Nevada News Briefs Highlight Snow, Trials and Rail Plans
Snow seven and a half feet at Summit Station. Dr J J Sullivan commits death by own action at Niles California amid domestic troubles. Auto truck serves Yerington routes. damages awarded in Pacific Power case total $15,000. Governor receives warrant for $2 042 31 from public land proceeds. Boise-Winnemucca line may proceed with $2 million raised. Gould line conditionally supports development. Judge French to retire to practice in San Francisco. Goldfield man narrowly escapes train collision. Ore-laden wagon wreck halts Bullion Elko comms until bridge rebuilt. Wadsworth fatal shooting leaves M J Welty dead. R C Robinson jailed for murder. Deeth teachers institute notes Indies attire and natural dress.
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Summit Station
Sierras
J. J. Sullivan
Lovelock
Niles
Cal
Yerington
Yerington Station
Nevada Copper Belt Railroad
Percy R. Sheaff
Pacific Power Company
Carson City
Oddie
Washingtn
Nevada
Western Pacific
Boise-Winnemucca
Idaho
Oregon
L. N. French
Churchill
San Francisco
French
Fallon
L. L. Patrick
Goldfield
Goldfield Consolidated Milling and Transportation Company
Patrick
Bullion
Elko
Wadsworth
R. C. Robinson
M. J. Welty
Welty
Robinson
Reno
Deeth Commonwealth
Carson
Post Office Clerks Face Abuse During Christmas Mail Rush
Tonopah postal workers paused at noon for lunch but were jeered by the crowd awaiting mail outside. Clerks said they were to work only two hours that day, yet they labored from 9 am to 4 pm to sort 85 sacks of parcel post that arrived Christmas morning.
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Tonopah
First National Bank Calendar Sent to The Sentinel
The Sentinel acknowledges receipt of a large useful 1914 calendar from the First National Bank of Elko Nevada. Weather here has turned warm and resembles a Spring day.
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First National Bank
the Sentinel
First National Bank of
Elko
Nevada
Nevada 1913 metal yields show gold lead zinc copper strength
Nevada's 1913 mine output, valued at 26.974 million dollars, centers on copper and gold with Tonopah and Goldfield districts driving production. Silver output rose in Nye and Clark counties, while lead and zinc fell from 1912 levels amid expanded cyanide processing and new mills in Tonopah, Goldfield, and surrounding areas.
Nevada News Ledger Highlights From Tonopah to Reno
Tonopah Elks gave $750 in provisions for the poor before Christmas. Goldfield school attendance remains around 465, showing population stability. Mrs. G E Anderson of Elko County dies in Oakland from cancer. L O Harron of San Francisco firm Har ron, Richard and McCone dies at home. Austin shipped 1200 pelts as fur abundance noted. Scottish masons honor William M David’s Ca City child adoption. Ely Expositor editor George F Annand is held up for $1.75, beer jug spared. Louis Stern of Hiko dies at Sawtelle at 87, longtime justice of the peace and postmaster. Whitman Symmes sues for $50,000 damages in San Francisco for libel. J L Ruffner eyes 20000 acres in Smith Valley for irrigation project costing $250,000. E L Howell extradited to Reno for embezzlement charges. Truckee Meadows ranchers petition for lower water rate from Steamboat Canal Company. C S Wheeler severely burns his car fire at Reno area garage. Adelaide Phillips injured when auto crash in Ruby Valley Elko County.
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Goldfield
G. E. Anderson
Elko County
Oakland
L. O. Harron
Comstock
Harron, Richard and McCone
San Francisco
Lasons
William M. David
Ca City
the Mason
Nevada
George F. Annand
Ely
Lincoln County
National Soldier's Home
Sawtelle
California
Hiko
Whitman Symmes
Ward Shaft Association
United Comstock Pumping Association
J. L. Ruffner
Pennsylvania
Smith Valley
Lyon County
Salt Lake City
Reno
E. L. Howell
Riverside City
Burke
Washoe County
Howell
Truckee Meadows
Nevada Railroad and Industrial Commission
Steamboat Canal Company
C.S. Wheeler
Wheeler
Nevada Ore Milling in 1913 Surges Past 1912 Output
Mevhettan camp produced about 48 000 tons of ore while all willing plants on the Comstock lode and Silver City operated with steady tonnage. A Cedar Hill mill began in 1913 treating about 50 tons daily. Nevada ore tonnage sold or treated likely reached 5 160 000 tons in 1913, up from 4 788 905 tons in 1912. A 400 ton cyanide mill for Buckhorn mines opened in Boreks County in 1913.
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Nevada
W. C. Heikes
United States Geological Survey
Goldfield
Tonopah
Fairview
Wonder
Wireless City
Manhattan
Round Mountain
National
Seven
Werwae
Nye County
Syain
Atbe Gold Felt Consolidated Mines
Milla
OCO
Nevada Eagle
Vernal
Belmont
Great Bend
Diamondfiels
Black Butte
Goldfield Consolidated
Jumbo
Bounte Clare
Florence
Oberchill County
Nevada Wonder
Nevada Hills
Searchlight
Clark County
Belmont Ming
West End
Storey County
Rochester
Humboldt County
Oreana
Virginia City
Monte Cristo
Butters
Obollar Leasing Co
Obollar
Potosi
Comatock Phoenix
Six Mile Canyon
Nevada Consolidated and
Giroux
Ely
Thompson
Mason Valley
Douglas
Pyramid Lake Review
Washoe County
Bullionville
Pioche
Yellow Pine
Bareka
Potost
Anven
Mevhettan
Comstock Lode
Silver City
Cedar Hill
Sierra Nevada
Agrara
Iota
Buckhorn
Boreks County
Copper Leaching Breakthrough Cuts Cost to Five Cents
The Salt Lake Tribune reports a Butte & Duluth plant improvement raises extraction from 70 percent to 93 percent by a new classifier conveyor system. Finely ground ore contacts acid directly, cutting copper production costs toward five cents per pound. Carbonate ores have boosted Arizona company profits in recent years.
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Butte & Duluth
Salt Lake Tribune
Arizona
Tybo Camp Miner Ed Opdyke Returns Home
The Ely Record notes Tybo Nye County once hosted a booming mining camp with a population near five thousand. today only a few remain. The old vein holds hundreds of millions of tons of ore rich in lead, silver, and gold. Metals Exploration Company under Ed Opdyke is developing a tunnel extension toward new yields awaiting the Ely Goldfield railroad.
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Ed Opdyke
Tybo
Nye County
Ely
Ely- Goldfield
Metals Exploration Company
Opdyke
Tunnel 150 Feet to Rob Bank Vault Cracksmen Strike Oroville
Bandits bored 160 feet from a lodge cellar to the First National Bank of Oroville vault between Saturday night and Monday morning. They took $3700 in silver and damaged the coin vault but failed to breach the manganese steel chest deep enough for a larger gold and currency haul.
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First National Bank of
Oroville
California
Siegel Corporations in New York and Boston Go Bankrupt
Six enterprises controlled by the Siegel Corporation in New York City and Boston, with Henry Siegel as a principal owner and manager, were placed in bankruptcy on December 30 in friendly proceedings in Federal courts. The concerns did not exceed an estimated gross business of 40 million dollars, and Christmas trade failed to meet expectations as banking credit tightened.
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Siegel Corporation
New York City
Boston
Henry Siegel
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Turedays
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Eureka, Nevada
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Eonexa’s Porctan Resort
Main and
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BP. O. Biull
Dramene, Mais
Stier
Krnawa, Nevada
People’s Meat Market
Prime Geet
Rudolph Zadow
Main Street
John Kussy
Buckharn
Nevads
R. H. Mallett
Kiko
Nevalk
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Fpr
C. F. Rickey & Co
Mallet
C. F. Riskey
F. Rickey & Company
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Buskhorn
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Tober
Mevada
Hicks
Sir R. Hicks
Professor Hicks
Etornia
America
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Frankuim Avenue
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