The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-12
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.

Henry Eilers returned on Monday
from his Jubilee trip,
Senator Stewart is expected in
Nevada by the end of the month.
Mrs John Meloy spent several
days in town this week visiting with
friends.
Mrs. John Duffin is up from De-
Lamar visiting with her mother for
q few weeks.
W. l.. Hyde, the sheep man was
in from Camp Valley on business
last Tuesday.
Mike Williams left on Monday for
Nye County to be gone several
months on prospecting trip.
Assessor Prudential went to
DeLamar last Friday to make a
general assessment of the town.
The Comstock payroll for July
amounted to $67, 1886. This is
$4,000 more than the poyroll of
June.
It's only of late and very late at
that that every discovery of a two
inch streak of ore, or less is called a
second Clondyke.
The County Commissioners will
meet several times next month as
Board of Equalization on the assess
ment roll for this year.
Tom Alley, brother of Mrs. DR..
Hudgens and Maude Alley, was
killed at Bakersfield, Cal, by the
train on which he was brakeman,
last Thursday morning.
Mrs. f. p. Swindler came up from
DeLamar last Friday and prepared
all her household effects for ship
ment to that place, and returned on
Monday.
District Attorney McNamee and
wife, Harry Nichols and several
Others will be up from DeLamar in
day or two to take in Deerlodge,
Stateline and the northern part of
the county on camping trip.
Joe Kelley, the irrepressible, has
gone to the Clondyke from San
Francisco. Life in the city has been
too fiat for Joe for some time and
he may be expected to rush things
n the new Eldorado.
Frank Wilson and Will Dooley
came in from DeLamar on Monday
night and left at o'clock the follow
ing morning for Sulphur Springs,
going via Deerlodge. They are
bound for Salt Lake.
The management Of the Sierra
Nevada mine at Virginia City state
that the ore found recently in the
Layton tunnel it the regular Com
stock ore, with the percentage OF
gold little higher than that of sill
YER.
1t is reported that smallpox has
broken out among the Indians up
the valley and as consequence the
tribe is splitting up and each mem
Der getting as far away from the
other as possible. All of which will
go long way toward spreading
the desease. Carson News.
The Borax deposits of Nevads
ought to be of great value since the
new tariff bill imposes duty of $50.
OO ton on raw borax. Inquiries
come here frequently from outsid,
parties about supposed borax de
posts upon the supposition tina
they exist in every quarter of tn,
State.
More prize fights have taken plac,
in San Francisco the past montl
than have taken place in Nevada il
the last twenty years, and we hav,
seen no moral criticisms in th,
California and Eastern press. LIE
a fight take place in this state an,
moral criticism comes from all part
of the country. Funny, isn't it
Reno journal.
1t is reported in Kingman tina
the White Hills Company ha
struck an immense body of waite
in the Treasure mine and to cline
the matter an ore body of sufficien
magnitude to keep the new fort
stamp mill pounding away for
year or two has been blocked out
So far all the openings in the bi,
group of mines show ore. --Mohav
Miner.