The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-02-22
FROM ALL OVER THE STATE.

\ bill is to be introduced in Congress
providing for an appropriation isf
Federal building in Reno.
Ex-Governor Blaisdell escorted the
remains OF the late Gen. h. u. Clarke
from San Francisco To Carson.
George Sem has bonded for year
the zine and silver properties belonging
to Chas. Kaiser in y l. district. Chnr-
chill county.
Now that the result Of the litigation
over the Silver Peak mines has clearly
established their title. work will shortly
be resumed. journal.
Work Is To be resumed in the rns-
earora Chief mine ut Tuscarora. There
are 10. 600 tons of tailings upon the
dump that show an average value Oh
> per ton in gold.
c. {. Wallace has bonded two copper
claims near Reno for $1,000, OF which
3. coo was paid down. The hondees
are d. w. Cults, {. a. Norcross, }. \.
pothoff and ]. II. Brown.
\ fire. evidently of incendiary origin,
destroyed the lumber yards of the Reno
Mill x Lumber Co. last sunday, and
the whole town narrowly escaped de-
struction. The damage Is estimated at
50. 600.
Nevada cattlemen are shipping beef
cattle to the Denver market. Several
carloads were sold last week by + W.
Noble for 81 - hundred the cattle
averaging l,2l5 pounds.
A Gun Club was organized in Eureka
last week with eleven charter members.
Traps and LOCO blue-rocks have been
secured and 1000 more clay pigeons
have been ordered. The shoots Will
take place at the old baseball grounds.
The farmers OF Lovelock have al
ready begun irigating their alfalfa
fields and sowing grain. Though the
outlook Is not Of the best for this year 5
water supply. at the worst average
crops will be raised Silver State.
Mrs. Henderson. who resides near
Reno. and her l0-fear old grandson
ate some wild parsnips for supper last
Saturday night and NJ arly lost their
lives in consequence. The woman was
recently from the East and had never
heard OF the poisonous plant.
There are several hundred tons of ore
waiting milling in Olinghouse district.
The Proctor x Allen mill is almost
ready for business. In few days the
Slip mill will also start up. About 10
men are working in the camp. slowly
developing their properties and taking
out ore.
The Elko Independent says: As No.
/ last Thursday morning was nearing
the sdetrack at Cedar Pass, about IL
miles east of Wells. James Misap, a
brakeman, attempted to cross the track
ahead OF the engine. which struck him,
breaking both OF his legs aud crushing
his skull. He was taken on TO Ogden.
r. c. Luud Of St. George, one of the
directors of the Utah ~ Pacific rail-
road, has started from Uvada, the
present terminus, with corps of en-
gineers and mining experts to traverse
with wagons the whole route of the
proposed extension through southern
Nevada and California.
A sportsman says in the Silver State
Before the carp were placed in the riv-
er, tho Humboldt was one OF the best
trout streams in the State; now the
carp have overstoeked the river, taken
all the feed and destroyed the spawn oil
the other fish, so to-day you catch moth
ing but carp. The carp have not only
destroyed the fishing in the river, but
they have taken all the feed, so that
duck shooting is thing of the past.
After a period of idleness, smoke was
seen arising again yesterday from the
stack of the Reno Reduction Works.
Another effort will be made to work
the Trinity and Arabia ores OF the f.
NJ. and r. Co. 1t is to be hoped thai
the company will have better success
this time. The previous failures were
doubtle1s due to employing eastern ex
perts who know books in preference tC
western scrubs who know ores, says
the Journal.