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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1879
Page
1
A Colorado correspondent reports the Lyndal mountain Bassick deposit near Rosita showing immense mineral potential. Ore runs average $300 per ton with some exceptional returns up to $1,500. Silver near 950 fine and gold at eighteen karats are found in boulders. First workings began eighteen months ago. last month ore sold totaled $75,000 with mining expenses around $450.
A Sydney region correspondence extols stock-raising men as cultured, temperate and enterprising. It lists numerous local businessmen and notes Western ranch life attracts wealth, learning, and varied backgrounds from Harvard graduates to ex-senatorial sons. It contrasts cattle lore with New York origins and highlights a robust stock community.
The essay argues gossip stems from a mind with little to discuss and urges thorough cultural cultivation to replace idle talk. It notes gossip reflects malice or imbecility, harms communities, and splits churches while urging the young to curb it now.
A fragmented snippet records Lent starting next week and spring soon arriving with references to frogs and streams. It notes local abstention from Valentine pranks and mentions a young convent-educated performer joining Sidney society. The Omaha Republican reports Hon. Geo. G. Darrow retiring from Tatecraft with W.H. Brainerd assuming full charge.
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