The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-11-11

sertioh ana failure 10 provide.
Nevada has mile of railroad for
each citizen, but only eighty-seven
hundredths for each one hundred
miles Of area.
Only % miles of track are to be laid
when the salt Lake and Los Angeles
line will be completed The last
spike will be driven by December lst.
Frank McCauley, who robbed a salo-
on at Wadsworth several weeks ago.
has been sentenced to serve ten years.
in the State Prison.
y jaguar in the Emporium 700 at
Carson City broke loose Thursday and,
spying huge rattlesnake taking
sunbath in its cage, ripped off the
screen and made meal of the reptile.
DIR. Roy Drake, who was injured by
having horse fall on him, is able to
be around the house, but an operation
will be necessary before a complete
cure can be effected.
The debating committee of the tan
ford University has acted favorably
on the proposal of the University of
Nevada to have intercollegiate de-
batting relations between the two in
stitutions. The first debate will prob
ably be held in Reno
They have no wood to burn for bon
fire purposes at Tonopah, when the
spellbinders hold meetings, but they
arrange a very clever substitute
They erect pile of soft earth saturat-
ed with kerosene and this hlazes for
few minutes.
The California State Agricultural
society has representative in Ne
vada who expects to purchase a num-
Der of cattle here to send to California.
The purpose is TO raise the standard of
the california stock.
Wool buyers are now contracting
for wool at rs cents per pound on the
line of the railroads in Nevada. This
is an advance of three cents a pound
over the price paid last year.
Dayton Advocate
+. \. Colburn, Jr., son of Judge T..
A. Colburn, president of the Cripple
treek Mine owners association of
colorado, was deported from Gold
field the other day by miners and
warned never to return. 1t is pre-
sumed that Colburn was deported in
consequence of his fathers active par
tieipation i'm the fight against the
Western Federation of Miners in Col
orado.
People from Utah are purchasing
all the land they can in Pahranagat
Valley and the day is not far distant
when there will be a line Norman
settlements from one end ofthe valley
to the other. The church has to ex-
pand and for the purpose of keeping
their people together they are pureh-
asing up the land of the valleys in
Nevada and building up settlements.
The time for which 7. b. Hickey
held options on the Miller & Lux hold
ings in Mason Valley having expired
that company now expresses its will
ingness to assist the farmers in trying
to get the Government to take hold of
matters and commence work on
grand irrigation system in that valley
Senator Newlands is taking reat in
terest in that particular project and
it is more than likely that some action
will be taking in the near future, The
time for hearing the the suit Of Miller
& Lux against the farmers of Mason
Valley has been postponed until the
first Monday in January and it now
looks as if the suit would be dropped
and the Government viii settle for all
time the water difficulties now exist
ng in that valley.
The work of turning the c. q {.
road into broad guage was started
the forepart of the week in earnest
md viii be rushed to completion as
rapidiy IA possible, the company hgur-
ing that it will take about sixty days
10 complete the change. The road
viii be made a broad guage only as
far as Sodaville at present The work
IS to be done by Contractor Japs and
Greeks will be employed, many of
whom have already arrived, and when
the work is well under way 1000 or
more men will be on the reconstruc-
ton force. AS soon as the {. " Z.
gets its own material on the groundi 1t
will supply the Tonopah road with
longer ties and standard rolling stock
The Tonopah road can soon make the
change as its stee. and roadbed We're