The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-07-25


Canoe had it's first reading yesterday
at the melting of the city council. The
ordinance provides that booths adjoin-
ing saloons be provided with doors not
more than six feet high, with an open
space above not less than nine inch.
es and a twenty-inch space under the
door. No signs are to be displayed
indicating the presence of private en-
frances or calling attention to the fact
that ladies may obtain entrance. No
furniture is to be allowed in the rooms
except ordinary tables and chairs
Journal.
Sixty delegates representing the la
bor unions of Reno, Gold Hill, Vir-
ginia ity, Sparks, Silver City, Empire
and Carson met in the Trades Council
hall on Commercial Row in this city
yesterday afternoon and decided to
cenebrate labor day in this city In an
appropriate manner. Representatives
of eighteen different unions were pres
ent and a very interesting meeting
was held.
Another meeting will be held next
Sunday and at that time the unions
will decide whether or not they will
celebrate two days instead of one.
Most Of the unions are in favor OF
celebrating both September 3 and 4.
The first day will be taken up with
a big parade. In this parade there
will be over $500 men in line and the
labor unions of all towns of western
Nevada will be represented. In the
evening there will be a grand ball and
the next day will be taken up with
sports. The principal features of the
sports will be a rock drilling contest
between the miners of the Comstock.
Valuable prizes will be given to the
winners of the different events.-Jour-
nal.
ID. A. Mcintosh, friend of United
States Senator Turner of Washington;
ex-senator John l.. Wilson, owner of
the Post I~ntelligencer of Seattle;
former man of affairs and fortune, real
estate broker of Spokane in boom days
committed suicide by walking into the
Truckee river Sunday morning al out
1880 O'Clock. He stepped fearle sly
into the waters of the rapid stream,
waded out waist deep, then gave him
self up to the current and to dc 18th.
He floated as serenely downC the river
as a boy playing in a pool. People Who
saw him thought he was swimming and
watched to see him stand somewhere
in the shadows. But he did not, and he
was taken dripping and dead from the
river near the cattle bridge.
The strike referred to in Sundays
Journal as having been made on the
Texas-Nevada property in Mhitehorse
district seems to be very much more
important that was at iirst thought
Several hundred tons of fabulously
rich ore have already been sacked
and there is still more in the mine.
There is now a four-foot vein of this
enormously rich ore in sight and still
the shoot has not been crosscut. The
formation is talk and some plack, soft
the gold lies loose in it
and the bright yellow stuff can be
seen quite a distance away. IS a mat
ter of fact, some of the gold fairly
sticks out of the ore.
This rich Lody of ore is encountered
at a depth of 100 feet below the sur
face, and is very much richer than the
ore found in the outcrop.
The question was asked yesterday,
caCn Goldfeld, Bullfrog, Manhattan or
Fairview beat this. Quite a number
of assays were had from this rich
shoot and the returns showed values
of $27,5s0 per ton in gold. The Texas
Nevada Company recently leased the
Slip mill and now have 200 ton of ore