Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1905-12-09
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be virtue, and having waited as
long as they thought necessary for
their money, the force lately en-
ployed at the Ida Hawk have all
filed liens on the property to Sc
cure the sums due them.-Enter-
prise.
F. B. Sawser, the delinquent
warehouse employee of the South
ern Pacific Co. at Palisade, who
fed into North Dakota, and later
escaped into Idaho, after obtaining
his release at Salt Lake by means
of habeas corpus proceedings, is
safely in Jail at Eureka, says the
Sentinel.
A dining car on the Southern
Pacific caugh fire east of Love
lock the other day. The flames
could not be checked with the
means at hand and all speed was
made into Lovelock, where the
car was run under the water tank
and the fire quenched. The car
was completely ruined.
Frank Wilds and others, of Car
son, have formed company to ex-
pertinent with irrigation by pump
ing. A tract of land mile south
of Carson has been selected, a
we'll will be sunk and a pump and
engine installed. The land is ex-
cellent but no water can be obtain
ed for it except by pumping.
The Duplex Mining Company,
of Searchlight, has struck body
of rich silver-lead ore carrying
high gold values, in the east 100
foot level of the Fraction vein. All
of this rock is being sacked for
shipment. 1t averages SI3o gold,
AZ per cent. lead, OF. silver, be-
sides small percentage of copper.
Secretary Wilson of the Agri-
cultural Department sums up his
report in the following significant
statement; Wealth production
of the farms of the United States
in 1905 reached the highest
amount ever attained in this or
any other country, S6,4I5,ooo,ooo
The corn crop alone, surprising all
previous yields, amounts to 2,7oS,-
900, 900 bushels.
The Tonopah Bonanza says that
officer McCabe committed brutal
assault on Jack Hall last Friday
evening. Hall and friend had
been celebrating, and McCabe
wanted to run him in" Hall re-
sisted and was beaten over the
head with a gun. A physician
took nine stitches in Halls scalp to
close the wounds. -
The smelters of Denver have
been opened to the ores of Neva-
da. The Southern Pacific has
made rate for shipping ores to
that point of only So more than
the Utah rate Denver smelters
are better situated for fluxing ores
than are the Utah smelters, and
considerable ore is now going to
the Colorado smelters. ~ -'f
Humboldt county owners of a
large tract of land lying between
Willow Point and Paradise Valley,
are going to try the experiment of
dry land farming. The land is ex-
cellent, but has no water supply,
yet it is said that the precipitation
is equal to that in sections of Utah
and Wyoming where dry land
farming is carried on successfully
and to profit.
Attorneys Pike and Jones, of
Reno, have received the transcript
for appeal in the case against
Tony Christie, who, with Jim Sa-
bin, is serving term in the State
prison for robbing the brewery
saloon, in Reno, some months ago.
The transcript is voluminous doc
ument. The appeal will be made
on the grounds of obtaining a new
witness, as well as the confession
of Burns.
J,,H. Rodeck, sheep herder for
Pick Anderson, Jr., in the Battle
Creek country, in Oregon, forty
miles north of McDermitt, was ac-
cidentally shot, and died en- route
to WinnemuCca at KaneS SPRINGS