Show The oldest inhaoitant has been at work and has discovered that Dr Harris a soninlaw of Hon Jaines A Stevens of Stevens Floating Batter fame erected the first quartz mill in Nevada iti I860 It was a ninestamp Howland dry crusher and was located in Gold Hill The first ore crushed was valued at 400 per ton There had been quite a race between Harris and another mill owner for the honor of turning on the first steam and the second whistle sounded twentyfour hours after victory had teen shrieked by tne first THE Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of tho circuit court of California Cali-fornia in the case of the Southern Development Company against Fran Silver The latter bold the Development Company Mines in MonoCounty They did not pan out and the company sued to recover the money paid Silver on the ground that he had salted the mines and obtained the money under false pretenses The circuit court held that it was the business of the company to have ascertained the true character of the mines before making the purchase and the Supreme Court upholds that view of the case I |