The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-03-14
OVER The STATE

Drunken Indians are familiar sight
on the streets of Wells, temperance
town.
A miner named Bert Cicali fell forty
feet in mine at Eureka last Friday,
but escaped with slight injuries.
Washoe's State and county tax rate
for 1901 has been fixed at S1.6O-the
lowest OF any county in the State.
The Delamar Knights of Pythias
have reorganized Abraham Lincoln
lodge and are holding regular meet
ings.
Lander county has commenced suit
against the Nevada Central railway
company for IS, 1864 tax and delin-
quency.
Seven thousand pounds of butter is
shipped each week from the Douglas
county and Mason valley creameries to
San Francisco and Sacramento.
During the past season the exports
of fish from Wadsworth, Verdi and
Reno amounted to huge sum, divided
as follows. Wadsworth, S18, 900; Reno,
SO, 600; Verdi, s., 81.
A small town is building at the
smelling works near the Bluestone
copper mine in Lyon county. The
Montana company which own the
mine will run its own hotel, store,
blacksmith shop saloon, barber shop,
etc.
Winnemucca Silver State Fred
Talcott's teams are engaged in haul
ing ore to this place from the Hidden
Treasure mine at Kennedy. He has
been delayed considerably on account
of bad roads and has two more trips to
make before the shipment OF carload
can be made. The ore is very rich,
averaging about sl00 per ton. The
ore will be sent to the Selby Smelling
Works. The Hidden Treasure is
owned by Col. Davis and A. Walrath.
Active development work is well I'M
der way at Steamboat. A shaft is be-
ing sunk near the hotel by j. w. Hop
k.ns. Pettigrew brothers have dug
ditch over mile long to take water
from Browns creek. They will use it
in prospecting their claims with drill.
Claims have been located for several
miles east and west of the springs and
everybody is getting assays large and
small. A shipment of ore will shortly
be made from the Raber mine.
Twelve hundred feet of work has
been done on the Ora mine in ding
house. In the main tunnel, which was
run along the footwall, and at dis
lance of $50 feet in, crosscut has
been run thirty feet, which is all in
low-grade ore, but pay, and it is esti-
mated that another fifteen feet will
strike the hanging wall, making a
strongly defined ledge forty-five feet
in width. Three hundred tons OF ore
on the upper dump will work to profit
of 81, 500. This mine is the property of
E. II. Proctor and Lem Allen.-Wads-
worth Dispatch.
Esmeralda and Nye Counties each
claim that Tonapah is within its bound
aries. Referring to this matter, the
Belmont Courier says: The people of
| Nye are confident that no survey will
show that Tonapah is in Esmeralda, for
according to the map in the courthouse
in Belmont, showing the boundary line
according to the last survey, the spring
near Tonapah Is three miles this side
of the line, and, according to the old
survey and the Government maps in
the State Land Office at Carson, not
only Tonapah but Southern Klondike
as well are in Nye county about twelve
miles.
! Henry Wedekind, who recently came
up from Reno to do some assessment
work on his properties in this vicinity,
brought to the Sentinel a sample of ore
from his fathers mine at Reno, which
goes 4, 200 ounces In silver and $50 In
gold to the ton. This means a value Of
81, 480 in the precious metals to each
ton, and it would not require a great
amount of such mineral as that con
tanned in the specimen on exhibition al
this Office to yield respectable fortune
to its owner.-Eureka Sentinel.
At about o'clock on Tuesday after
noon last the people OF Eureka wer,
agreeably surprised to hear the whist,
of the locomotive, announcing the ar
rival Of train from the north, it no
being expected that the road would b.
in condition to permit OF the passage o
trains before Thursday, at the earliest
But good work had been done by tn
crew ON either end, and everythin,
was in readiness on Tuesday, except
portion OF the truss bridge at the J. P
Raines ranch, about eight miles thi
side of Palisade. Over this the mai
and express matter was transfer ed
and the train reached Eureka almos
on schedule time, after two-week
suspension of business. This trail
brought mp not only the mail, but ais
all the express matter which had &C