The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-02-27
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

'srs meet Monday.
Steptoe Valley was well represent
ed. at the dance last Monday night.
The snow is melting rapidly lsav-
ing the roads in a very bad condition.
The Thermometer registered "a de-
.grsss below zero in Ely, last Mon
day night.
Nevada sheep raisers are IN velvet.
Sheep have advanced nearly 100 per
sent. ~
Surface. prospecting. has been cut
short off in this section, owing to the
great depth of NOW on the hills.
A. Mcdonald, the Duck Creek lum4
herman. who Wal in Ely Thursday,
reports two feet of. snow at the mill.
VIM. Scott, administrator Of the
Cornell estate, came in on Thursday
mornings stage from Hamilton.
There IL no definite news In regard
to the Chainman deal; it Ia confident
" expected however, that thu dscis-
i've word will reach here not later
than March 4th.
The Millick boys have struck some
good 'sdry-wash" diggings, In Mary
Ann canyon, Osceola district. The
gravel averages 800 per ton and there
il. lots Of it.
Notwithstanding the unfavorabls
condition of the roads. Weather, etc, the
dance last Monday might was we'll at
tended and much enjoyed.
The Osceola placers miners are jub-
liant over the outlooe for the coming
season; the recent heavy fall OF snow
insuring them q good run.
The DsLamar mine is not paying as
handsomely as formerly, and the man
agemsnt announcement announces
that tho utmost economy will have to
DO exercised in order ia. keep the prop
srty in operation q"
Miss Eta Comins accompanied by
K6t' mother and J..B. Orr, departed
for Currant Creek, Friday morning.
Miss Eta will teach the Currant
Creek school, tho coming term.
A. L. Parker the geniel sheepman
from Round Spring4y WAS doing bus
iness in Ely the frHt,nf the week.
He .eports-ths sheepiin good condi-
ii n. and is looking forward to . pros
peroiis season.
The stage team became frightened
nea' the mill this side of Hamilton last
Wednesday evening, and y away.
Aside from . few hours; delay Of the
mial at the Ely end of the route, no
damage il reported.
A bill has been introduced making
it unla wful for a State Officer to ok
coed hi appropriation without the
consent of the State Board Of Exam
liners. This bill if enacted into law,
will do away with 3 large number of
those svsr recurring deficiencies.
Sheriff L. s. Scott returned from
the eastern part of the county We'd
nssday, where he had bsen collect
ing license due from the stray b nds
of sheep that roam and feed in that
vicinity during the Winter and Spring
months. He reports the snow unus-
ually deep in that country.
BoRN-To the wife OF Mr. G. l. Fox,
Needles, Gals. . son Mrs. Fox,
formerly Miss BERTHE Stewart, IL the
daughter OF Mrs 1W.,B. Graham and
priorrto July, 1895, at which time
she took up her residence in Califor-
mia, was one of the Bellies Of Ely.
The Hon Joseph G~randlsmysr one
ofSHamilton's famous citizens belives
that the infamous "Glove Contest"
law, is an imposition on tho good
people Of Nevada, and is satisfied that
il submitted to the people Of the State,
would be defeated at the ratio Of 18 to
/.
Msssrs Jim and Andrew McQuitty,
formerly of Ely, but now residing at
Ramona, California, have struck it
rich at Randsburg. Their find is .
silver-lsad proposition; the ledge be-
ing four feet wide on the surface and
carries . pay streak Of abouta foot in
width. Assays show the ore to be of
. high garde.
THE woman suffrage mcvemsnt Was
killed in the Assembly; the vots be-
ing Is for and 10 against. While