Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-02-03
SILVER PEAK.

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teams and hung up the mill. A few
of the miners came down from the
hill and made it lively in poker cir.
Giles for a few hours. One fellow
won 81 pot by claiming that he had
a flush and three feurs.
The roads are so covered with ice
and snow that some one has suggest
ed using salt from the marsh to cut
it up. 1t seem to me that red pep
per would warm things up quicker,
and il | was doing it l would try a
few philippines, just for luck.
The only officer we elected last
Fall was Dogpelter, and in order to
stir things up little We have con
cluded to 'inaugurate" him a la Tan
ner OF Illinois. The Salvation Army
will be in the lead, followed by our
citizens in columns of four, each lead
ing dog. This ought to be showl-
ing success, for he (the Dogpelter)
Is an ex-baseball player, and can
thump q dog in the ribs 40 yards off
hand, and if he does his duty he will
DE kept busy, as there are at least
four dogs for each inhabitant, and
the cry is, Still they GENE p
The mines on the hill are boxing
well. The dumps of the Western Sol
der and Drinkwater mines are full
OF ore. Work on the Mary tunnel
is being pushed night and day, and
there has been favorable change in
the face during the last few days. 1t
is in nearly 800 feet, and cuts the
formation nearly at right angles, and
is about 500 feet below the surface.
This tunnel will prove the permanent
cy OF the camp ii ore is encountered.
Over in Aida valley they are still
taking out rich ore from the Suwana
mine. Poor & Bauer are doing we'll
in their mine. N P. Piper has a fine
ledge of ore which goes high in gold.
In fact, all the smelling ores of this
district 90 higher in gold than the
average of Cripple Creek
see by an illustrated article in
the Call tha,sa Montana expert has
been here and went to Death Valley
to look at copper mine. AS he left
here one day and returned the next,
Louis Chiatovich must have the best
horses on earth, for Death Valley is
$50 miles foom here. The facts are,
he went to Aida valley, 26 miles, over
a road covered with snow, which is
not characteristic of Death Valley.
The last snow storm makes the
farmers of Fish Lake cackle like a
hon that has just laid an egg, while
the rest of US swear-which proves
that the farmers are selfish. George
Leidy came over from there ten DAYS
ago and this morning managed to
escape with his life. He is selling
spuds and talking horse race, SO we
may expect boiled potatoes and fun
on February 22d.
Sheriff McGregor of Nye courty
returned last night from the Pah-
rump ranch. He went south about
week ago to attack the property for
some parties in Los Angeles. He
says the roads are in bad condition,
it having rained or sleeted in that
country for nearly a week. He
brought some pears from that coun.
try which weigh % ounces each and
says the apples, grapes and other
fruits are OF fine quality There was
an effort to establish colony from
the East down there, but the scarcity
OF water made it impossible to de-
velop the resources of the country
without the expenditure of large
amount of money to bring water on
the land l. am glad of it. There
should be no acre of Nevada peopled
by one-lunged invalids from the East.
Like the Mormons, we want only
healthy, able-b bodied men to settle up
our land. Let California be SAM
tarium and take care of Eastern in
valids. We have no use for q man
who can I shoot, ride and life on what
the land produces, II it's only pine
nuts and jackrabbits. We don't owe
anything, have school fund to edu-
cate our children and don't care for
anybody. VOLCANO.