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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT LOST
ENGINEER VACANCY FILLED

One of the engineers of the State
highway department, D. B. Taylor,
resigned this week and his place has
been filled by the appointment of L. v.
Campbell. formerly of the California
highway department.
The Nevada highway department
has had considerable trouble securing
engineers to carry on the work that
is approved and projects which are
being surveyed, says the Carson cor
respondent of the Reno Gazette. Now,
with winter slowing up all outdoor
other calculations can be made for
work early in the spring.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
CHECK WRITER ONLY
Fifteen YEARS OLD

Harold Israels, the boy who is in
Jail here charged with issuing a
fictitious, forged and fraudulent"
check, is only fifteen years old. Ad-
vices received by the prosecution
from the New York health department
give the date of his birth as May 4,
1904. Harold himself says he was
born March of that year.
The boy said, while working here,
that he had lied to the naval enlist
ment officers regarding his age, and
from present information it appears
that he did stretch the truth a long
way. He looks older than fifteen, and
his native shrewdness also is deceiv-
ing. He has gained much informa-
tion from his travels, and talks like
an older person.
Upon the return of Judge Callahan
from Elko, Israels will be taken be-
fore the juvenile department of dis
trict court, and it is said he will plead
guilty. He may be sentenced to the
State industrial school at Elko for
any period of time, in the discretion
of the court, up to the attainment o.
his majority.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
BUILDING ROAD NEAR TONOPAH

p. S. Welty, superintendent of con.
struction on road work of the depart
ment of agriculture bureau of public
roads, arrived at Tonopah, according
to the Bonanza, direct from the Jack
son Hole country in northwestern
Wyoming for the purpose of begin
ming construction of a link in the
chain of roads connecting the forest
reserves. The work will be taken up
at McKinney's Tanks, where the Bir-
ney fourteen mile contract leaves of
and will be continued over the Moni-
tor range for distance of fifteen
miles.
Mr.. Welty has just finished ten
miles of mountain road leading to the
Yellowstone park from Wyoming and
is considered one of the most COM
petent engineers in the service. The
first part of his equipment has ar
rived, consisting of two carloads OF
tractors, scrapers. caterpillars and
graders. Part of the equipment will
be a forty horsepower caterpillar ca
pable of doing very effective work.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
ASSESSMENT WORK
SUSPENSION IN 1918

The text of House joint resolution
No. 241, suspending assessment work
on mining claims, is as follows:
Resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress as
sembled, That the provision of Sec
ton 232A of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, which requires on
each mining claim located, and until
a patent has been issued therefore,
not less than $1O0 worth of labor to
be performed, or improvements ag-
gregating such amount to be made
each year, be, and the same is hereby
suspended as to all mining claims in
the United States, including Alaska.
during the calendar year 1919; pro-
vided, That every claimant of any
such mining claim in order to obtain
the benefits of this resolution shall
file or cause to be filed in the office
where the location notice or certifi-
cate is recorded, on or before Decem-
Der 81, 1919, notice of his desire to
hold said mining claim under this
resolution"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
FALLON OIL { GAS CO.
IS Down ZOO FEET

With an Okell drilling rig, which
tary, churn, and core drill, already
set up and working, and with car
load of casing and cable on the lot,
the Fallon Oil & Gas Company is pre-
pared to drill Immediately to depth
of 1900 feet, at which it expects to
find oil, according to the statement of
IC. H. Berry, superintendent of the
company, who was in Winnemucca
yesterday talking business with c. f.
Fishburn, local representative of the
concern.
Mr.. Berry was highly enthusiastic
over the prospects of the Fallon oil
field, and incidentally he declared that
his company, the Fallon Oil & Gas, is
in advance of all others at the work
in that field. Berry invites anyone
to go down to Fallon and inspect the
field and see what they are doing. He
offers. he says, to pay expenses to
Il dllOl anu ICtuln OhC toh 0h'
cover that his representations are not
correct.
The "hole" of the Fallon Oil & Gas
Company is now down about 200 feet.
Progress will be rapid, and soon there
will be something definite to say re-
garding this much talked-of PROPOSE
| tion.
Carson City, also, is experiencing
an oil excitement and several State
officials and business men were re-
ported locating oil land in that yicin-
ity last Tuesday and yesterday. The
land finding particular favor with the
ops lies about eight miles south of
Carson The rush started when oil
sands and shales were brought in.
Tests showed evidences of oil, and
locating was taken up in earnest by
nearly every man who could get away
from town.
Last Tuesday the Dangberg COM
pany completed the leasing of several
| thousand acres of old patented land
for oil investigation, while those hold
| ing patented lands close in are jeal-
ously guarding their rights. Auto
mobiles with equipment for prospect
| ing and supplies for several days
camping are leaving Carson frequent
| ly. While the oil discoveries were
intended to be kept secret, or at least
to be made known to but few per-
sons, the news gradually filtered to
the public of the Capital City, and 1t
resulted in a general rush to the
scene of action.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20

|. The U.S.S. California is being
launched at noon today at the Mare
Island navy yard. She will carry
twelve 14-inch guns, four torpedo
tubes, and thirty-eight smaller guns
The Californias dimensions are J
Length over all. ga feet; breadth, SO
feet; draft. 80 feet 5 inches; displace-
ment, $4,000 tons. Many visitors from
all over the Coast territory have jour-
neyed to San Francisco to witness
this launching.
This latest superdreadnaught to be
added to Uncle Sans navy will be
driven through the water by electric
power. Instead of the steam tur-
bines being mechanically coupled or
geared to the propeller shaft, cleo
tricity is used to transmit the power
from engines to propellers.
What a contrast between the new
and the old! What difference be-
tween the days of Ben Hur, when
galley slaves toiled increasingly to
drive the ship forward, and the mod
ern days when electricity performs
the task so easily! Admiral Benson.
chief of naval operations, speaking
of electricity for driving ships, said:
"As soon as the merit of this system
becomes known commercially, electric
propulsion will prove it's practical
value in the merchant marine just as
thoroughly as it has in the navy. l
regard electricity as the most eco
nomical motive power, from every
viewpoint, so far developed for large
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

Your taxes for the year 1919 are
now due and payable at the office of
the County Treasurer of Humboldt
county. Unless all poll taxes and hall
of other taxes are paid on or before
Monday, December Is, 1919, all will be
delinquent and Is per cent delin-
quency will be added in accordance
with law. The second installment will
be delinquent on Monday, June Z,
1920, after which penalties and cost
of advertising will be added accord
ing to law. Checks will be accepted
subject to collection. When remitting
please refer to Roll Number. Make
remittances payable to
CORA NJ. HOENSTINE,
N20w4 Treasurer.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
GREAT SUPERDREADhAUeHT CALIFORNIA
SuDES|NTO WATERAT MARE ISLAND TO-DAY
COAST GREAT PRIDE ELECTRIC
PROPELLED NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Salient POINTS

units" The United States navy has
adopted electricity as the standard
means of propulsion for capital ships
of the navy.
The electrical propelling machinery
on the California is really a speed
reducing device, and performs a
junction somewhat like that of a gear
shift on an ordinary automobile.
Screw propellers are most efficient at
slow speed. whereas steam turbines
are most efficient at high speed. On
large ships electric speed reduction
has proven more feasible, economical
and practical than speed reduction
by mechanical gears.
Energy to drive the California will
be taken on board in the form of
underneath the boilers. The nozzles
are adjusted to mix air with the oil
so that it will burn completely with
out smoke. However, if it is desired
to throw a smoke screen, by merely
increasing the oil supply an inky
blackness will vomit from the Cali
fornia's single smokestack.
There are to be eight steam boil
ers, each in a separate water-tight
compartment. These boilers trans
form the energy of the oil into that
of steam. From the boilers, steam
pipes lead to two Curtis steam tur-
bines. each capable of developing 49,
900 horsepower A steam turbine is
a remarkably simple piece of machin-
CONTINUED on Page Ski
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
MINING ACTIVITY IN
SUNSHINE DISTRICT

The Sunshine Mines Company OF
today in the office of the county clerk
Capital stock of the company is now
placed at $4,000, in shares of par
value of 81 each, all actually paid in
by Owen w. Jones.
The mine is at what is known as
the old Sunshine camp, across the
valley from the Sonoma ranch, about
seventeen miles south of Winnemucca.
1t is in the Sunshine mining district
and the claims are known as the
Chloride, Chloride No. /. Chloride No.
2, Chloride No. 8 and Chloride No. A..
The incorporators are Owen w.
Jones, w. G. Adamson, and A. Living
stone. BY their incorporation certifi-
cate they are authorized to conduct
all activities usually engaged in by
mining corporations. The stock is
worcestershire.
Rumors are in circulation regard
ing rich strike by j. ]. Williams in
the Chaffee district, just over the hill
from Sunshine. w. Armstrong is
operating Williams claims for the
owner. 1t is understood the Williams
claims are alongside or near the old
Black Hole mine, from which $2S0,000
gold was taken out of glory hole
in wears gone by
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
CACTUS NEVADA IS
Financed: S280,O00

Joseph F. Nenzel has financed the
Cactus Nevada Milling Company for
$2S0,00O, according to reports received
by the Goldfield Tribune from reliable
sources, and quick moves have been
made by mining men to secure op-
tions on inside claims in the district,
as all ground of Importance has al
ready been located. At the time the
company was organized it was stated
that associated with Nenzel were Her.
bert Humphrey, ]. H. Hunt of Reno,
William Koenig of the Humboldt bank
of San Francisco, and j. E. McCreary
of the First National Bank of Berke-
ley. The deal through which the
claims known as the Bailey group"
were taken over last May involved a
price rumored at the time to have
been 100000 cash and stock in the
Cactus Nevada. One of the men in
terested in the company said shortly
after it had been formed that Nenzel's
engineer had found in the Bailey
group something that convinced him
it would be worth at least 100000 to
find what the vein looked like at
greater depth.
Bailey had reached a depth of $50
feet in opening the main vein in fif-
teen years of work and had sunk two
shafts to 100 feet, with numerous
shallower shafts and surface trenches.
1t is said the vein, twenty feet wide in
places, can be traced on the surface
for total of 5000 feet, with 1000 feet
in the claims of the Cactus Nevada.
When the ground was taken over it
was stated by men connected with the
company that assays showing the av-
erage value of the ore on the outcrop
of the vein to be $25 per ton had been
secured for 1000 feet along the strike.
Since then the claims have been
thoroughly prospected and it is re-
ported that a large tonnage of ore
averaging S25 has been developed.
The ore contains silver and gold In
the general ratio of ten ounces silver
to one of gold and the vein. silicified
rhyolite, is in a contact between rhyo-
lite and andesite. The silver is in
sulphide form.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
ADDITIONAL LOCAL

B. Erquiaga of Amos was an arrival
yesterday.
j. d. Mercer came here from Hum
boldt yesterday.
NJ. Reinhart expects to leave tonight
for San Francisco.
B. F. Cooley and daughter returned
to INLAY this afternoon.
e. Reinhart returned yesterday
from San Francisco. Mrs. Reinhart
remained there.
Mrs. B. Critchley of Reno, former
resident of Winnemucca, is visiting
Mrs. E. NJ. Stidd here.
@
Mrs. Electa Summers is engaged
as stenographer and bookkeeper in
The Silver State office.
Mrs. G. A. Byers came in from
Amos yesterday, en- route to Gold
Circle to visit her parents.
@
Frank Bengoa, Clito Achabal and
Santiago Gavica, McDernitt sheep
men, came in yesterday after supplies.
V. II. Brown of San Francisco, rep
resenting the American-La France
Fire Engine Company. is Winnie
mucca visitor
Word comes from Mr.. and Mrs. j.
]. Bum, former residents. that they
are nicely located in Austin, Texas.
from which place Mr.. Bum is work
ing as a travelling salesman.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry" Hearn of Nc
Dermitt arrived in Winnemucca yes
terday and expect to depart for the
Coast this afternoon. They will stop
for a couple of weeks in Reno.
Mrs Anna Campbell, who has been
employed for long time at the Over
land cafe. expects to leave tonight.
with her son. for her home at Ian
caster, Pennsylvania They will go
by way of San Francisco, spending
two weeks there. and then over the
Santa Fe to home.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
CHINAMAN KNOCKED OUT

Some excitement was created yes
terday afternoon when a Chinaman.
riding on the running board of Nc
Carthy's transfer car. lost his hold
and was thrown to the street. The
accident occurred on the corner of
Fourth and Bridge street, as the cal
was turning the corner For several
moments the Chinaman was uncon-
scious and spectators gained the i'm
preston he had been killed. Regain
ing his senses. he was taken to the
hospital, where it was found he had
sustained minor cuts and bruises.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
BABY CREATES COMMOTION IN
OFFICE OF ELKO INDEPENDENT

If YOU find anything wrong with
the makeup of today's paper, keep it
under your hat We can't be blamed,
or bothered. Everybody in the shop
is smoking big fat cigars and the fore
mans pay check looks like Hooli-
gan's hat. Yesterday morning early,
Mrs. Walter ]. Armstrong presented
the Independent man with nine-and-
a quarter-pound girl, and Walter is
setting heads at the bottom of reading
matter and want ads in the editorial
column today. But we haven't said a
word. He'll be all right by next is
sue.-[Elko Independent.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
QUICKSILVER SHIPMENT

What is said to be the largest ship
ment of quicksilver ever sent from a
Nevada camp went out from Nina
last week. 1t consisted of eighty
seven TASKS from the Ferry-Bedford
lease and twelve TASKS from the
Drew-Bugg property. both in the Pi-
lot Mountain cinnebar district, some
twelve miles east of Nina. The total
value of the shipment at the present
price of quicksilver is about s7,400.-
Walker Lake Bulletin.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
HE "SAW THE COUNTRY

Albert Remusat. twelve years old.
arrived home yesterday after a con-
siderable journey for one of his age
alone. Albert has been in the Ha-
waiian Islands. He is the son of f. F.
Remusat of Golconda. He says the
ship on which he returned was nine
days making the passage from Homo
lulu to San Francisco.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
MUST GO TO CARSON

District Attorney Powell will go to
Carson tomorrow to appear in the
Federal court in the liquor cases of
Y. Arrascada and Ida May McGee.
The latter is a case from Lander
county. where the woman was arrest
ed at Battle Mountain. On a writ of
habeas corpus the case was turned
over to the sixth district.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
F. & A. NJ.

Called communication of Winnie
mucca Lodge No. 10, F. & A. NJ. this
Thursday evening at 1880 o'clock.
Work in f. A. degree. Visiting broth
ers cordially invited to attend.
Friday evening, NJ NJ. degree, and
refreshments.
By order of the w. NJ.
CHRIS. WOLF, Sec.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
DISTRICT COURT TOMORROW

If District Judge Callahan returns
from Elko in time. and if the jury is
present. the case of Pearl Greinstine
again Nose Geinstine will be taken
up in district court tomorrow. 1t was
reported at the court house today ths
A. H. Dickson. one of the jurors. i
i'll and perhaps cannot attend court
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
THREE HUNDRED LOCATIONS

More than three hundred mining
location notices were recorded in the
Mineral county recorders Office dur
ing the month of October Practically
all of them were oil locations in the
Pine Grove and Coal Valley districts.
-[Walker Lake Bulletin.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
ASSAY OFFICE FOR ARROWHEA

The Union assay office, with a.
Harbaugh of Tonopah as manage
has been opened at the new camp g
Arrowhead. The great amount o
work and prospecting now being COZ
Quoted in the district was the incer
tive for opening the new Office at a.
tfme.-ITonopah Times.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
WEATHER REPORT

For the twenty-four hours ended at
am. today:
Highest temperature yesterday. AS.
Lowest this morning. "a.
Mean temperature yesterday. 80.
Normal temperature yesterday, sc.
Precipitation, OIL inch.
west.
Weather forecast for the twenty-four
hours ending pm. tomorrow.
Fair tonight and Friday; continued
cold.
RAY L. FISHER, Observer.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
DANNY SULLIVAN is HERE

State Auditor d. ]. Sullivan is at
the Humboldt court house today max
ing a supplemental audit OF the coun-
ty treasurer's books necessary in
the process of turning the office over
from one officer 20 another. He ex-
poets to conclude the work tomorrow.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20

One bottle of Adlerika will convince
you that it is a most excellent stom-
ach and bowel remedy. For sale at
Stephensons.-[Ad advertisement.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20

Do you know that Stephenson's
have a most complete line of all Toi-
let Soaps? Why not purchase your
SuSVly observation-disclosures
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
WORK STARTED ON
TRAIL TO L0vEL0CK

That road work of lasting nature
is to be commenced Immediately on
the Overland Trail between Lovelock
and Winnemucca is the good word
brought here this morning from Love-
lock by Don Cooper, who today con-
tinued his returned trip from the
Pershing county seat to the Cooper &
Uniacke ranch near Kennedy, sixty
miles south of Winnemucca.
A contract was let by the State
highway commission, at Lovelock a
few days ago. according to Cooper's
understanding of the matter, calling
for construction of seventeen miles of
graded road with a five-inch topping
of gravel, sprinkled with water and
rolled. from Lovelock to a point
seventeen miles east of that city,
which would be in the neighborhood
of Oreana.
Other contracts are to be let i'm
mediately. Cooper said he had been
told, providing for other work east of
Oreana, with the understanding that
within a short time the Overland
Trail between Lovelock and Winnie
mucca will be constructed entirely as
stated.
Booze Taken from Homes
Considerable comment is heard in
Lovelock, Cooper said, over the al
legged taking by peace officers there of
stocks of drinkables put away by
men of foresight and means. 1t was
said there. according to Cooper. that
the constable had confscated the
hilarity water in private homes and
that several losers have banded to-
gether to commence suit for damages
to the extent of $4,000.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20

The circulation of The Silver State
covers Humboldt Co. like a blanket"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20

The Largest Circulation in Humboldt
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-09-06
(TO BE CONTINUED
Jews NOT EASILY CONVERTED
Sermon to Which They Were Annually
Forced to Listen Failed OF Its
Purpose.

In John Evelyn's diary of january
7. 1645, there Is notation of pecu-
liar ceremony which seems to have
been of annual occurrence at Rome.
It was a sermon preached to a COM
pulsory congregation Of Jews, with a
view to their conversion. Mr.. Evelyn
says "they are constrained TO sit I'LL
the hour is done, but it is with so
much malice in their countenances,
splitting, humming, coughing and mo-
ton, that it is almost Impossible they
should hear a word from the preacher
A conversion is very rare"
The Zionist movement, which mas
gone on for years and received a new
impetus by the changes made in mid
die Europe as a result Of the worlo
war was outlined in poem written
by Robert Browning during his resi-
dence in Italy, probably about the MID
die of the nineteenth century He
calls it "Holy Cross Day"
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-09-06
PRICES or FOOD
BEING FORCED DOWN

Washington-Prices are beginning
10 decline in various parts Of the coun-
try but the slump has not yet gath
cred momentum sufficient to affect
purchases being made for immediate
use, according to reports to the de-
partment OF justice.
Attorney General Palmer, asked how
soon results could be expected from
the campaign to reduce the cost of
living, said all the government wanted
was a fair chance to show what can
be done to take the artificial initiation
out of the market. He said officials
were well pleased with the success 30
far attained, and that cumulative re-
suits were expected when congress
enacts amendments to the food control
law, by which criminal penalties can
be imposed on profiteers and hoarders.
Propaganda, which apparently Is
nationwide, on the PIT of shopkeepers
seeking to induce purchases now on
the pretext that prices will be mate
rally higher next season, was con-
demned by Mr.. Palmer as one certain
thing which would make prices con-
tinue rising IL needed.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-09-06
PEACE COMMISSION
EXPENSE INCREASES
President Asks Congress For
1925, 900 For Bills Up
To January, 1920.

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