Pioche Nevada News Fragment with Fire and Debts
A chaotic scene on Main and Meadow Valley streets is described with a broad sheet of flame and smoke, collapsing earth and mass panic. Pioche faces debt liquidation by September 16, and local notes warn of stolen or appropriated scales while prospectors flock to new mining ground along Main street and the Lightner shaft strike promising rich ore at about $300 per ton.
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Meadow Val Valley
Pioche
Nevada
Howe Scales Company
A. Brown
Early Day Happenings In Pioche
This item notes closing stock prices from the San Francisco Stock Board dated Sept 7 1871 with Pioche at 147 8 Parmond Ely 28 Meadow Valley 23 14 and mentions a steady rise in stocks. It also reports Wells Fargo bullion shipment valued at 64 and land sales in the burned district at high prices near Lacour Street due to proximity to a new courthouse. A sensational powder explosion in Felsenthal’s cellar triggered a dramatic fiery spectacle followed by a large crowd on Meadow Valley Street and a prolonged rock and timber blast that shattered the mountains and elicited a wild reaction.
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San Francisco Stock Board
Pioche
Parmond & Ely
Meadow Valley
Wells, Fargo & Co
B. F. Sides
Lacour Street
Court House
Felsenthal
Main Street
Meadow Valley Street
Pioche Lumber Business Opens Nearby
Straight-at-You No 1 notes plans to open a lumber business in Pioche. Cars of material have been ordered and should be underway soon. Shipments arrival is uncertain but the firm hopes to begin within a week or two. The L. & Sarlton Company Ramber and Hie Kindred.
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L. & Sarlton Company
Ramber and Hie Kindred
Land grab attempt blocks Goldfield streets for railroad
State notes plan to dedicate street portions north of Miner Street to rail line, cutting east west access in Goldfield and Columbia. Petition circulating to waive grade crossings and gift two block wide public highways from Fourth to Sixth streets. Sheriff revokes 160 plus special deputies licenses, restricting gun ownership. police to enforce bonds for new deputies. P D Delmas hailed as lucky miner after a ten foot Sweepstakes ledge shows high copper and silver values. Nevada rail case with Syphus bill postponed to Sept 30 in US circuit court.
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Las Vegas & Tonopah
Goldfield
Columbia
Miner Street
Las Vegas
Tonopah
Fourth
Sixth
Reno Gazette
P. D. Delmas
Bullion
Elko
Nevada
United States Circuit Court
Virginia Enterprise
Nevada water rights notice from Nye county
Public notice for Henry Thurtell seeking permission to appropriate Nevada public waters from Cottonwood Cherry junction in Nye and Lincoln counties. Water conveyed via open cuts and ditches to irrigation sites. nine weekly publication window starts August 3, 1907, with last publication later in August.
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Nevada
Nye
Ievada
Cherry &T
Lincult
Streaima
Fee
Linguln Co
T. Lean
Liecate
Henry Thurtell
Ava
Shim
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Liz Mentha
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Ingalls
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Calente
Caliente
Hang. Chang's Restaurant
Coloa
J. G. Brown
Apia
Dietrieta Linenio
Linaar Font
Cormar
U.S
Anid
U.sm.m
Coner
Ohio
Lde
Mount Diablo
Buse
Meridian
Ide
Subd Consolidated
Ploche
Lincoln County
Laula J. Cohs GW
Rewister Prat
Tom’s Restaurant
Lacour
Lower Main Street
K Patterson
Thompson Block
P. Murray, M.D. Shgnidan and
Nereda
Sargeoo
Ploche, Nevada
J. West Smith
H. F. Buttner
Mevadi
Spm
John M. Breeze
Corporation Law A Bpecalty
F. R. McNamee
Pelamar
James W
Chas. W. Abbott
W. Abbott
Se Mining Chan
Mineral “Sree
Lanepteer
Reser Surveys
C. D. Breeze
James A. Nesbitt
Main
Chas. Lee Horsey
Av Law
Dan Y. Noland
Notary Public
LAS LR Rco
I. M. Lansdowne
Nev
Proce Livery Stable
Wm. Culverwell
Ralph DeWitt
Delamar
Thompson
Bank Exchange
George Reed
A. S. Thompson Co
M. Nichols
J, H. Egan
Senate
Hill and Hill Bourbon
Probe Brokerage Company
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