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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1899
Page
3
Happenings from Mill City to San Francisco include H R Choate in town, Silve back in Golconda, church services moved to 7 30 AM and 7 30 PM, and plans for Manila bound soldiers marching through. Also notes on train delays, telegraph work, school entertainment March 24, and several relocations and appointments in the Silver State region.
Paradise March 16 150% The Genoa Courier notes heavy mountain snow improving farming prospects in Carson Valley. A large grain sowing has begun and alfalfa fields turn green. Crops should advance early if cold weather stays limited. Fruit trees not yet bloomed but overall sign of good fruit season and favorable conditions. Local updates include recovering residents and community events amid rain and spring preparations.
The Genoa Courier notes work will begin on the Truckee to Lake Tahoe railroad as snow melts and will be expedited. The Truckee Republican reports completion expected by June 1. D L Bliss, president of Lake Tahoe Railway, has been in the east buying passenger coaches deemed finest for the road.
A strike of 80 ore is reported at South Camp on the Car eon river. Golconda plans a fire department brickyard and a church. A Mine Dia mondville Wyoming fire is under control and coal hoisting will resume. Nearly fifty miles of the Utah Pacific railroad through Nevada have been completed since last January. Esmeralda county tax levy fixed at 350 per 100 valuation. White Pine at 385. La Sal district Utah ore from last fall analyzed at Denver at about 50 a ton platinum. Comstock tunnel stock in demand in New York after Risdon pump plant installed. A six foot thick ore body averaging 600 in gold at Tip Top mine owned by John Q Packard of Salt Lake City reportedly struck. Con Virginia ore prospects discussed. pumping delays and hopes of opening a downward continuation of the ore body discovered in Conn Virginia in 1886. The ore grade near $30 per ton. Reverend EK Van Deventer to hold services with love feast and sacrament. Queen regent signs peace treaty between Spain and the United States. treaty to be exchanged in San Francisco. Second Volunteer Engineers released to muster in San Francisco from Honolulu. Mossford Reno granite and marble works to return. memorial designs offered by mail. One Minute Cough Cure advertised for croup and lung trouble. Eagle Drug Store.
The Reno Gazette reports Alex Montgomery a Wells Fargo messenger was shot in the left leg by a fourteen year old boy Theolore Tomi michael at the Chestnut Street dam while bystanders fished The gun a No 10 breech loader discharged accidentally The wound painful but not bones broken The incident blamed on carelessness and the danger of careless handling continues to be a daily risk The article also carries regional travel ads and drugstore promotions from Eagle Drug Store and Union Pacific rail notices.
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