Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1905-08-19

State News


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A six foot ledge of ore in claim
in the new camp of Manhattan gives
returns of $500 per ton.
T. B. Hickey, the cattle man, re-
ports the outlook good for high
beet market this season.
The new hole being bored on the
capitol grounds in Carson for arte-
feet.
The Bonanza reports that Q. H.
Turner, of Tonopah, has an option
on the celebrated Blair mine at, Sill
yer Peak, for $4,000.
about to begin the construction of
$4,000 stone and steel building for
its business at Tonopah.
Twenty cases of typhoid fever are
reported at Fallon. Doctors claim
that it is the quality Of the water
that is the cause of the disease.
The 8oo-ton sampling works OF the
Western Ore Purchasing Co., at
Company Wells, on the Tonopah
branch road, is nearly completed.
Eastern heirs are laying claim to
a portion of the estate left by Joseph
Douglass, OF Virginia City. Their
claim calls for a division OF $751;, 500.
On the 25th Hal Lemon, of the Car
son News, will try to beat the ex-
press train from Carson to Sacra-
mento with his Rambler automobile.
The Churchill Standard has been
enlarged to six columns and has
added a new cylinder press to it's
plant. Good indications of pros
perity.
The Churchill Standard says
people are arriving at Fallon at the
rate of from twelve to thirty a day
the majority of whom are home
seekers.
1t is reported that Kansas City
concern has taken the contract to
build the Western Pacific road for
Gould from Salt Lake to San Fran
cisco, for $II,ooo,ooo.
On Wednesday night of last week,
says the Age, the wind demolished
more than one-third of the recently
completed brick walls of the round
house at Las Vegas.
Tom Ryan, of Los Angeles, was
found dead near Salt Wells, in Death
Valley, last Saturday. II is suppos-
ed he drank water from one of the
arsenic charged springs.
The Age reports the striking of a
flow of water from an artesian well,
about ten miles from Las Vegas, at
depth of only five feet. The well
flows 10000 gallons per day.
The V. & T. Co. has been granted
a right of way across the Indian
School land, near Carson, and will
now push its branch line into Carson
Valley as rapidly as possible.
The Searchlight has added type
setting machine to its equipment,
which shows that the newspaper
business is on the improve in that
promising southern Nevada camp.
The four children of Mrs. Stephen
son, whose paramount killed Steph-
enson in San Francisco couple of
weeks ago, will probably be placed
in the Nevada State Orphans Home.
The Sparks Dispatch says the
smoke and fumes from the oil burn
ing engines on the S. P. Co.'S. line
through that place is killing off the
millions of mosquitoes that intest
that locality.
The Dexter mine, at Tusca rora, is
being drained of water by several
large pumps recently installed and
the Chicago people who have ac-
CURED the property intend to work
it on large scale.
A mountain lion, measuring o feet
inches from tip to to tip, was killed
last week by Chas. Smithson in
Snake Valley, White Pine county.
The lion had just killed colt and
was enjoying his repast when kill
ed.-Reveille.
A negro at Tonopah hit colored
woman of that place over the head
with an axe last Thursday night and
evaded the officers until Saturday,