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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1920
Page
4
The Eureks Sentinel marks fifty years since its 1870 founding by A Skillman and Dr L McKenny. After Skillman’s 1900 death, E A Skillman led the paper, which portrays itself as fair, reliable, and closely tied to Eureka’s revival, mine developments, and rising ore shipments in the Eureka mining district.
Nevada census figures show Esmeralda County counts and a big drop from 1810 to 2410, while Reno court actions appoint an editor to remove Sheriff Ferrer per a Supreme Court order. Alfalfa crop in Carson Valley faces cutworms, water rate hikes hit Reno and Sparks, and beet sugar acreage targets expand. Escapee recaptured from Carson prison. local deaths include John Arthur Clark and George Latting. Verdi hatchery shipments push 60,000 trout fry to Elko County streams with plans to restock 37 streams.
Charles Butters, California mining figure, travels to New York to meet with company officials and to advance a western Mexican silver producers association. He envisions coordinated markets with governments to coin silver, arguing existing buyers push prices down while producers lack protection. He cites Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, and Salvador shifts away from silver to paper or nickel coinage, urging organized production, market creation, and government coinage to sustain demand and keep silver off the open market.
A gas explosion at 2:20 A.M. in Reno devastated the Oliverin Garrigy garage on Front Street causing $10,000 in damages. The blast shattered windows citywide, damaged the city hall Majestic theatre and Y M C A, and injured no one seriously though police sergeant was blown from a doorway. The entire event occurred as a property owner speculated gas had been leaking since Saturday with the blast halting clocks and disabling dozens of phones.
The John Landa Company announces four months old lambs at 25 cents per pound in four pound or larger lots for cash starting Wednesday August 11 at the Main Street market on South Main street Eureka. Lambs fed on green alfalfa and slaughtered twice weekly. Whole carcasses 22 and a half cents per pound.
A December report by R. ft. Sowers to Governor Boyle details July police raids for liquor violations. Three offenders were sentenced to imprisonment, others held on bail. Raids targeted Alamo hotel and Senate bar in Ely, Ethel Craft’s house in the restricted district, and Colombo hotel in Reno with liquor seized. A booze-filled auto was stopped on public highway between Holbraak and Gardnerville.
Deputy Sheriff Van Alstine remitted 1335.50 to Lander County for Eureka July licenses. Eureka Brass Band and fire department paraded on Main Street to celebrate new hose carriage. E and P railroad shipped 400 tons ore to Utah smelters weekly and 1750 tons in July. Archibald Skillman, founder of the Eureka Sentinel, died August 1 1900 in San Francisco. Old plant at Eureka Consolidated and Richmond dismantled, with sixty tons of remaining material. County assessor records show gross output of Eureka Consolidated 17,480,929.68 and Richmond 15,713,975.08 from 1873 to 1900, with net values 5,206,277.35 and 4,914,169.61 and taxes paid 120,333.86 and 119,044.27 respectively.
After 18 years of litigation over ownership, the Mount Hopkins property in Mountain City Nevada is again producing. Mr and Mrs Mark Hopkins of Salt Lake City own it. A nine stamp mill is active and the mine began operating seven weeks after discovery before a long idling period ended by court decisions.
Robert McCay Green, famed inventor of the ice cream soda, died recently in Philadelphia. At the Franklin Institute exposition two years before the centennial he devised the mix to outpace competitors, and his sales soared to over $200 daily by the exposition’s end. Sentinel subscription paid in advance.
Wholesale prices for beef potatoes and flour fell signaling a return to prewar food pricing. Daniels state market director notes beef on foot is cheaper than in 1914 while packers handle similar volumes but sell less. Potatoes trade at 3.25 to 3.50 a car or lot and flour fell to 13.90 wholesale. Onions remain costly as grocers push prices despite low grower returns.
Notice of application 6225 by Angelo Depaoli Eureka County to change the point of diversion and place of use for Simpson Creek waters. Existing Italian Ranch Ditches irrigate 18.26 acres SWYNW, 17.23 acres NWY% SW%, 0.5 acre SWHSBWK in Sec 31 and adjacent lands. Proposed diversion at NWSE and NEWNW 1, Sec 16, and use on 133.5 acres in NWY SEY EY NW Ma, Sec 16, 9, Sec 5, with irrigation April 1 to Oct 1. water not returned to stream. State Engineer J G Scrugham. Publications Aug 7 and Sept 4, 1920.
Department of the Interior notices Joa quina Lorequi heir of Manuel Oxcor of Biko Nevada filed intent to prove desert land claim No 02680 for the BW4% SW% of section 2 township 18 north range 57 east Mount Diablo Meridian. The testimony will be taken October 7, 1920, before the Register and Receiver. Witnesses named: Domingo Recatume Celso Madarieta Gilbert Nostrosa Ernest C Boston. First publication Aug 7 1920 last publication Sept 4 1920.
A Sparks circular to Pacific clubs declares discounts cut from thirty-three and one third percent to twenty five percent. Prices for subs and dishes rise and an increase takes effect Tuesday at Sparks Inlay and other stations in the state. Railway workers object to higher living costs but the club asserts the federal wage board increase supports the change.
Chicago reports that prohibition officers have confiscated liquor valued at about 2,000,000 since January 16. Major A Dalrymple leads the enforcement in the district as time and liquor values are tallied and reported.
The American Institute of Meat Packers announced that wholesale beef prices declined by an average of ten to fifteen percent from June 26 to July 24. The report emphasizes a broad drop across beef categories during the period.
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