The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-10-07
in YEARS GONE BY
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
(From The Silver State Files)

returned yesterday from the north
ern part of the county. Mr.. Davis
bought 1000 head of wethers from
P. N. Silve and will ship them to
Kansas City from this point.
j. ID. Bradshaw arrived from
Paradise yesterday with wagon
load of porkers for George Berk
and several tons of grain for E.
Reinhart Co.
A. w. Lindsay arrived from San
Francisco yesterday to make a ship
ment of 600 head of Miller & Lux
cattle, which arrived from the Black
ranch yesterday.
d. w. Morgan returned yesterday
from a prospecting trip in the north
ern part of the county.
J. Springer arrived yesterday from
Unionville with wagon load Of
fruit.
Another rainstorm set in last night
and continued for several hours.
The total amount of precipitation
for the twenty-four hours ending at
one o'clock this morning was half an
inch, the greatest amount since Feb
ruary A of this year.
J. w. Brim of Willows, Calf,
who recently purchased the DEMO &
Deegan mines, arrived yesterday,
accompanied by P. S. Becker and
William Liddell, experienced mining
men, who will be connected with the
future working of the property. A
new Huntington crusher, with ca
pacity Of forty tons daily, and a
thirty-fve horsepower engine and
boiler, together with all other requi-
site machinery for mill, have been
shipped from San Francisco and will
be taken to the mine and put to
work with all possible dispatch. 1t
is expected that this new mill will
be running in six weeks. Work has
been progressing under the super
vision of j. H. Deegan ever since
the purchase was made, and the
mine shows up better than ever
before.
TEN YEARS AGO
Mrs. Minnie Hartong, who has
been visiting with her father, S. A
Dedman of the Winnemucca market
for the past week, returned to her
home in Portland, Oregon, Sunday
She went by Salt Lake City, over
the Western Pacific.
Game Warden II. L. Bonnifield
G.. w. McCook, J. R. Turner and
Chris Wolfe, Jr., returned yesterday
from a six days hunting trip in the
northern part Of the county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Nelson will
leave this afternoon for Reno. All
Lovelock they will be joined by Mrs
w. T. Jenkins Of Battle Mountain
who went down to that town last
evening, and the party will spend
several days visiting friends in the
metropolis.
Petitions are being circulated to-
day in Winnemucca for the organi-
zation of Massey for senator club.
At noon over one hundred signatures
had been Obtained and it is expected
that before night that number will
have been increased to two hundred
Carl johnson, manager of the
Elko branch of the Golden Rule
chain of stores, spent Sunday in
Winnemucca, the guest of Manager
Morgan of the local store.
L. A. Friedman, the Lovelock
banker and mining man, was in town
today.
The board of county commission
ers met this morning as a board OF
equalization, with Chairman Havi.
land, Commissioners Stoker and
Bradshaw present. Practically the
only business transacted was adding
a number of mortgages to the per-
sonal tax rolls. An application was
presented by Prof. ]. R. Abel from
John Edwards Bray, superintendent
of public instruction, for permission
to hold a teachers institute in Win.
nemucca some time during the
month of December. Granted. A
call was made for the scrip issued
during the months of September
and October, 1910.
Undertaken Miller received WORD
this morning that Portuguese
whose name was not given, fell of
a wagon at Golconda and broke his
neck. He went down this afternoon
and will probably return with the
body tonight.
John Arambel, the Jackson noun
tain sheepman, is spending the day
in town.
Last evening the journeymen car
penters of Winnemucca, to the mum.
Der of fourteen, met at the shop OF
William Houston for the purpose OF
forming a local branch of the ma
tional union. All present signed up
and charter was sent for today.
A. S. F. Rankin of the firm OF
Gorham & Rankin, owners of the
famous Double Square" brand OF
horses, came in from Willow Point
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