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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1904
Page
3
Eureka precinct shows 202 names on the voting register as residents engage in travel, teaching, and church activities. Local religious services, school reopenings, and public notices fill the week with visits from Nye and White Pine counties, plus map arrivals and stock roundup plans.
An 18 year old named Harrison Bardine was killed Sunday night near the Humboldt bridge west of Palisade Eureka County. Found Monday morning by a passerby he died about five hours after the accident. Investigators think he rode the rods of an extra train from Sparks to the East and fell when he lost his hold. He gave his name age and residence before dying. His mother lives in Chicago.
Storm bound travelers from Eureka to Tonopah, including Mrs J G Ford, Mrs CO Huebner and family, Philippini family, and Will Porch, rerouted twice after leaving Tonopah Thursday last. They turned back 20 miles from Eureka to Regis Huy Ranch, then resumed after waters subsided Sunday. telegram confirms Will Porch arrived safely in Tonopah Wednesday night.
Miss Ten L Wright of Reno who taught at Winnemucca Humboldt County the last two terms has resigned her position there to accept a place in the Reno public schools Previous to going she taught Mor 4yeara in the Eureka school and enjoyed a splendid reputation as an educator, being very competent and thorough in every duty Reno is to be congratulated for adding Miss Wright to its corps of instructors
Letter from Cleveland metallurgists Arthur W. Barwell and Charles B. Baker describes an electro chemical method to treat refractory ores using dry chlorine from salt, with copper and zinc plated from chlorides. The process, not a smelter, aims to recover gold and insoluble silver chloride, and plans a pilot plant starting next week on galena ore.
Report of a major cloudburst near Ilipah on the Ely road, 14 miles northeast of Hamilton. Water surged through a canyon for about 45 minutes, damaging Captain Moorman’s elevated house, sweeping away crops, hay, first crop baled, bridges, and a stand of wheat. Estimated losses surpass 2000 dollars, with fencing washed out and other property harmed two miles upstream at the Stekels place now Thomas Rosevear’s.
John Martin of Raby Hill sues Sacramento Pipe Works in Eureka Junior Court for labor and costs totaling 57.76 arising from removal of the Jumbo pumping plant on Ruby Hill. After Newell moved, a partial settlement left unpaid bills. An attachment on scrap iron remains, with W. W. Chapin of Pipe Works due in Eureka.
The Presbyterian and Episcopal Sunday Schools held annual picnics on separate days at the Italian ranhead north of Eureka. Delightful weather accompanied music, games, races, and plenty of goodies as both events attracted many adults and children, with picnickers returning home at nightfall.
Filing deadlines state county clerk must receive bills by Saturday. Meeting minutes reference standard procedures and the need to submit all requests for approval to the clerk's office promptly. Local officials urge prompt action to ensure inclusion in the agenda.
The Lincoln Mining Company of Phillipsburg Eureka County will install a concentrator on its property about 18 miles north at Eureka. An Overstrom table was unloaded at the E and P depot in Eureka last week and the rock breaker and rolls for the ore reducer are expected to arrive daily and will be hauled from Eureka to the mines by two men.
White Pine Copper Company announces Ruth mine experimental concentration plant at Ely is in operation. M L Requa arrives as new general manager for New York and Nevada properties. Plant uses Huntington mill Wilfley tables Frue bara Johnson concentrators with gravity flow from mine to concentrators and water pumped from Copper Flat mines for processing.
Nye County report details a severe flood at Pete Pastorino’s Angle Worm ranch near Currant Creek. Hail weighed five ounces and fell for ten minutes, followed by a 30 foot high wall of water washing through hay fields and orchard, destroying crops and livestock. Prices for 2-year-old cattle drop to 17 dollars, down from 21 to 22 last year.
Ea teke County held a Republican primary to choose delegates for the county convention. No opposition to the regular ticket in Gareks, other precincts not yet heard from, and no new office-seekers announced this week. The regular ticket fate hinges on the convention meeting a week from Monday amid a general political mix-up.
A Tonopah dispatch reports the Sandstorm mills near Goldfield struck a 40 foot wide lode of free gold. Miners for T. L. Oddie on a Tonopah Company lease found ore valued at $6000 per ton. The find, described as the richest in the world, draws prospectors to the district.
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