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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1894
Page
3
Local column reports Kennedy camp life with prices and prospects. Shifts in mail service, hotel plans, and a band program at Armory hall accompany notices on rail changes and new staff roles. Local residents and visitors travel to Kennedy as gold boom rumors persist.
Judge Bonnifield and Frank Button report locating a large placer tract about twenty six miles north with very coarse gold. They washed gravel in a rocker for 15 days, earning about 10 dollars daily per man, and a single piece weighed over eight dollars. The 6000 foot claim area is expected to become famous. Kennedy townsite company secured 160 acres, surveyed and platted, with government title now possible. Labor market is saturated but the district offers inviting country and potential riches for industrious workers.
Fifteen men with a six horse team and a heavy wagon loaded with mining tools and provisions camped at Deeth in Elko county on Sunday waiting for the storm to end before heading toward the Bruneau mining region. The Bruneau area attracts mining men as a known source of placer gold and gold bearing quartz ledges.
The House considers the annual Indian Affairs appropriation led by Holman of Indiana. The Nevada allocations include payments for Indian agents at the Nevada and Western Shoshone agencies and funding for Shoshone clothing medical staff and trades. Nevada general incidental expenses total 14000 and Carson City school funds include 20875 for repairs and 1500 for a superintendent. The measure faced drafting difficulties as a major funding item.
Dr. E. R. L. Gould reports last winter's Baltimore relief trial where a single house offered food and shelter for a small cash payment or work value. Police did not admit men at stations while the work house never reached full capacity, suggesting employment is the solution to the welfare problem.
Foreclosure of a twenty year old mortgage on the founder's town of Manchester New Jersey will sell the entire town at auction. Railroad shops homes churches schools stores and more go under the hammer affecting local workers tied to the P R R. The Reno Gazette notes optimistic harvest prospects for T H Thies of Lovelock testing a 21 acre venture with 47 000 roots and $40 per acre poles.
Public schools junior class presents a Friday evening program June 15 at 8 o clock featuring a grand galop de concert and multiple acts. Students Miss J Cody K Diehl Marvin Hill Jarvis Williams and others perform songs, essays, and readings under Miss Ladd and Mrs Lothrop with a chorus and an oration.
Readers learn Hall's Catarrh Cure is a claimed positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer 100 dollars for any case it fails to cure and invite testimonials. Also notices water use restrictions require sprinklers and threaten shutoff for open hose irrigation.
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