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Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
Commissioner Appointed

In the District Court of the United
States, for the District of Nevada, Hon.
Il. s. Harrington, presiding, it was, on
the 9TH day of April, 1911, ordered that
Il. W. Fairbanks be, and he is hereby
appointed United States Commissioner
for the District of Nevada, for the term
of four years, with full power to dis
charge all the duties of said Office under
existing laws
This appointment was made owing to
the fact that there is going to be consid-
erable business for Commissioners IN
this part of the State, aud also to make
il less expensive and more certin to
secure justice III the whisky to Indian
cases which are quite frequent i'll this
section. Itwill obviate the expense OF
officers taking wrong-doers to Virginia
City or Reno for hearing before Com
missioners there with the uncertainty OF
their being held to appear before the U.
$ grand jury.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22

G.. w. Lucy, Superintendent of the
Yerington Milk & Produce Co., which
has the Nichol ranch in this valley un-
der lease and bond, met with quite a
serious accident at the ranch on Satur-
day morning OF last week. He had been
plowing a ditch and was just about TO
tie the team up for a time when the ami
mails became frightened at something
and started to run away. They knocked
Mr. Lucy down and ran over him with
the plow. lie sustained a severe scalp
wound, which it took several stitches to
close, and was Considerably bruised about
the body and limbs, although no bones
were broken. He has recovered suflic-
iently to be about town again. The
horses ran through the barn and knock ed
out portion of the end of the building
with the pillow, but, strange to say, did
not injure themselves in the least
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
Missouri Eggs Not So Big

A ST. Louis, Mo-, man who is in the
chicken business is Dragging through the
newspapers about light Brahma pullet
he owns which at ten months of age laid
an egg that measuged 81 inches in cir
conference the long way and % inches
around the waist. This egg was put
under a setting hen and in due time
twin chickens were hatched. One of
the chicks greatly resembles its father, a
bare-legged silver Wyandotte, and the
other takes after its mother and wears a
fether harem skirt, just like hers.
A. s. Phipps, of Yerington, is some
what of chicken breeder himself, and
he reports to this Office that he has a
white leghoru hen that recently laid an
egg that measured six inches III circum-
ference one way and eight the other
Considering the size of the hens Phipp' $
leghorn has the Missouri mans Brahma
fricasseed. If Phipps had not put his
big egg in his coat packet and sat on it
himself there is no telling how many
chickens il would have brought forth.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
WHAT is BEING DONE AT TOWN
OF THOMPSON AND SMELTER SITE

cerned, and most of the machinery IS in
place The building is roomy and we'll
lighted and the lathes, planers and other
heavy machinery are set up and ready for
use as soon as the power line is COM
pleted and the connections rnade so the
juice can be turned on. The blacksmith
shop is located at the present in the west
end of this building.
There are couple of parallel bitches
leading from the northwest corner of the
smelter building proper to the top of the
hill some distance away These bitches
are built like stairway and will be used
as sides to the hues, which will carry
the fumes, smoke, ETC., to the stack on
top of the hill, thus doing away with
any possibility of injury to vegetation by
the said smoke and fumes
The smelter will be composed of two
furnaces and have a capacity of 500 tons
daily It will cost, with all equipment
and other buildings, in the neighborhood
of 5000, 600. The ore bins are large
SiodSh " iiotet n NNNhS luil Va VIZ
So far there have been finished six
modern cottages in the townste of
Thompson. These cottages face the
south and the high-p power electric line
runs through the street in front of them.
They are south of the railroad line to
the sinelter and east of the smelter site.
The new hotel, which is already doing
business, is an attractive and imposing
structure, and can be plainly seen, as
can the other buildings, from the main
line of the S. P.-the Nevada and Cali
fornia branch. The hotel is situated i'll
the next block south of the cottages
The Hot Springs are something over
mile from the town of II ompson and
the smelter site, although but short
distance from the line of the railroad
leading to the smelter These springs
will undoubtedly be made quite resort \
when the towns of Wabuska and Thomp-
son grow in population, which they are
bound to do in the next year or two.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
SPUDS
FOR EEL WORM

Professors S. c. Dinsmore and p. B.
Kennedy, of the Agricultural Expert
ment Station of the University of Ne
vada, came in from Reno Wednesday
morning and are making thorough
canvass of the valley looking for eel
worm blight on potatoes i'll this section.
These gentlemen will visit all parts of
the State. They have been along the
Carson River ranches and found that
spuds there were affected with the dis
ease, but they did not find any trace of
the disease among the potatoes examined
in Yerington.
not very serious thing after all The
farmers along the Carson River say that
it is caused by conditions of the ground
and the manner of irrigating. They
claim that the disease is only found
where potatoes are grown on land for
several seasons without a change, and
the land becomes worn out--all the pot
ash having been taken out of it. Expe-
rience has shown them that diseased
spud planted in virgin ground will be-
come as healthy as any potato, and good
potato seed planted in worn ont ground
will be subject to the blight. This being
the case it follows thatsif the spud crop
is changed from one piece of ground to
another often, or a fertilizer containing
the right quantity of potash is used on
the ground, there will be no diseased
spuds produced from that ground. The
disease is not one, therefore, which can
not be easily eradicated and kept ont OF
any section of the country by use of
proper Tethods.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
SEA SERPENT IN WALKER LAKE, SURE

w. c. LOWE and Pete Bagoy, who
spent several days in the Cottonwood
country last week, declare that they saw
the famous sea serpent OF Walker Lake.
They were looking over mining property
in that section and meandered down
toward the mouth of Cottonwood Greek,
which empties into the lake. Looking
out upon the lake both parties saw the
serpent-like fish racing through the
water at a terrific gait. Mr. LOWE at
first thought what he saw was flock of
swans flying single file close to the
water, but closer inspection proved this
to be mistake. Whatever the thing is,
it is about fifty feet long, with a large
head and body about as big around as
that of an average man. 1t was swim
ming about 100 yards from the shore
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
FARM LANDS CAIN I5I PER CENT VALUE

1910, as against 1889, 900 in 1900, gain
of 1863, 900, or rs per cent.
The total acreage reported in 1910 was
2, 5S5, 900 acres, as compared with 2, 500, :
900 in 1900, an increase of 19, 900 acres,
or per cent.
The improved acreage was returned in
1910 as amounting to 745, 900 acres, as
against 573, 900 i'll 1900, an increase of
liz, 600 acres, or 80 per cent.
The improved acreage formed 2e per
cent OF the total acreage in 1910, and p
per cent in 1900
The average acres per farm reported
in 1910 was 972, as against | us i'll 1900,
a decrease of 205 acres, or II per cent.
The average value per acre of farm
land and buildings i'll 1910 is stated as
S15.15, as against 5000 in 1900, rise of
y 90, or l49 per cent.
The average value per acre of farm
land alone in 1910 was reported as
SIS 4e, while i'll 1900 it was SSH the
amount of gain being sS.32, or 161 per
cent.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22

Census Director Durand issued Thurs
day the first official statement from the
Census Bureau relative to the agri-
cultural statistics of the State of Nevada,
collected at the thirteenth decennial
United States Census, April IS, 1910.
The total value of farm land and
buildings was given in 1910 as S39, 155, :
600, as against 5,6l6, 600 in 1900, an
increase of s23, 537 900, or Isl per cent.
The total value of all farm land alone
was reported in 1910 as S54, $40, 600, as
compared with sl3. .276, 900 in 1900 a
gain o, S21 900, 600 or l63 per cent
The total value of farm buildings
alone was given in 1910 as 81, 277 200, as
against s2, $40, 900 in 1900, an increase of
81 ,937 ,o00 or S5 per cent.
In 1910 the value of farm land alone
SO per cent OF the total value
of the farm land and buildings, as COM
pared with IS per cent in 1900.
ONE PER CENT MORE ACREAGE
The reported value of all farm imple-
ments and machinery was 81, 5SS, 600 in
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
CARSON COMPANY
TO BORE FOR COAL

4 Carson City company with f. b.
Whitelaw as Superintendent. is arrang
ing to do considerable work on tlie old
coal property near the old Joe Mathews
place on the Fast Walker and a short
distance this side Of the old Aldrich
cabin on the Bodie road This company
is putting on boring machine which
has capacity of sinking to depth OF
600 OF 700 feet, and proposes to give the
ground a thorough test for coal. an in-
ferior quality of which crops on the sur
face aud shows to slight depth.
Buggs Morgan hauled the machine to
the scene of operations this week Tues
day, and THURSDAY took up a lot of cas-
ing, a lS00-gallon tank, barrels, tools,
etc. Mr.. Whitelaw had with him a
Mr.. Dixon, who will act as engineer of
the drill, aud it is the intention of this
company to give the old coal prospect a
thorough try-out for the genuine stuff
The property was worked i'll small
way many years ago. Considerable de-
velopment was done near the surface,
but no depth to speak of was obtained
The coal, so far found, is not of quality
that would sell readily. but it has been
used for fuel on some occasions. The
company believes that depth will open
up coal body of commercial value.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22

cerned, and when ore-hauling begins it
Will be revenue producer.
In connection with railroad talk it NAV
be said that before many months pass
the motor car of the line will be run
ming into Yerington, which will make
the. trip in and out of the city little
more convenient.
Both the Nevada Douglas and the Cop
per Belt are financed to the extent of
assured completion at the earliest possi-
bic date.
The district owes much to the Orems
for the manner in which they have
pulled through the hard times and kept
things going, if at times slowly, when it
has been SO hard to raise money for any
kind of investment i'll any part of the
country. Only the genuine merit of
their mining and railroad propositions
enabled them to do this
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
COTTONWOOD PROMISES TO Be
producer OF COLD ERE LONG

w. G., LOWE and Pete Bagoy made a
trip to Cottonwood Greek last week to
look at some property in which Mr.
Bagoy is interested. Upon inspection of
the ground Mr.. LOWE found that there
was promise of some good things being
found by development work being done.
There are several claims in the group
and there are some excellent surface
showings. 1t is very likely that some
business will be done with this property
i'll the near future. The ground lies up
Cottonwood Greek from Walker Lake.
N Poll, of East Walker, is working
property of his own short distance
from the above described ground. lie
has a shaft down about $50 feet on ten
foot ledge of good gold ore. short
distance from the mine Mr.. Poll has a
small mill, which is operated by steam
power. He is building a road between
the mfne and mill and will soon be able
OF transport ore by wagon instead of
pack train. He has already milled some
of the ore being extracted and received
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22

and LOWE wanted to go closer to the
lake and get better view, but Pete said:
'Jesu not on your life; may not that
thing jump 200 yards and catch us both2"
Mr.. LOWE is mining man of note, not
given to exaggeration nor perverication,
and there is not a doubt that he saw the
famous sea serpent of Walker Lake.
There are others who, in years gone
by, have seen this thing and the Indians
of the reservation know that it has lived
i'll the lake for many years past. You
get one of them to go bathing in
the lake for fear of being caught by this
monster. 1t might be a good idea for
the Smithsonian Institute, or some other
scientific body to put launch on the lake
and try to capture this ichthyosaurus, or
whatever it may be. 1t certainly would
be a curiosity i'll any museum.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22

representative Of the TIMES made a
Saturday and found the work of con-
struction going along steadily but slowly.
The force of men employed is not large
at the present time, as large number of
Greeks have been discharged. and it is
stated that the company is going to try
and employ mostly American labor here
after.
The ore bins at the plant are practic-
ally completed as is also the large
cement water tank, which will be ready
for use as soon as needed This tank is
built in the same draw as the smelter
foundation, but is high enough to give
a sufficient fall to the water for all pur-
dimensions and would make first class
swimming pool
There has been a great amount of
money spent in constructing the founda-
tion for the sampler building. The bot
tom of the cement foundation for this
building is some thirty-four feet below
the surface of the ground The building
is situated north of the railroad track,
close the ore bins.
The railroad to the plant crosses the
Southern Pacific track just west of Wa
buska. The plant is some sixteen miles
from the mine and the Mason townsite
North of the S. P. tracks the road runs
to the Hot Spring, thence west along the
foothills, taking slight grade to the
snielter site.
The trestlework on which the high
line runs over the ore bins and sampler
is built in very substantial manner,
heavy timbers in sufficient quantity
being used, and the workmanship ap-
pears to be of the best.
The machine shop, which is located
Just east of the foundation of the main
smelter building, and close to the rail-
road track, is a substantial, attractive
and convenient structure 1t is COM
pleted SO far as the building itself is con-
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
DOUGLAS OFFICIALS.
VISIT DISTRICT
W. c. Orem and Jas. G. Berryhil' Inspect
Progress at Nine and Railroad

w. c. Orem and Jas. G. Berryhill, of
the Nevada Douglas mine and the Cop
per Belt railroad paid the district and
their properties visit the first of this
week. In company with Traffic Man
ager Fraser they visited Yerihgton be-
fore taking their departure for the East.
They report everything running along
smoothly at the Nevada Douglas; over
thirty men at work and more being put
on as necessary to open up the mine for
production by September lst, the time
set for the smelter at Thompson to be
blown in.
The last lap of the railroad, from Hud-
son to the mine. is rapidly approaching
and will be finished, prob
ably, before the smelter is. The road is
meeting the expectations of sthe promo
ters in SO far as paying expenses is con-
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22

very satisfactory returns.
Messrs Shores, Knudson and Burke
have some promising laims close to the
Poll property A shaft has been sunk on
one Of these claims to depth of 130 feet,
following 10 10 12-ineh streak of high
grade ore. On another parallel ledge
four feet in width, there is good grade
OF milling ore. The work is being done
mainly on the small high grade streak
with the idea of getting out a run of ore
to obtain expense money.
All OF these properties ore in the midst
of finely timbered country, with plenty
OF water.
At Chipmunk Springs. about four
miles west OF Cottonwood, Chas. Hops
is starting development work on some
ground that has excellent surface show
ings. Mr.. Hops was i'll Yerington a
few days ago and took out to his camp
bill of grub and minirg supplies. He
expects to do considerable work on his
this spring and summer,
enough. at least, to show whether he
has paving mine or not.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22

Il. ]. Manson and A. T. Gosemerker
were in from Reno III an auto the first
of the week looking over the camp with
a view to purchasing all kinds of ore for
the Western Ore Purchasing Co.. which
they represent. They are looking for
gold ores particularly, and went out to
the Mountain View country and else
where. They expect to. contract for
some ore from this district soon as Mr.
Manson says he thinks his concern can,
with the freight rates that can now be
obtained, handle. gold ore running as
low as sl2 a ton, at profit to the pro-
ducer. If such is the case there ought
to be considerable ore produced and
shipped from the numerous promising
gold prospects throughout the district.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
In New Quarters

Sam b Elbert, mining engineer and
surveyor, has purchased the business of
T. NJ. Hammond, and has moved his
Office to II le Ieavitt concrete building on
main street. He has Just passed an exam
ination emitting him to be appointed a
Deputy U S. Mineral Surveyor, and is
prepared to take all work of this kind
that he can get. You will notice his
card if YOU glance over the advertis-
ing columns of the TIMES.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22

brick building on the lot i'll the near
future. in which there will probably be
conducted a drug store, the business
of J. G. r. Smith, the doctors .offices
and probably some other Office rooms.
This is the first sale of real estate, of
and importance, that has taken place in
Yerington for some time. The lot is a
nice one for business purposes and the
price paid very reasonable one. From
now on You may expect that Yerington
reality is going to be worth money and
transactions lively.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
AUTO LINE FROM HUDSON TO BODIE

l.. Little and wife, Mrs Scott, Mr..
Chaplin, Traffic manager Frazier of the
Copper Belt and Mr.. f. Alexander,
foreman of the road, returned yesterday
from a trip of inspection of the roads
between Hudson and Bodie and the
Bridgeport country. Mr.. Little is con
ducting line of automobiles between
Rawhide and Schurz. and is operator
for the new Nevada and California Auto
Transportation Co. which will be ready
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
CITY LOT SALE INDICATES BUSINESS

An indication of what is going to hap
pen i'll the way of real estate transac-
tons in Yerington at 10 distant day
was given this week when Mrs Mary
Barton sold the lot on the corner of
Nam street and Van Ness Avenue
ninety-one feet front on Main street
foi the sum of 81, 500 DIR. r. ID. Smith
is the negotiator for the lot and the
terms call for a 81 900 cash payment and
the balance in short time with a fair
rate of interest. 1t is the intention of
DIR. Smith to erect nice two story
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22

to carry passengers, express and light
freight between Hudson, Smith, Wei
lington, Sweetwater, Bodie and Bridge
port on and after the first of May. The
party found the roads from Hudson to
Bridgeport in fair condition. The Raw
hide members of the party left for that
camp yesterday after dinner at the
Montana Cafe. The cars used on this
route will be large Thomas 70-h. p. ma
chimes.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
ANOTHER RICH STRIKE IN MASON PASS

depth. Drifting south four feet the foot
wall of the ledge was encountered and
high grade streak of ore one foot in
width opened. This ore runs into the
hundreds, and is the pay shoot of four
foot ledge, which all carries fair values,
say sl2 to $50 per ton. The formation
is porphyrv and dacite The bond on
the property runs until January l, next,
and Camp and Matt are arranging to
sink a deep shaft and further develop
the strike.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22

The Board of Pardons, which has been
in session for several days at Carson
City, has taken under consideration the
application of Frank Everett, formerly
of Smith Valley, who is serving a life
term for the murder of Foreman Ma
lone, of the railroad shops at Nina, sew
eral years ago. Since Everett's incar-
ceration i'll the State prison he has un-
dergone an operation which resulted in
the removal of a needle from the base
of his brain. The presence of the
needle is said to be what caused the un-
fortunate man to suffer periods of mental
responsibility, and il was while in the
midst of one of these attacks that he
committed the murder
A strong plea was made ons his behalf
before the Pardon Board and the case
will be held under consideration for sew
eral days, as all the records will be care
fully looked into before the decision is
rendered.
Wednesday Everett was granted CON
ditional parole and left for Pacific Grove,
CAL, with his wife.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22

Another very promising strike was
made this week on property known as
the Slater group of claims. now under
bond to Sol Camp and Al Matt. These
claims were located several years ago,
but little work has been done on them
lately Prospects in the neighborhood
looking so well induced the above named
parties to take hold of this ground and
do some exploring. Matt found the
lead, and following it he found bios
som and sunk hole twelve feet III
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
Preparing in Time

The Pythian Sisters of this place are
preparing to give swell dance on the
night of July 4th, next. They are also
going to get up celebration for the
day, and YOU can make up your mind to
have a genuine old whoop-up time The
grand old day will not be overlooked
this year Don't forget this, and don t
make preparation to go anywhere else
on the Fourth.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
The population of incorporated places

This puts Lyon as the seventh county
i'll the State i'll population The TIMES
is disposed to think the population of
Yerington is too low according to the
above report, isut we have grown some
since the census was taken, and will
double the above figures inside of an
other year.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
COMPLETE CENSUS
RETURNS OF STATE

Complete statistics of the population
of Nevada have been compiled and issued
by the census bureau The population
of Nevada as whole is given as 81 ,S75.
The population by counties is as fol-
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
Bargains in Real Estate

240 acres of land, well located and
partly improved, old water right. Terms
reasonable.
Four-room house with one acre of
ground.
+. II. WHITAcRE & Co.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22

The Ladies' Aid have changed the
date OF the entertainment and bazaar
from May 5 to May l9.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22
M. :. Church

1880 Sunday school. Josiah Repairs
the Temple. Kings, chapters II, II
and II. Preaching at 1880 and 1880 by
the pastor.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22

Sarcasm is good weapon only to those
who can't shield themselves with the
armor of unfailing Kindness.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22

Memory is often compared to musty
art gallery; but some pigments have a
way of lasting fresh a long time.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-04-22

We must be in the dark in order to
see light