Clinton went to De-
Lamar on Saturday to spend week
with her sisters.
The only thing we appear to have
an abundance of, in both literal and
igurative sense, is wind.
A notice from the County
Treasurer for the surrender OF
certificates against the General fund,
appears this week.
The funds in the Redemption fund
of 1876 were taken on Monday on
scrip sent from San Francisco, and
bid in at 993 cents on the dollar.
The Chairman company of Ely,
White Pine county, are making pre-
parations to work the tailings at the
old mill, consisting of several thous-
and tons, by the cyanide process.
Joe Vietti was in from Comet yes
terday. He and tho other lessees of
the Lyndon propose to push work
on the claim and prospecting shaft
is part of the first work to be under
taken.
Joe Coumerilh was in town yes
terday He states that more cattle
purchases will be made in October
and that better prices will be paid
generally than those which prevail
ed in the June delivery.
The phenomenal weather condi-
tons, which are puzzling the wealth
er officers, are said to have been
caused by a collision of the Me-
Kinley wave of prosperity and Kan
sas cyclone. Journal.
N. P. Dooley and wife accompani-
eddy Dollie Warren left this morning
for Parowan. Bert will pass week or
two at Panguitch lake then proceed
to Southern California. He will be
absent about month.
Complaint is made that the Geiger
grade near Virginia is being used
as dumping ground for the city
garbage, refuse, and dead animals
and the Storey county officers are
asked to look into the matter.
All the bids submitted for the re-
demption of county scrip from the
General fund were rejected by the
Commissioners on Monday because
they thought them too high, and
county scrip has taken q tumble in
consequence.
John Gooding, rancher of Nye
County, was among those killed
last week in the rear end collision
of Christian Endeavor train in
Chicago. He had been east on a
visit and took advantage of the low
excursion rates to return.
Ike Ewing is lying at his home
very low from hemmorage of the
stomach and bowels. He was
attacked three days ago and it was
thought could not possibly recover
but he is now resting and hopes are
entertained that he may pull
through.
The old teaching tailings from the
r. Il E. dump are being hauled to
the Summit mill. They are used to
facilitate percolation in the teaching
now going on there of second grade
Yuba ores. Frank Common and Will
Denton have taken a contract to haul
over some 1000 tons.
The lessees on the Lyndon mine
at Comet district have changed the
serms of the lease and cut the royalty
down. The mine is good one but
in these times it takes an unusually
good mine to pay a stiff royalty on
its output with all other expenses, and
not leave a deficit.
j. II. Dunn, who has been in the
employ of A. g. Campbell for many
years visited Deerlodge district last
week and then proceeded south to
the Yellow Pine country where he is
to start up the Keystone mill. His
conclusions on Deerlodge are very
fiattering and he prophesies a great
output and q great future for it.