Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1905-12-02

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south of Bullfrog, last week. He
! left valuable mining property and
a short time ago sold some claims
for SI4, 900.
A storm swept over Lake Tahoe
last Saturday which is said to have
been the. most severe experienced
in thirty years. The heavy waves
reached an unusual height, though
no damage has been learned Of
Enterprise.
A suit has been brought in the
United States Court, at Carson, by
Grace and Edmund Farrer against
the Southern Pacific Co, for $780,
900 damages. for injuries received
in a railroad wreck at Harvey
some months ago.
a ten-stamp mill of the most APP
proved standard pattern is now
under construction by the Union
Iron Works, of San Francisco, for
the Searchlight NJ. & NJ Co. The
stamps will be of 1000 pounds
each.-Searchlight.
Snow has fallen to depth of
over four feet on the summit of
the Sierras. Trains have lost
much time "bucking" snow for
several days past, and the indica-
tons are that much more snow
will fall before the weather clears
up.
The money for the building of
the Tonopah and Tidewater rail
road from Ludlow, on the Santa
Fe, to Bullfrog, a distance of TO
miles, has been raised in London.
The road will cost $1,000 per mile
to construct, and construction oper-
ations have already begun.
On application of attorney
Woodburn the State Supreme
Court has granted a writ of ha-
baeus corpus in the case of Hilda
Osuna, charged with rape on his
step-daughter at SChurz, Esmer-
aida county some weeks ago. The
writ is returnable December 5.
The Tonopah Sun reports a fight
in Goldfield few nights ago in
which a man named Kuss had his
lower lip bitten off BY a man
named Geddes, while Kuss chewed
a piece Of flesh out of Geddes
cheek Both men are out OF Jail
on $500 bonds on a charge Of may
hem.
The camp house of the Tonopah
Union Mining Company, at Gold
Mountain, was destroyed by fire
about $3.50 o'clock Monday after
noon, entailing a loss of several
hundred dollars. Work at the mine
will be suspended until the com
pany can build new quarters
Sun.
! Alf Chartz, the Carson attorney
has appealed the eight-hour law
case to the United States Supreme
Court. The Reno Gazette says
that it is reported that the milling
| Interests of the State have sub
scribed $1,000 to carry up the case
in hopes of having the three de
cisions of lower courts in favor of
the law, reversed.
Geo. d. James, a mining engi-
neer of Reno, has a lengthy and
livery interesting article in the En-
gineering and Mining Journal of
November 18th regarding the
Death Valley and Panamiut coun-
tries in the southern portion of
Nevada and California Mr. James
made the trip through that section
some weeks ago in the interest of
eastern investors. The article is
illustrated with a map of the dis
tricts and numerous half-tones of
points of interest visited by Mr.
James.
A dispatch from Rhyolite to the
ITonopah Sun says the interest in
oil continues undated. A little
town has been started on the field
and about fifty or sixty people
have pitched their tents. A mum
Der of conservative oil men from
California have visited the field,
and all reports received are favor
able. The Southern Nevada Con
solidated Oil Company is making
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