The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1917-05-26

icy LOT y rev hours thursday. lie
said all preparations for commencing
work on the new county grade near
Union had been completed. and un-
less it rained cats and dogs the work
would be started to-day Saturday.
Clarence johnson. superintendent
of the Summit Queen Mining Com
pany, reports that the two new strikes
made in the company's properties at
Silverado continue to look most ia
vorable. Ore is now being taken out
and sacked for shipment to the
smelters from both these new finds.
Word was received here this week
from DIR. G.. M. Roberts stating that
he and his wife were en- route home
and were travelling by auto. He had
purchased a new a at Detroit and
they had reached Kalamazoo. Michi-
gan, on May 16. The Doctor expec-
ted to reach Eureka about June l,
and if he covers this distance of some
$500 miles by that time he will have
to keep moving.
The Eureka Live Stock Company
has been holding a number of bands
of sheep and a crew of 16 shearers at
its shearing corrals near Oak Station
on the local railway since Friday of
last week. They are waiting for an
abatement of the present stormy
weather in order to commence shear
ing, and all hands and the bosses are
said to be far from patiently waiting
for a rift in the clouds and a few
rays of sunshine.
Eureka County's new grader was
given a tryout last Monday by Com
missioner r. j. Reid when a piece of
road at the lower end of Main street
was graded up. The grader was
only used during the afternoon. but
its work was most satisfactory, and
if the two graders now owned by the
county are kept at work during the
coming Summer. a wonderful i'm
provement in all u roads should
soon be apparent.
F. Grimes hauled a stalled auto
into Eureka Wednesday from a point
about 10 miles west of his ranch at
Reynolds creek. He says that while
the present stormy weather is max
ing it bad going for autos, it is do
ing wonders for the dry land farm
ers and that he is looking forward to
harvesting a big crop Of hay and
grain this Summer. He has about
40 acres sewed this year on his ranch.
about az miles west of Eureka.
S. T. Kelso, Grand Master of the
Odd Fellows of Nevada. who is max
ing an official tour ove the State and
visiting the different lodges, arrived
in Eureka by auto Friday evening
after a rather strenuous trip from
Ely and Hamilton. After visiting
with Eureka Lodge No. % last even
ing. he left by this mornings train,
deciding not to attempt the drive
across the country to his home at
Hawthorne, Nevada, with the roads
in their present soft condition.
Sergeant Freeman. the Govern
ment recruiting officer, spent a
couple of days in Eureka the first OF
the week while en- route from Ely to
Battle Mountain. He vas travelling
by auto and laid off here a couple OF
days on account of bad weather con-
ditions and to give any Eurekans
who thought they would like to spend
the next Summer or two in Europe a
chance to cross the pond with all ex-
penses paid, but all his allurements
were without avail.
j. H. Smailes, who is an associate
of DR.. H. w. Seager of Los Angeles
in the Hamburg. Helen Mortimer,
and Wide West mines in this district.
in fact, all of the property formerly
owned by the Dewey estate, spent
several days here this week looking
over the property. He stated that
it was now planned to operate the
mines, and unless the owners took