Local Briefs From Eureka Keyed To Travel and Events
W H Runsell left Tuesday for Arizona on business. M Kellar and Ted Johnson returned Friday from an overland auto trip to Arizona. C F Nourse, San Francisco mining engineer, has been in Eureka for several days. Bradford Wheeler of Southern Pacific arrived Friday. Alfred Pedlar estate final settlement heard in District Court Thursday. W R Foster, Canadian mining engineer, visited this week. Postmaster Laura Hough departed for California Tuesday to visit relatives and handle business. Miss Eileen Fadden of Sonoma County, now Alpha teacher, attended Armistice Day dance in Eureka. Glenn D Moore and wife arrived Friday from Reno for a several week stay with the Moore family. Dr C B Secor arrived Tuesday for a consult with Dr W H Brennen on Mrs A C Harris, who is reported in favorable condition. The Nob Hill Fire Company announces its annual masquerade ball will be at the Eureka Theatre on New Year’s Eve with further details to come. 1919 taxes due. County Treasurer R McCharles notes delinquency penalties if unpaid by December 15. W H Russell garage sold another Dodge to Fred Bartine who runs mail routes from Eureka. Frank McBride left for Hiko to drive the car over.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Runsell
Arizona
M. Kellar
Ted Johnson
C. F. Nourse
San Francisco
Eureka
Bradford Wheeler
Southern Pacific Company
Alfred Pedlar
W.R. Foster
Canada
Laura Hough
California
Eileen Fadden
Sonoma County
Cal
Alpha
Glenn D. Moore
A. Moore
Reno
C. B. Secor
W. H. Brennen
A. C. Harris
W. H. Russell
Fred Bartine
Frank McBride
Hiko Thas
Marble Headstones for Heroes Graves
Congress man C R Evans notes that the government will furnish and deliver at government expense white marble headstones for unmarked graves of soldiers sailors Marines and army nurses. Those needing information or application blanks may send names and addresses for personal attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. Evans
Biko Ranchers Arrested in Ham and Bacon Theft Case
Secret warrants led to the arrest of Joe Bailey Charleston rancher and John Miles Deathman on charges of stealing 1200 pounds of ham and bacon from the Swift Company warehouse in Biko two months prior. An unusual haul and wagon removal helped officers identify the operatives. Sheriff Harris placed Bailey and Miles in county jail awaiting charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ener
Joe Bailey
Charleston
John Miles
Swift Company
Biko
Wells Herald
Harris
Baille
Miles
Property transfers and mining notices in Eureka district
Records show multiple transfers in Eureka town and surrounding blocks with values from $1 to $150 recorded between Nov 6 and Nov 14 1919. Also listed are numerous location notices and certificates for esta mines including Snow Storm Topaz Continental Bella Union and more, with parties such as McCharles Lyone Zadow Gibellini Biale Fulton and Donnelly among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. McCharles
Eureka
United States of America
Michael Lyone
Rudolph Zadow
Jennie Leighton
Louis Giberini
J. B.biale
Mary H. Henry
Mary Fulton
G. Conta
Carlotta Conta
Louis Gibellini
Jas Dora Roberts
Peter H. Hill
J. E. Reynolds Et al
Angelo Bisoni
W. O. Leighton
0. R. May
C. B. Morse
W. J. Molter
P. H. O'Connor
Eureka Mining District
A. I M. Huebner
Eureka West
Eureka 1
W. J. Harris
S Others
Benito
Eva
John Siri
John T. Donnelly
Richard Jury
J. B. Venturino
Independence Extension
G. W. Turner
Piedmont
Abram Laird
Boulder
Boulder Extension
Clarence Johnson
Frank Romano, Jr
C. W. Ruden
Proofs of Labor and Notice of Mining Claims Across Districts
The document lists multiple proofs of labor on mining claims in Eureka Palisade and Mt Hope districts by various claimants including B G Wedekind A Affranchino John Cardinalli B C Hill A Merialdo B Siri Abram Laird Fred Bartine and others. It also notes notices of intention to hold mining claims under the 1918 Congressional Act across several mines such as Water Lode Pack Saddle Hope Independence Gold Coin Turner Copper Kane and Mary Laird.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonyard
Eureka
John J. Lucey
Wildcat
A.C. Florio
T. Bidart
Eureke
Hope
Lapsley W. Hope
Eureka West
Eureke Weat
Hureks East
W. J. Harris
J. H. Pine
Harris
G. C. Affranchino
B. G. Wedekind
A. Affranchino
Turner
Eureka Mining District
G. W. Turner
John Cardinalli
B.C. Hill
Kane
Palisade
A. Merialdo
B. Siri
King
Safford
Mary Laird
Abram Laird
Mt. Hope
Fred Bartine
Labor Troubles in Tonopah and Divide Settled
Operators grant 60 cent daily wage increase retroactive to October 4. New minimum wage $5.50 per day with a commissary and boarding house. Federal mediator to revisit after sixty days to verify 50 cent cost-of-living reduction, then possible adjustments. Feal delivered at actual cost. boarding house at $37.50 monthly. commissary sells at actual cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tonopah
First American Mothers Hotel to open in Romagne France
Paris reports the first hotel in France reserved for American mothers visiting graves of sons killed in World War I will open at Romagne near the largest American military cemetery. More hotels planned at other cemeteries as passport rules ease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
Romagna
St. Quentin
Romange
Thiaucourt
Beaumont
Fismes
Ploisy
Juvigny
Fera-en-Tardenois
Belleau
Bony
Villiera- Tournelle
New Smelter Process Proposed for Nevada
J E Kearns, kin of late Senator Thomas Kearns, returns to Reno from a Nevada tour of seven mining camps. He represents the General Reduction and Chemical Co of Salt Lake City which plans to build and own a plant to process ores uneconomical for traditional smelters. The firm cites Dr Gee Kingsley and Prof J C Thomas as inventors and lists products from by products to acids and dyes, claiming Nevada ores can supply most materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Kearns
Thomas Kearns
Utah
Reno
Nevada
Kearns
General Reduction and Chemical Co
Salt Lake City
Gee
B. Kingsley
J. C. Thomas
Utah Agricultural College
Ameliers
Dayton Gold Dredge Work Under Way near Dayton
Excavation for a large gold dredge in Gold Canyon Lyon county Nevada progresses toward a 75 by 190 foot pond holding eight feet of water. Project 70 percent done with dredge barge and machinery to be erected over four months. one eighteen ton casting en route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gold Canyon
Dayton
Lyon County
Nevada
Bulkley Wells Syndicate
Demand for Rabbit Skins Drives a Winter Market
The rise in tar prices has boosted rabbit pelts as a profitable trapper activity. Eastern demand plans to secure 10,000,000 skins for 1919 and 1920 from American sources, signaling a healthy market. Dried skins sold by the pound yield seven to eight skins per pound, offering farm boys a chance to earn money and gain trapping experience. The USDA can provide purchaser names and addresses for rabbit skins and other pelts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Que Eastern Concern
United States Department of Agriculture
You Can’t Believe Everything You Hear Says Time
A pithy aphorism style note on overhead methods in business and the distrust of rumors. It contrasts work and play and warns that tomorrow determines today. The piece mentions a French inventor who creates methods to enlarge records to alter sound intensity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nex
Taxpayers The Assessment Roll for 1919 Now Available
The assessment roll for 1919 is in the hands of the Treasurer and taxes for the year are due. Delinquent on December 15, 1919, with a 15 percent penalty by law. R McCharles County Treasurer Eureka Nevada November 15, 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. McCharles
Eureka
Nevada
Water Notice for Grimes Water Right Application 1919
Application 5833 by Floyd A Grimes of Austin Nevada seeks to appropriate Kelley Creek water via dam at NW nw section 15 T18N R48E to convey 1.6 cfs to SW section 7 for irrigation and domestic use April to October annually. Water not returned to stream. State Engineer G SCRUGHAM dates first Nov 15 1919 last Dec 13 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd A. Grimes
Austin
County of Lander
State of Nevada
State Engineer of
Nevada
State of
Kelley Creek
G. Scrugham
Notice for Final Proof in Eureka County Nevada
Isaac K Handley assignee of Giuseph Togioni of Eureka Nevada claims Desert Land Lot 2 and SE% NW section 10 filed to prove title before Eureka County Clerk R McCharles Eureka Nevada on December 22 1919. Witnesses include Walter Handley James Hunter Janey Leighton and Robert McKay all of Eureka Nevada. John E Robbins Register.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elko
Carson
Department of the Interior
U. S. Land Office
Nevada
Isaac K. Handley
Giuseph Togioni
Eureka
R. McCharles
Eureka County
Walter Handley
James Hunter
Janey Leighton
Robert McKay
John E. Robbins
Register
Notice of Public Auction of Eureka County Patented Nines
The Treasurer of Eureka County Nevada announces a public auction in front of the courthouse on December 16 1919 at 12 o'clock for Eureka County's right title and interest in the Lizzie s Hawkeye and Oversight patented nines located in Eureka Mining District Nevada First published November 8 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eureka County
Eureka Mining District
State of
Nevada
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Bingle
Nob Hill
Recorder of
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Wabash
Stowell & Beebe
Browpil & Beebe
Point of Rocks
J. 8. Bagg
S&s
Divide
NEW Today
State
Mane
Wie
Hoxanza
Salley Light & Power Plant
Eureka, Elko, White Pine
Pershing Counties
W. H. Bupp
Wells, Nev
Edway
Plummer
Corporation and General Law Practice
Main
Eureka, Nevada
U. S
Mabel K. Young
Spring Street
A. E. Belanger
Europa Hotel
GEO. A. James CO. Assay Rra
Selby
Belden Place
Bushi
Kearny
Aan Franciare
Linpa
MERRY
San Francisco Chronicle
Oakland Tribune
Merialdo & Depaoli
Nev
Clark and
Buel
Sssson
Hong Hing
Sing Lee
Ferinda Curte
Victoria
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