09 Oct 1869
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Newspaper
Elko Independent
Location
Elko, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1869
Page
1
Fred Hutchins reports a booming Mineral Hill area with two stores four saloons a hotel and lodging house. Live Yankee Company mines rich ore but ships halt to Austin due to haul cost while new lodes north of the hill yield ore. a ten-stamp mill near the mines could attract investors as timber and water abound and a shipment of ten loads is planned next week.
An acquaintance contracts four thousand head of beef cattle to be delivered at Cheyenne on July 1. He also provides three hundred Californian mustang horses at fifty dollars each, receiving cattle at twelve dollars per head. The horses will be sent South to be traded for cotton, with racial terms implied. The piece critiques the scheme as novel yet predatory, noting the creator’s aim to profit from cotton and credit while exploiting others.
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