Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-09-07
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to standard guage next season.
The Bonanza says that Tonopaf
will cast larger vote than Reno
next Fall.
Charlie Wylie is closing out his
business in Carson, and will locate
in Tonopah.
Hay is selling for SIG ton iii Elke
county, and very little for sale even
at that figure.
Hugh G. Gibson was killed by the
premature explosion of a blast in a
mine near Ely Saturday last.
Carson has been invaded by the
trisky flea and in consequence the
people are kept busy scratching.
Men in search of employment will
do we'll to keep away from Phoebe
tor the present, says the Record.
The Reno officers made a roundup
of the opium joints the other evening
and arrested about half dozen peo-
pie.
The machine shops of the V. 4 T.,
in Carson, are unusually busy these
DAYS and several new men are at
work therein.
John Sparks, owner of the Alamo
Hereford stock farm near Reno,
made a shipment of six of his
thoroughbreds last week.
A fellow named Ferguson was ar
rested at Lovelock for trying to pass
a forged check on agent Walters.
He was convicted of petty larceny.
The San Francisco papers an
nounce that Mrs. Carrie B. Brown
has applied for a divorce from her
husband, Harry Brown, formerly of
Carson.
There is considerable talk in rail
road circles about proposed double
track to be laid from Truckee to Sac
ramento by the Southern Pacific
company.
F. H. Cooper, of Siegel, Cooper &
Co., Chicago, is in Sodaville, where
Mr.. Siegel is managing mining prop
critics. They recently incorporated
for S5,ooo,ooo.
One man has located seven claims
in the old Lake district, Nevada,
which has been idle for years. Re
newed activity is now looked for
as some rich assays have been given.
Tonopah is certainly union town.
The denizens of that camp have in
stituted boycott on all non-union
material, and refuse to buy or wear
clothing that does not bear the union
abel.
Several head of cattle have died in
Lovelock Valley within the past
week from drinking stagnant water
from the sloughs. The water appears
to poison them and they die within a
few hours after drinking it.
J. H. Patrick, proprietor of the
Fairfield Stock Farm, at Ilderton,
Canada, has brought two carloads of
his famous Lincoln bucks to Reno.
One carload was purchased by Sena-
tor Flanagan and the other goes to
Lakeview, Oregon.
The Contact Copper Mining Com.
pany was organized in Salt Lake
City last week with capital of $4o,,
900, in 10 cent shares, to develop the
Sulphide group of four mining
claims, situated in Little Salmon
River District, Klko county, Nevada
The remains of Jeremiah Fitzger
aid, the unfortunate victim Of the
Darwin Wash cloudburst, were dis
covered on the 18th of last month at
home, and well out into Panamint
Valley. He was buried where found
necessarily.
H. ]. Darling has given out that
the reduction works of the Rene
Smelling and Milling Company has
been sold to Colorado people and that
the first payment has been made
For business reasons, the name Of
the purchasing company cannot be
made public at this tune.
The coyotes out about Phoebe know
thing or two. A band of them will
set up racket on the edge of towr
and one will take flying triy
through the village, trailing all the
dogs in the place after him. While