The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1907-01-25
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e prlsingly well preserved fictiol
! seem tame. Since arriving her,
| have had the privilege of ex
: amlning the bound volumes o.
: papers published at Phoebe from
1870 to 1876, which are surpris.
ingly well preserved, anC provide
a reliable and complete record OF
the ore shipments and of the
difficulties encountered in those
memorable days, for not only
do these papers give the reader
Q thorough insight into mining.
| operations, but also of the excit-
ing Incidents which occurred in
the camp when the lives of men
were taken on the slightest pre-
text, and when these cases came
INTO court, the record usually
reads, There beingno witnessee
the prisoner was discharged.
The papers contain so many re-
ports Of shooting affrays, in
which from one to fifteen men
were killed, Indian massacres.
hold-ups and train robberies that
they read more like novels than
weekly and daily newspapers.
Shooting affrays were carried on
both above and below ground, |
instances being related when
many men were hired at $50 per
day to stand guard, with loaded |
rifles, over the dumps and shafts,
while below ground the miners
fought with revolvers when they
broke through the tunnels and
drifts Of adjoining companies.
Shafts were sunk for hundreds
OF feet for the purpose of steal
ing ore by getting under the
works of adjoining properties,
while the hush money paid to
miners and for bribing juries,
Who accepted money from both
sides, must have amounted to
immense sums, all of which goes
o prove the value placed upon
he ore bodies in this great dis
rict and. the gross mismanage-
oent which resulted so disas-
rously. !
OF particular interest are the +
ong lists of names of stockhold- {
rs assessed to carry on this 9
ostly plan of operation which /
We tually crippled the camp, !
'hich might otherwise be still q
reducing millions of metal an
ually, 1t may be of some inter
st to the readers to her quote a i
ew of the items which show the +
of these mines in q
leir day of prosperity, at which Il
me the population was con 4
ervatively estimated at 10000
aople. ),
The Ely Record" of October Il
), 1876, says: wells Fargo & Of
0. shipped through their agents d,
nee Oct. 12 three days. bullion \,
llued at $66, 1925 49," The same n,
sue states, From the 1st to al
e thirteenth Of October, 1871 hi
avmond and Ely shipped S142,- sa
3.S4 worth of bullion. This is d
ldoubtedly the largest product n,
a twenty stamp mill on record. til
lie Ely Record Of Dec. 10 1871, l..
ates, During the month of di
0v. bullion valued at$419, 1913. 81 sb
as shipped from Pioche. The q,
oche Record of January 9, 1873 We
der the heading Of Bullion Dc
IipmentSn for 1870 statos. -,
Wells Fargo e Company's fe
atements Of the amount of bull of
n shipped by them for the year bu
ding December 81, 1872, shows ia
lount to be 1922, ,724.17. A m,
rusal of these reports shows pb
at for weeks and months at a GA
'etch. the daily shipments aver an
ed around 1000. which does ou
t cover the entire production; ws
ice many private corporations or
ere operating in the district rr
lich made no reports and hand | ed