The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-04-26
HAPPENINGS IN OUR
OWN STATE
late News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada

"A test OF 5,uUU pounds OF DoHneliy
mountain ore at Reno returned $3.50
per ton In gold.
The directors of the Western Pacific
claim that the Beckwith pass route
will be completed within two years.
A shipment of $4,000 in gold bullion
was made from the Bamberger mines
at DeLamar Lincoln county. last week.
Charles Epstine, mail clerk on the c.
& c. railroad has gone to the Hawaii
an islands as the companion of mil
lionaire.
Fred y. Black. graduate of the
State University school OF mines, has
obtained a position with a mining COM
pany at Angels Camp, CAL
Mrs. Mary Dixon. wife of Samuel
Dixon, who until recently resided at
DeLamar, Nevada. committed suicide
at Ogden last Wednesday by swallow
ins carbolic acid.
The evidence in the Crock VS.. Good
ale case closed Saturday night and
Judge Bonnifield left for home. The
dltOintyS hEiC oidCiC0 " 1ocAAAs
briefs. after which Judge Bonnifieid
will set a time for oral argument
Elko Independent.
The Searchlight says that ore as
saying $lO.037 per ton has been struck
in the Golden Terra mine. The values
are mostly in gold. being less than s37
in silver. This assay was made from
picked sample of ore taken from the
above mine at depth of only fifty-hvs
feet.
One of Elko's citizens says that per-
haps the scarcity of war news is owing
to the fact that the Japanese admiral
at Port Arthur knows when Togo
and when not Togo. The author of the
above is afraid he will be assassinated
4 his identity is disclosed. He deserves
punishment Of some kind.
The new company which was organ
lied at Carson last fall ard which owns
qua.ry of gypsum near the Mound
house. is already doing a good business.
AL the p. esent time the company ships
TWO cars day to the factory. which is
situated in California, where 1t is made
into finished plaster for the building
trades.
Boston.-Richard Tobin, a young
tenor from Nevada sang the leading
role part in rendition of cantata
Haydn's Seasons" at a conce. I given
- the chorus and o. chestra of the New
England conservatory of music at Jor-
dan hall last evening. Mr.. Tobin was
the recipient of many favorable criti-
cisms flom music lovers upon his sue
cessful handling of the difficult part.
Mr.. Tobin has been studying out one
year at the conservatory and the fact
that he was selected from a large class
TO sing the leading tenor part speaks
volumes for the quality of his voice.
Two strikes have been made at Gold
field during the week which are as big
as. If not bigger than. any heretofore
made in the district which In few
months has become famous for its
many iich strikes. The first was made
by Athearn. Smith. Durgin and Elkins.
who are sub-leasing from Hennessy
and Sweeney on the Florence. The SUBJ
lessees had drifted forty feet on the
ledge at a depth of fifty feet. when
they encounte- ed a high grade ore
shoot which contains sensational val
ues. Two and one-half feet of the
ledge will go above $500 per ton. and a
four pound sample which was taken
across eighteen inches assayed s6.l20
per ton. Some of the paintings have
indicated much greater values. one
which was made Monday leaving $3.50
wo tn of gold in the pan. Ore Is be-
ing sacked for shipment and one more
shipper is thus added to the list at
Goldheld. The circumstances attend
ing this strike give 1t much greater
significance than appears at first
glance. In the first place it was made
by lessees and it has already stimu-
lated other lessees to greater activity.
Then. again. it was made at time
when previous developments on the
lease had been somewhat discouraging
When Hennessy and Sweeney first be-
gan work on the lease they found very
itch ore. some going as high as $500
per ton. They sunk perpendicular
shaft in the porphyry. and at fifty feet
crosscut to the ledge. The ose at this
point was in the main low grade, and
drifting for thirty or forty feet each
way showed no Improvement. but the
sub-lessees kept at work. with the re-
suit above noted. They are now fif-
teen feet on the high grade shoot and
there is every reason TO believe that II
will extend for a good distance. Cook
Bros, Stimmel and Barnes. who have
with renewed vigor and will doubtless
catch the same shoot. The Florence
| CUP is owned by kernick. Taylor,
| McClelland. Lockhart and Parker. the
latter being a prominent railroad man