Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1905-08-05
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| for the purpose of establishing
! Mormon colony. Will the church
get it?
An immense iron deposit at the old
camp of Wardell, ten miles from
Wells, Klko county, is to be opened
up. The ore runs about 81 per cent.
iron, and will be used for fux by
the large shelters of this coast.
A couple of roulette wheel work
ers skinned the Reno games to the
tune of a Thousand dollars or more.
1t is believed they are the pair which
recently cleaned up the wheels in
New York City for several hundred
thousand.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company
is looking for right of way in the
vicinity of Bridgeport, Cal. The
Sonora Pass and tunnel about five
miles in length would cut off dis
lance of 22S miles, says the Chroni-
cle-U Union.
A petition has been forwarded to
the Interior Department asking that
the Indian Reservation south of
Fallon be thrown open to public
entry. The reservation contains
several thousand acres of valuable
agricultural land.
Moapa, New, is shipping over the
San Pedro and Los Angeles railroad
the finest quality of vegetables,
grapes and watermelons to Salt
Lake City, and the inferior fruits
and vegetables shipped from Califor-
MIA have been driven out of the
market.
The railroad or land company will
in the fall park the depot grounds at
Las Vegas and plant trees on the
streets and along the railroad for
miles. Water lies just under the
hard pan and holes can be blasted to
allow the roots to reach the moist.
ure.-Age.
Albert Moore, who killed w. J.
Dixon in a street duel at Goldfeld,
is under arrest at Hawthorne to
answer to charge of murder, not
withstanding Dixon made an ante
norton statement that he was the
aggressor in the mix-up that result.
ed in his death.
The United States Circuit Court
for the northern district of Califor-
mia announces that decision will
soon be rendered in the suit over the
water rights to the Carson River,
the people of Alpine county, CAL,
and those of Douglas county,
Nevada, being involved as prin-
cipals. The case has been IN the
courts tor six years.
F. b. Lord, a newspaper writer,
found his wife in a room in Tonopah
one night last week with man
named Gwinn. Lord took two shots
at Gwinn, but did not get his man.
Gwinn has left the country and is
said to be short in his accounts with
the company for which he was
working, and Lord and his wife
patched up their difficulties and also
left the camp.
The News says that Gilbert Briggs,
of Carson, has acquired an option on
the large bunch of tailings at the old
town of Belleville, and thinks he has
a process which will extract the
values from them. The deposit con-
tains about 100000 tons and many at
tempts have been made to work the
tailings. without success, owing to
their rebellious character.
Some Kansas City capitalist have
taken options on some 5000 acres of
land in the Muddy Valley and intend
to Immediately commence drilling
wells for oil, as experiments and
tests made on the soil in many places
have convinced the parties that it is
great oil field. Should this prove
to be fact and, If it is also demon
strated that there is oil in the Vegas
Valley in which work of similar
nature is to be prosecuted, Lincoln
county will be one of the richest in
the State.-Pioche Record.
Public Is Aroused.
The public IS aroused to a know