Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-08-08
WEDNESDAYS DAILY
SALMAGUNDI.


MIR. II. Guernsey came down from
White Rock last evening. lie re-
ports everybody busy in the Lay field.
Mr.. Wheeler received the new fl; q
today. 1t was hoisied to the top OF
the pole this afternoon and was adj
mired by everybody. 1t is Il beauty.
About 100 IONS OF hay on the Scott
Il Hanks ranch, near Fort Halleck.
were dest Dyed by lire Monday. The
tire was caused by children playing
with matches around the stacks.
George T.. Allen, representing
Sherman IL Clay of San Francisco
and y. j. POmmer Of Sacramento is
at the Depo: hotel with II fiue line Of
pianos. Read his adj, and above all
call and see his pianos.
List number 81. Clrson City dis.
trict. was approved on July ODD blythe
Secretary OF the Interior. II contains
i.il5.SG acres Of land aud is the 9th
list, including ahout $4,000 acres
that Lana Agent Van Duzer has Sc
cured to the State this year.
Petty thieying seems to be nm cpl
demic in town. Monday Piggott's
barber shop was entered in his alb
sence and half a doZ.n razors were
taken. Some campers on the river
had the lines and breast straps OF
their harness stolen on the same day.
IL you don't want your property
stolen. keep it ont Of the way OF the
petty thieves that infast the town.
Gazette:-The carload OF placer
dirt from the Gill mine at Olinghouse
canyon worked at the Reno Reduc-
ton Works yielded eighteen and one
fourth ounces Of gold. About sixteen
tons we're worked. 1t costs about
$3.50 per ton TO put it into bullion.
This is a very excellent showing for
the new district. There will he a
carload OF ore from the Hutchinson
dump here tomorrow or next day.
Attorney Brown came down from
Gold Creek yesterday. lie told IN
INDEPENDENT reporter this afternoon
that the cleanup wns panning ont
we'll. Some pans OF dirt went as high
IS three and four hundred dollars to
the pan. The amount taken out
when he left wonld run away up in
the thousands. The bedrock was
still lousy with gold and would be
worked over again. a quartz vein. ten
feet vile. carrying gold has been I'M.
covered i'll Crcvice Gulch. The vein
gives every Indication nf proving n
valuable find.
Governor Sndler has appointed j.
ii. Thics Of Lovelocks. J. p. Raines
Of Palisadc. George Russell OF Elko,
X. ii. Kinney Of Reno, and l.. II.
Taylor OF Battle Mountain. delegates
to tho National Irrigation Congress.
which meets mt Lincoln. Nebraska.
September %. 20, 30, 1897. He also
appointed Ross Levers OF Frank.
town. Robert Bailey OF Eureka
county, and S. =. Davis OF Carson
City, delegates to tho Farmers Ma
tionnl Congress. which meets at
st. Paul, Minnesota, August 81,
1897.
Police Officer Morgan Of San
Francisco in conversation with n ro.
porter stated TINT he had just re-
cciyed n letter from an old friend ot
his. who left Juneau for Dawson
City with 400 other prospcctors, on
August 10. 1896. by the Chilcoot
Pass. They arrived June 10th. or
the 400 who started nut only about
200 reached their destination. The
remainder lost their lives on route.
and Tho trnil Sns marked all the way
from Juneau with wooden crosses,
marking the place where they had
fallen from exhaustion and wore bur.
led M they lay.