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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1906
Page
3
Eureka residents enjoyed a warm spring day with outdoor gatherings, farm markets, and social events. The issue notes travel, mining activity toward Bald Mountain, and local hires, along with weather impacts on rail service and street life.
Mr and Mrs M Ferrell and daughter Mrs James Berryman depart Faroka Toastay for Goldfield Mrs Farrel has served as Matron of Eureka County Hospital for years earning approval from county commissioners and patients The Ferrells plan an extended visit with the Berrymans at their Galdfleth home
Regents announce the commencement day exercises will be held on Thursday May 31 in Reno. A special feature this year is free transportation for the newspaper publishers of the State and their wives from their residences to Reno and return.
The Euroka Water Works Company has commenced a general overhaul of the water system in Buroka. This week they began laying four new mains in Pinto Canyon with 28 men in two shifts. Over two miles of heavy four inch vae well raking pipe will be used, with pipe expected to arrive early next week.
E L Brown president of the White Pipe Placer Company led two co shareholders in a trip to Bald Mountain last Saturday to supervise loading of materials at Elko. They will haul pipe and gear to the claims and prepare the site for placer mining operations.
U S Mining Officials visit Eureka to inspect Richmond Kareka mines and Raby Hill row buildings. W G Sharp, E Silen, and George W Heintz travel from New York Salt Lake to evaluate operations. Meanwhile California berry shipments fail to arrive via E P line to Palisade, leaving Eureka residents disappointed.
Services will be held at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday at Liaom, with Sabbath school immediately after the morning service. All are welcome. Rev. A. J. Courrow, Minister.
George A. Bartlett, a prominent Tonopah mining man and attorney, plans a palatial residence on Court Street Reno. He bought several lots, plans await final approval, and mechanics will start work once sanctioned. Bartlett has fortune in southern Nevada and strong mining interests.
4 SAD HOMECOMING. Infant child dies while parents Mr. and Mrs. Eugene G. Giroux and wife of Pilot Koob, White Pine County, were returning from Spokane Washington to their home near Ely. The 19 months old child had been delicate from birth and died in Palisade Monday morning after a trip hoped to benefit his health. The remains were to be taken to Bly for burial. They arrived at Eureka on the E and P train Monday afternoon and left by private conveyance for home.
Laborer hurt slightly in the Southern Pacific tunnel after a weeks injury. Mrs. G D Abbott to return home Saturday for a short stay. Yunday’s Eureka train delayed by broken flues. Mrs. M Pratt to spend the summer in Grand Junction Colorado with daughter Mrs Doolittle. GD Abbott and C H Rand to Tonopah to buy cars for Baroks and Palisade Railway. Mrs J White formerly of Palisade now in San Francisco suceeded in escaping disaster. Mrs G C Cameron and family visiting Palisade then to Sparks. Cameron engine on the road. family to Sparks. Sulphide ore reported at Manhattan, indicating district permanence. Dean mine at Battle Mountain closed. unsure if temporary. Benefit tonight at Eureka Opera House for California sufferers. Richard Tobin of Virginia City earns praise at New England Conservatory recital.
Metal market prices list silver 67 cents per ounce in New York. Lewd? at New York 5.54 per 100 pounds. Casting copper at Salt Lake City 18 cents. Equitable Life Insurance Company reports first quarter decline in new business by 54 percent versus 1905 and profits down 93 percent.
Three carloads of mining machinery were billed from Salt Lake for Beowawe Nevada to Keystone Exploration Company a Salt Lake Eastern combined venture. The equipment including a siz drill compressor electric light plane cars rails and more will outfit Bullion district properties thirty miles south of Beowawe on the Southern Pacific. P D Delmas vice president spearheaded the effort assembling backers and engineers to form a capitalized venture aiming to start thorough exploration and development in the district.
The Daily Silver State faces a boycott led by influential locals who threaten advertisers to force bosses to cut ties with the publishers. The paper replies by asserting the campaign targets grafters plundering the public and exposing officials, resisting the pressure with few losses in ads.
Elko Nev May 8 a large sampling plant will be erected here by local parties as they form a company to own the enterprise. The facility on the Humboldt river east of Elko will handle ores from Tuscarora Mountain City Bull Run Bullion and nearby camps with a public assay office. Promoters may enter ore purchasing business. The Nevada Central Railway from Elko to Austin will be rebuilt to handle rising traffic to Manhattan with quadroupled capacity and added passenger service. Traders Insurance Co of Chicago fails after San Francisco fire losses about 3 748 000 with assets 8 830 000 and a receiver appointed. Comstock jubilee postponed a year due to San Francisco disaster affecting Virginia City. Senate committee in Washington refuses national guarantee of San Francisco credits.
Board of County Commissioners met weekly session noting $13 850.49 in treasury. J C Johosom granted an engineer license. A P Tenvoord resigns as Master of County Hospital and Mrs A P Tenvoord appointed under prior terms. Registry agents named for 1906 precincts. San Francisco wholesalers hurt by quake urge payments from Sevede merchants.
County board on May 7 1906 allowed various sums to named persons including E Saarnees and Dan Nostroaa. Fire Ward Gents and indigent persons listed as recipients.
The Okinago Mining World outlines a diamond drill design used by the Giroux Company and other Nevada firms. It details a steel crown with diamond carbons cutting through rock, water cooling, and continuous debris removal, with drills ranging 11 to 18 inches in diameter and high carbon consumption in boring. Nevada wool supply tightens as G W Callahan reports in Carson City May 7, predicting price adjustments due to fire disrupting West Coast demand.
Local papers report a dispute to relocate the business district of the old town to a new site near Ely. The News disclaims current stance while pledging fair, square coverage amid real estate tensions. In Washoe County, rancher Daniel Oasey is fatally stabbed in a May fight with Sherman Bryan. Bryan was arrested after seeking medical care. Oasey died from wounds.
The Reveiule reports that no more than three railroad surveys have been run from north of Ansthe to Tonopah and Goldie. Western Pacific has a road line from Battle Mountain, Samuel Newbouss and associates surveyed a line from Busw ane, and the Nevada Central has surveyed an extension. If the Western Pacific line is built, it will shorten the Tonopah to Balt Lake distance by about 300 miles.
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