Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-06-21
ABOUT the STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
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in the Horn Silver mine at Ray, near
Tonopah.
Iuly 10th has been set as the date
for starting up the Carson Valley
,smelter.
Farmers in Carson Valley have
commenced cutting their first crop
of alfalfa.
The Bullion & Exchange bank, OF
Carson, has put in system OF safe
deposit boxes.
Parties who are interested in To-
nopah are talking of starting daily
paper in that camp.
Very probably State Fair will
not be held this year. Carson will
give a week of fine racing.
The Butte mines and smelters are
at present producing refined copper
at the rate of 10, 25o tons month.
T. G. Holiday had his arm broken
one day last week while trying to
board g. &. G. train at Sodaville.
Two small fires occurred in Tono-
pah last week, but were extinguish-
ed before much damage was done.
George ]. Gould is likely to build
an enormous smelter in Colorado in
order to break the smelter trust the re.
Miss Filice Cohn, of Carson, has
been admitted to the Bar, and is now
licensed to practice law iii all Courts.
Two miners from Dean, Lander
county, were robbed of 5000 in an
Ogden lodging house lew nights
ago.
A big rush OF people to the Fort
Hall Reservation, which has been
thrown open in Idaho, took place this
week.
Bodie has an incendiary who has
twice tried to burn the town. If
caught he will be summarily dealt
with.
There is lumber famine in Reno,
and number of buildings are at
standstill because of scarcity of ma
terial
A meeting of the Republican State
Central Committee has been called
tor Saturday, June 28, 1904, to be
held in Carson.
1t is reported that strike IS bre W.
ing among the employees of the
chairman Mining Company at Kly,
White Pine county.
The machinery of the Grand Prize
and Union mill al Tuscarora is being
demolished and shipped to Sacra-
mento as scrap iron.
The Shoshone Falls Electric Power
Company is preparing to put wire
from their power house to Tusca-
rora, "A distance OF $50 miles.
Paradise Valley, Humboldt county
is infested with the grasshopper
pest. They have destroyed the grain
crops on several of the ranches.
Someone poisoned well in Wads-
worth the other day, and four peo-
pie who drank of the water came
near dying from arsenic poisoning.
Tcnopah merchants have pledged
themselves not to buy or sell any
fireworks for the coming Fourth of
July. This is a precaution against
fire.
George Young, the deposed Justice
of the Peace of Lovelocl, commenced
quo-warranto proceedings against
b. G. Maris in the District Court this
week.
A miner named VIM. Cameron had
his shoulder broken the other day by
rock falling on him while he was
at work in the Standard mine, at
Bodie.
A Reno committee is laboring to
secure a site for public library
building 80 ss to secure the $4,000
offered by Carnegie to construct a
building.
II is said that the Duluth oil men
who are inspecting the Rocky Noun
tain oil well. near Klko, will bond
some of the oil lands and put in two
or three rigs.
The big mines controlled by the
Nevada company at Austin are to
be opened up to leasers. The mines
contain drifts aggregating thirty
miles in length.