Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-11-02
ABOUT the STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
items of Interest Clipped from Our tx
chances, Without Credit.

CudUyCSy WttHUut VI
Hay is now selling at $40 per ton
by the load, in Eureka, this State.
1t is reported that big smelteI
will be erected in Reno in the near
future.
Ten thousand head Of horses have
been shipped from Winnemucca to
Kansas City.
The Southern Pacific Company is
surveying site for a new round
house in Reno.
Mrs. Lydia Brown, of Phoebe, has
gone violently insane and has been
committed to the asylum.
1t is reported that the Phoenix, for
mer1y the Grand Prize mine, at Tus-
carora, will be re-opened on Novem-
Der Ist.
The taxable property of Storey
county fell oft $4,000 last year,
which means a net loss of $4,000 in
receipts.
A line of stages will be run from
Ely, White Pine county, to connect
with the Eureka & Palisade rail-
road, at Eureka.
c. G. Goodwin, late editor of the
Salt Lake Tribune, has gone to San
Francisco, where he expects to spend
- :: 4 & L:
Burglars broke open the safe in
the Marzen butcher shop in Truckee
last Friday morning and got away
with $500 in money and jewelry.
By a recent decision of the Su-
preme Court the toll road between
Hawthorne and Del Monte, Esmeral-
da county, has been made free road.
The War Department denies the
story recently published tothe effect
that soldiers who enlisted in the
Spanish American war are entitled
to bounties.
Coal lands have been taken up in
White Pine county, just over the
Lincoln county line. Work will at
once be begun on a shaft to see what
is in the ground.
Sam Longabaugh closed down his
wood camp in the Sierras for the
season last Saturday. The Hume
will continue to run until the wood
now banked is out,
Charles NJ. Guernsey, switchman
employed by the Southern Pacific
Company, was run over and instant
ly killed in the Winnemucca yard
shortly before noon last Sunday.
Heavy traffic on the railroad is
causing the Reno public great incon-
venience. The company's sidetracks
there are inadequate and crossings
are frequently blocked for hours at
a time.
Owing to the crowded condition of
Selby's Smelling Works, no ore has
been shipped from Tonopah for a
week, and the station platforms at
Sodaville and Candelaria are both
full of sacked ore.
The Consolidated Esmeralda Com
pany has been incorporated, to work
the Pamlico and other mines, near
Hawthorne. w. D. Tobey, D. L.
Bliss, John Forbes and ]. A. Yering-
ton are the chief parties in interest.
Ore has been struck at IS feet
depth on the Cabin Shaft of the Salt
Lake Co., south of Tonopah, and near
the Valley View ledge. The charac-
ter of the ore is similar to that in the
Tonopah mines, and values obtained
are encouraging.
A lodge of Ancient Order of United
Workmen was organized at Tono,
pah on Thursday night of last week
by Supreme Lodge Organizer, S. N
Nicholson, of Helena, Montana, with
So charter members, and a lot of
other members to be initiated.
An acetylene gas tank exploded at
Wells few days ago, badly damag.
ing and setting fire to the building
in which it was situated. A. Quilici
who entered the gas house with a
lighted candle, and caused the ex
plosion, was seriously burned.
The California mule appears to be
in good demand just at present, and
San joaquin county is shipping car
loads of mules to the East every
week. AT 500 to $50 per head, there