Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-01

Reno is flooded with bogus paper
money.
Boring is soon to commence for oil at
the Las Vegas oil fields.
The Southern Pacific payroll at Sparks
amounted to $50, 900 in October.
Winnemucca residents are paying In
dams a cord for sagebrush.
Thousands of beef cattle are being fed
on the Big Meadows at Lovelock.
Ex-Governor Hunt, of Idaho. died in
Tonopah last Sunday of pneumonia.
Senator Clark has let a contract for
grading a railroad from Beatty to To-
nopah.
A horse fell into mine shaft at Bull
frog last Monday, seriously injuring two
miners.
Reno telephone girls have won out in
their strike for an advance in their
salaries.
The fast mail service between San
Francisco and New York has been dis
continued.
The Belle Telephone Company is lay
ing plans to gather in all the small tele-
phone lines.
The roundhouse at Winnemucca, re-
Gently destroyed by FIRE, will be replaced
by new one.
1t is expected the Mackay Postal Tele-
graph line will parallel the Western Pa
ci6c in Nevada.
As result of shortage of coal, the
S. P is running oil burners from Sparks
to Winnemucca.
The F1oriston Power Company has
purchased a controlling interest in the
Carson gas works.
Western Pacific contractors now claim
that trains will be running over that line
within two years.
California people are negotiating for
the purchase of the Hardin cattle ranch
in Humboldt county.
The seventh crop of alfalfa, for this
year, is being harvested on the Borax
Ranch, in Death Valley.
A survey is being made for branch Of
the Oregon Short Line from Sodaville to
the Rodie and Benton line
A fire in the Original Package saloon
at Goldfeld last Monday was extinguish-
ed with siphons from the bar.
A brakeman named Webb was killed
at Verdi last Tuesday. The engine ran
over him, cutting his body in two.
w. E. A. Ennis, of Goldfeld, com
mitted suicide at Salt Lake last week BY
strangling himself with his suspenders.
A forty-foot ledge of iron ore has been
found on the Bob Logan property near
the Brunswick mill, on the Carson River.
Resident Elks of Goldfeld have petit
toned the Reno lodge to be allowed to
organize chapter of the Order in that
town.
During the recent cold snap in the
southern country a prospector named
Fred Fink was frozen to death near
Keller.
Rebekahs of Reno are procuring funds
to build home for widows and orphans
of Odd Fellows, the building to cost
$4,000.
The Southern Pacific Company has let
a contract for the building of $500 re-
frigerator cars. They are to be delivered
in 1000 lots.
DR.. Stubs announces that he will
make public the names of the parties
who donated $3.50, 600 to the University,
at an early date.
Kid Herman, the Chicago bruiser, who
is to fight Cans at Tonopah New Years
Day, arrived there this week, and has
gone into training.
1t is estimated that the gross yield OF
the Mohawk, from leasers' production,
from April IS to November 20, amounted
to nearly S., 200. 900.
The Reno City Council has paid SIS.
900 for a strip of land lying along the
Truckee. 1t is the intention to make
the place a public park.
The owners of the coal deposit at Coal
dale, near Tonopah. have been taking
out fuel and delivering it at Tonopah
to relieve the coal famine.
In the next Legislature the Repub-
licans will have majority of one in the
Senate and the Democrats will have a
majority of six in the Assembly.
The Southern Pacific Company has
purchased tract of ground at Sparks
and will commence the erection of hos
pital for the benefit of employees.
After an enforced suspension of bust
ness for several days last week, owing to
a lack of fuel, the Blair road to Silver
Peak, resumed operations this week.
The peace officers at Tonopah are max
ing cleanup, and in the dragnet they
secured choice lot of crooks and roun-
ders. They were ordered to leave town.
The Washoe County Institute, the Ne
vada State Institute and the Nevada
State Teachers Association will meet in
joint session in Reno, December 1921
The big smelter at Ely is to be for the