Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-03-15
ABOUT THE STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
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eastern part of the State.
An effort is being made to esta blish
flour mill in Carson City.
The traction engine is to be given
another trial between Sodaville and
Tonopah.
1t is reported that the GardnervilIe
Record has been sold to DR.. S. S.
Southworth.
The Lovelock Land and Develop
ment company will put $500 acres in
wheat this year.
Reno has already started voting
contest for the queen OF carnival to
be held next July.
b. F. Miller, of Kly, White Pine
county, has secured L. S. mail con-
tracts aggregating $26,835''
A large proportion of Hawthorne's
population is suffering from severe
colds, la grippe, measles, etc.
J. A. Lee, Tusca rora, Elko coun-
ty, resident, was drugged and robbed
of $500 in Salt Lake recently.
The State has just purchased gov
eminent bonds amounting to S65,4oo
with the surplus in the school fund.
The report that John w. Mackay,
the well-known millionaire, is seri-
ously ill in San Francisco, is denied.
The Southern Pacific shops at Sac
ramento are the largest railway
shops in the world, employing 3,2co
men.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
company Is building branch from
its main line at Blake, Utah, to Ely,
Nevada.
1t is said that the Eureka 4 Pail
SADIE railroad is to be extended, prob
ably to Ely and other points in
White Pine county.
J. B. Bruncr, who has branch fur
niture stores in all OF the large cities
of this coast, will start branch
store at Reno, the first of May.
All the butcher shops in Reno, Car
son and Virginia buy their meats
from the cold storage plant recently
established at the former place.
@. G. Ross sold in Reno, Tuesday,
a carload of prime beet steers for 81
cents. This is the highest price that
cattle have touched before this year.
Fred Belzar, brakeman on the G.
& G. railroad, had one of his fingers
badly mashed Tuesday evening
while coupling cars at the Mound
House.
G. w. Grayson, of San Francisco,
who owns large tracts of land in
Nevada, is going to put traction
engine in operation to clear the land
of greasewood.
John Sparks and A. c. Cleveland
have been selected as Nevada's rer-
resentatives on the Executive Com
mittee of the American Cattle Grow.
ers' Association.
Frank Higgs, one of the original
locators OF Tonopah, died in San
Francisco this week. He was 70
years of age and left property esti-
mated to be worth $4,000
Some enterprising Carson Valley
people are making arrangements for
the Enlistment of traction en-
CINE line to run between Carson and
the upper end OF the valley.
The finished surveys of the pre-
posed tunnels through the Sierras
have changed matters. 1t is likely
that Wadsworth will not be injured
to any extent worth mentioning.
A hobo struck Reno citizen for
the price of meal the other night
and, instead of buying steak, he
tackled a commercial street crap
game. In two hours he had SI6o in
gold coin.
The SiLUer State says Winnemuc-
cas- streets are kept in better repair
than are those OF any other town in
the State. The work of crawling
and grading Bridge street is now
going on.
II. F. Dangberg and family, of Car
son Valley, have formed a corpora
ton to be known as the II. F. Dang
berg Land and Live Stock co. The
concern has been capitalized for $780,
600, all OF which has been subscribed.