The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-04-08

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creeks.
Operations at the Copper Canyon
placer properties resumed April 1st.
A new dredging plant has been in
stalled.
Joseph b. Kelley. so years old and
q former resident OF Phoebe. was
fatally injured recently In an auto ac-
cident in San Francisco.
A municipal camp ground for auto
tourists at the top of conjunction Of
the Lincoln and Midland trail, at Ely,
will be built at a cost of about $4,000
The Simon silver-Lead Company's
mill is producing a ton of G
trate for every five and one-half tons
Of ore and is reported saving 81 per
cent of the silver and "a per cent of
the lead.
The Lincoln Highway passing
through Fallon. Austin, Eureka and
Ely. has been given sanction az a
route secondary In Importance to the
Victory Highway. by the Reno Cham
Der of Commerce.
The 20-ton mill of the Hy Gold
Mining Company. operating two miles
from Rochester. in Limerick canyon,
is almost completed. The machinery
is all on the ground and will be set
up In a few days.
F. r. Sprague. formerly cashier of
the Quinn River Bank at McDermitt,
is to be the cashier OF the Wells State
Bank, which is to reopen on April 1.
A. c. Olmstead is president and H.
H. Coryell vice-president.
At the request of the district at
torney Of Elko County, Attorney Gen.
eral Fowler will confer with officials
Of that county on measures to be tax
en- in prosecution of officers charged
with dereliction of duty at that place.
White Pine County farmers are
pooling orders for strawberry plants
this Spring and intend planting q
large acreage with this fruit during
this season, according to word from
Thos. r.. King. county agent OF that
county.
Reductions In water rates under the
Newlands irrigation project. ap-
proved by the Department of the In
terror. will. in many cases. reduce
farmers water bills to half the for
mer charges. according to a Fallon
dispatch.
Bids of Belvalacqua Brothers for
several thousand feet Of sidewalks
and curbs and cutters for Reno were
rejected by the city council because
Of a recent ruling of Attorney Gen.
eral Fowler to the effect that a con-
tract for city work could not be given
to an alien.
From Lovelock comes word that
two tractors are breaking land on
the Big Five Ranch. 1t Is expected
that 1000 acres will be seeded in al
aflfa. A large force of men are work
ing at clearing irrigation bitches and
charging channels through which ir-
rigation waters will flow.
Nevada's 1922 baseball season was
ushered In last Sunday when a game
was played between the Carson City
team and a team from the State pris-
on. The game was played at Car
son City. The city nine defeated the
prison team in a closely fought con-
test by a score OF 10 to 8.
Eiy's recent food was caused by
the giving way of the Robinson Dry
Farm dam. up Robinson Greek, ac-
cording to a report of City Engineer
Willard OF Reno. 1t is estimated that
nearly a million and a half of cubic
feet of water escaped from the reser-
voir empounded by the dam.
A silver-black fox shot a couple of
days g by a member Of a Southern
Pacific switching crew,near Truckee.
is believed 10 De n OF the pair OF
costly animals which escaped from
the fox farm at Lake Tahoe two
years ago last January. The animal.
the Carson News says. was purchased
in the east for $1,000.
Dance programs, hand bills an
n~ouncing entertainments, special
meetings. graduation exercises. and
events of this nature. are being col
lected in Carson City by Charles F.
Cuts. who is engaged in Nevada his
torical work. In later years this col
lection will serve to give future gen.
erations some idea Of living condi-
lions at the present.
Dick Brown, an escape from the
Navada Industrial School at ElkO. |