The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1916-01-22
Observation-Disclosures
Rabies Disease Worrying Stock.
m~en-Railways to Build New
Overhead Crossing-Severe
Winter Will Cause Heavy
Stock Losses

hay and are Row generously feeding
all stock gathered. it is feared
that many cattle were in such poor
condition when feeding commenced
that a number will not pull through,
and if a severe cold spell follows the
unusually heavy snow fall, serious
losses are predicted. The recent
cold snaps caused stock losses among
| nearly all the Pine valley ranchers.
The stockmen in this end of the
County are considerably worked up
over the existence of the rabies dis
ease throughout this portion of Me-
vada, and upon learning that Gov
ernor Boyle had called a meeting at
Winnemucca to discuss and adopt
means for abating this terrible men,
ace, held a meeting and selected H.
F. Ebert, a rancher and stockmen of
Pine valley, to represent them at the
Winnemucca meeting and assist in
securing any possible aid in stamping
out the terrible disease. The stock
men and many others in this section
have ample evidence right here at
home that four head of stock and a
number of dogs have been fatally at
tackled with the disease, and that %
head of cattle on the Beowawe
ranches have already been attacked
and died from the rabie disease.
Mr.. Ebert attended the Winnie
mucca meeting and heartily endorsed
the proposed action taken there, and
says the showing made regarding the
prevalence of the rabies in our
Western States makes the situation
most serious. He believes that every
possible means of exterminating the
present carrier of this disease-the
coyote-should be taken. and that
the strict confinement of all dogs be
maintained until the rabie disease
has been stamped cut.
While at Winnemucca Mr.. Ebert
succeeded in obtaining from E. R.
| Sans, in charge of the Government
force now engaged in trapping and
poisoning the coyote in Nevada, one
of his men to work in Eureka Coun-
ty. E. Marsh, the man selected. ar
rived in Palisade last Saturday fully
equipped with traps, poison, etc., and
was taken out to Mr.. Ebert's ranch
| Sunday. He will work south through
Pine valley. and be joined by another
trapper as soon as the Government
| force is increased.
All fear of the Eureka-Nevada
Railway suspending operations was
dispelled last week when it was
learned an engineers car of the
Southern Pacific that was shunted
on to a sidetrack here had arrived
for the purpose of bringing it's crew
to perfect the plans for building an
overhead crossing v the Western
Pacific and Southern Pacific roads at
this point that would eliminate the
employing of a fiagman and the COM
ing to a dead stop of each train twice
before crossing the Eureka Nevada
| tracks.
This condition of affairs has exist
ed since the Southern Pacific straight
ened its roadway through Palisade
canyon and the Western Pacific was
built, and has been a sore thorn in
the sides of these companies. 1t is
said that it costs these two compan-
les from $4,000 to $25, 900 per year
to employ its fagmen and to stop
and start its heavy trains both COM
ing in and departing from Palisade.
The new overhead crossing will
pass ove both Western Pacific and
Southern Pacific tunnels and cross
the Humboldt river on a high trestle
that will necessitate the carrying of
the EN- tracks quite a distance above
its present depot, but as the three
roads r all agreed regarding the
new arrangement. it is not thought
the EN- will receive the short end of
the bargain.