The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1910-09-10

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The Controller Of the Currency has
ordered 9 dividend Of Is per cent to be
paid to the creditors Of the the First Ma
tional Bank Of Rhyolite, Nevada. ,
Typhoid fever is having quite a serious
run in Virginia City and several deaths
have taken place during the past few
weeks. The cause is attributed TO the
water that is used for drinking purposes.
While playing with companions near
the old Combination mine in Goldheld.
Ray Ferre, Z years old. was crushed by a
falling ore car and died shortly a~fterwsrd
at the st. Mary's Hospital. The father
Of the boy was employed in the lower
workings Of the mine at the time his son
was injured.
The contracts recently let for the con-
s,ruction Of the new high line Of the Salt
Lake Route through the meadow Valley
wash aggregate & 1000. 900. The work
was let in two sections; the Shattuck-
Edingder Company OF Los Angeles re-
ceiying the contract for the southern por-
ton, and the Utah Construction Com
pany OF Salt Lake and Odgen got the
northern portion.
Major Minnamascot, the mule which
Col. W. j. Bryan sent to Goldfeld two
years ago as q compliment to the pre-
cinet for showing the largest gain In
Democratic votes in the United States,
is now employed on a beer wagon. TIT
Major, it will be remembered. was re-
ceived at Goldfeld by a grand Demo-
cratic jolIlfcation. in which the Governor
aud other notables welcomed him with
flowing oratory.
A cloudburst rushed into Tonopah
Tuesday night from Butler mountain,
flooding the main street from wall to wall
and filling cellars with water and debris.
A considerable amount OF damage re-
suited aud the power and electric light
were out Of commission for several hours,
leaving mine hoists idle and the town in
darkness. The water came with great
suddenness and the storm is the worst
there for several years.
Manager Stone OF the Buffers plant in
Sixmile Canyon, Storey County has con-
Quoted a series OF experiments whereby
the successful treatment OF concentrates
has been brought about and instead OF
shipping concentrates to the smelters as
heretofore, the company is now treating
them at the plant, securing a high per
centsge Of extraction OF the values. The
company is now able to treat ore in all
It's process from the battery to the cy-
apide tanks. and at a low rate Of expense.
That Churchill County is becoming
famous as a feeding ground for stock
men all over the State, was proved last
week when the Western Meat Company
Of San Francisco and Reno endeavored
to purchase 5000 tons OF hay for the pur-
pose OF feeding stock in and around
Fallon this Winter. In all, the co m
pany has purchased 700 tons. and is
now negotiating for more. paying Sc and
81 per ton for alfalfa, and is paying l2
cents per head per day for feeding stock
cattle and 5 cents per day for pasture.
@. w. Kinney. who recently sold the
big salt deposit at Sand Springs in
Churchill County TO New York capita
lists, is after material for the building Of
a railroad from Fallon to SandSprings. He
says that this road, which has been sur
veyed and will be % miles long. will cost
about $3.50 900. and will be used to haul
salt from the works to Fallon. He is
preparing to go to the East to make
further arrangements for the material.
He expects to begin building a big salt
refinery at Sand Springs by October.
The final chapter in the merger Of two
great copper companies in the Ely dis
trict controlled by the Guggenheim in
~itnrests was recently closed in Portland,
Maine, at a special meeting of the
Cumberland Ely Company, when it was
voted almost unanimously to sell the
property to the Nevada Consolidated
The vote was .273, 476 shares in favor OF
the consolidation, and 229l shares OPP
posed. Ii was stated at the gathering
that the shareholders would be paid
about Sc 80 a share for their stock, the
par value Of the certificates being $40.
The details Of a m urder committed at
National, a mining camp some distance
from Winnemucca, in Humboldt County,
have just been received. In this shoot
ing affair Deputy Sheriff John Holmes
endeavored to disarm Riley Wooten. an
engineer. who had secured possession