The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-20

Dull ia Mining Way But Prospect
og Still Goes On--Cutrageous
Treatment Of a Woman--Left
CO the Desert to Perish.

cn the Desert to Perish.
The southwestern part of Lincoln
county keystone, Sandy and sur
rounding country is not in q very
thriving condition at present, but
prospectors aud others are working
away hoping to succeed against all
the odds incident 10 lack of ready
means of transportation, or to make
discoveries which will hasten the
bailding Of the promised road in
that direction
The Keystone property is practi
cally abandoned and it looks as
thonCa 4.ne Lincoln Consolidated
Mining company, which was organ
ized to reconstruct the afflirs of the
old Keystone company and adjust
it's indebtedness, will be unable to
accomplish that end The mill at
Sandy is left to the mercy of the
elements. The place seems to be
well named, for sand has completely
covered the mill engine, assay outfit
and other personal property which
was left there This is part of the
property for which a receiver was
appointed last year, and its present
condition indicates gross negligence
almost, in caring for it.
The Chariot Mg. Co. which has
been under the operation of S. I.
Godbe for the past year, proposes to
erect a ten stamp mill about half
mile south of Sandy. The Keystone
Cos mill has been operated on
Chariot ore long enough to ascertain
that it is not suited to the ore nor
economical to operate. But three
men are employed on the Chariot
property at present and Mr.. Godbe
is Mt Salt Lake.
The old Potosi lead mine is to be
opened at greater depth than its old
workings. james Morgan, of San
Francisco, the owner of the property
is at the mine and has let contract
for a 100-foot tunnel to develop at
depth. This is regarded as one of
the greatest lead properties in that
section of the country.
A shameful and cowardly act was
committed near Sandy early last
month, the particulars of which have
just become known here.
Peter Reed who is Superinten-
dent of the Sterling Mg. Co. and
who also acts as a Deputy Sheriff
for the southeastern part of Nye
county; Clarence Emerson and 6
woman bv the name of Ida Hayes o.
Los Angeles, and who had been
cooking for Reed, left Manse fol
, Sandy on the morning of the 9Th OF
: 9th of April The distance is about
1 35 miles.
, The party undoubtedly drank OF
> the road and when about II miles
! from Sandy Reed undertook to throw
the woman out Of the cart on Emer
sons side, but Emerson caught her
! Reed then threw her out on his side
+ and drove on into Sandy. In the
saloon there he remarked GA tramp
E will be along pretty soon. Emer
son told some parties of the the at
fair but at first no notice was takel
= of it, but as both Reed and Emerson
) said the woman was on the Desert
. w. H. Gam started on horsebae
~ and John McClannahan with a car
to find her, taking water with them
h the weather being exceedingly hot
- The rescuers found where the VIC
= man had been thrown out and follow
- ed her tracks. She had wandere
at aimlessly about, thrown away most
), her clothing as she went and tinall
10 struck the road again where she VIZ
"a discovered by a prospector name
80 Gus Williams, who placed her o
% his pack animal and started K
. Sandy. They were met by M
40 Clannahan, who took the woman
q Sandy in his cart.
a The woman was twelve hours
no the hot sand of the desert wande
%. ing about without water and for hf
bo the first night after her rescue, W
mr. out of her mind.
,ai Emerson said Reed threw her oil
n Reed said she fell out, The wom
said Reed threw her out, but
makes no difference, the fact renal
that two men (?) left woman
Us: perish on the Desert, wantonly
ed that.
Use Peter Reed is one of the men ii
ell took hand in the fight at Mo-
ust gomery last year in which Phil Fo'
ort was killed.
be Whitecap teaching and lessons
as not thought much of in this sectic
ark but here is an instance where th
no could be very effectively put in for
my An outrage Of this character is sor
nto thing that is seldom chronicled a
me charged to the door of west
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