The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-10-31
ALL AROUND
THE STATE.
A Few Cleaned Paragraphs of
Nevada News.

A number OF children in Austin have
the munps.
The assessed valuation Of v hite Pine
county is $4,000 gre ter than last year.
Eureka county's tax list decreased
nearly $4,000 in values the last year.
To-day is the 37th anniversary OF
the admission OF Nevada into the Union.
The Sacramento Presbytery decided
10 build chnrchand manse at "onopab.
In Eureka, according to the Sentinel,
hay is selling at $40 per ton by the load
and some of the stables have increased
their price for feeding stock from 80 cents
to rs cents per day.
u. S. Surveyor General Matthew Kyle
was advanced to the degree Of Knight
of the Court Of Honor in the Scottish
Rite by the Supreme Council at its re.
cent session at Washington, ID. G.
A petition is being circulated to es-
tablish daily mail service between Aus
tin and Tonopah by way Of Belmont, or
by Granville. This will give us eastern
mail 36 hours ahead Of present tine.-Bo-
nanZa.
The last State Fair at Reno came out
$1,000 behind. 1t will always be the
same il kept at Reno and run as horse
racing proposition. To be a success it
will have 10 be moved nearer the center
of the State--W Winnemucca or Battle
Mountain.
Tonopah now has 1000 people. 1t
contains 200 canvas and 125 board struct.
ures. There are nice restaurants, seven
saloons. ten stores, three doctors and one
dentist. Wood is $l5 cord. Board S8
and SO week Single meals are 50
cents. All drinks are bit glass.
A. Davis and d. o. Geiser, oil op-
orators from California, will commence to
sink for oil at Blu lion the LIST Of Novem-
Der. They are now waiting for some
machinery which is to be sent from San
Francisco. A number of houses are now
being put up, and in short time Bull
ion will be something to talk about.
Brakemen are rapidly advanced to po-
sitions as conductors these days, the
heavy freight business necessitating the
constant addition OF crews. There are
now thirty eight freight crews on the
division between Carlin and Wadsworth,
as against twenty. six at the correspond
ing period last year.
BY order OF the United States Civil
Service Commission, an examination
will be held in Carson City, Nevada, on
November 23 1901. for the position of
Cupeller of the Mint and Assay Office.
All persons who desire to enter the same
should apply to J. NJ. Hetrich, Assista ut
Assayer U. S. Mint, who will furnish ap-
plication FORMS No applications will be
received after Nov mber 10th.
Nevada is the home OF hot springs. No
State in the Union has their equal for
medicinal virtues. Shaw's, Steam boat
Valleys, Laughton's, Kyle's, Golconda
and Elko's are among the most wonder
full They all have curative mineral
properties. Hot springs, cold springs,
mud springs, iron, sulphur and other
mineralized springs abound in Nevada.
They are another Of Nevada's neglected
assets. Reno journal.
james Heney, sentenced to the Carson
State Prison for robbing the Mint served
out his term Monday the 28th. He will
have to remain in prison thirty days
longer to-pay the $1,000 fine imposed up
on him. He will be free man on No
vember 9th. Johnny Jones will have
also served out his term in few months
more. In serving time to pay his fine
Heney will be allowed $l70 day. When
Heney leaves the prison the institution
will lcse first-class baker.
N. II. A. Mason, whom every Nevadan
knows better by the name OF "Hock"
spent Monday on the Comstock. Mr..
Mason has recently disposed Of his ex-
tensive holdings in Elko county, and is
taking little trip around the State en-
joying the first leisure hours he has had
in many years in seeing his old friends OF
the "sixties."
Mr.. Mason denies the report that he
intends to exile himself from Nevada.
II have lived among the sagebrush for
AZ years." said he, land am not going
to quit it now. Once Nevadan always
a Nevadan.' .'-Chronicle
Newlands' irrigation measure is excit-
ing much interest among the farmers and
those who are seeking homes in Nevada.
II the bill becomes law it will be the
greatest measure ever passed by Con-
gress as far as substantial benefit to Ne
yada is concerned. Such law will do
more to upbui.d this State than anything
we know of, unless it be the remonetiza-
ton of silver at some future time, and
we doubt even the reconciliation OF sill