The Practical Miner and The Giant Tracks Story
A fragment from Mining Industry and Review discusses the clash between theory and practice in mining, praising theory as the root of wealth while noting practical miners often misjudge new camps like Leadville Cripple Creek and Butte. It then shifts to a Journal account recounting a giant’s death, arrows, and prehistoric tracks near a state prison quarry with Indian memories attached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leadville
Cripple Creek
Butte City
Gunnison
Hayn’s Peak
la Belle
State Prison
Captai
That Giant Again Captain Numina Visits Reno
Captain Dave Numina of the Piutes, aged about 65 and 218 pounds, visits Reno in robust health. He describes a Pyramid Reservation grave said to hold a giant, once a warrior against Piutes during an ancient intertribal war, standing two to three hundred feet high near the Truckow bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Numina
Piutes
Reno
Jacob
Pyramid Reservation
Pinte
Senate Lunch Spot Seeks Cold Lunch Fans at Tuy Town
Minnesota Martin & Co. offers J. F. Cutter and Argonaut whiskies, 1888 Burgundy Claret, and Spanish Perfecta cigars for a cold lunch. Tuy. Lewis, proprietor, invites patrons to visit the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MN. Martin & Co
J. F
Senate
Tuy. Lewis
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Wadswortis
Iver Wood
H. W. Esden
Wadsworth Bottling Works
E. Griswold
Hartford, Palatine and Scottish Union
Nat'l Insurance Companies
Meyer & Co
Nevada House
WM. Donaldson
Wadsworth
Nevada
STAGE
Stillwater, Churchill Co
Seymour Jacobs
Merchant Tailor
Main Street
Japan
Wehiilings
W.C. Co
Earsien
W. C. Co
C.D. Horman
Wadsworth, New
Jas
Crosby & Ed, Hummel, Proprietors
Wadsworth, Nevada
R. R. Depot
John Warrin
Taleo
Union Ice Co
Boon
Boyd E. Dilley
Wadsworth - Laundry
Luccachini & Co
W. H. Davis
Lovelock, Nevada
Pony
G. W. Tavener
Sacramento
Ogden
Casper Becker
Donshee Brewery
Reno, Nevada
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