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Newspaper
Elko Independent
Location
Elko, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1918
Page
3
Letter from Lance Deady describes safe arrival in France and good health. He notes a comfortable camp, varied customs he finds interesting, and copper money with ten centimes per piece. Mentions YMCA aid, uncertain future posting, and government wires for news.
An April filing from E Washington Lerracks in New York through Repl. Draft and AEP details an appeal process. The document references an appeal action and involvement of New York based entities.
Government set wheat price at 2.20 at Pacific Coast ports will stand despite higher freight and insurance costs. A telegram from the Hoover administration released here says the shipping board may raise rates to 3.50 per ton from Pacific to Atlantic, but the food administration notes the matter is under consideration.
In Seattle on July 1 Davie Loss Divis aged four years is repeatedly found by police after being reported lost by her parents. She has been picked up ten times in recent weeks and recalls being given five cents to buy milk before riding a streetcar to a bathhouse bench. When asked how she expects to return home she tells officers that police always take her home in an auto.
Fernando Goicovchea of North Fork Elko Nevada applies for permission to appropriate public waters from Undamed Creek and springe at Lot 4 Sec 1 T42 N R4.55.2 M.D. and other references for dam construction and seven tenths cubic feet per second to convey to Lots 5 and 6 for irrigation and domestic use from April through October each year. Water not returning to stream. State Engineer Seymour Case signs. Notice published June 28 1918 with last publication July 28 1918.
Union Land and Care Company seeks state permission to divert water from Jack Creek in Washoe County for irrigation using a dam and ditches. The plan streams 30 cubic feet per second to lands in sections 4 14 15 22 23 25 26 27 and 34 35 36 in township 41 north range 62 east. Public notices ran from June 10 to July 10, 1918.
Henry Hagar Sr of Cave Creek Elko County Nevada filed in the Land Office to enter the SEQ SW of Section 1 Township 24 N Range 60 E Mount Diablo Meridian under the 2306 2307 Revised Statutes. Protests or objections based on mineral character or any reason must be filed by July 9 1918. J B Robbins Register. First publication June 1918. Last publication July 5 1918.
The Board of School Trustees of Metropolis School District Elko County Nevada invites sealed bids for repairing the roof and schoolhouse per bid specs on file in the clerk's office. Bids due noon July 1? 1918, sealed to the Clerk and endorsed Sealed Bid for School House Repairs with a 5 percent certified check. The contract will go to the lowest and best bidder, with right to reject any or all bids. Dated June 27 1918.
A desirable stock ranch of about 1113 acres near North Fork Elko County Nevada, owned by the Joel L Blackburn estate. Interested buyers should contact Frank B Humphrey Executor via Henderson Banking Co Biko County or Washoe County Bank Reno Nevada by July 21.
Notice invites sealed bids by the Elko County Board of Commissioners for finishing the basement room of the Elko County Court House formerly used by the High School Manual Training Class. Bids due August 6, 1918, 10 A.M., with 10 percent certified check and bond. Board may reject all bids. First published June 7, 1918. Last publication July 8, 1918.
Notion of Application for Permiasion to Appropriate the Public Watera cot the State of Nevada. 10th day of June, 1918. In accordance Statutes of 1913, one Ercolina Dotta, Engineer of Nevada for permission to appropriate the public waters of the State of Nevada. Such appropria
State Engineer announces a proposed irrigation and domestic water project. It would build a dam and ditch from Hot Creek at SWY SWX section 19 to Wie SW section 19 with a one cubic foot per second conveyance via laterals to SW NW section 19 in T45N R56E. The system would operate April to October and not return water to the stream. First publication June 22, 1913.
Public notice for sealed proposals for a portable gravel loading machine to load trailers hauled by tractor. Bids due by 2 PM Sunday in July 1918, must include plan and machinery details with a 10 percent certified check. Board may reject all bids. June 5, 1918. E P Carville, Clerk. Elko County Nevada. Also notice of Ray S Frazer Desert Land claim final proof set for July 11, 1913 with witnesses listed.
Notice states Pearl Town of Lee Nevada will prove final proof on land in S W and S E of Section 34 Township 31 N Range 66 E Mount Diablo Meridian with witnesses listed and dates. Also notice of mineral patent application by Lynn Big Six Mining Company for 1500 feet of Big Six No 3 Lode in Lynn Mining District Eureka County Nevada with location details and survey notes.
Fragmented survey lines describe corner stones quartzite posts and scribed markers for a 20 059 acre tract. The text also includes a Nevada summons from Elko Fourth Judicial District in the Perry Bush v Fern Bush case with dates of May and July 1918 and the clerk M J Keith.
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