Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1905-08-05

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Grading has begun on the extern
sion of the V. 4 7. road to Gardner
willie.
The Tonopah Bonanza says the re-
ported discovery of diamonds near
that camp is fake.
Austin will have daily mail SER
vice and the mail will be delivered
by railroad automobile.
The Searchlight, published at
Searchlignt, Lincoln county, has
been enlarged to six-column quarto.
Work on the artesian well on the
capital grounds at Carson has been
abandoned. Another well may be
started.
The Beatty Bulltrog Miner says
more than halt the stories about
deaths from thirst on the desert are
untrue.
An eight inch streak of ore in a
claim in Olinghouse Canyons shows
assays ranging from $4,000 to
$I72,ooo per ton.
There is no immediate prospect of
the Santa Fe railroad extending from
Ivanpah to Beatty and the Bullfrog
mining country.
An endeavor will be made to bring
the next Irrigation Congress to
Nevada. The cost, it is estimated,
will be about $1,000.
A Lovelock negro challenged a
white man to fight duel in that town
a few days ago and is in Jail to
answer to the charge.
Work on the Lake Tahoe storage
dam began the first of this week,
and the contract calls for it to be
finished in six months.
J. II. Forsythe committed suicide
at Sparks Monday morning by TAX
ing dose of carbolic acid. He was
aged 50 years, a native of Illinois.
The electrical machinery has ar.
rived in Tonopah to be used in in
stalling the plant at that city in con-
nection with the Bishop Greek
power line.
A company has been organized in
Reno to erect 100000 plant near
Clark Station, on the Truckee
River, for the manufacture OF Port
land cement.
Litigation over title to the famous
Indian Springs, on the road to
Beatty, has thrown the property in
to the hands of a receiver, Levi
Cyphus.-Age.
Report says a gang of confidence
men are operating in Reno and that
a capper travels the v. & T. trains
daily to catch the gumps coming
in from the south. st,s. ..e.s
The Ida Enterprise reports many
new strikes in that old camp, the
opening up of old mines, the sale of
some, and general revival of bust
ness throughout that section.
The Nevada Ore Purchasing & Re-
fining Company is building smelter
at Heinze, a new town laid off some
four miles from Ida, which is to
have capacity of $50 tons day.
The Record says a recent run at
the mill on ore from the Winters
mine produced two bars of bullion
valued at several thousand dollars.
About 500 tons OF ore was worked.
The Free Press says it has advices
from an absolutely reliable source
that the Western Pacific railroad
will pass through Klko, and will
parallel the S. P. line from Wells to
Carlin.
James H. Sturgis, an agent for a
California fruit company committed
suicide in Reno last week by firing
a bullet into his brain. The cause
for the rash act could not be sur
missed.
Austrian john" Carson Valley
farm hand, was robbed last week at
the old Deluchi ranch, says the
Record, of $4,000, by some parties
who entered his cabin during his
absence. ----..-..--..-...-. .--...--
Eugene Harris, who stabbed and
killed a man in Goldfeld some
months ago, was sentenced last
week to serve ten years in the State