Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-09-14
ABOUT THE STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
Items of Interest Clipped from Our tx
changes, Without Credit.

1t is rumored that the Castle Peak
mines, near Bridgeport, will soon
start up again.
A stranger beat Wadsworth
"twenty-one" game out of $4,000 last
week Thursday.
Potato buyers from Nebraska are
now circulating about the State in
the potato raising districts.
Virginia kilograms now pass
through Carson instead of going to
Reno via Geiger Grade as formerly.
The Oregon Short Line announces
that it will have trains running into
Phoebe, Lincoln county, by next
Spring.
From present appearance the valu-
alton of property in Nevada will
show an increase this year of over
S5,ooo,ooo.
The San Francisco correspondent
of the Carson Weekly says that John
P. Jones will be in the Senatorial
fight next year.
There is project on foot to build
a pipeline from the Wyoming oil
fields to Salt Lake City, distance of
about miles.
One hundred acres of mining
ground at Steamboat Springs has
been bonded for two years for the
sum of S35o,ooo.
Orell M. Wheeler, sixteen years of
age, was accidentally shot while out
hunting near Reno last Sunday, and
died soon after.
Experts are examining the old
Auburn mine, in Dun Glen, Hum
boldt county, in the interest of New
York capitalists.
The V. & T. Ry. GO. has completed
its cold-storage building for butter
and other perishable freight ship
ments, in Carson
Miss Neva Winters was seriously
injured in runaway accident near
her fathers ranch in Washoe county
the first of this week.
Smoky Valley is the largest valley
in the State, having length of I65
miles and an average breadth of 10
miles of grazing land.
Buyers have purchased nearly all
the cattle in the vicinity of Rlko,
but are having trouble to obtain cars
in which to make shipments.
The California and Nevada Marble
Company, incorporated in Dakota,
will soon begin operations at the
Lindsay quarries in Mono county.
The mining stock market does not
seem to feel the effect of the recent
strike in Con.-Virginia, as the stock
board only holds the stock at SI.oo.
Nevada people back from the Pan
American Exposition claim that Ne
vada has the best mineral exhibit in
quality if not in actual abundance.
A half-a-million dollar tract of tim
Der land near Portland, Or, was
purchased last week from the South
ern Pacific Co. by lumber syndi-
cate.
The Lovelock Land and Develop
ment Company has two combined
harvesters at work on it's wheat
fields near Lovelock. The crop is
very heavy.
That Capt. DeLamar is going to
build monster smelters and rehner-
leg in New Jersey, to cost a million
dollars, has been verified at his head
quarters in Salt Lake City.
Fred L. Small, a well known
Churchill county resident, and Miss
Belle Rulison, formerly a Reno
school teacher, were married last
week in the Riverside town.
One of the suits against Joe Kelly,
of Carson, accused of robbing the
V. 4 7. express several years ago,
has been decided in his favor, and
the other has been withdrawn.
An effort is being made by the
Miners Union of Virginia City to
have merchants of that city handle
only union made goods, and a com
mittee has been appointed to handle
the matter.
Last year ]. f. Clements was ar
rested and imprisoned in Rlko for
clipping with Miss Nellie Porch, OF