The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1905-04-21
NEWS OF THE STHTE.
Items of Interest Taken From Our Exckxn7-
IS Without C.edH.

James seVln, Vi emo, has leea Il
tointed rullion Inspector f et -
by Governor parks.
An expert says that the coal fields
at oald le, near on pah, are eal
able of supply lug The whole ate G..
Nevada with fuel for ears to come
The sun notes the discovery of two
ten-foot veins of copper thirty mics
north of Tonopah. The ore is said to
carry ~ per cent copper, Is ounce in
silver and $40 in gold per ton.
The Clark road will run branch
line to searchlight. 1t is thought that
this move is but a commencement of
plans to enter the lonop h and Gold
field country.
1t is reported that the Amalgamated
Copper company has secured control
of the Jumbo property at Tonopah,
paying therefor s6000,000.
The Reno journal says that within
the next sixty days $1,000 men will be
employed in the construction of the
Western Pacific railroad which is to
be completed and ready for rolling
stock in between three and four years.
The Comstock mining companies
leased the Sutro tunnel and will have
entire control of it for a term of years.
The Chronicle says the main tunnel
and lateral branches will be put in
thorough repair.
churchill couuty's treasury is de-
pleated and she will borrow $4,000.
Ibis state of affairs has been caused
by her rapid growth and the influx of
people who have made court proceed
ing expensive, and increased the num-
Der of indigents.
About the only thing John ID.
Rockefeller can do with his money
without causing a protest is to gather
II all together and dump it into the
sea. And lot of us would like very
much to be on hand when the dump
ing party takes place.
Andy Needham, a swede, has been
committed To the insane Asylum from
Fallon. He labors under the hallucin-
alton that he has $780, 900 and also that
a proclamation as been issued direct
ing that all his countrymen must be
hanged.
The Supreme court Las decided
that the eight-hour law is constitution
al, which means that man cannot
work in a mine, smelter or quartz mill
more than eight hours at a stretch
without being fined for so doing, no
matter whether he wanrs to work |
longer or not.
7 he Southen Pacific ha placed
engineers in the field for the survey |
from Toano, Nevada, on the line, to |
run south from that point he sur
vey will extend clear through the /
State in north and south d re ton, /
reaching the alt Lake route some |
where between alienta and Las /
Vega.
secret service man was in aliente |
last week looking up the work done in
this section by one doc" Harris, he
of the sugar timber fame. 1t looks
now as if one or more of the citizens
Lincoln county will have some trouble
explaining their connection with the
doctor Attempting to defraud the
government is not as easy job as some
people seem to have thought.-Ex-
press.
n man by the name of Jerome IIick-
man, of Hazen, who ownes some Ian
which the railroad desires for build
ing purposes, refuses to sell except at
an outrageous price. In cons queuee
the railroad may connect it Fl hurch-
Ill cutoff with the MAIN line a a
point some miles west of Hazen.
This would kill the town, and the
citizens of the place are very indig-
ant.
Mr.. Chas. Matthews Swindler, rep
resenting eastern smelling men,
PAID this section visit this week
looking for huxing ores for the works
ms company proposes to construct in
ionopah or some other point in that
section. He looked at several pros
poets hereabouts and will probably
make arrangements to get ore from