| Show NEVADA ITEMS seems to very rite rife in the washoe country and among t other reported acts of that kind several attempts at te apts have been made of late to la lay y virginia city in ashes and in one instance they B succeeded in burning up the chinese quarters BO oc 0 called the city authorities have offered a reward of five hundred dollars for the arrest arres b and conviction of the burners and have provided a fire engine 0 that they may be the better prepared for such ouch emergencies milk in virginia and other cities thereabout there about is becoming exceedingly scarce and hotel I 1 and restaurant keepers find great reat difficulty in a supply bome some of those establish i ments using I 1 it is said baid three hundred hun efred ifred dollars 9 I 1 i worth per week I 1 some of 0 the eastern manufacturers and ven ders of that teat article m might i make a fortune there I 1 in a short tim time e under such circum i stances the E enterprise uter utoy prize says the carson country is extremely fruitful for although 11 figs 0 have not been grown there the crop of dates is very abundant of the kind called candidates dates 2 it knows of no country i where that species grows or produces more luxuriantly but for all that and the many other chances exis existing Cing there for the acquisition of fortunes the ibe editors proffer to leave the aromatic sage groves of washoe to rei turn there no more for the small buma sura of about ten thousand dollars f the enfer Enter enterprise prize cannot be a paying 0 ins institution 1 13 the manufacture of brick in that country must b bp a for f or it is represented as bellig carried on there extensively the manufacture of stone ware has baa also been com eom commenced fenced at virginia city with a fair prospect of complete success A meeting was recently held in virginia city for the purpose of forming a territorial agricultural A L mining and mechanical society the constitution of the CA agricultural I 1 i society was adopted as a basis of organization I 1 gen 11 II P rissell R ll issell was wag elected president W C philips recording secretary W M gillespie corresponding secretary and IL I L rice treasurer for the ensuing year vice presidents were appointed for tha the several counties in the territory and arran arrangements cements made for soliciting membership the fees for which were fixed at five dollars per annum if money elou enouf can he be raised it is intended to hold a fair sometime in october business in washoe la is represented as being very flourishing nourishing or of late it is said there are one hundred and seventy seven beven tyone rone tone licensed mercantile establishments in storey county and seventy bix six liquor shops the amount of licenses which have been collected and paid into the county treasury from those institutions since the first of march last is reported at about twelve thousand dollars the agg age complains of the increase of vagabond el element emerit in and about the washoe mines which causes property holders hol bol dereu derei much un uneasiness P a s where they came from to 3 a mystery to topse th ae who ash q drea dread the ba presence ot ragged lo 10 lousy drinking loaders I 1 I 1 which warm aroun the stores and liquor saloons saloon 3 and are preheat on ali all public occasions extra I 1 guarda guards and po policemen cemen have been er employed p loy ed to ensure greater safety at night and every precaution taken as announced to ervent incendiary fires firca from being kind kindled ledl which seems to b be 1 e greatly feared by those having uninsured property to which the torch might ba be easily dilli app applina liia the people of nevada profess not to kno know W how bow to get rid ria ot of the surplus p population opu lation which they so much diendl dread but if they would abate their liquor shops and banish the reported army of office seekers from flom their midst the number of va vagabonds 0 about akoub their towns and cities would oon eoon e materially decrease for lor buzzards do not often may stay long where there is fa no carrion A course ot of thac that knol knot however might be considered a violation of the pies ples of the kind of civilization to 0 which they are so much attached |
