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The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01
LAND WILL
BE RECLAIMED

The first step toward outlining the
great Humboldt Valley reclamation
project, in which many millions will
be spent and 100000 acres of land
reclaimed, will be taken on sept. 1st
when Engineer Taylor will place a
corps of engineers in the field TO make
a reconnaissance of the entire valley
and determine the best manner in
which to lay out comprehensive ir-
rigation system. The work of this
party will be passed upon some time
next year and later large force of
engineers will be put in the field to
spend several years of studying the
problems that must be solved and the
mapping of the country. The actual
construction work is expected to fol-
low this.
The Humboldt Valley irrigation
scheme is one Of the largest that has
ever come to the attention of the In
terror Department There's are approx
imately three million acres of agrieul-
tural lands along the stream but on ac-
count of the lack of water only about
half of this can be irrigated At pres
ent there is sufficient water in the
river to supply many hundred thou
sand acres more than it supplies but
owing to its Unequal division and i'm
proper storage methods much of it is
wasted.
The lands affected reach from the
western part of Humboldt county to
the central part of Elko, a distance of
over three hundred miles.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01
DESERT TRAGEDIES

The Age will soon write history OF
some desert tragedies.
The Hancock case has cost the coun-
ty of Lincold so far $4,000, and the end
in not yet. lie is sentenced to be hang
ed ON September sth but may get a
stay of execution, for a new trial or
appeal. His life hangs on a slender
thread. Hancock is 81 years of age
and has spent most of his manhood in
prison.
About 100 murders have been COM
mitted in this county since 1870 and
only one Ian, Hank Parish, has been
legally hung in expiration. lie was
tried and hing in Ely in 1872 for a
murder near Phoebe.
Many have persisted with their boots
on, as a long line of graves in Nun
deres Row. in the graveyard at Phoebe
shows. Here thirty graves contain
the dust of men who died fighting,
from 1870 to 1874.
At Hike, the old county seat, in 1873,
a justice Of the peace found a man
guilty of murder and hanged him the
same afternoon.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01
To Whom it May Concern

Notice is hereby given that | have
rented my farm and flour mill to Cook
& Sarman and therefore all bills con-
tracted by myself up to Aug. q, will
receive my personal attention, also in
the case of all bills due me up to the
above date settlement must be made
with me. | desire to close up my
accounts as soon as possible both my
debtors and creditors would greatly
oblige by Immediately conforming
with the substance of this notice.
PETER HEITMAN.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01
PREPARING FOR
The GALLONS

Warden Considine has just returned
from trip to alifornia, where he Wis
tied the san Quentin prison in order
to learn something of the details of an
execution.
Mr. Consdine has disagreeable du-
tx to perform-the hanging of John
Hancock, the Lincoln county murder
er-on September s, and if the Su-
preme Court denies the appeal of the
Humboldt county murderers he is
likely in the near future to have to
execute in one day three men whom
the law will compel to pay this debt
to society.
He was shown every courtesy while
at San Quentin and given complete
plans of the scaffolds and mechanical
contrivances which enable the execu-
TONER to send the condemned man
through the drop with the newspaper
dull thud' which properly belongs
10 an execution.
The Warden will not personally
spring the lever which liberates the
drop. but delegates some of the guards.
The generally accepted way is to have
several levers in row, and at the sig
nal the different men touch the lever
to which they have been assigned.
Only one of these levers really does
the work; the rest are dummies. After
the combination has been mixed up
the identity of the lever doing the ac-
tual work is lost, and no one really
knows which particular man really
acts as executioner.
BY this method no one is really trou-
bed by his conscience that he has ac-
tually caused the death of human be-
ing He naturally figures that in the
lottery of death some one of the five
outside of himself drew the undesired
prize which sends the victims of the
law on their long journey after the
black cap is drawn.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01

1t is said that shooting affair occur
ed in a watermelon patch the other
night near Leetville, and that one of
the marauders received a buckshot
wound in the leg. When the average
boy goes after a watermelon nova
days its a cinch that he is going to get
something for his trouble, but the CON
tents of gun sometimes renders the
occupation of stealing melons rather a
hazardous one. The party who re
ceived the wound is said to have re-
ceived medical attention but to have
maintained a strict guard over the
secret, and as he is good boy we re-
frain from mentioning any names.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01

A Cheyenne, Wyo., dispatch of Aug.
16 says: Residents of this section are
on the anxious seat as result of the
mysterious visit Of special agent OF
the Interior Department. One ranch
man volunteered the information, hes
looking mp land frauds and illegal
fencing of government land, and
something's going to drop mighty
sudden And this is about all that
can be learned. The inspector may
be on an entirely different mission to
this section, bu. the guilty will natur-
ally be on the uneasy seat until some
time has elapsed after his departure.
1t is said that probably so per cent OF
the ranchers of Wyoming are violators
of the law in that they have fenced
Government land to which they have
no right or title.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01
Lutheran Services.

At GARDNERvILLE:
Sunday School every Sunday at $3.50
A. NJ.
German services on the LIST, 3rd, and
9th Sunday ofeaeh month at 1890 A. NJ.
English services on the 2nd and 4th
sunday of each month at 1890 \. NJ.
AT FREDERICKSBURG:
German services every Bird Sunday
of each month at p. NJ.
Sunday School on the LIST and 3rd
sunday of each month at p. NJ.
j. +. W. HoRsTMANN, Pastor.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01

Loveloek is to have a water system
for fire purposes. The town has been
bonded for $4,000 for this purpose,
and it is estimated that a pumping
plant, tanks and mains can be put in
for $1,000 An electric plant for
lighting the town will also probably
be put in, from which considerable
revenue will be obtained to operate
the water system.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01
Attacked by a Mob

and beaten, in labor riot, until COW
eAd with sores, Chicago street car
conductor applied Bucklen's Arnica
oalve, and was soon sound and well.
! use it in my family" writes q. j.
WEIGH, of Tekonsha, Mich, land find
perfect" Simply great for cuts and
burns. Only 25c at Todd's drug store
and H. Tucke, Sheridan.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01

This will help you to figure out just
how large Texas reality is. If you
have "A star mathematician in your
family, tell him the number of square
miles there are in the state, then tell
him the population of the globe; then
ask him if all the people in the world
we're placed in Texas and its soil di-
vided out among them per capita,
how large the mans farm be who had
a wife and two children? When he
gets through figuring, then whisper
in his ear; ''More than half an acre"
-Texarkana Courier.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01

Seven men were arrested in Reno
Tuesday night for splitting on the
sidewalk. When you go to Reno be
careful where you spit or you may be
hauled before the police court and
fined.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01

Warden Considine will probably Sc
lect Sheriff Lamb of Humboldt county
as the man to spring the death trap
launching Sevener, German, Roberts
and Linderman, the murderers of
Jack WEIGH, into eternity.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01

George Williamson, an old farmer
of Washoe county, drove into Reno
a few days ago in a rattletrap rig and
unloaded $4,000, which he deposited
in one of the local banks. He said he
was tired of keeping the stuff buried
on his ranch.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01

The United States government build
ing at the Louisiana Purchase EXPOSE
ton, erected at cost of 100000, has
boen sold to a wreckage company for
$4,000. The steel trusses in the struct-
ure alone cost Sl00,0 600.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01

". II. Seagraves, who was elected
professor of civil engineering at the
State university, has concluded To de-
cline the position. He will return To
South Africa and resume work there.
His successor has not yet been select
ed
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01

Several hundred Nevada Indians
have been engaged to harvest the
hop crop in the Sacramento Valley in
California.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01

Parties will soon commence the con
struetion of a -four mill in Smith val
ley.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01

Over 100000 has been expended
by the government on the Truckee-
Carson irrigation project during the
past year and a half.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01

A negro beat a Chinese woman
nearly to death in EllSo few days
ago. He is in Jail for 100 days.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-21
DOWN IN THE HINES THE WARREN DISTRICT AND ELSEWHERE

the week by those who think the stock cheap at present figures. The property is looked upon as a sure win. ner. It occupies an ideal location and ore has been developed in large quanties right up to the vertical lines of it's Del Norte claim. Upon this claim a shaft is now sinking. In our opinion it will make one of the substantial supports of the Bisbee camp.
 The Warren Realty & Development company stock is being sought by those familiar with the holdings of the company. There is a great de- mand for town lots and the fact that some of the lands are well located for mineral is also an incentive. Very little stock has been placed in this section, no subscription list having been circulated.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-21
EXIT HIGGINS.

This week marked the close of the Higgins Development Co. MT. Hig. gins arrived from Los Angeles and turned down every plan for the pro posed rejuvenation of the Higgins De- velopment Co. It is known that fl MT. Higgins would have consented to the plans that he would have been the new president. but that gentleman took the position that the option of the Higgins Dev. Co. had explred and that said company was at an end so far as he was concerned. The original proposition was modified in the hope that way might be opened up for the continuance of the devel opment work by the Higgins Dev. Co. but all advances were met by the same answer. From present reports, however. Higgins property is not to remain idle for long. It is stated on good authority that the original owner intends to enter into negotiations with a new company for a continuance of the work. but this holds no promise for the original stockholders in the Higgins Dev. Co. Higgins stock at one time sold as high as ten dollars
Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-21
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THE MIcHiZONA.

At this Arizona property. located in the Dragoon mountains, they have about 900 feet of drifting done. Sev' eral seams of rich ore have been en' countered, and one lately found has a thickness of three feet. This will be raised and sunk upon. this advice having been sent forward by Mir. Geo Maas, of Negaaunee. the property s head. MT. Maas says they have not found a mine, but he considers that they have a very promising explora tion. They will test the ground by drifts at 300 feet and will sink the shaft deeper. They have a neat plant and are in fine shape financially. MT. Maas expects to return to the prop erty in about montb.-Iron Or~.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-21
A c e THE BONANZA CIRCLE.

tlrOn OTe.)
 We have received about 100 letters asking if we think it would be wise to trade Bonanza Circle for North Butte. We are unable to answer this. The Bonanza Circle is alright and bound to make a great success. One might sell Lake Superior & Pittsburg t~day and tomorrow learn that a T~eat find of ore had been made. If isn't a safe business to be trading too r-uch. North Butte is bound to r ake a big dividend payer We have not seen it; but all our informa. It'0n suggests that it will make one of the best of the many fine mines in the Butte camp. It might be safe to trade ones shirt for it. We don't like to advise on these things. We are certain that Butte will go higher. We. know that the Bonanza circles will will also go up. It seems to be a pretty good lot of properties. These Bonanza Circle people seem to have been wise and lucky in making their selections. Lake Superior & Pitts burg is fast reaching the productive stage. It will soon be sending ore to the smelters, and then it will ba receiving more money than it Is pay ling out Under such conditions there should be a substantial rise in values. As we say. we don't like to advise on these thingsg It might be well to divide ones holdings fl he thinks there is something better than l.. s. & P. He might be sorry, but be would have a portion left. There's automobiles in any of the group.
 There has been considerable buy. ing of Calumet & Pittsburg during
Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-21

per share It was extensively held by local investors who hung on until the last in the sanguine nope that mine would be developed. It is true that when work was finally discontin. ued in the tunnel that a better show. ing was in evidence than at any other stage of the development work. Local miners have cOntended Tor some time that the majority of the development work on the Higgins was done on the wrong side of the mountain and with sufficient depth on the south side mine will yet be uncovered. It re mains a fact that several mining men of good standing think fayorably oi Higgins ground. But the stockhold. CTS of Higgins Dev. Co. can make room in their stock drawer for dis ferent brand.
 WARREN REALTY & DEW. co.
 The stock certificates for the War ren Dev. Co. have not yet put in an appearance in this section although eastern brokers are quoting the stock at $12.00 bid, double the price or the lpaid stock.
 The Warren Realty & Dev. Co. strikes us as a double attractive tn' vestment. The realty values alone should make the stock a dividend payer and coupled with this the pos abilities as a mining venture, makes the Warren Realty & Dev. Co. a dou. ble money making proposition. That the ground is favorably located re garding the mineral belt is admitted and the development work at the Junction, Saginaw, and C. & P. bids fair to prove the ground of the War ren Co. without any cash outlay or their part We understand that the papers have all been signed for the transfer of the ground and that the work of plating the new townsite is to be inaugurated within the course of the next ten days. It has not been stated just when the first lots will be placed on the market. Streets are to be graded, lots and blocks plated. water for townsite purposes piped and numerous small details arranged before the first sale of lots will be announced.
 In this connection it need not be a surprise if street railway project was incorporated among the numer. ous plans of the Warren Realty & Dey. Co. With the rapid growth of that section of the district it be hooves Bisbee proper to provide a rapid and cheap mode of transporta- tion between the suburbs and the old town. This is a matter in which every business man is interested or should be.
 Lots in the Warren Realty & Dev. Co. will be snapped up like the pro verbal hot cakes and this fall will witness a building boom in that di' rection never before equalled in the Warren district.
 The business men of Bisbee must reach out for that trade and the prop CT mode of transportation be pro- vided.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-21
MINING PERSONALS.

J. $. Williams, Jr., assistant super intendent of the Moctezuma Copper Co.,, at Nacozari, arrived in the city yesterday from his camp in Sonora on a short business trip. Mir. Vii. Hams was former resident of Bisbee but has been in NacoZari for the past five years. He reports everything moving along nicely at Nacozari and regular shipments being made by the Moctezuma company to the reduction plant at Douglas.
 Superintendent Walter Douglas has sailed from Japan where he has been sight seeing for the past two months and is due to arrive in San Francisco June 8 and Bisbee June 10. All es the heads of the Phelps-Dodge Co, in this section are to meet in Bisess on or about that date.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-21
GILL TALKS OF SHANNON.
President of Company Says Trip to
 Property Was Satisfactory.

President Gill of the Shannon Cop per company of Arizona has just re turned to Boston from a visit to the
 property. He says that his trip was by far the most satisfactory ever made in connection with Shannon matters He is particularly pleased with the eff. ficiency of the management and the excellent results in ore development and extraction. It is upon the latter point that the most doubt has hither to existed in connection with the | Shannon.
 Only few months ago well known expert examined the property and es.
 timated in certain stopes there were 14 ,591 tons, of ore. During the months of January, February and March the company has taken out of these same stopes no less than 30,597 tons, or
 more than twice the amount estimat' ed by the expert. In another work ing, another expert had estimated
 there were 4,000 tons of per cent
 ore, whereas, since then, the company
 has actually taken out 30,259 tons of per cent ore. In the No. Black | Hawk stope it was expected in June | 1904, that the grade of the ore had become so low that it would have to
 be given up. The company has since
 mined 22,000 tons of ore from the stope. at an average rate of about 1 115 tons daily. As respects the whole property it is stated that the mine can
 now supply 800 tons day easier than | it could have supplied 400 tons "a year ago.
 MT. Gill concludes as follows: '1 am very much pleased to be able to say that our exploration and devel. opment. since MT. Watson took charge and has pushed so vigorously, have
 resulted so satisfactorily that firm | ly believe that with what ore we have in sight, all blocked out, and
 can reasonably expect in the future,
 we have today as many years sup | ply as we had months actually in sight August last"
 Since the S0th of April, the cotnpa- ny has been running two furnaces and averaging an output of twenty. five tons of copper per day. If this product can be kept up it will be necessary for the company to consid- CT the erection of third furnace in order to isure regularity of operation. The directors have just voted to con struct, as soon as possible, it's own converter, as it can thereby easily increase it's profit on its present out put by at least S50,000.
 On a small and irregular output, the company made net profit in the six months ending February 2S, 1905. of $106,000. With it's present larger output a very substantial increase should be expected. The company is financially in very comfortable con. dition, with current assets more than ample to take care of it's current liabilities.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-21

Frank Heney, former attorney-gen- eral of this territory, and now the prosecutor of the Oregon land thieves, arrived Saturday at Tucson, where he will represent Albert Stein field in the suit brought against him by L. Zeckendorf on accounting in the matter of $500, 900 which Steinfeid received from the sale of the Old Boot or Silver Belt mining property. The case will be tried before Judge Camp bell at Tucson.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-21
WORK AT THE BoNANZAs.

The past fortnight at the Bonanzas has been a period of construction and moving of machinery inaugurated during the first part of the month. This construction work, with favora- hle weather conditions, has progress ed satisfactorily, with the exception of delay in transit of several cars of cement, enroute from Kansas. which has been on the road for sixty days past. The installation of the first motion hoist for the timber compart- ment at the Calumet & Arizona is just about completed, and will be in opera tion during the coming week. Pros pecting of the ground above the 75O level continues, but so far nothing of an important character has been en- countered. Of course the construc- ton work about the Irish Mag shaft has not been allowed to interfere with the steady production, and the output this month will be about normal, in the neighborhood of two and a half million pounds. At the Oliver the same conditions prevail, steady pro gress on construction work, with noth- ing new of importance.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-21
MINING LEGISLATION.

Mining, like other business, can be afflicted with too much legislation, says the Mining World The case in point is the recent measure enact. ed by the legislature of Nevada, which prohibits mining companies from ac quiring or disposing of mining prop erty without the consent of two-thirds of the stock This bill was wisely vetoed by Gov. Gooding, who gave as his reasons the following:~ This bill provides that no mining company shall purchase or obtain in any way any additional mining ground unless such act be ratified by holders of at least two-thirds of the capital stock of tho company. This, in my judgment, would work hardship on the great mining industry of the state. A law that would remove from the hands of the officers of a mining company ths right to purchase additional property, which is often necessary to protect their interests in the purchase of a millsite, rights of way or adjacent property, without first obaining con sent of two-thirds of the stockholders, who are frequently scattered all over the United States, would entail great expense and delay, and retard the growth of the great mining industry that is doing so much for the develop ment of our state" The governor is right in protecting the mining com panies of Nevada in this case of too much legislation" There is no reason why the directors of a mining compa ny should not have the same rights as to the control of property that the directors of other business corpors tions have. It looks as though the law might have been passed to meet some special case, in which event the governor was all the more justified in refusing to permit it to become a law.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-21
AT THE HoATsoN.

At the new shaft of the Calumet & Pittsburg. the Hoatson, depth of S5 feet was recorded this week. Since the installation of the compressor bet ter progress is being made, but the de
Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-21

Bisbee. Among the heavy stock-hol. ders is the president, s. I. Redfield of St. Louis Jewelry Co.,; James McNal- ly, of Rand McNally & Co.,, Chicago; !; J. H. Perrin, national chairman of the Peoples Party, Joliet. H.; J. H. Nc. Clures, manager of the Brophy Car riage Co.,, Douglas, Arizona: and H. P. Wightman, of the Globe Arizona Drug Co. Among the plans of the company which commends itself to investors is the setting aside of a DOT. tion of the proceeds of treasury stock for investment in holdings of gilt edge companies. now paying or likely to pay dividends. This feature elim- mates the element of risk of loss and insures dividends at the earliest pos. sible date. Operations at this end will be in charge of c. H. Woodcock who has been in the employ of such successful companies as the Copper Queen, Calumet & Arizona and Creep Conner CO at CananPa Mexico