Pest Worms Ravage Starr Valley Alfalfa Fields
Starr Valley reports a garden cutworm like pest devastating old alfalfa in Elko County. Myron Pixley describes half the alfalfa destroyed over 200 to 300 acres, worms 0.5 to 1.25 inches feeding at night and stripping fields to ash. New alfalfa mostly spared. ranchers seek control methods and plan to send specimens to the State University Agricultural Experiment Station for study.
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Starr Valley
Elko County
Star Valley
Jangaita
Myron Pixley
Independent
Mr. Scott
Agricultural Experiment Station
The
State University
Elko Independ- Sat
Mining News and Developments Across Western Mines
Two Salt Lake mining men inspect the Nevada Company's property at Galena in Lander county. Excelsior Mining Company in Mason valley adopts an eight hour day for all workers starting May 15. A 400 gallon per minute pump is shipped to Capital Placer Mining near Helena Montana. Judge Bellinger rules it illegal to cut timber on public lands for fuel. Cadmium demand expected to rise with Edison storage battery. A new pump arrives at Chainman shaft with plans to reach 300 feet and open a drift toward a copper deposit. White Pine News notes Ely’s mining boom with payrolls doubled from last year and new construction. Kimberly eyes Pilot Knob deal. Ely mill handles fifty tons daily of $12 ore. Chainman advances its mill. Sapho sees favorable developments.
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Salt Lake
Nevada
Galena
Lander County
Excelsior Mining Company
Mason Valley
Capital Placer Mining Company
Helena
Mont
Bellinger
United States District Court of Oregon
Edison
Shepherd
White Pine News
The
Salt Lake Tribune
Ely
White Pine County
Riepoint
Pilot Knob
Thompson
Chainman
Fred C. Richmond
Salt Lake Hardware Company
Sapho
Chris Evans Seeks Parole From Folsom Prison
Chris Evans, a bandit and outlaw in Folsom California, serving life, has given notice of intent to apply for parole. He was sentenced in 182 and has shown exemplary conduct since incarceration. He holds a trusted position in the penitentiary drug department. His wife resides in Visalliy supporting their family.
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Chris Evans
Folsom
Cal
Visalliy
To Prevent Pneumonia and Grip
Laxative Bromo Quinine claims to remove the cause of pneumonia and grip, suggesting a preventive health remedy without detailing ingredients or clinical validation. The note reads as a persuasive medical advertisement from a historical period.
Record output to reach thirty million dollars this year
Dawson reports warn that the year's output will set a new record and total thirty million dollars. In Albany a clash between soldiers and striking streetcar workers left two dead and sixteen injured. India faces grave crop losses while relief reaches three hundred eighty one thousand people. American Smelting and Refining Co files Colorado capital stock increase from sixty five million to one hundred million dollars. John D. Rockefeller reportedly plans a through line from coast to coast via Central and Union Pacifics, linking major western routes.
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Seattle
Dawson
Albany
India
American Smelting and Refining Company
Colorado
John D. Rockefeller
Atlantic
Pacific
Central Pacific
Union Pacific
Middle West
To Live Like White Forks
Washoe tribe representatives on the East Fork gathered last Sunday in a two hundred strong meeting to discuss bettering their condition. The group split into two factions socialists and conservatives with plans for a valley town and a local Indian school trades program. They aim to secure government aid to push the project forward.
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East Fork
Gardnerville Record
Postmaster Improvised Trust in McKinley Over Trout Shipment
The Postmaster Nasby expresses implicit confidence in President McKinley, justifying shipping a mess of Truckee river trout yesterday. A late Legislature bill imposes a severe penalty on shipping trout out of state if later sold, and if Mayor Phelan or Governor Jinge buy the fish for four bits, it could end the matter. The President would be liable, writes Ren Journal.
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Nasby
McKinley
Truckee
Phelan
Jinge
Ren Journal
Desolate Pima irrigation crisis spurs plea to Congress
A recent Arizona dispatch reports the Gila river runs dry on the Sacaton reservation, threatening the Pima Indians with destitution as crops fail due to diverted waters. Congress was urged to fund permanent storage reservoirs to restore irrigation and self sufficiency.
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Arizona
Gila
Sacaton
Congress
United States
Largest stationary engine completed by Westinghouse in East Pittsburg
The Westinghouse Machine Company completes what is described as the largest stationary engine ever built in America at East Pittsburg shops. One of eight 6,000 horsepower engines ordered by the New York Gas and Electric Light Company, it uses more than 10,500 metal pieces and weighs 750 tons, with dimensions 37.5 feet in height, 41 feet across, and 25 feet in depth including the flywheel.
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America
Westinghouse Machine Company
East Pittsburg
New York Gas and Electric Light Company
Labor unions erect largest woodworking plant in state
San Francisco unions run a vast shop turning out lumber and carpentry for city buildings. The operation employs 160 millmen and about 2,000 union carpenters support the busy site with rapid material output amid a growing boom in union labor operations. Italian immigration this season appears unprecedented with forecasts predicting 40,000 arrivals by end May.
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San Francisco
United States
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Hampton
Lynn
Lyvia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
J. H. Hanaford
Bros
Sunt Lowe AB
Bohemian
St. Louis A. B. C
Bohemian Beer
American Brewing Co
St. Louis
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