United States seeks global coinage ratio for silver and gold
A U S commission abroad pushes for a revised silver to gold ratio to stabilize currency values. European powers including France show openness, with support from London Paris The Hague and Berlin. A new 31 to 1 ratio could align with actual values and aid Oriental stability. The group travels to St Petersburg to establish the basis for an international agreement.
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United States
Mexico
San Francisco
France
Orient
London
Paris
Hague
Berlin
St. Petersburg
Nevada Press Comment Calls Inquest Law Flawed
The Reno Gazette argues Nevada law on inquests after sudden or violent deaths is a graft on taxpayers. Coroners fail to glean new facts, with verdicts repeated and little knowledge gained post inquest.
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Reno
Nevada
SQUEEZING OUT THE WATER Frem a Republican
A two year span saw over a thousand million dollars of imaginary wealth vanish from Wall Street without altering real US wealth. Most losses were mental rather than material as securities were never sold, leaving only empty dreams when withdrawn. The piece notes Mex ico law and American caution in deeds.
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Frem
Wall Street
Government stamp books sell at one cent cost a third of that
Postage stamp books are sold by the Government for a cent and cost a third of that amount. So great has been the demand for them that the Government has realized a profit of 200,000 since they were introduced.
Rail accidents and bankruptcies loom in early 2008 figures
In the first quarter of 2008, 837 people died and 11,481 were injured on U S railroads. The note about stocks and bankruptcies inflating rail prices is not a matter for record.
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United States
Truckee Canal Contract Awards For Big Ditch Project
California firms win construction of sections 1 2 and 3 of the Truckee Carson irrigation canal for 900000 and 200000 respectively. The canal will span from the Truckee river to the Carson sink fifty feet wide at top thirty at bottom and will carry water to fourteen feet depth. Work begins at once with camps planned along the line and thousands of laborers to be employed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Big Ditch
A. Warren &Co
San Francisco
Truckee-Carson Irrigation Canal
B. B
A. L. Stone
Oakland
Truckee River
Carson Sink
Mining mergers and new prospecting ventures across to western states
Three Bodie mining locations have been sold to Salt Lake interests for 75000 dollars while a new shaft sinks to prospect coal deposits forty miles from Pioche Nevada. Sparks Mining Company continues sinking a shaft in Wedekind district with governor eyeing one thousand feet before drifting. Copper discoveries at Eagleville Churchill county show about 85 percent copper with 150 prospectors active. US Land Department posts tenders to survey Walker Lake Reservation six miles square for opening to location. Spokane dispatch reports Rockefeller interests fuse with Charles Sweeny to form Federal Mining and Smelting Company capitalized at 30000000 to control Coeur d Alene lead mines and start smelting. Johann A Finch from Standard and Mammoth mines handles transfer in New York.
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Piocie
Lincoln County
Sparks Mining Company
Wedekind
Eagleville
Churchill County
United States Land Department
Walker Lake Reservation
Coeur d'Alene
Spokane
Wash
Rockefeller
Charles Sweeny
Federal Mining and Smelting Company
New York
Haa
Amalgamated Copper
Johann A. Finch
Standard and Mammoth
Coeur d'Alenes
Combine
Nevada Mines See Mining Revival Patents Surge
The Nevada Surveyor General's office reports a mining patent rush since July with over 100 dollars daily paid for patent work. A thirty dollar down payment per claim has yielded patent applications for all 270 claims, indicating renewed mining activity in Nevada as about 500 dollars of work per claim is typically required before patent.
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Nevada
Nevada Surveyor General's Office
Alternative writ issued in Tonopah murder case
The Supreme Court in Carson City issued an alternative writ directing Nye County Sheriff Cushing to show cause why he failed to serve a warrant from a Tonopah Justice of the Peace in the Smith murder case. Cushing had instead served a warrant from Belmont and allowed Smith to be released on $2,000 bond after a preliminary examination. Tonopah residents express strong indignation.
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Supreme Court
Carson City
Cushing
Nye County
Justice of the Peace of
Tonopah
Smith
Dunu
Belmont
Joseph Marzen
Lovelock
Humboldt County
Marzen
Nevada
Sacramento
J. A. Yerington
St. Louis
Frank Smith
Walter Dunn
Grand Jury
Liberty
John Cathcart
Olympic Club
San Francisco
Nevada Supreme Court
Miners Union elects Burke and McDonough leaders at Stateline
Andrew J. Burke once author of the Eight Hour Law and Lincoln County Assembly man and B. McDonough assistant clerk of the Assembly were chosen President and Vice President of the Miners Union formed last week at Stateline Utah.
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Andrew J. Burke
Lincoln County
B. ©. McDonough
Minere’ Union
Stateline
Utah
Sale of Lovelock Ranch Ends With 240 Acres Sold
Lovelock Tritone reports John O Kane sold his home ranch to Alex Borland for 15000 dollars covering 240 acres in the valley and described as the most important real estate transaction in the area for some time.
Case Submitted to Supreme Court on Eight Hour Law
The case against the Eight Hour Law passed by the last Legislature was argued and submitted to the Supreme Court on Monday. A decision is expected in two to three months.
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Supreme Court
Western Pacific to Run Salt Lake City Line Within Two Years
San Francisco dispatch reports Western Pacific chief engineer George Dillman stating construction will begin near Salt Lake within ninety days. Backed by a wealthier, independent promoter group, the line will mirror the San Francisco Ogden route in length with low grades, no snow sheds, and access to rich Nevada ore districts. The project, costing about 25 million to complete, is pitched as a bona fide business venture not a newspaper scheme.
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San Francisco
Augusta
George 8. Dillman
Western Pacific Railroad
City
Salt Lake
Southern Pacific
Ogden
Beckwith Pass
Reno, Ney
Salt Lake City
Nevada
Sierra Nevada Range
Beckwith
Western Pacific
Here
Disease Killing Cattle Near Austin
A large number of cattle are dying near Big Creek twelve miles south of Austin from a disease mystifying local stockmen. The ailment affects fat cattle and poor alike, causing the neck to draw to one side and the legs to stiffen before death. Some believe the disease was carried from Mason valley by cattle fed there last winter.
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Austin
Big Creek
Mason Valley
Young assumes command of United States Army in 1903
Major General Samuel B Young takes command on the statutory retirement of Lieutenant General Nelson A Miles. Young began as an enlisted man in 1861 and will serve five months as commanding general before reaching the age limit on January 9 1904. Freighters quit Tonopah. A cavalcade of big freight teams led by Mr Prentice of Sacramento leaves Tonopah after a year of freighting, loading barley and hay for the road.
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Samuel B. Young
United States Army
Nelson A. Miles
Twelfth
Pennsylvania Infantry
General Young
Tonopah
John
Prentice
Sacramento
Gardnerville
Destructive Reno Fire Destroys Block on Winter Street
A Wednesday morning blaze in Reno leveled or damaged every building in the block bounded by Second and Third streets and Winter and Washington streets. The fire began at James Talbot’s stable, with total losses about 12 000 dollars and insured for 6 000 dollars.
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Reno
Winter
Washington Streets
James Talbot
Soperand
Water in Carson river levery and guard over ditches nightly
State news reports continued vigilance as water flows into the Carson River with Italians guarding their ditches nightly. Rev Father Mahoney longtime Reno Catholic leader died at Satter Creek California. Various Nevada figures attend to stock, law, and state fair matters with several deaths and legal proceedings noted.
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Carson River
Father Mahoney
Reno Catholic
Satter Creek
Cal
Baldwin Repeats Buy In Sunset Copper Venture
Baldwin the New York broker who financed dividends while selling treasury stock in the California Nevada bubble plans to reimburse more than a thousand shareholders by giving them stock in the Sunset Copper Mining Company of Everett Washington in the reorganized venture. The Sunset firm, long viewed as a legitimate mining enterprise, lacks funds but has a solid property, and with retained management and improved supervision could meet the hopes of mining men who believe in its potential.
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Gould
Harriman
Ho Baldwin
New York
Treasury
Sunset Copper Mining Company
Everett
Washington
Sid
Sunset Company
Baldwin
Grand Prix Victory for Vanderbilt horse in Paris and world news
Sunday in Paris saw W. K. Vanderbilt's Alpha with Nash Turner win the Grand Prix du Cercle worth 20000. Far in the U S Army Miles retires at 64. Charles Blue faced murder charges in Carson ignored by the local grand jury. Flour prices rise twenty cents a barrel in San Francisco milling districts due to higher wheat grades. General Miles becomes president of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association. Mabel MecKinley abandons concert career at relatives’ urging. Jane Lathrop Stanford plans a two year world tour aboard the Ventura. Tropical worm disease strikes Westphalian miners harming workers who lack sunlight. Russia and Austria recall Servian officers after imperial assassinations. Corbett-Jeffries ticket sells out in San Francisco, heavyweights expected to fill a record arena with gate receipts near 50000. Cripple Creek miners strike. most mines closed as union action spreads to mills and smelters.
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W. K. Vanderbilt
Alpha
Nash Turner
Paris
Nelson A. Miles
United States Army
Charles Blue
Carson
Ormsby County
San Francisco
General Miles
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association
H. B. Baer
Mabel MecKinley
Jane Lathrop Stanford
Leland Stanford
Sixth Annual Report of the National Live Stock Association
The sixth annual report of the National Live Stock Association is a 500 page volume issued for stockmen. It covers the 1902 work of the association, details from the January Kansas City convention, key statistics on the livestock industry, and includes notable briefs from the interstate livestock inspection case and related national legislation. Members receive the volume free. others may obtain by sending 25 cents to Secretary C F Martin at Denver Nevada Tahoe City and Trackee are now linked by telegraph.
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Tive Stock Association
Kansas City
United States Supreme Court
C. F. Martin
Denver
Cole
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State News
Charles Ross Lewers
Leland Stanford Jr. University Law Department
Alice Arnold
Los Angeles
Washoe County Bank
Stillwater
Fallon
Hayden Henderson
Elko Baseball Club
H. F. Dangberg Land and Live Stock Company
Carson Valley
West
Alexandra
Draga
Russia
Austria
Jeffries
Cripple Creek
United States Refining and Reduotion Company
American Canshing & Betaing. Com
Ferusal
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Tahoe City
Trackee
the People’s Drug Company
Eureka
R.A. Laird
Frank Hopp
Johnson Mercantile Company Ince
Hiram Johnson
Hylton & Williams
Philip Paroni
Bureke
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H. M. Schneider & Co
Eureea
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