Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-09-21
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cago.
The United States produces as
much bornx as the rest of the world
combined.
Lovclock ranchers have purchased
100 head of Jersey cows from Ten
nessee for dairy purposes.
The Vulcan company expects to
start smelling ore from its Esmeral-
da county mines next week.
A man named Thomas Corcoran
has been sent to Jail for I25 days for
beating his wife at Truckee.
Counterfeit half dollars are in cir
culation in the eastern part of the
State. They are cast, and are light
weight.
There are reports of big copper
discovery on Cedar Ridge, at the
head of Huntington creek, Klko
county.
A $4,000 fire occurred in Wells
last Saturday night, and young
man named Fred Thompson was
burned to death.
Trainer Wing, of the Carson
wheelmen Club, made five miles,
unpaced, in II minutes and So Sec
onds the other day.
The price of California grapes con-
tinues to advance, and from S24 to $2S
ton is now being paid for the best
varieties of wine grapes.
Wild geese are said to be making
an early appearance at Humboldt
lake. This is looked upon by old in
habitants as sign of hard Winter.
Lou Dean, the cattle buyer for the
Western Neat Company, has ordered
100 cattle cars for the beef steers he
has recently bought in eastern Ne
vada.
The Union Pacific and Southern
Pacific roads are planning to cut the
time for passenger trains between
Omaha and San Francisco twelve
hours.
A report comes from Nome that
Will Bliss, of Carson, cleaned up
5000, 900 on one of his claims, and the
adjoining claim, it is said, is still
richer.
Paul G. Peterson met with a fatal
accident at the band mill of the Reno
Lumber Company, near Beckwith,
last Saturday. He was crushed by
rolling log.
A young man named ]. P. Hays is
on trial in Ogden for having forged
the name of President Hays, of the
Southern Pacific, to a Geographic
railroad pass
w. o. H. Martin died at Reno Sat.
urday night last, after an illness of
four years, from pernicious anemia.
He was one of the most prominent
citizens of Reno.
Howard Anderson fell 400 feet
down the shaft of the Diamond mine,
at Eureka, last Friday, and was in
stantly killed. He was a native of
Finland, aged IL years.
The Nevada Company, at Berlin,
paid into the treasury last week $67s
bullion tax. This is the first tax of
this kind paid by mining company
in Nye county for a good many
years.
Wonderful bodies of ore are re-
ported from the Stockton Hill count
ry, in Arizona. The vein has a width
of from one to two hundred feet. In
places immense bodies of gold-silver
ore are found.
Miss Neva Winters, who was re-
Gently injured in runaway at her
fathers ranch, in Washoe Valley, is
still confined to her bed and suffers
much pain. Her back was severly
injured and one rib broken.
A new style mill is being used at
the st. Julian mine, Kmigrant, Mon
tana. 1t rolls out the rock on steel
table which slowly revolves under
enormous pressure. 1t is the first
Kplass mill to be used in Montana.
Martin Kline, the well-known pas
senger engineer, fell from his engine
few miles west of Lovelock last
week Wednesday. He fortunately
escaped serious injury, it being al
most miraculous that he was not
killed.
Jack Ross, II years of age, attempt
ed to board an outgoing train at
Verdi Monday morning, but missed