The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1903-03-19

Rev. e. W. Van Deventer, d. d., Sup
erlntendent of the Nevada Mission NJ. 4.
Church will hold services next Sunday,
both morning and evening. Everybody
is invited to attend the services.
Miss Maud Treglone. who has been
teaching school at Silver Creek, was an
arrival on the N. G. yesterday. The
young lady after visiting friends in
Battle Mountain for a day or two will
leave for her home in Virginia City.
President Roosevelt has decided to
visit Reno and Virginia City while ON
his coast trip in May. Efforts should
be made to have him and his party stop
10 Battle Mountain as he passes through
w. M. Gottwaldt, for the past four
months editor of the Winnemucca Silver
State, has severed his connection with
that paper and departed for Reno to ac-
cept a position with the Journal as city
editor.
L. M. Pugh and Ed. Friberg came
down from Dean Tuesday. Mr.. Pugh
left on No. 3 that afternoon on a short
visit to his family at Lovelock. Mr..
Friberg returned to the mine yesterday
morning.
Mrs. J. II. Crum and daughter Mrs.
w. A. Check returned Sunday from Col
..onda where Mrs. Crum has been
spending several weeks at the springs
for the benefit Of her health. Mrs. Crum
feels much improved.
A. d. Lemalre has been putting his
sheep corrals in shape for the shearing
of sheep which will be shorn at the
corrals this Spring. He has erected a
good sized bunk house for the accommo-
datien of the shearers. A well has been
sunk and at a depth of twenty-five feet
a good flow OF water was encountered.
We are informed that the construc-
ton gang numbering about eighty men,
who are now stationed at Stone House,
will soon have completed their work at
that point when the outfit will move to
the Piute siding, five west of town and
begin work on the cut. off which is to be
built from that point to Mosel, east OF
here.
The south nose Of ~Promontory point
is being literally honeycombed by drill
ers of the Southern Pacific Company,
who are preparing for n giant blast,
which will be fred within a few days.
Holes are being driven into the rocky
mountain in all conceivable portions and
heavy charges are being put in. The
whole will be fired by electricity.
It has been remarked that country
newspapers have many faults. make
numerous mistakes and leave many
good things undone. But il you will
follow them closely you will be struck
with the unaninity in which they stand
by their respective communities and
their constant loyalty to home enter
prises. They preach the doctrine CT
good citizenship and fair play 10 all
things and generally earn much more
than they get pay for.
An attempt was made Sunday night
to wreck a train at Ditho. near Wads.
worth. Freight train 2O6 ran into a
boulder weighing about 400 pounds on
the track. No. 2 was right behind thu
freight and would have doubtless been
wrecked had it struck the obstruction.
An examination of the track showed
that a piece OF steel had also been put ID
the switch.
A Tonopah dispatch OF March 10th,
says: A company has been formed here
with one hundred thousand dollars capi
tai to build a mill to treat Tonopah ores
The principal persons in the company
are James l.. Butler. Frank Golden,
George s. Nixon, G. Il. Knox, Ii. @. Cut
ting. Brougher Brothers and others. 1t
is proposed to put up at once n BIG mill
on the ground of the Midway Mining
Company.