The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-11-08

From the Miner Of Oct. 81.


All along Main street trenches are be-
ing dug and pipes laid to connect business
houses and saloons with the main of the
Crystal Water Company. Water furnish
ed in this way will be sold at the rate of
about ! cent per gallon.
John Hays Hammond, accompani-
ed by T. L. Oddie and j. E. Spur, went
over to Silver Peak Tuesday, and from
there was to 20 to Candelaria. 1t has been
impossible to ascertain the object of Mr..
Hammond's visit to Tonopah or to secure
any expression from him as to his opinion
Of the camp.
During the past two weeks scouts, in
the employ of railroad men, have been
making an investigation Of the land be-
tween Eureka and Tonopah, for the o.
tensible purpose of selecting a feasible
route, and 1t is reported on good authority
that inside of a month survey parties
will be out laying the preliminary lines.
The Denver News says, according to
the annual statement of the United
States Reduction & Refining Company,
the corporate name of the mill trust,
their profits IN Cripple Creek ores dur
ing the year ending August l, 1902, reach
ed 1850. 1890 IN q total business of
81, 373, S49.48. This means SO per cent
for dividends, surplus, improvements
and wear and tear. The figure is unjust
to the miners, but as there are no pat
ents Of consequence upon the chemical
methods, as applied to Cripple Creek ores,
the obvious remedy is more independent
mills, with trained experts to construct
and run them. The mill trust recently
lowered the freight and treatment charges
upon %one-ounce Cripple Creek ores to
1915 per ton. Since the trust was OF.
ganized last year, on a very liberal valua-
ton of existing plants, it has paid 1884,
924 in dividends, the regular declaration
being $4,000 per quarter.
By the 18th of next month the Tonopah
Light and Power Company expects to
have its plant, now in course of construc-
ton in West Tonopah, running in full
blast, and furnishing the juice where
with to light the town with electricity.
Its eighty-horss power engine and two
phase generator are on the road and are
expected to arrive in a very few days.
The machine will furnish suficien { power
to keep 1000 lights going, 400 more than
the contracts with call for,
but in order to increase the power the
company has wisely left floor room sufi-
Gent to double the plant in the new build
ing, and if the towns growth demands
increased lighting facilities, the.necessary
machinery can be put in at short notice.
A letter, purporting to have been writ
ten by Jos. Williams Of Belmont and
attacking w. Brougher, the Republican
nominee for the Senate from Ormsby,
has been printed quite generally through.
out the State. Mr.. Brougher, who was
formerly sheriff, as we'll as auditor and
recorder of Nye county, needs no defense
in Tonopah; but as the unwsrranted
attack or his character may injure him
in Ormsby county. The Miner feels it to
be its duty to testify to his good standing
in this community. James L. Butler,
who is an old friend Of Brougher's, sent
the following telegram on Wednesday to
the Carson Weekly: ''The letter brought
before the people of your county by Liv-
ingston is a frst-water lie, and every one
In this county but one Jos. Williams will