Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-12-07
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her Chinatown.
Tonopah has ten saloons and four
under construction.
Seven inches of snow fell at Bodie
during the late storm.
A. J. McCone is contemplating con.
structing a smelling plant at Tono.
pah.
The Vulcan copper mines near
Luning have closed down tor the
Winter.
The people of Arizona are conf
dent they have won their fight for
statehood.
Placer ground that pays $50 to the
pan, is alleged to have been found
near Folsom, Cal.
Three new railroads are figuring
on building into Tonopah, one of
which is the G. 4 G.
The John Breuner Furniture
Manufacturing Company is to estab-
lish branch factory in Reno.
Peter Hoffman, of Carson Valley,
shipped carload of apples to the
New York ma rket last Friday.
The N. e. O. railroad shops in Reno
are to be closed, after having been
in operation less than six months.
Rails are arriving in Reno for the
- NJ ~ n ~ur1rnud
which runs north from that place.
The Solano, the largest ferry boat
in the world, plying between Port
Costa and Benicia, is being converted
into an oil burner.
The Everett smelter, in Washing
ton, has notified Tonopah people to
ship no more ore there as they have
not the flux to handle it.
Mr.. Uhlhorn, who is trying to es-
tablish smelter near Carson, is in
Carson Valley, where he is meeting
with considerable encouragement.
The San Francisco Industrial
NerOs says that 90 per cent. of the
plaster used IN that city is manu-
featured at Kmpire, Ormsby county.
Jacob Levy, Bodie dry goods
merchant, was found dead in bed
last week Wednesday morning. The
cause of death was neuralgia OF the
heart.
George NJ. Pullman, son of the late
sleeping car magnate, died at Menlo
Park, California, Thanksgiving Day.
He was married in Carson about two
months ago.
The three year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. e. Barton, of Wadsworth,
was drowned last Wednesday in a
ditch that supplies the Wadsworth
Light Company at that place.
Samples from sulphur mines To-
Gated in Lincoln county carry as
high as 90 per cent. The mines are
located about half mile from the
line of the projected railroads.
Two drunken prisoners accidental
ly set fire to the Klko Jail Thanks
giving night. They were nearly
sutfocated when the jailer. attracted
by their cries. extinguished the blaze.
Two wagon loads of concentrates
from Loope passed through Carson
last week on the way to San Fran
DISCO. The camp is becoming one of
the bullion producers of that section.
The line of the San Pedro railroad
through Lincoln county will run
within eighty miles of lily, White
Pine county, and branch from the
latter place to the main line is pro-
posed.
The Teachers Institute at Wads-
worth was great success. Many
interesting and instructive papers
were read, and the Wadsworth peo-
pie entertained their visitors in
royal style.
Four men were badly injured by
the explosion of giant powder near
the Rocco Momestake mine, at Hamil-
ton, Nevada, last week. One man
lost an arm and another an eye, but
both will recover.
Last Saturday the trial jury at
Phoebe returned a verdict Of assault
and battery against seven of the ac-
cused parties who participated in
the recent hanging of the negro Ellis
at Fay, Lincoln county.
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