Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-08-30
ABOUT TINE STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
items of Interest Clipped from Our tx
chances, Without Credit.

The V. L. shops, at CARSON, are
very busy these days.
They are still industriously boring
for oil in Elko county.
The railroads will grant half-fare
rates to the Reno conventions.
Feed is going to be scarce early
this season in the eastern part of the
State.
An expert is examining the n1tre
deposit in Humboldt county, near
Lovelock.
Washoe county has 100000 tax
able property, an increase of 100000
over last year.
The people of Paradise valley have
succeeded in closing up the last
house of ill-fame there.
The repairs to the Gold Hill tun-
mel, which was destroyed by fire sew
eral weeks ago, have been completed.
Mrs Sarah f. Winnie, who has
been a resident of Carson for SO
years, died Sunday, aged 81 years.
The Riverside Touring mill at
Reno is now running day and night
and turning out I25 barrels of flour
daily.
A cyanide plant has been put up
at Search1ight to run through the
old tailings. The results are said to
be good.
1t is reported that the Wells, Fargo
< Go. box recently robbed between
Candelaria and Tonopah, contained
over 100000.
The Spectator and Minnie Healy
mines at Butte, Montana, have been
shut down by injunctions, throwing
500 men out of work.
J. G. Tonkin, a resident of Eureka,
this State, fell out of window in
lodging house in San Francisco last
week, and was killed.
Tonopah has I33 places which pay
county license. The monthly revenue
on account of license collections in
the camp is stated to be $1,000.
1t is now understood that active
construction work on the Twin
River Water and Power Company's
line will begin within month.
There are 90 men employed at the
Meadow Lake mines. Ten stamps
are kept busy right along. All the
machinery is the latest improved.
The Dexter mine, near Tuscarora,
is employing seventy-hve men,
handling 100 tons of ore and 30 tons
of shines daily, in addition to de-
velopment work.
The Butte, Mont, reduction works
were destroyed by fire last week.
They were the property OF Senator
w. A. Clark and one of the most ex-
tensive smelters in the State.
For the quarter ending June goth,
Sheriff Logan collected $4,000 bullion
tax from the Tonopah mine owners.
At this rate the Indebtedness of Nye
county will soon be cancelled.
S. Farchee, recent arrival in
Reno, was badly hurt Monday morn
ing in the yards by colliding with
an eastbound train. He sustained a
broken arm and other injuries.
The Gardnerville Record says
that w. H. Foley, who had charge
of the construction work at the smell
ter, has filed in the District Court, a
mechanics lien tor S7o3.25 wages.
Indians are said to have known of
the existence of gold a Donnelly Mt,
Humboldt county, as early as 1850,
bringing it in from there to the
white settlements to trade for flour.
The Nevada exhibit in the ferry
building has been closed. A box of
specimens has been sent to the pub
hcity bureau of the Southern Pacific
Company III the Grand Hotel build
ing.
1t IS understood that ex-President
Uhlhorn, of the Carson Valley Smelt-
ing Y Refining Co., has retired from
active operations in the vicinity OF
Gardnerville on account of his
health.
1t is said that about twenty-five
head of tame elks which have been
kept under fence at the John Devine
ranch have been sold and will be