Show OFFIAL VOTE r EVADA Sparkss Plurality Is Seventeen Seven-teen Hundred SixtyTwo TWO REPUBLICANS ELECTED More Ballots Were Cast Than at Presidential Election This Would Indicate That the Population Popu-lation of the State Had Increased During Two Years CORRESPOXDENCE TRIBUNE Carson City Nov Dec lOnn Monday Mon-day last the State Board of Canvassers met at the office of the Secretary of State and examined the official returns from the various counties adding up the votes for the several candidates on the State ticket The highest number of votes cast was for Governor 113S1 being 1373 more votes than was cast at the general election of four years ago indicating L proportionate increase in-crease of population The majority of Sparks Dem for Governor was 17C2 over Cleveland Rep In fact only two Republicans were elected on the State ticket Ring for Superintendent of Public Instruction by Just 1 major it31 and Douglass for Secretary of State by 110 majority Nevada certainly certain-ly went stronger for the Democratic Silver fusion ticket this time than any body anticipated but then there was a weightier personal Duck In the field for the Republicans to run up against than has materialized for tho last half dozen elections BECKWITHS PASS RAILWAY BeckwlthB pass through the Sierra Nevada about twenty miles north of Reno Is the most eligible pass In this section and the Central Pacific railroad rail-road should have been placed through it Instead of the Ilenncss pass But the Henness pass WHS the most direct and on the regular stage route and general line of travel und Its disadvantages disad-vantages had to by ascertained from actual experience The Beck with pass I > 2000 feet lower following a brunch or fork of Feather river from Sierra alley al-ley north of Reno down through a comparatively com-paratively even descent or grade to tic main Feather and by way of Orovlllo to Sacramento the real distance uclng very little more than by the present route and having a great advantage In not requiring nearly fifty miles of snowshcds for winter protection For several months pant a party of surveyors sur-veyors have been quietly working on L survey of this new route doing very careful and responsible woxk which IH I understood to be In tine Interest of4 the Santa Fe system although they nre very reticent In the matter minding their own business merely l anylnjj that they are engaged In running out tim tm ber lands and sections some of the finest timber In the Sierra being found loun about there Tho survey comes in a mile or two west of Reno and Beck wlths pass furnishes the best natural railroad grade of any through this see I lon of the Sierra Nuvudii with very I payy approaches from cither side l of the I great range I will certainly shorten I I the time of travel between the East and the West OLD COMSTOCK LOOKING UP x There has been quite an upward movement prevailing among Comslock mining shares during the last two or three weeks reminding one a little of old times This little rise Is to be a tributed not altogether to the alo new machinery ma-chinery and preparations for prepartons or deep developments le velopments In the Con California and Virginia mine nor to the completion of the great Butturs cyanide plant which Is to shortly commence a raid upon all the lowgrade ore in the upper levels besides working up all the remaining deposits of old mill tailings but to new and extensive good ore developments at the south end of the lode below Gold hill On the 1100foot level of the Caledonia Cal-edonia a fine vein of ore Is developed five or six feet wide and widening all pure ore with no writer and In the upraise up-raise above It and the winze below the same goodsized vein of ore appears assaying from 1G to 30 per ton nearly all gold very little silver and some assays from choice localities run us high as 5250 or 300 per ton gold The old Caledonia is fast regaining her old prestige us a rich and promising mine Moreover there are plenty of reduction reduc-tion mills close at hand Instead of costIng cost-Ing 5 POI ton transportation like To nopah ores Then there Is the old Silver hill mine Just below near Silver City li creasing Its regular output principally gold ore in both quantity and quality I has paid Its way well durIng the past year or two and now has started In lilns j regular dividends a welcome novelty for any mine in this State The Population l of the Comstock has increased In-creased and business has improved during the past year and 100 or COO > men arc on the payroll Let the big drill In the Brunowlck section strike some thinS good or a good find be developed devel-oped anywhere at the north end or the middle and Virginia City will come rapidly to the front as a mining center during the coming season OLD MILL JIELIC The old Auburn mill just north of Reno better known aa the English mill was planted there by an English company com-pany nearly forty years ago to work oro from a mine of their own or from Poavlne district the Comstock or anywhere any-where else A big water ditch from the Truckec river supplied motive power pow-er and the machinery was of the latest English and American make But cither the stuff was not plenty enough in the rock or they were not well enough versed In the science of milling or ore reduction anyhow they mode poor success of It and finally after a afer a few years of Intermittent work the mill became Idle The Reno Journal calls to mind the experience of Col l F Osblston who had about the lost management of the company A schedule sched-ule was put in effect January 1 1 1 > 71 promulgatnb tho net rates by percentages percent-ages of assay values at which ores would be purchased at tho office in Reno Under this schedule the miner was able to get about 60 out of each ton of 100 ore delivered at the eac But even this liberal rate brought no better success and tho old mill finally fell into 1 state o quietude and deser < outofdate tion the old buildings and antiquated machinery only now re maining1 as relics of the Auburn or English null U S CIRCUIT COURT Judge Hawley of the United States Circuit court has had to adjourn for about a month or until the Januar term on account of a severe attack of1 the grippe Ho has gone to Califor CalCol nut and Is reported on the Improve The personal damage flultn against the South Pacific railroad contractors near Reno mentioned In a mentoned 1 recent let ter will have to be tried all over again before another jury Another postponement his been agreed upon In tho case of tine Los Angeles Salt Lake railroad and the Oregon Short Line The maps aro filed and the case stands In the United States Land office and tho Circuit court and this present postponement Is I until March 1 1903 TONOPAH ITEMS I Tonopah Is to have another church The camp has three good ones already but Is gaining front and can stand another an-other This Is to be the Episcopal church and was successfully Inaugu rated and established only a few days ago Plenty of money was raised for the building and the salary of the pan lor was fixed at SlG per month The construction of the building is to be proscctued at once Tonopah IB also to have a swell quartz mill for the reduction of custom ores I will be erected at Butlervllle four miles from town and will have a Capacity ca-pacity of five tons per day to be enlarged en-larged i later on Mr Osborn tine proprIetor pro-prietor expects t have it working within forty days Other reduction works reducton are prospected and will be accomplished during the coming season Mr C D Van Duzer who arrived from Tonopah the other day says there are hundreds of millions mil-lions l In gold and silver In those mines and the percentage of gold constantly Increase i as death is attained The richest places are simply fabulously rich beyond human comprehension ALF DOTEN |