Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-01-10


Shares in the Desert King mine
at Wcdckind, are quoted at SII.
The battle for the Stratton mil
lions is now on at Colorado Springs
Riley Davis has been appointed az
private secretary to Governor John
Sparks.
There are 81 prisoners in the State
prison at present, seven OF whom
are in for life.
A Labor Union was organized in
Empire last Saturday night with a
membership OF as.
The diphtheria scourge is still
raging in Reno, and seven deaths
have occurred so tar.
The Board of Pardons has post.
poned its meeting from the I2th to
the 2oth OF this month.
A Degree OF Honor Lodge, A. o. U.
W., is to be organized shortly at
Ely, White Pine county.
A rich strike of gold, silver and
copper ore is reported i'll the Sapho
mine, White Pine county.
The ice crop on the Truckec River
will be larger and better this season
than tor any previous year.
There are three mines and mills in
operation at Searchlight, Lincoln
county, employing one hundred
men.
Several OF the State papers are ad-
vocating the creation of the office of
State Minerologist and Geologist for
Nevada.
The Truckee River General Elec-
trio Company expects to have its
plant at Carson i'll operation by the
middle of February.
Judge Hawley's health is so much
improved that he has returned to
Nevada, and he held session OF
Court in Carson last Monday.
Will Blake, of Virginia City, had
his hand very badly lacerated the
other day by the explosion of bot
tie of black powder which he was
holding.
A tunnel through the Sierras to
avoid the snow belt and steep grades
is an assured fact, on the authority
of President Hartman, of the
Southern Pacific.
Diamond power drills are to be
used to develop the nickel mines of
Churchill county. A half million
of money has already been expend-
ed on these mines.
Ed Schmidt's store, in Reno, was
robbed again last Sunday night of a
number OF pistols. This is the
eighth time the place has been rob-
bed within year.
The Tonopah Stock Exchange
opened on the first day OF this year.
The first call of stocks was made
that evening, and the Exchange will
transact business daily from now
on.
J. J. Mahoney, of Mahoney Bros,
railroad contractors, has taken a
Olinghouse Canyon, and will sink a
double-compar tment shaft to depth
OF 600 feet.
While doing assessment work on
the old Paradise mine north of Win
nemucca last week a large body of
black sulphurets. rich in gold, was
uncovered. AT one time this mine
was large producer.
In a dispute over trivial matter
at Prospect, Eureka county, one
day last week, Vim. Giles shot an
old man named White in the face
with shot gun. White is not fatal
ly injured and Giles is in Jail.
Prof. Edmond O'Neal, of Berkeley,
CAL, is said to have invented II cheap
process of making cyanide OF potas-
stun. 1t the discovery Is all that is
claimed for it low grade ores can be
worked at a greater profit than ever.
Reno's new subway under the
Southern Pacific tracks is completed
and is proving IP.ReagFfat conven-
fence to the people at that town. 1t
is lighted by electricity, and "cop-
per" patrols it to prevent hold-ups,
etc.
1t is stated thSt at the Cananea
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