Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-06-20
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A copper property near Luuiiig 10 saIu
to show twenty-five feet of ore.
A force of 200 men is employed in
reopening the mines at Tombstone,
Arizona.
John Hays Hammond has resigned as
consulting engineer of the Tonopah Min
ing Company.
Carson has donated its presidential
bunting to the Comstock Fourth OF July
Carnival Committee.
Selected ore from the Savage mine
waste dump is being worked at Fishers
mill in Six-mile canyon.
The Southern Pacific Co. has pulled
off its pay-car, and hereafter employees
will be paid with checks.
The Carson river is high and muddy
and the fishing poor. The Trnckee is
clear and the fishing fine.
The Curtz-Evans mill, at Loope, con-
sidered one of the most up-to-date plants
on the Coast, started operations last
week
The eleventh session of the National
Irrigation Congress will be held in Og-
den, Utah, from September 10Th to 18th,
inclusive.
There will be a game of baseball be-
tween the Winnemucca and Lovelock
mines, at Lovelock, on July 9Th, for
$1,000 side.
The V. & T. Railroad Company is pre-
pairing to advertise Nevada resources
through the medium of pamphlets to at
tract settlers.
Parties from White Horse, Oregon, re-
port scarcity of water in that section,
also that the hay crop will be short on
this account.
Sixteen arrests were made in Wads-
worth for the beginning of this month.
And yet some people say that Wads
worth is dead one.
Attorneys harrington and Wilson, OF
Elko, had mix-up in the Courtroom
the other day during the trial of a case,
and each paid $40 fine.
A child in Eureka was poisoned from
eating strawberries that had been treated
with arsenic. The berries were not
washed before being eaten.
f. H. Toms, who left Klondike, Nye
county, for Montezuma last December
on foot, has not been heard of since.
and is supposed to have persisted.
The Jupiter group of seven claims
adjoining the Mckinley mine, at Ely,
White Pine county, havesbeen sold to
the Mckinley Mining & Smelling Co.
Miller & Lux shipped 1000 head of
horses from their ranch, north of Win
nemucca, to California Friday. 1t took
a train of forty-one cars to transport
them.
A. L. Lockwood, the man who at
tempted to stab Henry Mack, in Gard
nerville, some weeks ago, has been sem
fenced to eighteen months in the State
prison.
A surveying party in the employ of
the government passed through Carson
few days ago on its way to the head
waters OF the Carson river, to do in
vestigation work.
Trains are running over the new piece
of track around Clark's Station. The
new line is now in use from Saliva to
Reno, making straight track for a
distance of thirty miles.
A party of fourteen Western Pacific
Railroad surveyors are now at Elko.
They are getting an outfit together pre-
paratory to surveying a route for the
new road through Moleen canyon.
The Tonopah papers have it that the
shareholders of the Fraction, Gold Hill,
Salt Lake and Tonopah City companies
will consolidate their interests. About
forty men have been laid off pending
negotiations.
w. IL. Clifford, prominent resident
of Churchill county, tells the Carson
News that Churchill will be the leading
county in the State in agricultural pro-
ducts when the proposed irrigation canal
is completed
j. l.. Stinson, sheep inspector for Elko
county, denies the report that any sheep
in that county are afflicted with ''big
head" Mr. Stinson has made close
inspection OF all the hocks and has
found no traces whatever of "big