Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-07-04
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+ 1t is reported that two-foot ledge OF
$50 ore has been tapped in the lower
tunnel of the Crystal Lake Company, at
Lundy, Mono county.
A team containing two women and
two children was run down by a train in
the Reno yards the other day. Slight
injuries were received by the parties,
but the rig was demolished.
The order of the Southern Pacific
Company prohibiting the sale of liquors
at railroad depot hotels will result in
closing them, as they cannot be run at
profit without saloon attachment.
Charlie Blue, the colored bootblack
who stabbed Chinaman in Carson last
week, has been held to appear before
the grand jury on a charge of man
slaughter. He is out on $500 bonds.
The town of Verdi, Washoe county,
which was nearly wiped out by fire
several weeks ago, is rising Phoenix-like
from the ashes. The pay-rolls from the
lumber industry there aggregate $4,000
monthly.
The ledge in the famous Mizpah mine,
at Tonopah, has been cut at the 75O-foot
level. The ledge faulted above and it
was feared that it pinched out. The
new strike gives great confidence to all
Tonopah companies.
A new rule adopted by the Tonopah
Miners Union provides that all con-
tractors must make IS or more for each
and every shifts work, and all men
employed by contractor shall be paid
not less than IS for days work.
A work train crew, consisting of con-
ductor Powell and brakemen Lahey and
Condor, were detected in robbing an
Indian camp near Tacoma, on the {. F.,
last week, and discharged. The con-
ductor and one of the brakemen were
drunk.
On Tuesday of last week the great
milling plant at the properties of Bam-
berger's De Lamar mines emerged from
its period of initial and trial test runs
and began grinding at it's stated capacity
of 500 tons of crude ore every twenty
four hours.
A great gold discovery has been made
at Grandpa Mountain, twenty-five miles
southeast OF Tonopah, near Montezuma.
Two immense lodges of ore have been
struck. Simple horning yielded a half
teaspoonful of gold. There is great
rush to the new camp.
The Western Pacific Construction
Company filed articles of incorporation
with the Secretary OF State, in Carson,
last week, for capitalization of $50, 00O,-
600. The fees to the State amounted to
81, 500. The company's principal place
of business will be in Reno, and it
intends to construct railroads, mills and
other things.
n. J. Salisbury, of Bodie, has decided
all OF his property in that town to Mrs.
Catherine Matteson, of Stockton. Mrs.
Salisbury has gone to San Francisco and
it is expected that law suit will be
instituted to set aside the deeds upon
the grounds that Mr.. Salisbury was not
in a proper state of mind when the
deeds were given.
The Lincoln Comfy Record says that
in the Vegas Valley, in the southern
portion of Lincoln county, and through
which the line of the San Pedro, Los
Angeles 4 Salt Lake railroad passes,
there has been taken up ll4,60S acres
of land, the major portion of it being
owned by Californians. Much of this
land will be cultivated now that a mar
ket is assured, and inside of ten years
there will be large population in that
valley.
John Hays Hammond, the eminent
mining engineer, arrived in Tonopah on
June 3D. Mr.. Hammond has been in
Mexico looking over some extensive
mining properties, and is on his way
east The report of Mr.. Hammond to
the Tonopah Mining Company will be
read with the greatest interest by min
ing men all over the country. 1t is
expected that the result of Mr. Ham
mond's investigations of the Tonopah
mines will startle the world.
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