Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-07-04
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The Standard mine, at Bodie, resumed
operotions with full force of men last
week.
Winnemucca, Paradise Valley and
Golconda are to be connected with
telephone line. Nf
Crickets are destroying every vestige
of vegetation in the vicinity of Cortez,
Lander county
The Cramps, of Philadelphia, have
recently purchased group OF mining
claims at Tonopah..
The Truckee River is being re-stocked
with trout, about $4,000 being planted
near Reno this week.
Reno sporting men say that gambling
has fallen off one-half since the games
were moved upstairs.
Scab is very prevalent among Wyo-
ming sheep, and owners are using siren
uous measures to abate it.
A 50-foot ledge of gold ore has been
discovered near Rye Patch, the ore
showing gold to the naked eye.
Under Reno's new city schedule
bootblack pays $l5 a quarter for
license, and bank only $22.5O.
The annual procession of tourists and
sightseers to Lake Tahoe has begun and
they are coming IN great numbers.
A freight train on the C. P. went into
the ditch near Clarks Station the other
night causing delay to traffic of several
hours.
Churchill county's gold, silver and
copper mines are coming to the front.
They lie on the eastern edge of the
county.
Prof Bray, for thirteen years prin-
cipal of the Reno schools, has been re-
tired and Prof E. E. Winfrey elected in
his place.
At the Duck Valley Indian Reser-
walton, in Elko county, an epidemic of
fever is carrying off the Piutes in large
numbers.
Lynch 4 O'Meara are said to be net
ting $4,000 per month from their Lone
Mountain mining property in Esmer-
aida county.
There are sixteen felony cases before
the courts of Washoe county, and a
grand jury has been drawn to investi-
gate the cases.
A lad named Seareaga took header
into a deep well in Reno the other day,
but was fished out quickly and not much
the worse off for his bath.
The Reno Wheelmen defeated the
Reliance team of San Francisco last
Sunday by over two miles. large
crowd was in attendance.
A company has located fifty-one claims
on White Island, Mono Lake, to bore
for petroleum. The project is said to
have ample coin behind it.
The Chinatown in Clairville, Plumas
county, Cal, was deatroyed by fire the
other night. Over twenty shacks were
destroyed. Loss about 81 900.
A discovery of deposit of very hand.
some malaclite has been made near
Lone Mountain. 1t takes on a high
polish and is valuable for jewelry.
A flatcar jumped the track on siding
in the western part of Reno a few days
ago and ran into the house of ]. F.
Aitken, doing considerable damage
1t is reported that rich strike has
been made at Peavine, about six miles
from Reno. A ledge of free gold bearing
ore sixty feet wide has been struck.
The Truckee Republican, recently pur-
chased by the Calkins Newspaper Syn
dictate, will soon install type-setting
machine and make other Improvements.
Hessen & Company's store, at Elko,
was robbed of $3.50 worth of cutlery last
Friday night. This is the second time
the store has been robbed inside of a
year.
The automobile which was to be
placed on the road between Wells and
Ely, has been lost enroute. 1t is sup
posed to be hung up in a jam of freight
at Ogden.
The bill passed at the last Legislature
for the issuance of s700,000 non-interest
bearing bonds, to cover the Indebtedness
Of Lincoln county, through an error
only provides for 5000, 900