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Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1904-06-04

ia. The farmer who did it gath
cred many loads of old IRON,
which he dumped into the Car
son river to get it out of the
way. There is now nothing left
of Ragtown but one house and
a blacksmith shop.
Within the present decade it IS
hoped that this desolate country
will be covered with farms and
traversed by good roads, a
transformation more wonderful
than anything the immigrant
trains were destined to find in
Ell Dorado.
One of the curious things
about this change IS that on the
e + land over which the immi-
grants passed with so much snf-
ferine and where so many per.
sons died from thirst, it has re-
Gently been found possible to dig
wells and get q very fair supply
of water. To be sure, they did
not have strength or interest to
dig, and naturally they would
have supposed that if they did
strike water it would be alka-
line.-Washington Times.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1904-06-04

leltlluhDl.
BY virtue of an execution issued out of the
said Second Judicial District Court of the
State of Nevada. in and for the County of
Churchill, 10 me directed and dated the Fifth
day of MAY, 1904, IN Il certain action wherein
+. +. Crumpacker, as Plaintiff, recovered jndg
ment against the Nevada Bell Consolidated
Mining and Reduction Company. n Corpora
ton. Defendant. for the sum of Four Thou
sand Four Hundred Forty five aud 5l-l00
t$i4i5.5l) Dollars. lawful money of the United
states, and interest thereon ut the rate OF seVen
per cent per annum until paid. and costs of
snit, taken ut Eight hundred Fifty-f0ur and
l0-lO (iS54 10Y Dollars, on the Fourth day of
April. 1904, | have levied upon the following
described property, to-wit;
One frame bunk house, size IS 4. by 30 #. 3
One frame cook house, size Il IL. by 30 It.
One frame office building, size II II. by II Fl.
one frame blacksmith shop. size l6 it by Ii
feet.
One frame dwelling house, size Il #. by soft.
One frame boarding house, size ~ II by soft.
One frame assay office, size II II. by lsft.
one frame wood shed, size IL fl. by II fl.
One frame stable, size II II. by 30 II.
One frame blacksmith shop, size II #. 10y 20
feet.
one corrugated iron and frame building
called aud used as II Smelter building, with
one Fraser and Chalmers Forty-ton Smelter.
complete, contained therein,
one large water tank.
That certain spring, and water right and
privilege apper'aining, known rs THE Bell
Mare Spring
That certain spring of water, and water.
rights and privileges appertaining, known as
Gilbert Spring.
One and one-half nla) miles of water pipe.
laid in the ground and running 10 the large
water tank above mentioned
n the following named full quartz mining
claims, To wit: The Copper Giant. lndepen-
dence, Lulu. Nirgie, Minnie Ha Ha, Copper
King, stanford, b. & NJ, Monte Christie. Nam
moth. Nevada Queen. Colorado King, AZurite,
Gardner. Gibbs, Cedar, Philadelphia. Hamil-
ton. Puritan. Kentucky Bell. Security, Timber
Line. Modoc. and the Pine Shade-all in Table
Mountain Mining District, Churchill County.
Nevada.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN thnt on Wed
nesday, the First bay of June. 1904, ut one
O'Clock, p, III nj that day, in front OF thu
Court House nj Fallon. in the County of Ghur-
chill, will sell NIL the right, title and interest
of said Nevada Bell Consolidated Mining and
Reduction Company, "A Corporation, the de
PENDANT. in and 10 the above described real
property. at public auction, for cash, lawful
money of the United States. to the highest and
best bidder. to satisfy said execution and all
costs.
ROBERT SHIRLEY,
sheriff.
By NAME SANFORD,
Deputy Sheriff.
Dated at Fallon. Nevada. the 9Th day of May,
1904.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1904-06-04
CHIEF NE
REVIEWS VISIT

The most interesting thing |
saw" said Frederick Fl. Newell,
chief engineer of the reclamation
service, yesterday i'll describing a
recent inspection tour through
the west, was the construction
work now going on in Nevada
to convey water from the True
kee to the Carson river and
there to store it in Il large reser-
voira short distance above Rag
town.
This settlement was SO named
in the days of the overland i'm
migration, because, after the
caravans had crossed the Car
son desert, they rested there to
overhaul their outfits before 60
ing up the Carson river and
across the Sierra Nevada noun
tains.
Near the spot where the res
ervoir is now building the i'm
migrants went into camp,
washed their clothes for the first
time i'll a long while, and hung
them out to dry, where they
made an impression on beholders
which has been preserved in the
town name. In general, travel
ers have put up at this place,
abandoning whatever was worn
out or useless before starting
across the mountains.
ITO reach Ragtown they had
come down the Humboldt river
from which they had a fair sup
ply of water until they reached
the Humboldt sink. Beyond
that the water was sometimes
very bad as the country is full
of alkaline lakes, clear and of
great depth, very attractive to
the eve, but extremely poison
Gus. The horses and mules
would not ordinarily drink it,
but sometimes, under intense
thirst, they would rush into one
of these lakes and drink freely
with fatal results.
From the lower Humboldt
over to the Carson there is fully
forty miles of very sandy, alkali
desert-rolling ground across
which the tired animals could
hardly force their way, and the
road in old times was said to be
literally strewed with bones and
with fragments OF household
furnishings dropped out on the
way to tighten loads. Many
people died or this last piece of
road, and their friends. on reach
ing the Carson river, would bury
their bodies in a little cemetery
which eventually came to con-
tain many hundred bodies, as
was shown by the gun barrels
or other pieces of iron driven
into the ground at the head of
each grave. This land was late
~ plowed up and put into alfal-
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1904-06-04

f. T. Crumpacker. Plaintiff,
vs..
Nevada Bell Consolidated Mining and
Reduction Company, Corporation,
Defendant.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1904-06-04
Notice of Sheriff's Sale
of Real Property

IN THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
l Court of the State of Nevada, in and for
the County of Churchill.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-05-26
CSo1C1@9@9@C9Ns
BITTINGER.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

"A party of sportsmen from Boyn-
ton, Pa, passed through here last
Monday enroute for Deep Creek,
where they will spend few days
fishing. The party was piloted by
Mr.. Martin Bowman, a former Gar
rett county school teacher.
Mr.. Daniel j. Brenneman and Miss
Michaels, of Firm Rock, were quietly
married last Sunday, and on Monday
evening a reception was given in
honor of.the occasion, at Mr.. Brenne-
mans home on Manadier's Ridge.
Mr.. William Liyingood, of Somer-
set county, Pa, was Esquire Ralston's
guest last Friday night.
Messrs. Simon Meyers and Young
Lohr, of Oakland, are here lathing
the new parsonage, getting ready
forithe plasterers who are expected
on in few days.
Mr.. Albert Brenneman and family
and Mr.. lChas. Sechler and family
went over intoi Pennsylvania last
week for a visit with relatives.
Mr.. Simon Brenneman, contractor
andIbuilder, began work last week
on thesfirst job of the season, new
harmon Mr.. John Hetrich's farm.
Mrs...C. f. Ellithorpe is numbered
among the ailing this week.
Mr.. Perry Broadwater keeps close
to the house, playing peep with a
brand new daughter. 1t has been
keeping him company since Monday,
May 10th.
MR.. Simon Beechy narrowly es-
capped serious injury recently. Last
Saturday afternoon while telling TIM
Der for the Meadow Mountain Luro-
Der Co. a falling limb struck him,
slightly bruising his face and Shout
der.