Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-08-16

IN the valley Tor some months past
left for her home in Bakersfield,
Cal, Tuesday. Her health is much
improved.
"A heavy rain. almost equal to a
water spout, fell in the Pinegrove
hills last Monday during the storm
and there was plenty of water in
the East Walker and all the bitches
TOR the timebeing.
Mrs. J. H. Huntoon was an ar
rival from Chicago yesterday, and
alter a visit OF few days with rel
atives will leave for a visit in San
Francisco. Mrs. Huntoon was for
merly Miss May Dyer.
"A. Ellison, the Farmer inc barge
at the Walker Lake Indian Reser-
walton, spent couple of days in
the valley this week hunting up the
Piute children whose vacation from
Stewart Institute has about expired.
"A carload of Reno flour arrived
IN Wabuska this week for some of
the farmers and merchants OF this
place. This does not look well tor
the finest agricultural valley in the
State and an excellent mill lying
idle in our midst.
There is an appropriation OF
$4,000. by Congress, standing for
the purpose of surveying any I'M
surveyed land in the State OF Ne
vada. Anyone who wishes to locate
any such land in this county can
get information by calling at this
office.
Mr.. Robert Whitacre, father of
Z. H. Whitacre, G. o. Moss and X.
H. Williams, all of Alliance, Ohio,
arrived here the first OF the week
on a visit. They left "Wednesday
morning for Lake Tahoe OIL camp
ing trip, and from there will go to
San Francisco for a visit.
"A. H. Forbush. OF the upper end
of the valley, returned last week
from trip to Bodie, where he dis
posed of large load OF farm pro-
duce. He lett again this week
Thursday for that camp with a load
of chickens, ducks, turkeys, eggs
and potatoes. He finds a ready
market in Bodie for this kind of
produce, and good prices prevail.
". Mcintyre will leave tomor-
row for Candelar ria, where he will
open a blacksmith shop. He has
leased his shop here to George John
ston, who will close his own shop
shop Mr.. Mcintyre does not intend
to abandon this camp but thinks
that for some months to come he can
do thriving business at Candelaria.
C. P. McMannon, President of
the Nevada Chief Mining Company,
was down from Rockland the first
of the week. He reports the work
of grading site for the mill, get
ting water in from the springs and
putting ore on the dump progressing
rapidly. While here Sunday he
received word that the mill and
concentration had been shipped from
San Francisco on the 9th inst.
"A. ]. Pettegrew, Secretary of
the Carson Valley Smelling and Re-
duction Company, was here last
Saturday and Sunday to make ar
engagements to secure some copper
ore from the Miller mine with which
to start up the company's smelter
near Gardnerville. It the company
agrees to pay the price Mr.. Miller
asks for the ore considerable of it
will probably be hauled to the
smelter at once, as it IL ready TO
start up as soon as ore can be OBJ
| tanned.
-Tonopah can now claim the dis
tinction of being genuine frontier
mining camp. The stage running
between Candelsria sand that camp
was held up Tuesday night a short
highwayman. He secured the ex-
press box and smashed it open with
sledge hammer. just what he got
is not known, but the haul is said to
be light one. Officers went out to
the scene of the hOld-up immediately
upon being notified of what had oc-
CURED. They found tracks and
traced them to cabin in Tonopah,
and the highwayman is probably
under arrest by this time.
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FOR Over Sixty Years.