The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-19
HAPPENINGS IN OUR
OWN STATE
Late News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada

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A big excursion train will arrive In
Reno from San Francisco on Saturday
morning, May 21st.
The Citizens League has started a
movement toward the suppression and
regulation Of vice In Reno.
James Sanders and w. A. Gray have
been appointed by Chief Leeper to fill
temporary vacancies on the Reno po-
lice force.
Reno officials are making 1t very
warm for tramps. When one is
found he is given six hours to get
out of town.
An important strike has been made
in Latham. A large body of ore has
been encountered and the outlook for
Spruce is bright.
c. E. Thursten, supreme deputy
master, arrived in Tonopah Wednes-
organize Tonopah Lodge, No. Z. An
cient Older of United Workmen.
The Field Hanson iron mine fif-
teen miles northeast from the Com
stock has been sold. The purchasers
are Merrill and Smith of Minnesota.
who paid $4,000 for the three claims.
Within a few days workmen will be
engaged in erecting the Toupin block
opposite the Federal building and
when completed it will be one OF the
most substantial and handsome blocks
in Carson.
The Gold Mountain Mining Company
has made a strike in its property
in Butte county. A report received
from there states that a bouy of ore
four feet thick has been encountered
that assays on an average 5.S ounces
in gold
The strike at Mountain City is al
ready attracting the attention of cap
ital.sts. Mr.. Weston has received a
dispatch from NJ J. Heeler, Captain
De Lamar's manager at Prescott. A. T..
directing him to go to Mountain City at
once and inspect the mines and to
bond them for Mrs. De Lamar.
The Nevada State Band has been
invited to visit the city of Reno on
the evening of the 9Th of June. The
occasion will be a celebration arranged
by the D. o. x. X. 1t is proposed to
have a parade in the evening, after
which the Reno Wheelmen and the Me-
vada State Band will unite in a con-
cert in the park.
On the authority of the Lincoln
County Record trains will be running
regularly over the Salt Lake and
San Pedro railroad by January next.
There remains gap of only 135 miles
to complete the road TO Los Angeles.
The entire line is laid with heavy
steel rails and the road will be equip
ped with first-class rolling stock.
DIR. C. E. Wheeler of Milwaukee has
been visiting Tonopah for several
weeks. While there he thoroughly in
vestigated the country and reports 1t
to be the best he has ever seen.
Wheeler has had fifteen years exper-
ience in mining and has been in nearly
all of the large mining camps OF the
United States on mining business.
Burton Downing, the well known BIZ
cycle rider who resided in Reno for
several months. has written letter in
which he states that he has succeeded
in winning the mile and the half mile
races at Vailsburg, New Jersey. last
Friday. He wore the Reno Wheelmen
them throughout the national circuit
and the ST. Louis races.
taxes the credulity of those who are ac-
customed to bonanzas was made few
days ago in the Murchie mine near Me-
vada City. A small vein of telluride
ore appeared which was followed and
stripped. revealing a ledge eighteen
inches wide of the richest ore ever
found in this. the richest gold district
i'm the world. Some of the ore which
was taken to San Francisco went over
seven thousand dollars in gold and
ton. The ore is of the most pro-
nounced vein of tellurion. the rock Is
sprinkled with free gold. the yellow
metal being plainly visible to the naked
eye. One shot brought down about
three tons CT rock and Superintendent
Mailman. is sacking every ounce of 1t
for shipment and it is guarded as so
much bullion. The ore was struck on
the 600-foot level: the extent of the
shoot has not yet been determined.
The ore bins at the Murchie are loaded
with ore OF good grade and this new
strike win bring the average away up