Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-07-21
SILVER PEAK.
Some Cheering items from the
far South.

D
ED BULLETIN Your last issue
was read with pleasure by the good
people here, and they were all more
than pleased to know that ]. II. b.
Harris was not the author of certain
letters signed by one Volcano. :"
ms denial was unnecessary; no one
who knows him would ever have ac-
cused him of being guilty. There is
not man at the Peak who believed
1t possible for him to perpetrate any
thing OF the kind. He is innocent.
and | have never heard him accused
until after he denied it.
The people who went over to Mon
tezuma have finished their SURVEYS
and are going to patent nine mines
and mill aud tunnel site. With the
usual thrift of the Eastern gold bugs
they propose TO hold their mines
until the Western men win the silver
hight, and while the fight is going on
they wont pay cent of taxes.
Chiatovichs mill is banging away
on ore from the Mary tunnel. The
oig team pulls out every morning
and rolls in at night with rock
enough to keep it running. The
plates show WE'LL the concentrates
are good and everything is lovely.
Chiatovich has built a new boarding
house aud is setting up a new kind
OF range. 1t has a cooling contriy-
ance, so that while the cook is bak
ing bread in one part, butter will be
kept at freezing point in another.
The Mary mine is now opened up in
good shape, aud | think the miners
there should be able to keep the mill
running steadily. The ore brushes
easily and it requires more of it TO
keep the mill running than any of
the surface ores but as the ledge is
large and breaks well, there will n OF
be any trouble to keep everything
running.
To-day a coudburst struck the
town and within 40 minutes nearly
an inch of water fell. 1t looked as
though We were to be swept off the
face of the earth. | have made A
careful estimate of the damage and
find the loss of life confined to two
chickens. Sam WATSON lost one ham,
one sack of sugar and had about two
feet of mud deposited on the carpets
in his house. A cellar was filed with
mud and water and every bodied
man in town was drenched to the
skin while digging bitches to carry
off the flood. Fortunately the storm
did not extend far enough to injure
the quartz road, 50 the damage is
light
Louis Leidy is working four men
on his NINE and will have 200-ton
run OF ore out by the 1st OF August.
His ore is high grade, is five feet
wide, and the Great Gulch mine is
as fine one as any in this district
80 far as developed.
Every one here is satisfied that
the future prospects are bright. I
want to warn men in search of en-
ployment to keep away from this
camp. There are more men here
now than can find work, except they
are first class miners, and only a few
such men could get a job.
The only thing to cause us sorrow
was the death of Claude Fletcher at
Tulare City, Cal, on July 9Th His
brother Fred is here as clerk in Chat
ovichs store, and he galloped all the
weary miles from here to Candelaria
to learn that the wound his brother
accidentally received was fatal, He
was . native of Nevada, and every
loyal citizen of the State will regret
his loss, for we look to the young
men OF Nevada t. take our places in
line of battle when the long roll beats
and to make the laws of the future
VOLCANO.
Silver Peak, July IA, 1897
500 Reward 500.
The readers of this paper will be pleased