Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-08-21

Five surveyors arrived in Bod,
last week and were taken at once tc
the site of the new power plant OF
Lee Vining creek by James Cain
They will survry pole line from The
plant to Bodie and Aurora.
The John Breuner Company has
purchased the entrance fee of the
first night of the Sacramento State
Fair aud will make it free night to
all The fair will commence August
3lst aud end September 18th.
United States Senator Newlands
has purchased lot in the fashionable
quarter of Washington, D. c., on
which he will have handsome resi-
dence built for his daughter. The
price paid for the lot was $35, 900.
The contract for digging the gov
ernment irrigation canal through
Churchill county will be let within
the next two weeks and construction
work will be under way in about 80
days. 1t is estimated TINT 1000 men
will be required to do the work.
Half dozen places in Churchill
county are attracting the attention
of the prospecters, the values so far
uncovered have been exceedingly
high and everyone who has been in
the new district is convinced that
Churchill will be the new scene of
mining activity.
A press dispatch from Washington
says President Roosevelt has issued
an order that hereafter no discrilni
ton in favor of union or non-union
men in the employ of the govern
ment will be tolerated. The ruling
is sweeping and considered far reach
ing in effect. 1t is the result of the
investigation following the Miller
case.
]. S. Cain visited Tonopah last
week to investigate Tonopah's re
quirements for electric power. The
two plants now under construction
on Rush and Lee Vining creeks are
expected to furnish 80, 900 horse pow
err, more than enough for all enter
prises within radius of 100 miles,
Miner.
A dispatch from Cripple Creek,
dated the 18th, says that all the
mines in the district, except the
Portland and those operated by the
Woods Investment Company, are
closed down in consequence of the
miners union strike, which began on
the 10th. The number of miners on
strike is ZOO Hundreds of miners
are leaving for other places.
The Tonopah Bonanza says about
half the force at the Valley View
mine was laid off the past week.
This move was made in obedience to
instructions received from the east to
reduce the force at all the company
mines. OF the $50 men employed
two months ago on the Mizpah, Burro
and Valley View only one-half re-
main, the rest having been drafted.
The General Land Office has issued
a peremptory order providing for
the tearing down of the fences of
stockmen who have illegally strung
their wires across the public domain
and for the throwing of such lands
open to the public. Any further eva
sions of the law will bring the offend
ers before the Federal Courts. 1t is
stated that the law will be enforced
by the government officials to the
very letter.
In regard to The incidental irriga-
ton of lands held by private parties
within the lines of the proposed irri-
CATION scheme, it has been officially
announced that no person who holds
!, over 100 acres will be allowed to re-
ceivc any benefits from irrigation.
The government will insist on this
rule with rigid strictncss, so Us TO
compel the owners Of large tracts to
divide up their holdings at reasona'
BILE prices.