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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1920
Page
1
Reports describe a mining incident near Kundertarg with ore processing halted after a collapse. Workers recover the body of a man identified as Dunder Bie and detail gear and measures to reopen the mine, including potential ore yield estimates and safety steps.
The readable portion describes a hurried arrival and a driver rushing toward a location. It mentions dates and a time frame but the details are garbled. Strong entities are unclear due to the damaged text, but the fragment hints at a scheduled event or commute in progress with references to a date like AD 7.
The fragment speaks of banking policy deliberations and potential reforms. Mentions individuals like Crum Misting and Crum, and a meeting next Monday at Hert? s. References to bonds, changes in rates, and emergency measures. The readable parts point to a revival or inquiry into financial governance.
Fragmentary obituary and social notices list deaths, funeral arrangements, and family travels across towns in Oregon, California, Nevada, and nearby areas. Entries mention Mrs Sara Isadore, Mrs Ladore Sara, and various local officials and residents visiting relatives, with dates around early January and references to venues and ministers.
The Eureka community held a New Year masquerade ball with a parade of costumes. Judges awarded cash prizes, and many attendees from Eureka and surrounding areas participated in the party atmosphere.
The Newade Mining Press reports Hayden Stone Co. of Boston and New York will organize a corporation to develop the Silver Lick mine on Adams Hill two miles west of Eureka. The seven patented locations and five claims were bought in 1913 by W J Harris and J H Fine, who shipped about $100,000 in high grade ore. The mine, with two shafts up to 145 feet, uses chloriding to extract ore ranging from $10 to $30 per ton. First payment of $10,000 was made in Reno, with total price near $100,000. George B Thatcher, Gilbert Ross, and Charles P McColm arranged the option. Thatcher will organize a Nevada company and return east to finalize.
The funeral for Mrs Isadore Sara, wife and devoted mother, was held at a Eureka Catholic church with Revd Father Bache presiding. Interment followed in the Curto family plot, after services featuring hymns and prayers for the departed. Nearby merchants and mine officials, including Charles Read and A King, discussed reopening Diamond and Excelsior mines on Prospect Mountain amid rising silver prices.
The census is a constitutional duty conducted every ten years. It lists questions on age literacy birthplace language and home ownership plus farm specifics. It stresses confidentiality and aims to gather national health welfare and resource data from enumerators.
Articles filed with the county clerk establish the Fourth State Development Company of Nevada with incorporators J B Blair W H Brennen T F Plummer Clarence Johnson D States and B A Skillman The venture aims to develop mining prospects funded by Eastern investors This outgrowth of a Lee M Brokaw meeting plans five units in Eureka Utah Milford Eureka Battle Mountain Mina Nevada A Salt Lake City Presidents meeting set for December 13 will launch work J B Biale D Staten Edna Covertmer named officers. directors include the incorporators An open invitation invites Eureka district supporters to attend a directors meeting in the Plummer building on Main Street at 9 PM
Henry Ford and Edsel Ford announced an $8 million cash bonus distribution for all Ford interests employees and an investment plan allowing workers from janitors to executives to share in company profits. Bonuses start today and may become an annual event funded by earnings.
W E Barney, who sold his Lynn district mines in Eureka County, moved his family to a Fallon ranch last week. He kept faith in the property, mined placer gold each spring, and last summer sold out for a good sum, now turning to farming after touring much of the state.
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