Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-15
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$500 49, -
school of mining, will be ready for occu-
pancy next Summer.
1t is estimated that the quicksilver and
amalgam deposited in the bed of the
Carson River, that escaped from the
mills working Comstock ores, will total
a value of $50, 600, 600.
Ralph Pigg, Reno dance hall musi-
clan, skipped out of that town this week,
taking his young wife's belongings and
leaving her destitute He is evidently
living up to his porcine name.
AS soon as the agricultural land sur
rounding Pyramid Lake has system
of irrigation it will be thrown open to
settlement. The government hopes to
accomplish this by next Summer.
Some of the mining companies operat
ing the copper mines at Ely have ordered
diamond drills to prospect the mineral
belt both vertically and horizontally to
depths and distances of 5000 feet.
Ben Manciana lost a wallet holding
s., 900 in checks and Sl99 in coin last
week in Virginia City. The checks were
returned to him this week through the
postoffice, but the finder kept the money.
Goldfeld has plans under way for the
erection of two-story building to be
used for school purposes. 1t will con-
tain twelve rooms, and will be one of
the largest houses of learning III the
State.
In row in an Elko saloon last Sun
day Spike Sullivan was dangerously cut
by Eugene Cooper Both men are hop
heads and were quarreling over the di
vision of opium when the difficulty oc
cured.
The Southern Pacific Company has I'M
der consideration plan to plant trees
along each side of their lines in Nevada
with timber making trees that are adapt
ed to the climatic and soil conditions of
the State.
The front of an adobe building fell into
Main street, Goldfeld, "Wednesday of
last week The building was occupied
as lodging house, and twenty people
were inside at the time, but luckily none
were hurt.
Mrs. Mary Lewis, an aged woman of
Columbia, Esmeralda county, received
fatal burns while sleeping in a tent in
that town last week The place caught
fire during the night and she was horri-
bly, burned
Beginning the first of the year new
department, that of veterinary science,
is to be added to the course of the State
University DR.. Winfred B. Black, late
of Cornell University, has been appointed
to the chair.
Violet Smith, an unfortunate woman,
committed suicide at Tonopah last Sun
day by taking yen shee, residue of
opium after it has been smoked. She
formerly ran a house of prostitution at
Hazen and Nina.
Last Saturday week while working in
a mine at Round Mountain, Nye county,
Frank Wilson was buried by cave and
was held there for twelve hours before
being rescued. He was badly crushed,
but not fatally hurt.
Unknown parties made an attempt last
Sunday morning, at an early hour, to
blow up the assay Offices of John Powell
and Ross Woodward, at Goldfeld, with
dynamite. The explosive, for some rea-
son, failed of its purpose.
Goldfeld has given birth to another
paper, the Chronicle, which is printed as
daily. F. w. Payne is manager and
A. M. Allen handles the quill. 1t is
chock full of Geographic and local news
and is a credit to the town in which it is
published.
1t is believed that the Southern Pacific
and Oregon Short Line will establish re-
frigerator car shops at Sparks. If the
proposition is consummated it will call
for a capital of $4,000, 600. The shops
will cost 81, 900, 600, and 1000 men will
be employed.
The officers of the State Fish Commits
sion have received word from the United
States Fish Commissioner that Nevada
will receive 100, 900 Mackinaw trout and
100, 900 brook trout eggs. These eggs
will be placed in different rivers and
creeks of the State early in the coming
Spring.
George Cross, who died at Fallon last
week, is supposed to have been the hus-
band of the woman who was with Han
cock when he (Hancock) murdered Ed
mondson and Engelke on Death Valley
Lincoln county, about ten years ago
Hancock was hanged at Carson two years
ago for the deed.
In Rhyolite, the principal town of the
Bullfrog district, it is almost impossible
to get lodging, although buildings are
going up on all the prominent streets
A number of Pittsburg and Scranton
capitalists were there last week and took
on investments that ultimately mean the
expenditure of over 81, 900, 900.
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