The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-07-13
NEVADA NEWS
CONDENSED
DOings throughout the Sasebrush
State as Told by Our
Exchanges

The zem zem resorts have been open
ed in San Francisco
The weekly mail route between Win
nemucca and Kennedy has been discon-
tiuued.
Thr first carload of ore from the Ne
vada Hills mine at Fairview, went
Sc, 500 net at the Salt Lake smelter
A big frame hotel at Bullfrog wa
destroyed by fire last Friday week.
The fire was started by an insane man.
The Yerington Times states that
since January the Ludwig Company has
shipped ore netting the company $780,
O00
The death watch is being maintained
on the two Indians now under sentence
of death at the penitentiary for muir
der.
haul ore from the Nevada Hills mine at
Fairview The company is shipping
5000 ore.
boy was picked up on the street at
Winnemucca in a starving condition.
He was abandoned during the cata-
clysm at San Francisco
The coal and bunkers at Sparks are
on fire and the Southern Pacific Com
pany fears the loss Of the whole pile
before the fire is put out.
Mercantile agents from Los Angeles
are in Bullfrog and Goldfield attempting
to capture the trade of those sections
against the time when the railroads are
finished.
A strike has been made at Seven
Troughs, near Lovelock, where some
claims were located some months ago.
Decomposed white quartz carries values
high in gold.
The Reno School District is $12, 600 in
debt and the trustees are at their wits
end hunting for solution of the ques-
ton and to find a way to keep the
schools open.
A gigantic deal closed last week in
Bullfrog transfers the water rights of
780 acres of land, amounting to 0,000,-
600 gallons daily, to Ray & Poore. The
purchasers will put in an adequate SER
vice at once.
An examination of applicants for po-
sitions in the railway mail service will
be held in Reno, August 8th. For de-
tailed information applicants should ap-
ply to the Civil Service Commission,
Washington, D. c.
William Smiley of Starr Valley, Elko
county, was in Wells last week and
reported that the long continued cold
weather of the past spring has greatly
affected the hay crop in his region. As
result the crop will be very short.
f. l.. Williams of Reno, formerly
District Attorney Of Humboldt county
and afterward holder Of the same posi-
tion in Washoe, has been announced as
a candidate for the Republican nomina-
ton for Judge Of the Second District.
Activity at Round Mountain is placing
that new camp well in the front of all
the camps in the State. The men in
that place are doing the work regard
less Of rumors and ore is piing up
against a day when mill and smelter
are erected.
Jack McVeigh and H. Marlsle, while
prospecting in the Pueblo mountains, in
Humboldt county, uncovered what
promises to be a large deposit Of high
grade copper ore. At a depth of ten
feet the ledge is ten feet wide and can
be traced on the surface for consiser-
able distance. The ore is red oxide and
native "copper" carrying good values in
gold.
Reports coming in Of Humboldt
county would indicate that there is an
unprecedented scarcity of men to assist
in the hay fields. Excessively high
induce men to leave the town and go
into the hay fields, but there are no men
in the towns and as q result many of
the farmers fear that they will be
unable to harvest their full crop.
Theodore Winters, one of the best
known men in Nevada is very low at
his home near Frank town. He has been
very sick for several weeks and has de
clined rapidly the last few days. Mr..
Winters was the democratic candidate
for governor in 1890. He was born in
Illinois on September IA 1883 His
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