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The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25

ception of Sheriff Ronnow and Jake
Johnson. Finally, complaint was
made to Justice Harris, who issued
search warrant and the said war
rant was placed in the hands of
Jake Johnson, deputy Sheriff That
Official made a diligent search il.
e|eTy nook and corner of the court
house; every office in the building
including the Judges chambers-why
the latter did not escape espionage
is not clefr for the judge is OUT of
town. Deputy Jake was satisfied
that the missing bird was somewhere
on the second floor of the court
house-something seemed to tell him
that he was getting close and at last
demanded of Treasurer Culverwell
That he swing back the iron doors
OF the vault. The official obeyed!
and there the turkey was and a lit
tie later. safely delivered to the dis
trict attorney who forthwith de-
creed that the turkeys head should
be chopped off and the bird prepar-
ed for the Christmas dinner table at
ho Orr home.
or course, it was all joke and
nearly everybody around the court
house was on to it. But after all
II was mean joke to play just be-
lore Christmas time. The district
attorney decares, however his chance
VIII come to get even.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25
Work Begun On The
NcV9d9-!tah Mill Plant

The new mill fer the Consolidated
Nevada Utah corporation has been
started. Clearing the ground and
Replacing the railroad tracks to
make room for the building was CON-
menced on the 18th inst.
The old water tank. built about
1874 an old familiar landmark, has
had to be removed and in its stead
',n6re will be an iron tank situated
about 100 feet north of the site of
ule cid bin
The process to be employed is con-
centration by the usual wet gravity
methods followed by most modern
of oil flotation Also a separation
of concentrates will be accomplished
the zinc forming the principal prod
uct ind the lead and iron the sec
ondary product. Both of these con-
cen'trates will carry gold and silver,
but the majority of the precious
metals will be in the lead-iron prod
| u which will, of course, be ship
ped to lead smelter
The ore as 1t comes from the
mine will go to the grizzlies at the
. II IiilS hOuSe WuGIe Inc lines Will
go direct to the mill, and the
coarse material will be given a,
r>ugh hand sorting Thus larCA
pieces of s)lid sulphides will be re-
cdsered Immediately without the
expense Of milling CT the loss re-
Sitting from grinding The scr ing
house will also catch the largo
pieces CT waste which mix with the
ore. and by throwing them out in
'creaia the grade of the ore being
milled,
AfiteA leaving the sorting house
the aarse ore goes to crusherj
and then joins the fine ore on a
conveyor belt carrying to the mill
bin. The mill-bin will hold days
run and will be drawn from by an
automatic feeder which will supply
the ore to ball mill. The ball mill
will be followed by a screen which
will return oversize for recrushing.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25

pie as an Independent candidate
Some of the Democratic state papers
have been urging the selection Of a
man from the eastern part of the
state, upon the very good ground that
eastern Nevada has been overlook
ed in the way of political prefer
ment- not only by the Democrats
but Republicans as WE'LL
Many Democrats are of the opin-
ion that Judge Horsey would make
an ideal candidate and would be
sl9tns with the voters of the state
However. Judge Horsey having
been elected to hte district judgeship
and his term does not expire until
the first of January 1919, he may feel
reluctant about seeking the higher
honors at this time. But as the
Democrats have not put forth as yet
a strong man" the Judge may be
induced to run for congress Should
the Democratic state. convention in
sist on naming him is is more than
likely he would accept.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25

work of Mr.. Powers himself In
faat,; he is an expert taxidermist.
and the collection to be seen at his
place clearly demonstrates the fact.
The truth is, before Joe ever saw
Nevada he had had a great deal on
experience in that line and follow
ed taxidermy as a vocation for a
;ood many years in his early life
and reached the stage of proficiency
when he could command the highest
salary for work Of that class.
In the windows of the Moffat bank
at Denver has been displayed I'M
glass enclosures for many years two
specimens of buck deer mounted
whole. This was some of Joe's work
The late David Moffat paid a bic
price for the pair and they have at
etracted the attention of thousands
OF people passing the bank building
They have been particularly inter
esting to eastern tourist coming tt
the Colorado capital Down near th,
base can be seen the initial letter.
OF Jce's name; but not having tn,
Roosveltian reputation behind hin
the letters have escaped notice O
/ the throngs who have stopped to ad
mire.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25
GREENWOOD LFA' ING
COMPANY At WI RK

The Greenwood Leasing company
which recently acquired a 5-year
lease on the Greenwood mine, has
begun operations. Several men have
been engaged for the past week in
retimbering and getting the 3OO-foot
level drifts In shape. The work is in
charge OF e. H. Snyder, manager
CT the company who was successful
in associating with himself in the
undertaking Mr. E. w. Clark mana
ger of the Utah mines operated by
former Senator w. A. Clark, and
other strong Salt Lake mining men.
The Doris Mining & Milling com
pany Is another new corporation COM
posed Of practically the same people
The Doris company has taken over
the Snyder lease on the old dump be-
low the No. 8 shaft of the Yuba Leas
Ing q Development company and will
enlarge and improve the cyanide
plant put In by Mr.. Snyder and as
sociates early this year. The Doris
company started work last Wednes-
day morning and has ordered mater
ial for building which will enclose
the enlarged milling plant.
The dump to be worked over was
put there in the early days when the
cyanide process was unknown and
when It was impossible to work the
low grade ere of the camp profit
ably. The dump contains thousands
OF tons Of low grade material. which
Mr.. Snyder says. is now commercial
y valuable.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25

The mateial which passes the screen
goes to the tables from which the
middlings are sent to a pebble mill
Ior finer grinding.
The tables will make two products
zinc concentrates and lead-iron
concentrates. The tailings from the
tables Will go to the flotation mach
tnera where all the very finely
ground particles Cf sulphides which
| tre usually lost in the usual con.
! el1tllt1ng process are, to a very
urge extent, caught at the flot :
tion cells.
Rotation is accomplished by a very
'Small amount of oil SO thoroushly
mixed. or emulsified, with the ore
AS TO cause the sulphide particles
20 cling t. the froth which rises in
thl air agit tied cells. This froth
Il aats off and is retreat,d on a
finishing cell which operates in the
same manner as the roughing cell.
nei product Cf these cells is sub
1ected to filter pressing and is ready
then to market
Mine water will be used and a
large iron tank VIII be installed to
reservoir the supply The mill will
De i1ghted with electricity and oper.
ated by power from Fairbanks Morse
engines burning topps.
The machinery consists of Power
&Mlnlng Cos crusher and pebble mil
Marcy ball mill; Overstrom tables
Callow Flotation and a Portland fiji.
express. The General Engineering
Co. of Salt Lake City are consult
Ing milling engineers for the construo
tion OF the plant. The work will not
pc cone by contract, it will be day.
pay and although the Master Mill
wright is a Salt Laker. the local
mlll-wrlghts, carpenters and machan.
les are to be employed In preference
to bringing men in from the outside.
The mill will have a capacity of
from 90 to Is tons daily and if the
weather cond tions are not serious
should be ready to operate early i'm
March.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25
Doctor Marco
A Copper King

Dr. Louis Marco, the Lincoln Coun.
~ dentist, has become a real min
Ing magnate and bids fair to become
copper King. He has mine down
In that part CT Arizona that Utah has
been trying to annex and is SHINING
ore from it, teamshauling the pro-
duct to Modena where it is loaded on
ID the cars and Sent to the Salt Lake
How did Doc get onto it9 1t
happened this way. He made a trin
last aeumn to Grand Gulch and ran
across Sweede with bad teeth. The
FELLOW began to talk mines while the
doctor was tugging away at a some
what obstinate tooth. The long and
snort OF it is the Swedish gentle
man had no money; but squared the
Dill by giving Marco half interest
in the mine
The mans story seemed too good
~ be true. But Doc. went to see.
While he doesn't profess to know
anything about mines. still he has
nose for good ore-particularly
when he could see it right befor :
him.
Dentlst Marco is one of those kind
VINO believes in doing things; he is
progressive, and he got busy. Within
week he had men at work takins
out pay ore. Ii everything pans out
Well he proposes to build a tram
way across the Colorado river AMI
snlp the ore from a point on the
santa Fe, thus cutting down the
the expense of haulage.
his country needs just such boost
ers as Doc Marco is.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25
OWEN WALKER MEETS
WITH PECULIAR ACCIDENT

owen Walker met with an accident
this week which cost him the tip
OF one OF his fingers. He is one of
the engineers at the Yuba mine,
works and was engaged in hewing
some blocks upon which he purpose
ed to place a distilate tank While
doing so the AK which he was usins ?
came off it's handle, dropped ont
his finger and having keen edge,
cut it off at the first joint as smothly
as If dcne by surgeons knife.
He. expects to return to work in
D few days.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25
VANDALS DESTROY
GOVERNMENT PROPERTY

During the recent absence of M.
L. Lee in Utah someone demolished
some expensive instruments contained
in the government weather obserya.
tory stationed in the yard at his
residence on Phoebe street. The mat
ter has been placed in the hands
OF the United States marshal for in
Vestlgation. The penalty for the wan
tom destruction of government prop
erty is no small matter.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25
SILVER SERVICE 10
COME TO PI0CHE

The silver service donated by the
state OF Nevada to the battleshin
Nevada has been completed and was
on exhibition in Carson a few DAYS
ago and it is to be conveyed free
OF charge by the American Express
company to other parts of the state.
1t having come to the knowledge of
d, l.. Smith, president of the Phoebe
Commercial club and President Of
the Boadr of Trustees of Phoebe
school district No. l., that Phoebe had
been mentioned amoung the places
where the service was to be exhib-
tied, addressed a letter to Governor
Boyle asking for information regard
ing the itinerary and received the fol
lowig reply; under date OF Dec
ember II:
Il have your letter of the 18th inst
requesting that the Silver Service Of
the Battleship Nevada be exhibited
in Phoebe.
your town was on the list of
municipalities in which we intended
TO show the service, a letter was
written to the clerk of the board of
county commissioners several days
ago requesting him to cooperate
with us in having it shown there. Al
yet we have not heard from all of
the towns to which we have written
and until we know the desire of
The community. we will not be able
70 make the itinerary of the service.
AS soon as this is done. how
ever, we will advise you of the date
when it win be shown in Pioche."
Very truly yours,
EMMETT ID, BOYLE. Governor.
It has been suggested that if the
service comes to Phoebe that it be
placed on exhibition at some suitable
place where the school children and
all citizens of the town may see the
gift of Nevada to the great ship
which bears the name of the state
and which is the most powerful bat
tleship in existance today. After hay
Ing been exhibited at number of
the more important cities of the
state the service will be sent on east
10 be placed aboard the Nevada.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25
TONOPAH MINING COMPANY
DECLARES A Dividend

At meeting held by the Tonopal
Mining company of Nevada at Phila-
deiphia last week, the regular quar-
te.iy dividend of Is cents a share
was declared. 1t is payable January
Il. The dividend amounts to $780,
600, and brings he total amount of
divide nds paid to date to 13,45O,-
900.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25

Angelo Clark will vacate the build
Ing which he now occupies on jan
uary first and will move his saloon
to the place where John Crow now
conducts a saloon business. 1t is
understood that Angelo has arrans.
ed to purchase the building ao6
lot from Mrs. NJ Thompson.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25
PiocHE BARBER HAS
A NoN-SKiD SIDEWALK

George Dorothy has put in mon
skid" sidewalk in front of HIS
barber shop. 1t is rightly named
and sizing up conditions from various
angles 1t would appear that he and
the shoemaker are working in ca
hoots.' Some things heard said
about that sidewalk would not look
good in print.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25
Christmas Service.

Rev. p. s. Smithe will hold Christ.
nes services at the Union Sunday
acnool building at IL o'clock this
morning. He will also hold servi-
'es a. the same place tomorrow, morn
Ing and evening.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25

A. Y. Smith. president of the Yuba
Leasing & Development Co., has
been looking after mining interests
at Pearce, Arizona, this week.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25

County Treasurer Chas. Culverwell
reports that collections on the first
ihstallment of taxes for the year
1913, up to Wednesday last amounted
to total of $37,947.95. In addition
TO this sum. $639 was collected in
the shape of poll taxes.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25
New Display Ads This Week

Becker Brewing Co.-Christmas
Beer.
Macs Drug Store-ask "Kliff.'
Mountain View Hotel-Change Of
service
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25
Rate Is Reduced

The Amalgamated Phoebe company
mas announced a reduction of from
. to 3 per cent for the collection Of
signed orders on the company for
store and boarding huse accounts, etc
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25

nm the spring to complete the
inspection of all county schools.
Very truly,
G. E. ANDERSON.
Deputy sup't FX District. 1
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25

DR. Campbell has been confined to
his home this week on account of
illness.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25
Teachers Examination

The second semi-annual examin-
alton for teachers certificates will
be held in Phoebe School Building
on December 81 2S, 80 and 80. 1915.
The sessions will begin at 8 O'Clock
each morning.
G. E. ANDERSON.
Deputy Supt. 5th District
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-25
Mill Engineer Here

w. j Boudwin of the General
Engineering Co. Of Salt Lake arriv-
ed Thursday to assist in the cor
strudeion of the Con. Nevada-Utah
mill and will probably be here two
or three months.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-18
What the War Moves Mean
By J. w. T. Mason, Former European Man
ager of the United Press.

operations within the Dardanelles. 1t
can, however. prevent battleships ap-
preaching in-shore along the Aegean
coast. The bombardment from the
Aegean side of the Gallipoli penin-
sula, in an effort to reach the Darda-
nelles defenses by overland shelling,
apparently is made necessary by the
failure of the warships inside the
strait to do their work
But reliance on indirect fire is prov
ing not only inherently disadvantage
GUS: it is making the weather an ally
of the Turks. One of the prime sue
cessful factors of bombardment is
that it be continuous. Interruptions
give the defenders Of Notifications
time to repair damage, to mount new
guns and to strengthen their morals
The inability of allied warships to
maintain constant fire adds much
to the natural difficulties of subduing
the land Notifications from the sea.
It is too early yet definitely to as
sume that the Dardanelles cannot be
forced by the allies. If the waterway
&c defended with full ability, it will
nroye tn be impregnable: although,
a. was pointed out in this column
when the bombardment began, Turk
fsh inefficiency. and luck for the al
lies might decide the contest against
the Mohammedans. AS far as can be
however, the Turks have
been less than usually inefficient to
the present time and luck has not yet
fallen to the allies.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-18

" =. s ID.
United Press Leased Wire Service.1
NEW YORK. March 1S.-Q1 a. m.)
Three weeks have passed since the
British admiralty announced that the
Dardanelles entrance forts had been
reduced, and that Admiral Gardens
Meet was on it's way to lombard the
kephez defenses, eleven miles inside
the strait. During that time the ad-
mlralty statements, at first explicit
and voluminous have grown more and
more conservative until now they co1-
tain no information of any value
whatever.
contradictory newspaper reports
are taking the place OF the official
communicates, and newspaper reports
from the near east are as notoriously
inaccurate, as the Turkish bazaar
rumors on which they are usually
based. 1t Is evident that the work OF
sueduing the Dardanelles defenses is
not proceeding as satisfactorily as the
allies desire. There can be no reason
able doubt but that serious damage
mas been inflicted on the attacking
warships. and one reason for the de-
creased vigor of the attack must be
the need for repairing. injuries aboard
ship
The brief official declarations that
rad weather is interfering with the
commandments, indicates failure of
warships to penetrate any consider
able distance inside the strait. Bad
weather cannot serioualy hamper
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-18
ENGLAND

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
LONDON, March 1s.-Three Ger
man princes, including Prince Fred.
erick Leopold, cousin of the German
kaieer, were in the battle Of Neuve
charcIIe and are believed to have
been killed, according to an officers
story, detailed in an official statement
regarding the fighting. made public to-
day.
Under the signature Of "Eye Wit
ness" the press bureau statement de-
eIared that the bodies Of 1000 Ger
mans were found in one section CT
Neuve ChapelIe alone. The statement
coneurred in General French's official
report that between 1900 and 1900
Germans were killed or wounded at
Nerve ChapclIe.
Proceeding eastward through Neuve
chapeIIe, the British howitzers were
trained on the village of Aubery. still
In the hands Of Germans. A high tow
er, the eye witness reported, dlsap-
peared as If by magic when it was
struck by a British shell. leaving only
a cloud Of dust on the horizon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-18

is to discover that, after time, you
are able to watch men writhing in
pain with perfect equanimity. My first
experience ii this happened one day
when ar young Englfshman, in my
squad, named Samuels, tried to take
q short cut to the rear, and, instead
OF following the cross trenches, got
out in to the open right IL front OF
our trench. A German bullet passed
through, his lungs, and we saw him
topple only fifteen feet awy from us.
He writhed and moaned, but our Off
GERS wouldn't let us try to get him.
The Germans didn't shoot at him any
more, because they knew they had
Handed, him. Our lieutena1ts sent
to another part of the trenches for
a Red Cross man, who came after
about an hour This Red Cross doc
tor was a young Swiss named Scherer.
He climbed right out of the trench
and started toward the writhing fig
ure of Samuels, but bullet passed
through his head, and after Topping
about a minute or two, Scherer's
body stiffened, and we could see he
was dead. This was three o'clock in
the afternoon. Whenever we tried to
get out to help Samuels, the Germans
turned a terrific fire our way and
though we could even hear Samuels'
groaning, we couldn't get to, him 1t
was not until dark that we could do
anything. Then Victor Chapman OF
New York, Harvard man, who was
studying architecture in Paris when
the war broke out. made lasso with
a piece OF rope. and before long he
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-18
[Ry Phil RAIDER. Written for the Unit
ed Press.
copyrighted 1915 by the United

BY Phil Haoer. sWriISen TOT tuS OUsS'
ed Press.
| |Icopyrishted 1915 BY the United
Press 4 -Sss 's'--.I,s ~ - - -.
LONDON, March / There's
ID Germans body hanging from
|the barbed wire entanglements
lin front of the French trenches,
which I have just left. For two
months this body was part Of
my little outlook on the world.
There's q pair Of nippers in
the rotting hands. For some
weeks the back was arched up
ward, but recently it has be-
gun to sag. The clothes flap
more and more wildly each
day as the body slowly shriv-
els. Nobody from either side
has been able to get to that
body to bury it. It is buried
there in the air on the barbed
wire and it will be gradually
shot away.
Living cheek to iowl with dead
men: that's the thing that links you
TO beast, but it's part Of trench
life that is unavoidable The first
thing that shocks you in the trenches