The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-06

Reno Is now on a paper basis.
The banks and merchants are doing
business with clearing house certifi-
Gates.
Ten thousand miners have been
discharged from the mines of Utah
during the past month, and it is re-
ported that. further reductions will
be made.
Lou Henderson of Elko has quail
fed as state auditor to succeed the
late Nate W. Rolf. Mr. Henderson
has entered upon the discharge of his
official duties.
For the first time since the San
Francisco disaster in 1906, not a car
of freight remained in the yards of
the Southern Pacific company at
Sparks last Saturday.
William j. Brewer, who promised
to pay for a special excursion to the
east in order to advertise Nevada,
ihas left the state and Joined the Sal
walton Army in Los Angeles
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laround Sparks are making strong
protest against the boys leaving the
farm and seeking occupations in the
city. When the boy leaves the farm
the old man has to hire help and pay
wages.
Fred Dangberg and James Murphy
of Douglas county, have leased for 3
period of ten years $50 acres of land
from the Dangberg Land and Live
Stock company. The land is virgin
ground and located in Carson valley
1t will be planted in wheat
The Great Northern officials at Sc
attic, Wash, have announced that
the Hill system has granted an in
crease in wages and time allowances
amounting to approximately SIP a
month. The days work of telegraph
operators in the relay system is re-
duced from nine to eight hours a
day, and Sunday overtime is raised
from 40 to so cents an hour. A
number of other concessions are
given the men,
| yet made has ben uncovered on the
Fairview group of the Seven Troughs
Mining company at Vernon, and
which will make the other camps in
this state look to their laurels. A
lvein has been cut in the hanging wall
at the 400 foot level, twelve inches
of which averages $4,000 to the ton.
Two inches of this remarkable ledge
goes so per cent in gold.
T. G. Herman, who owns several
large ranches in the vicinity of Wads-
worth, the former prosperous rail-
road town, states that Wadsworth
has nearly disappeared from the
map and that there would be abso-
lutely nothing doing there if it were
not for the ellington mill of the Ne
vada Consolidated company is run
ming steadily and that the mines in
| Olinghouse are being extensively de-
veloped.
In accordance with the report sub
mitted by the late Auditor Rolf, the
district attorney of Washoe county
has filed suit against the Farmers
& Merchants bank of Reno to col
lect taxes for the years 1904, 1906
and 1906. The bank refused to pay
the state tax, on the ground that it
was a national institution, author
lied by the federal laws, and there
fore not compelled to pay state taxes.
The suit will be in the nature of a
| test case.
Division Freight and Passenger
Agent Clapp at Reno on Monday aft
ernoon received a telegram from San
Francisco stating that beginning with
November 10 trains 25 and 26 will
be discontinued between San Fran
cisco and Goldfield but in order to
give the public a night service to
Goldfield train "a will be run, so
that it will leave San Francisco in
the morning instead of in the even
ing and will arrive in Reno in the
evening about O'Clock 1t will then
continue On to Goldfield anl Will ar
rive III that city in the inorning
Owing to the greater part of the
roadbed for the Western Pacific rail-
way being finished for considerable
the Star, many of the grading out
fits are coming to town enroute to
some other point on the road. From
the time the contractors started in
at this point work has been rushed
on the road bed. The grading is so
far advanced here that track laying
can be commenced at any time. 1t is
understood that track laying west
ward from Winnemucca will begin
the first of the year. A number Of
teams are engaged in hauling rock
for the bridges across the Humboldt
river near town. At the same place
the pile driver is busy driving the
timbers and 1t will be only a short
time before trains can cross on the
temporary bridges. Tracklaying on
the spur track is proceeding rapidly.
When this track is finished material
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