Subscription Batra Noted at Eureka Post Office
A notice indicates a subscription under the name Batra was registered at Eureka Post Office as Second Class Maxtor.
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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1909
Page
2
A notice indicates a subscription under the name Batra was registered at Eureka Post Office as Second Class Maxtor.
The passage presents Nora’s quip about her husband, suggesting kindness and consideration in their marriage. It raises questions about whether such behavior challenges common beliefs about husbands and the institution of marriage.
Collier's on wildcatters notes Nevada adopts anti wildcat mining law to curb fraud and promote publicity. The Oklahoma Court of Appeals is cited on avoiding reversals for technicalities in guilty verdicts. The piece describes Nevada as improving its image and mining prospects amid reform talk.
United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company eyes taking over St. Lawrence Mining near Shoshone Nevada as Mines Manager C E Allen and Engineer J Fencon Smith inspect. Frank C Williams joins Ely to mine trip while reports say high grade lead ore and 2000 feet of shafts and drifts exist.
The report lists metal prices from New York and Salt Lake City including Bilvar at 02 cents per cuss, Land at Salt Lake at 4.40 per 100 pounds, and Copper at Salt Lake at 12 cents. The fragmentary data provides a snapshot of early 20th century market quotes.
A ten foot wall of water from a northern cloudburst swept Squat Tertown near Rawhide at 6 30 p m destroying 190 buildings. Two women and four children were reportedly missing. Rescue attempts saved Mrs Hobeloff and her two children from their floating home. The Fountainbar saloon was washed five blocks and landed upright on a bank. The Prosky workings lost its gallows frame and engine. A fire devastated the camp last September.
M. T. Weam of Minneapolis visited Lovelock and Tonopah amid plans to form Stimier-Weam Investment Company to raise, buy, and sell livestock. He praised Nevada’s irrigation potential, stock ranges, and upcoming mining revival, and said he may relocate to Lovelock next spring with his wife.
A fragment describes an old epicurean practice of using flowers and herbs in culinary mixes, detailing violet and cowslip preparations with elder tops burdock roots broom buds and related ingredients for pickling and coloring. It mentions a tax style note about mining location blanks for sale at the Saxriwht office.
The Ely Mining Expositor notes changes of ownership for the paper to an incorporated company. It lists diverse Nevada items from a Tonopah dance accident to property losses in Goldfield and Washoe County court actions, fires, deaths, legislative issues, arrests for license violations in Ely and Dugan's dance hall, and transfers of newspaper editorships in Carson City and Reno.
Dr B E Murrey of the Nevada animal bureau reports Nevada becomes a major mutton supplier for California and the northwest. He notes 500000 head of lambs and wethers, with 200000 already consigned to San Francisco, and predicts ample Western market demand as sheep raisers prosper. An errant London Tatler line appears as an unrelated fragment.
William J. Bell of the Tonopah Sun argues Nevada should diversify beyond mining into agriculture and dry farming. He envisions Nevada attracting Eastern investment through the Desert Securities Company and promotes cactus varieties suited to the climate for winter planting in Amargosa and Las Vegas regions.
A record 82 000 eggs in 2300 cases of 36 dozen each were gathered within 16 miles of Petalama over the last three weeks and sent to Alaska aboard the steamer Umatilla for the Winter trade. The eggs commanded the highest prices of the season.
In Eureka Nevada on August 28 1909 a son arrived to the wife of Granville A Fletcher. In Needles Arizona on July 5 a boy and a girl were born to the wife of J N Rousey formerly of Eureka.
After September 5, 1909, William H L. Smith of Strawberry Nevada offers twenty tons of Fall apples for sale on his Newark Valley ranch White Pine County. Price is 10 cents per pound by the ton and 25 per ton for smaller lots. delivery on the ranch.
General Order No 8 from Reno Nevada dated August 27 1900 notifies sheep owners that all ducks in the state must be dipped at least once and those nearby twice 10 to 14 days apart between August 27 1909 and November 1 1909 under inspection by a state or federal official.
Public notice from Eureka County Nevada announces an application to appropriate public waters for irrigation and domestic use. It lists a survey description near a land parcel in section details and notes the filing date with the Nevada State Engineer and publication date September 25, 1000.
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