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: for a penalty of 25 per cent, and for all < 

 of tin- cast-. The verdict was in favor of the county 

 -erything sued for save tin- 25 per cent, penal- 

 ly. A slay of proceedings was granted and similar 

 suit against the same company was brought in 

 \Vashoe County. 



.Mini n ST. An article published in January said : 

 "The existence of a new gold-mining district, said 

 to be phenomenally rich, is brought to the at- 

 tention of the general public by the quarrels of 

 some of those interested in it. The district is in 

 Nevada, close to the California and Arizona lints. 

 The El Hoi-ado district, as it is called, is reached 

 either from The Needles, in San Bernardino Coun- 

 ty. Cal.. or from Kiugman, in Arizona. The dis- 

 tance to the last-named point by rail from The 

 Needles is 120 miles, but thence a stage runs occa- 

 sionally to the camp. From The Needles up the 

 Colorado river it is only 80 miles, but so swift is 

 the stream's current that Indians have to be em- 

 ployed to tow the boats by hand." 



"The new mining district of State Line, near De 

 Lamar." says a Nevada journal, "on the boundary 

 be! ween Nevada and Utah, embraces an area 6 or 7 

 miles wide by about 12 long. It is about 15 miles 

 from Milford, the nearest railway point, with a 

 n road from that station. There are about 

 100 men in the district prospecting and working 

 claims. The mineral-bearing zone consists of a 

 silver vein lying in porphyry. Some of it carries 

 from 500 to GOO ounces of silver. The gold is found 

 in hard quartz and is a free-milling ore. It runs 

 from $10 to $12 per ton. The district has an eleva- 

 tion of 7.000 to 8,000 feet, and there is frost every 

 month of the year." 



Another new location is on the north end of the 

 Brunswick lode, which includes a full claim of 

 1.500 feet in length by 600 in width. The vein is 

 traceable for 3.000 feet on the surface by the ouc- 

 croppings and shows a width of 40 feet just west of 

 the point where a shaft is being sunk. The foot 

 wall is clay and porphyry backed by syenite. As- 

 says taken across the whole face of the vein, just 

 below the surface, show an average of $2 to $5 a 

 ton in gold, while picked samples from the 40-foot 

 vein show free gold and give assay value of several 

 hundred dollars a ton. 



A new deposit of ore was recently opened in the 

 new Chollar and Norcross south drift on the 300 

 level of the Brunswick lode, apparently a down- 

 ward extension of one opened on the 200 level. 



The Hale and Norcross was closed about March 

 17, the miners having gone out because they were 

 dissatisfied with a new superintendent. The super- 

 intendent, through his attorney, appealed to the 

 Governor to know if he would be protected in case 

 lie should insist upon his lawful right to continue 

 his business as superintendent: and whether, if it 

 were impossible for the State to afford such protec- 

 tion, the Governor would aid in making the proper 

 representations to secure help from the Federal 

 Government. The Governor replied that the sheriff 

 of Storey County had assured him that he would 

 extend all the protection in his power to the Hale 

 and Norcross Company, or to any person connected 

 with it. and that the executive department had re- 

 ceived no official notice of any insurrection, riot, or 

 resistance to the execution of the laws of the State. 

 or any request from any proper source for assi>t- 

 ance in the execution of those laws. A few days 

 after the closing of the mine an armed mob took 

 the superintendent from a barber shop, put him into 

 a carriage, and took him some distance away from 

 town, where they left him. having warned him 

 r.ever to return to Virginia City. The sheriff was 

 appealed to to interfere while this was going on. 

 but said he was unable to prevent it without as 



ance.* After being closed about a month, th.- mine 

 was reopened under new management. I' 

 appearthat spiecfic charges were made against the su- 

 perintendent, but he wji> accused of having. mi for- 

 mer occasions, before his appointment. " infringed . n 

 the laws of the Virginia City ."Miners' 1'nion, and 

 otherwise made himself obnoxious to a larire por- 

 tion of the community by underhanded dealin. 



Political. The Republicans held a convention, 

 May 9, at Virginia City, to elect delegates to the 

 national convention. The platform <-i,]igrat ulaied 

 the people of the State -ind country on the pr> 

 of a Republican presidential victory; favored the 

 restoration of the currency as it stood prior to 

 and the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a 

 ratio of 16 to 1 ; recommended the displacement of 

 Nevada's Senators and Representative as nonresi- 

 dents: favored tariff protection and protection for 

 American labor; opposed interference with non- 

 sectarian schools, and aid to sectarian schools. 



It favored national legislation to control the im- 

 migration of paupers and people holding views op- 

 po-edtothe American form of government ; favored 

 a change in the naturalization laws, requiring, as a 

 qualification of citizenship, seven years' residence 

 on the part of foreigners and the ability to read the 

 Constitution of the United States. It favored the 

 leaving of the delegates to the National Republican 

 Convention unpledged except to use all honorable 

 efforts to secure the nomination of a man favorable 

 to silver. 



The convention for nominating the State and 

 electoral tickets was held at Carson City. Sept. 10. 

 The platform was substantially the same as that of 

 the May convention, with added demands for equal 

 suffrage, settlement of labor strikes by arbitration, 

 enforcement of the purity of elections laws, and 

 representation of the State in Congress by residents 

 of the State. The State ticket follows : For Lieu- 

 tenant Governor. Col. Moore ; Judge of the Supreme 

 Court, M. A. Murphy: Regent (long term), J. M. 

 Fulton ; Regent (short term), Prof. McDiarmid ; 

 Congress, M. J. Davis. 



A I >emocratic mass convention met at Reno. June 

 15. The platform commended the national admin- 

 istration, except for its financial policy, which was 

 condemned : demanded free and unlimited coinage 

 of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 ; denounced all socie- 

 ties, secret or otherwise, which proscribe citizens on 

 account of their religious belief, and demanded the 

 calling of a constitutional convention to make rad- 

 ical changes for the better in the Constitution of 

 the State. 



On the State ticket the Democrats united with 

 the Silver party. Both these parties pledged the 

 electoral vote of the State to Thomas K. Watson 

 should it appear that the contest for the vice-presi- 

 dency is between him and Garret A. Hobart, the 

 Republican nominee. 



The following resolution was adopted by the State 

 Central Committee. Aug. 29 : 



"Owing to the local political conditions at the 

 present time, we deem it inexpedient and unwise to 

 nominate any except an electoral ticket. The plac- 

 ing of the latter upon the official ballots is necessary 

 to preserve the legal status of the Democratic party in 

 Nevada, and we ask for it such support of all friends 

 of the silver cause as we will cheerfully give to the 

 candidates representing the opposition to the gold 

 plutocracy party of the nation and State.'' 



The State Central Committee of the Silver party 

 met at Reno. June 20. chose delegates to the 

 national bimetallic convention at St. Louis, fixed 

 the date Sept. 8 for a State convention, and resolved 

 that the following test be required of voters at the 

 primary election : " 1 am in favor of the free and 

 unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 



