Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1907-01-18

pleasure uud protit-or remiuiuconcc
and thonght, n die or even a few mum.
bers OF euch q paper would be ~ them
twenty or thirty years afterwards. Pay
for yonr papers and then keep them.
A lawyer made his appearance at
Colobar. West Africa. HE other day and
aGold Coast newspaper, noting the fact,
said: 1T Is very unsafe for the people
for lawyers TO practice at this place.
Their appearance in this river will coon
inveigle everyone who ia not careful
into litigation, and they will feed on their
folly, thereby running them"
Officer Grim arrested u fellow last
night for being drunk and d~isorderly
Oh the streets. AZ he WAS taking him
to Jail, the fellow mnde use of u vile
expression as they met three ladies and
the officer gave him "a swat in tue mouth
that etfecuaIly cl"sed it. Such btutes
deserve the treatment this one got.
According IN the statement Of officers
OF the company. the Tunopah and Old
field railroad last year cleaned up, above
all operating expenses, over 81, 900 900.
And yet they refu &c to pay Ia xes on an
assessed valuation Of approximately
eS5O.O00 on their LEO miles Of road, and
think they are .Hbused.-Gold6eld Re,
view.
Another crop staiisticiani has been,
igur ny. "md he wells the corn crop OF
1906 to unprecedented proportions, put.
ting it mt 3.oll ,O0J bushels. This is to
be d year Of bmnty such rs was never
known before, nn able expert employed
for the purpose placing the value Of all
the grain. fruit Pod Other vegetable
pr"r ucis OF The country ut a. ,OOp, 90.
DO. Uncle Sam 10 not only the greatest
manufacturer. but the greatest farmer
on earth.
One of the great at mining PROPOSE
ticps ever launched III Humboldt county
liz the one soon Ia Ue Hitcm pied b. Tor
opdh and eastern capitalists who plau to
work the immense placer deposits in
American canyon. ahuni As miles sJuth
OF Wipne~ucca, by collecting the wat.
era OF the different cre,ks on tue eastern
slope Of the Hum opldt rnnge and con.
veying the waters 10y means Of a gigan.
tic pipe line to the placer beds OF the
American canyon. Tho plans embrace
the purchase outright Of the entire
ranches and water rights Of half a doz-
On ranch owners whose lands are water
ed by the sireams flowing from the enst-
pTn slope Of the range.
After taking the measurement Of the
height Of women in France, England
and America, a doctor that
an English oma is the ~tallest and the
American woman comes next. The av-
arage height Of the French woman is
five feet one IN CHI. Tho American vo-
man in nearly two inches taller, and the
women OF Groat Britain half III inch
taller than the LATTER. American wo.
mon, however, weigh moro than either
Of the others, their average weight be-
ing III pounds.
GuGdalajara Mexico, boasts streets
that are literally paved with gold u
has just been discovered that gold and
oliver t2 tue ynfuo Of $4,000 erist in the
Asphalt pavements laid there in the last
two yrar' by the MEXICAN Asphalt Paw.
ipg Company. 10 the preparation OF the
asphalt mixtuFo the company used tall.
inRs from Old Spanish aud Mexican re.
ductiop works in the E.zntIan district.
a few days aso a big shipment Of tail
inRs was received r0I additional work
and wholly through curiosity the cow-
pany's local manager had II number OF
assays made. These assays revealed the
fact that the tailings avafagp slH a ton
in gnId md silver. Already about 400
tons VI tailinVs have been used in pnve.
ment construction.
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