Salt Lake Times | 1890-12-20 | Page 2 | Nevada Notes

NEVADA NOTES. The marble works above Essex, are running day and night. Appeal; Hy Downs, who waVs out to Washoe lake last Friday, says that -.the small ponds adjoining the lake are frozen fotir inches deep and as smooth as glass. ' A number of lead mines on the eastern east-ern slope of White Pine mountain are producing well. Hamilton is more prosperous than for years past. It will be still happier next summer. A passenger on a west-bound train the other day, possessing more money than brain," telegraphed to a Winne-mucca Winne-mucca barber to meet him at the train and give him a shave during the stop of ton minutes. The job was accomplished, accom-plished, for which the barber received a fee of $2. Reno Journal: Gus trey left Sunday morning for Mud Lake to join his brother (inorge. The two during the winter will engage in tho tish business, buying thoui of the white fishermen at the lake and hauling them to Wads-worth Wads-worth for shipment to all factions of the coast. Last Saturday while Mr. and Mrs. II. M. Frost were in Keno. says the Journal, Jour-nal, their house, a few "miles below town on the meadows, was discovered to be on fire by Will (lonld and James Steele. The two succeeded in removing re-moving some of the household furniture effects, but all efforts to save the building build-ing were fruitless. When Mr. Frost and wife returned their home was a heap of smouldering ruins.