The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-08-11
HAPPENINGS IN OUR
OWN STATE
Late News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada


paper that is back III the Republican
fold after years ef devotion to the cause
of silver and Democracy.
The crack Truckee baseball team which
has not lost a game this season in west
ern California. will play the Overlands
the Nevada champions, next Sunday in
Reno.
The Southern Pacific coal supply at
Truckee, amounting to $4,000 tons, is still
on fire in spite CT the efforts of large
force of men who are trying to save it
from destruction.
Rumor has it that the Oregon Short
Line which now C ntrols the Salt Lake
division of the Southern Pacific will also
control the yards at Reno to the west
on and after the 18th of this month.
Governor Sparks. on a recent visit to
Goldfleld noted that the milk supply was
drawn from one lone COW. The governor
decided to supply the demand for cream
anu VIII snip TWO u zen mixers 10 IoIu-
Geld from Reno next Saturday.
William r. Smith. mining man for
merly of G Id Hill. and known as slip
perry" Smith, was killed in a peculiar
manner at Butte City last Sunday. In
the Columbia gardens and was resting Oh
a log when a huge boulder was rolled
down a hill behind them. Smith was
struck about the head and shoulders and
lived but short time. The rock was sent
down the hill by party # campers who
were unaware of his presence below.
w. E. Lindsey mas secured a s30,ofs
contract for marble from his Luning
quarries to be used in wainscoting the
Grand Pacific Hotel. which is so TO
be erected on Market street, in San
Francisco. between the Palace Hotel an
The work of getting out and shipping
the marble will soon commence 1t is
understood that the railroad company
has made a rate of s6 per ton on the
material from Luning to San Francisco.
-Yerington Times.
The equipment for the new street rail
way will be arranged for this week. DIR.
Reid being in San Francisco now to me-
gotiate with several manufacturing con-
Germs for cars rails, poles and other ma
terial. He will pr bably not make any
purchases at this time. but will get es-
Inmates and perhaps conditional contracts
for the company. The projectors of the
line have not contracted for the grading
of the right of way. but this matter Will
be taken up at once. Some are in favor
of the company doing the work, but 1t is
probable that 1t will be done by con-
tract. Money from stockholders is COM
ing In rapidly and apparently the finan-
cling of the pr ject is now one of the
least of its troubles.-Gazette.
The Eureka Sentinel reports the dis
covery of big mine three miles north
of the Overland on the east side of the
Diamond range in White Pine county,
Nevada. The ore is f und in tunnel Ike
dixie walled In with granite and manga
nese on one side and the other win
porphyry. The top rock on the surface
assayed 334 ounces in silver and 80 per
cent copper. The ledge is forty feet
wide and assays good fir m the grass
roots. Ore taken from four feet below the
surface will go from 1900 to 5000 ounces
in silver 1t is called b smuth ore and is
the same as found in c dorado and
Montana. The prospects are that the
mine will prove to be one of the richest
In eastern Nevada and the only one of its
character found in the state.