The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-16
HAPPENINGS IN OUR
OWN STATE
late News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada

Senator warren WlillamS VI
| Churchill county sold his wool clip,
s55,0OO pounds for 13ss cents per pound
1t is estimated that with the mills
running at full capacity. it will take
| fifty years to cut the timber in the
vicinity of Loyalton.
Georfie S. Nixon of Winnemucca, w.
]. Harris and James A. Boggs of Reno
have purchased the Curnow tract of
eighty acres at Sparks for the sum OF
$4,000.
Frank Peterson, a bunco man who
makes speciality of handling bogus
! jewelry, has been Jailed by Reno
constable. He found quite a number
of easy victims in Reno before he was
locked up.
Rev. w. p. Friedrich, pastor of the
Wells and Starr churches for the past
two years and over, will soon depart
from this field to accept the pastor
ship of the Presbyterian church at
Bellevue, Idaho. Bellevue is town of
some 500 people.
Superintendent Kyle shipped to the
San Francisco office of the Silver Hill
last Tuesday a bar of bullion valued
at s227306, the result of the last clean
up of the mill On May 1st the COM
pany reported havink S7300.32 on hand
and this last shipment will bring the
total up to $957S.3S.
Stanford Weathers of Elko. formerly
a member of the '06 class of the Uni
versity of Nevada, has returned from
San Francisco, where he successfully
passed examinations admitting him te
West Point Military Academy. He in
tends to enter the United States mill.
tary school on the first of next month
, Constable Golding and Peter Cook re.
turned to Reno from Fallon Wednes
day bringing with them Mr.. Golding''
blooded stallion, Arthur Holt. Mr.
Golding leaves soon for Glendale where
he will leave the horse for the season
, Arthur Holt is one of the finest thor
oughbreds in this section of the coun
( try.
D Capitalists are now sending experts
: to the numerous mining districts ir
. Nevada where milling plants were In
: stalled in early days and where. as q
e rule, not more than 65 per cent of ore
{ assay values were recovered. Witf
odern milling methods there are mil
lions in working over what in early
\ days was classified as waste rock.
] The st. Louis Globe Democrat has
this to say of the Nevada exhibit
T "Nevada's principle display at the fan
3 will be in the Palace of Mines ant
: Metallurgy. here will be shown ir
various ways 165 valuable ineral pro.
duced by the State. A slab of com
pressed lumber, which formed a brac'
ing timber in the Cimstock mines 32O'
feet below the surface will be shown
: The tremendous pressure of the earth
compressed the stick SO that it nov
: resembles lignum vitae and takes on
high polish"
AL Paul, one of the best-known mine
workers in white Pine county, met
= with a horrible accident at Pilot Knot
last week, the result of which is the
total loss of his left eye. He had
been given a contract by Joseph L.
: Giroux to sink 100 feet in the Dewey
shaft, and was getting his tools and
apparatus ready to begin the work
/ With H. C. Dow he was engaged In
cutting up steel into drill lengths. when
a piece of the steel struck him in
t the left eye. cutting the ball of the
7 eye completely in two.
Work on the automatic block system
! along the Southern Pacific is progress
ing between Sparks. the western termi-
nal of the Salt Lake division, and
Truckee. Cal. The battery houses and
semaphore staffs and the battery cells
have been distributed along the line
and the cement gang has put in the
foundations for the semaphores. The
staffs are OF iron. and at each signal
station the electric current carried by
the rails is interrupted and conveyed
through the semaphore mechanism
II ,avy batteries will be used and in
closed in substantial buildings along
the tracks, twenty-five of which have
been distributed from Sacramento
They are supposed to be hobo proof.
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