The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-06-14
HAPPENINGS IN OUR
OWN STATE
late News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada

united states Senator +. IT, New
lands and William E. Sharon are ex-
pected in Reno today. They have been
doing San Francisco for the past week.
w. C. Rose now has five men at work
at the Hamburg mine on prospect
Mountain. They are sinking the new
shaft, which is a single compartment
and manway, and have reached a
dept of forty feet.-Eureka Sentinel.
Thirty thousand feet of lumber has
been ordered and work will probably
begin some time this month .on the
new concentrator that is to be built
at the Ruth mine. This mine Is one
of the best paying properties in White
Pine county.-News.
B. F. Miller has sold out the Ely and
Eureka stage Inc to George L. Haga-
man and Benjamin DIAL who recently
arrived from Wyoming, where they
were connected with Mr.. Miller. The
new owners have put on a two-horse
line clear through and will make other
improvements in the service beneficial
to Ely.
A marriage license was yesterday
issued to Allen c. Bragg, formerly ed-
tor of the Reno Evening Gazette, and
Jeanette E. Miller of this city. just
when and where the happy affair will
take place is not yet known for the
honorable Allen believes in keeping
such things TO himself. great many
people are inclined to believe it will
take place Wednesday.-Gazette.
The change in business firms which
was mentioned as expected in las,
weeks issue of the Tribune has trans
pired. John Marker has withdrawn
| from the firm of Preston &, Marker
/ and has purchased the stationary and
I refreshment stand from Frank Morti-
mer. Frank turned the business over
! to his successor Monday morning and
| departed for California Tuesday even
| ing.-Tribune.
! Within the next three months there
| will be in the neighborhood of 5000
men employed in the vicinity of Fall
| Ion and the town WI then take on a
| lively air. Most of the money paid
these laborers will be spent here and
our merchants will be materially bene-
/ fitted. In addition to the army of men
to be employed on the main laterals
there will be large number at work
constructing branch laterals. This
section will witness great activity In
all ines.-Churchill Standard.
The unmitigated rot that is going the
John w. Mackeys early partners is a
parcel of lies. There never was
period in the life or MacHey that he
was not able to take care of himself
financially as we'll as otherwise, and
this man John Bagley of Holyoke,
Mackey money. was never a partner of
Maekey and never res 'ded in Virgini1
to the knowledge of any one.-vir-
ginia Chronicle.
The Department of the Interior is
asking for bids for the construction of
about thirty-seven miles of main dis
tributing canals from the Carson river
about four miles from Leetevile. 1t
is for the construction of the two main
lateral canals leading from the great
lands in Churchill county. The great
canal from Wadsworth to the Carson
river reservoir which will unite the
waters of the Truckee with those OF
the Carson rover with the great storage
basin near Leeteville, Will be COM
pleted this fall and the water turned
in.
Charles III. Gage who was formerly
chief engineer of the Arkanas Central
and the Mineral Belt railways. and who
is now residing in Tonopah. this week
received information from an authora-
tive source in Denver to the effect
that the Rock Island railway will ex-
tend its line through Southern Colo
rado and Southern Utah. across Ne
vada to Tonopah, and from there by
way of Bridgers Pass. to San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Cages informant wrote
that a surveying party is now at work
in Eastern Nevada, running the pre-
limnary survey in this direction, and
that without doubt the new trunk line
will be completed within three years.
-Tonopah Miner
C. r. Upson died Monday in Reno
at the ripe old age of II years and
3 months. lie was born at Suffield.
Portage county. Ohio. March 10th.
1887. and resided there until 1S49. when
he moved to Knox county. where he
was married to his late wife In 1850.
They resided there until 1860 when
with a party of friends they crossed
the plains to California. starting on
the 9Th of May and arriving in the
San Joaquin valley the latter part Of