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Show NEVADA STATE DOINGS. The Political FieldRailroad Suit PoslponcdThc True CormtocK DiscovcrerSomtthing About TwinsThe Wonderful Cahill Brolhcr$A c, N.w Strike at Tonopah. Carwin ntj, N , Aug 81 The State liomlnnllnna made bj the Demo-cratlc Demo-cratlc nnd Stiver partj ftmlnn conven-ttona, conven-ttona, which eoiicluded their InUira nt Iteno jieaterday, are gencralls ejulle aallafartorj to Ihe Hrpuhllcnn pnrlj 'ltll the exceptions of John Sparks of Henn for llovernor, Sam Allen nf i hurclilll for Lieutenant llnvernnr, and Van Diner for Congressman und joung Sweeney for Atlorm j-tlenernl tho rest of the ticket Is made up of old pirty hacks and present Slnle ntllre Incumbents Incum-bents who have occupied Ihelr soft fat Jobs for the last two terms long enough to give nomohM.lv Just as good a chance And tin so present In. mil-b. mil-b. nla, eleited by the Sliver partj whin In Ihe height nf Us imvvor nnd glut v. mo Just sllnplj the head and inn lens or the silver pirtj in this Slate on the prlnilple of speaking well of the bridge that cariles jou safe over or keeping up tho nrgalllsntlon that keeps Jim III olllce l,et Iheni l.e beaten Ibis time the silver pnrtv will linmeliltel drop out of Nevidas politics and mver be heard of nc,aln Sparks for (Inventor Is nil cxciHsllnKlv strong nnmln illon. but a good Uetuibllian i crimps Clevehind nf While Pine, mnv bint him Just wall mid see the Uepubllcaii nonilni-tlons nonilni-tlons nt llulr eiiuventlon, csimiiietu lug Septcijiber Kill lt.MMIOAl) SUIT POSTPONM'.ll The ehronle stilt, ("larks Sin Pulro, los Angi lea A Salt Lake It illrond colli pnnv vs the Oregon Short Line etc has Just ngnln been lKisttsmed In the United Stales Circuit court hero, by consent nf louns. I on both sides until Dei ember 1st when It miv be still further fur-ther postponed People an losing nil Interest In that fimoiis suit, except In Us postponements Tin: comstooic niscovnitp.n A recenl Monluni lilegraiu stites that P J Pram Is, a public spirited us-blent us-blent ot llozeniiin, proisises In erei t a monument over tho grnve of Henry T P Cnmstnck the in ill who discovered nnd located the fatuous Cnnistiic k lode nt Virginia Cltj. Nov . fiom whlih Ihe late John W Mmkny nut .Tniuea (1 Pair took mnnv millions Dlsiouragul and 111 nnl without u dnllir, Coiustock, September. ISJtl, shot himself thiougli the head Ills body was hurled bv the county In Ihe cemetery Just ens of llozimnn, where It lina remained up in the iocs, lit lime In an unmarked giave That part Is nil well enough, but Mr Prancia had b. Iter stinlv up the true hlsloiy of the Couistoi k dlscnverj, leet he should erect a costly niiiiiuincnt over Iho wrong mm, Pete O ltlley and Pat McLmghlln. working nt gold washing In Sl-mlle cull) nn, the big ravine cm the north side of Virginia city, near the Ophlr mine, were the tine dlscnvereta nnd Ilrst loealers of the Couistoi k mine or lode Comsiock enme along directly nflcrwnrd nnd Joined In with them nnd Ihelr llnd. which wns showlnir rlchlv In gold He became much e xcllcel over It, nnd being sntnewhnt ot an eccentric, lll-bilanie.l Indlvldii il, he did moro talking nbout It than nnvlio,, linugln-Ing linugln-Ing tint he wns Ihe discoverer, and got his name hitched onto It as such Nobody eared nnd It eventually be came known us the Comstnck lode Coinstoek himself rot tired nf It arter a while, sold out ehenp nnd desert! d It, to die piospectlng 111 Montati i for something belter CIIOICi: TWIN SPU.CIMU.NS. Tim other day two joung men from tho Hast pissed through here Imiiud fnr Tonopah, or somewhere lu Hint direction. di-rection. They were twin brothers, nnd thej dressed exactlj' nllke and so exactly ex-actly resembled each other that n stranger could not tell them npart Indeed In-deed one of them laughing) j nssilrel me that they often mistook themselves for each other It called to mind some re mnrkahle Instnticea of twins, familiar to nil old Cniuslocki rs There were the Patterson brothers. Hob and Andy, who could b. distinguished distin-guished from each either cinlv hy old Intimate In-timate acquaintances The Meslck brothers were eiually difllcult In thnt waj' but tho most wonderful were the (ihlll brothcis, Tom und John They fieo;iionllj got confused with each either, eith-er, and could only unmix by asking namis And they diessed, shaved, looked and nrted exactly nllke, wearing enih other's clnlhea Inillscrltnlnntelj One morning Tom went to n (' street barber and hid his hair cut shoit. en John followed suit In the afternoon He noticed that the hnrber. who was n newcomer, appeared considerably excited excit-ed over him, nnd when he tendered u half doll ir In pijment for his services, tho birber wllh it keen, earnest wondering won-dering smile snld "No, no, mlno friend. I dnnd't sharge jou von dam cent You ehnnst peats der tuyfel, nnd 1 vnla jou for n partner" part-ner" "Hovv'b thnt, nnd what for?" sijs John "Ilxplaln " "Veil, lt'H sheinst ills, I rut jour bnlr ills morning and now I ruts It nc,nln. It'B Riowd six Inches In six hours, nnd py hhlmmlnj-. e ran start a lg nnd mitlress fnclory nnd mnke more money ns anjvidy, and doncl t jou tea get It " N11W TONOPAH HTIIIKi: And now roines the cxeillng pews of another rich strike at Tonopah this time iinr town on what Is thought to be the extension of Ihe Mlzpih ledge Assajs of J100 and JtOO nre rcpnrled nnd tho ledge Is snld to be three lo six feet In width It creates unite an additional addi-tional excllemenl and all the gremnJ In Its vicinity has been promptly Incited The ledge did nnt hnvo much of nn outcrop or prominent surface Indlei-ttons Indlei-ttons of Iho wealth beneath, which makea It the more Interesting as not being easily understood It was lo-caled lo-caled moie fiom Its direction nnd relative rela-tive position to the original Mlrpnh and others nf the llutler gioup than anything else. . NIIVAOA AS A OOI.D STATU A lale Issue of the Mining nnd Scientific Scien-tific Press contains the following Ptom various pirls of western Ne-vida Ne-vida 111 the list jeur have come re-orts re-orts nf rich llnds of gold nre and sunn quint dnvclopnt.nl Ins shown that In nearlj eiveiy ease tho nrlglnil reporls weie not exaggerated Nivndi Is second to none of her sister stuns In mining wroillh but since the decline de-cline of the comstnck has not for twenty jeara been given Ihe attention thnt It Is now receiving Ten jenra ago this paper pointed out that new Comstncks were iwnltlng development develop-ment with fnr Icpi expenditure nnd under newer and more favorable auspices aus-pices It would Imn sounded singular sin-gular lo say It then but It is within the hounds of probabllltj to .isseit that In llvo jeais the annual gold jleld of Nevadi may iqiul thnt of nnj other stale lu amount Nevada wns long known ns the 'silver stnt" hut oven lu the dnja of her greatest bullion J lei I. hi w ei n 1S79 nnd 1M the aver ige of tho Cnmstnck output wns 13 1-S per cint gold The Comstock lode won Ilrst discovered discov-ered ns n gold mine, although the uuh-sequent uuh-sequent dlseoveiy of sulphurets of silver nmong the gold eveutuallj made It tho first silver mlno In the United Stales Hut It wna nnt until the fifth year that silver predominated over Ihe gold, the jleld for thnt year being gold 14 810 earn, silver. JMfioono, total tU 400 000 Its grenlest product In anj nno Jem was during the big bonanza daja of 1S77, which iccorded a yield of gold, 14 5:OCICS, silver, 21 70 922 0JJ total J3fi J01 .3fl TO. This lo taken from official government report, Treas. ury Department Washington With tha decline of the Comstock gold ngaln predominated, the jleld for tsss lielng gold 17JiMlin, silver, $1 115 071 (M total 11 III 1103 Tl (lold has continued to piedomlnate each jear aline The tolal jleld nf the Cnmrtook to dale Is iiilblallj given nt about JS70 000 (mo, over $i!ii new 000 being silver Ihe principal early lending mines of the state llurekH, lender White Pino md Lincoln ran ninstlj to silver the famous Yvcnlinn mine Cortes district wns nenrlj nil silver, like those of Aus tin lu fact the all gold mines weie vnj few and roiiipniatlvelj poor ns lompnred with the great sllvet mines The leading mine of the Comsiock lode, the Con ful and Vliglnln, jlelds more silver thnn gold todnv nnd To nop ill cerlnlnlj must be i lassed among sliver mines Us bullion jleld being three-fourths silver and most of the lecent new dUoverles lu the Tonopah sec Hon run Inrgelj to silver, ns does the Wedi kind mine nenr Iteno Ne vndn must remain classed ns n silver stnle, until gold Is found In overpowering overpower-ing iiuaiilllles TONOPAH MATTHItS nvlilenrc ot llvelj nnd prosperous tlims ut 'Jnnopiili In given by the mix up of things In Interest between the Salt Lake and Tonnpnli Mining companion itnth companies claim n trlangiilir strip of lend and so blller beinme tin argument thnt nrmed men patrolled the disputed terrltnrj lulling for the Interference of the sh. riff On application Judge llawlej of Ihe United Unit-ed Slates Circuit Court Carson has Isautcl a n straining order prohibiting the Salt lrfike people from entering up on Ihe giniiml known as the Vnllcy lew claim und they nre called upon In uppeni In court Sepleinlur 2 and show whj the unlet should not be made u perpetual Injunction The ground In dispute Is very vnlu-nblo, vnlu-nblo, several shirts developing much good pny ore The nppllcall.ui of Ihe Tonopuh Mining company for n patent start 1 tho wrangle and n number of ntlornejs are i ngaged on both nl tes, githerlng evidence, nuking survejs nnd helling ready for n niunie contest con-test Wnler hns been struck In the Mlz-pah Mlz-pah Uxleuslon III the depth of 400 feet, jlehllng nbout 1 ocui gnllnns per dnj-. lielng the first watir struck In that dry locality it miy bo found to be of more value than d. Irlment. MILLIONS INVIMlin Superintendent Colend, who has assumed as-sumed chllge of Ihe Lsmernbla Consolidated Con-solidated mines mar llawllioine la busily engaged pre paring fnr the erection erec-tion nf n big .'0 stump mill nnd the living nf tr, miles nf water pipe This will Introduce water sulllelciit for nil purposes ft oni Cottonwood and Cat creeks. Uastern cnpllnl Is the foundation foun-dation ot the revival of these mines, whlih will eventually bo nddlng miller-lillv miller-lillv In the wenllh of the country. Uistern or Philadelphia capital Is nlso Iho line king of the project foi ruinlshlng plenij nf water and electric Power for the mines nf Tonop.ili, from Twin river, rs miles south. J . Durkee, lending promoter of the pro-Jirt pro-Jirt snjs that to Ida personal knowledge knowl-edge Nov ad i' splendid mineral exhlbp nt llurfiilo lust jear brought ut least two million dollars In IJnsiern capital to Invest In tho mlnea of Nevndn At.P doti:n. |