Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1902-03-01
ABOUT THE STATE AND ELSEWHERE.
items of Interest Clipped from Our tx
changes, Without Credit.

for Tonopah. ...s. -.
Daily baths and abstention from
profanity is required of railroad la
borers on the S. P. cutoff.
The Rabbit Hole sulphur mines in
Humboldt county contain the largest
sulphur deposit in America.
Constable Leeper, of Reno, has so
far recovered from his gun-shot
wound as to again be on duty.
Seven dollars share is offered for
Tonopah stock in San Francisco, and
no shares for sale at that price.
Hereafter there will be no work
done at the Buffers Cyanide Plant,
in Sixmile Canyon, on Sundays.
Twenty carloads of apples have
been shipped from Carson to Calitor-
MIA within the past three months.
Dan McGlivery, of Hawthorne, has
been offered $500, 600 Tor his mining
locations in the new camp near To-
nopah.
The beef market is little soft at
present, but Kansas City dealers
think beef will be to 10 cents all
Summer.
Washoe county expects to collect
FIVE or six thousand dollars in poll
taxes from the railroad employees i'll
that county this year.
s. B. Pierce, an old resident of
Paradise Valley, has been committed
to the Insane Asylum. Financial
reverses have deranged his mind.
Revenue Collector Blakeslee, who
recently visited Tonopah, predicts
that ten thousand people will be liv-
ing in that camp before Summer is
over.
A steam shovel, capable of moving
at least six cubic feet of earth at a
time, is being used by the contract
ors on the s. P. cutoff near Wads-
worth.
The Mining Laws, a new compila-
ton up to date, containing the State
and United States mining laws, will
soon be issued from the State Print.
ing Office.
The turquois mines recently dis
covered near Crow Springs, on the
Tonopah road, prove to be the genu-
inc thing, and arrangements are now
being made to develop them.
The eastern people who visited the
southern section of the State last
week, in company with Jim Yering
ton, declare that Nevada is the great
est mining State of them all.
WIN. Shanks, an Ohio jail-brealter,
was arrested the first of the week in
Kllio. A reward of $50 was standing
for his arrest. He was tracked by
lives in Klko.
The Willow Creek mine. near
Washoe, has been sold to eastern
parties for $4,000. The property
was formerly operated by Governor
Stevenson but has been idle for
number of years.
The remains of John y. Baker
were found in the Ruby Mountains
one day last week. Baker evidently
died from exposure. He was
brother of George Baker, we'll
known throughout the State.
Clark's Station, east of Reno, is a
hot camp. There arc in the neigh
borhood of two thousand railroad
constructors there and rows are fire
quent. A Constable and Justice of
the Peace have been appointed for
the place.
Col. T. H. lowe, a prominent civil
and mining engineer, of Colorado
Springs, died in Lovelock last week
of pneumonia. Col. lowe had many
enterprises planned for the benefit of
Lovelock, and his death was a sad
blow to that section.
The Ksmeralda county grand jury
found an indictment against John
Schrier last week for assault with
intent to kill, and he will spend a
year in the State grison. Schrier
is the man who stabbed O'Keef some
months ago at Sodaville.
Dick Bright and Roger Dougherty,
of Tonopah, while on a hunting and
prospectinp triD west of Carson n