Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-08-24
ABOUT THE STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
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chances, Without Credit.

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State Fair, at Reno, has raised $1,000.
- Forty-nine tons of hay sold at To-
nopah the other day for SIS per ton.
On one block, in Reno, nearly
100000 is being put into new build
ings.
The mines around Ely are again
in full blast, after an idleness OF
several months.
1t is said that $4,000 of the money
stolen from the Selby works was
Tonopah bullion.
1t is reported that rich gold
strike has been made forty miles
north of Tonopah.
Los Angeles is trying to dig up
relay team to come up and have
race with the Reno boys.
New Pass district, Nevada, is filled
with prospectors, and several good
sized lodges have been discovered.
A fire in the Carson cemetery re-
Gently destroyed several wooden
headboards. The origin of the fire
is mystery.
A horse-buyer was in Starr Val
ley, Elko county, last week, pur-
chasing draught horses for the Bos-
ton Fire Department.
The White Rock placers in Elko
county are said to be producing SI7
per day to the man. A flume is being
constructed and sluicing will soon
be commenced
Last Saturday, while Miss Clara
Kelley and Miss Louise Stroup were
in bathing in reservoir at the Dial
malta mine, near Placerville, both
were drowned.
Ex-Controller, J. F. Hallock, for
merly of Nevada, is said to be in a
precarious condition in San Fran
cisco. He is suffering with inflam-
matory rheumatism.
Andy Dennison, young man trav-
cling from the East, has been arrest
ed at Battle Mountain for selling
whisky to Indians. He is stranger
and not familiar with the law.
The Tonopah Mining Company
pays $1,000 per month for labor in a
: shaft only one hundred feet deep,
and it takes just sixty minutes to
take that amount from mother earth.
The Federation of Labor has boy
cotted the produce of Murphy, Grant
4 Co., Levi Strauss & Co., and Neu-
stadter Bros, of San Francisco, and
ha ssent notice of same to all the
Unions on the coast.
Nearly one thousand people from
Carson, Virginia City, and other
surrounding towns, went to Reno
last Saturday to see the big circus.
This circus is the largest on earth,
and something worth travelling some
distance to see.
Mike Kelly, the we'll known horse
man, died a the residence of his sis
ter, Mrs. w. H. Cowan, at Carson,
last Sunday night. He was promi-
nent in racing circles, being an ex-
pert trainer of race horses. He will
be buried in San Francisco.
A Carson rancher, who employed
Indian School students to harvest
hay, at a wage of SI.25 per day,
charged them 81 per day for board.
The Carson papers should ascertain
the name of this scoundrel that it
may be published in every paper in
the State.
A gold bar of bullion shipped by
w. V. Watson from the Joana mine,
at Cherry Greek, brought on the
market 5000 per ounce. This sur
passes anything ever produced in
the line of gold in the State of Neva-
da as far as we can learn, and in fact
is right around the pure stuff.
The citizens of DeLamar have or
ganized a vigilance committee. 1t
seems that citizen went to sleep on
the sidewalk the other night with
out first taking the precaution to
remove SIoo from his belt. The
money was soon removed for him,
however, and now the good people Of
that town are on the warpath.
All signs point to an early settle.
ment of the dispute between the
Comstock Tunnel Company and the