Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1905-06-03
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The State Bank x Trust Company
contemplates the erection of a three
story building in Tonopah.
Washoe county's tax roll will
show valuation OF over $4,000 ooo
this year. an increase of SIooo,ooo
over last year.
The saloon men of this State are
pairing to test the constitution
atty of the law assessing each sa-
loon $50 year.
A bad "nigger" who was making
himself obstreperous in Fallon the
other day, was ordered out of that
town by the authorities.
There is rumor to the effect that
J. NJ. Fulton, now III charge of the
Carson K Colorado railroad, is to be
relieved from duty on June Ist.
Young and Burton, of the defunct
Goldhe1d bank, have been brought
back from San Francisco to face the
depositors in the lower country.
The power line for transmitting
electric energy from Bishop Creek
to Tonopah will be in commission by
the middle OF August, says the Sun.
K. NJ. Brereton, mining engineer,
of Portland, Oregon, was held up
by three unknown men in Tonopah
late Friday night and robbed of 5000.
Eighteen tons of ore were shipped
from the New York Canyon mine in
Lander county recently, the best of
which averaged one dollar per
pound.
Two c. & c. engines collided in the
yards at Ha wthorne Monday caus-
ing bad wreck, in which Harold
Wright, fireman, was seriously
injured.
w. L. Wilson, of the Big Elk G..
M. Co., of Gold6eld, has been called
to Washington to explain some OF
his company's transactions in adver-
Using wildcat stock.
The parties who recently pur-
chased the Carson Hot Springs will
spend 100000 in improvements and
make of the springs trst-class re-
sort and sanitarium.
Marvin Hart and Jack Root have
been matched to fight in Reno on
July I'd. The fight will be to
finished. a. Livingston, of Carson,
is one of the promoters.
H. NJ. Yerington has annonced that
material tor the extension of the V.
x 7. up through Carson Valley has
been ordered and that work will
soon begin on the new line.
Mills and reduction works are
now being constructed in the south
ern country and it will not be long
before all the low grade ore of those
camps will be worked on the ground
1t is now reported that tunnel
mile long will be constructed at
Beckwith Pass for the Western Pa
cifc Co. Surveyors are now on the
ground running line for the tun-
mel.
The school census of Reno will
show an increase of about 100
children of school age over last year
This indicates that Reno has popu-
lation close around the ten thousand
mark.
A six-inch streak of ore in the
Desert Rose claim at Goldfeld gives
assays of S56,5oo per ton. On each
side of the pay streak there are two
feet of ore which runs S2,7oo per
ton in gold.
Logan, on the lower Muddy River,
in Lincoln county, has been selected
as site Tor the new State Agri-
cultural Experiment Station The
site contains SO acres of land and 100
inches Of water to reclaim the same.
John Redmond and Dan Mckinley
had row over faro game a few
nights ago in Goldfield, and a by
stander named 9. H. Atwood was
hit in the leg by a bullet from Red
mond's gun and quite badly wound
ed.
Another company, to be known as
the Owens River Light and Power
Company, capitalized for $3,ooo,ooo,
is soon to build an electric plant on
Owens River to furnish power and
light to Tonopah and other southern