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Show ee ae<ete Bae ee * LOCAL éuinese first observe Climatically speaking, these and cold nights are delicious. warm scription'of the modus days workings. which shooting is good sport, and, besides, it is the After a three weeks’ tussle with the erysipelas fend, Judge Potter is once more on the wafted down Gawge Washington Crouch's Lament— ** Poor Beaver. No express office, no through stages, no nothing! All gone to Minersville!” Yon can take our bandana a while, Gawge, when yours gets used up. ers ago, a wagon Joad is regis- of empty the purchaser are next put into a pan 1, 2,3 and 4, are next in a are made twice a day, andthe if at all fortunate, deal- three or four ticket, and over spots seven being make won a is a rarity.. upon Under four spots scored, the tickets lose, and ‘over this to as high as eight the prizes are nominal, varying from 25 cents to $50.' This specie of gambling is very popular among the Chinese, and there is hardly one but who holds a ticket for each drawing. . Occasionally a ten-strike is made, but most generally a man isin luck if he keeps even on the game. Saturday beer MineER, oo ‘Some of Silver Reef, three wecks reported that town of a man who had rock, who stated that he of ago the the arfival some very had in rich discovered a very rich ledge in the lower end of Lincoln county. The samples assayed very high and created alittle excitement among the individuals barrels, Dick Ashby’s team took fright, run away, and threw the driver out of the wagon, seriously hurting him. Ashby is a resident of Leeds. last: who were to have-a slice of the *‘ plum Judge J. B. Van Hlagen returned to the Reéf on last evening’s‘coach. He has been north for the purpose of hurrying forward pudding.’ John Rice and another party fitted out Jim Cronan and sent him ont with the discoverer to take a look at the new baby elephant and report whether it was male or female. A prospector just up fromthe lower end of the county reports having met Cronan and his man. Jim told him that when they machinery arrived for the mill, all of which, we are sol? is Tow ‘on the toa bettreen here and the railroad terminus. Tom Travis. whom Tom Dillon recently stabbed to the heart in a fight in a Bodie hurdy house, was well known in Silver Reef. From this camp he went to Pioche, thence to Eureka, and left the-latter place for Bodie only about a month ago. We are informed by .W. T. Rich that, owing to the non-arrival of machinery and for want of lumber, work on “the Barbee mill has been suspended for the past ten days. We regret this, for the reason that the sooner they get at work pounding ore, the better it will be for the camp. Greenbaum has of late been enlarging, renovating and otherwise improving Dusinesa. And he now his place of has just received new. a find there was nothing there, andthe samples dieplayed were from Ivanpah. Before Jime left the Reef he wrote up here to CUigiidler that the rock’ was from Ivanpah, or else he was greatly fooled, and such proves to be the case. Jim has gone down in the vicinity of E] Dorado Canyon in search of a gold ledge — we believe the same that he was in search of some two'years ago.” ~~ The authorities that-be at St. George have deciared the road between Leeds and Babylon a county road, and hereafter the samc will be keptin repair by expending upon it the money collected for poll-tax in the precinta of Silver Reef and Leeds. This is as it should be. the stamps at the follow before the close of the week, and this as against $19,364 for the week ending January 18, 1879—Aa gain this year of $18,037 over the shipments January for the of last year. note these keep posted figures, on two weeks by so increase doing of one the to can camp‘s bullion output. It may be mentioned also, in this connection, that the outlook for 1880 is all that the most sanguine of our mining men could wish. The only thing needed to make the camp boom a la Leadville, is the construction of two or three more mills and the working of the mines to something like their producing capacity. > <e o - Several of the big chiefs of the Church, among them Messrs. Snow, McAllister, Stormont Gates, Bentley, Whitehead and others, came toup Leeds from St: Géorgé the other day, and held a big religions pow-wow. They didn't invite nary a citizen ofthe Reef, that lwe can find out. But we'll get even for this slight. Next time a deck of good-looking hnrdies comes to town we'll keep mum .and not let these old he-fellows know a word abont it.. : Dancing School! Don't forget that Professor Alphin's Dancing School is open every Tuesday and Friday evening. Private Icssons given at 1 o'clock in the afteroon of the eame days. —— << o Fancy Coods! Jast received by MRS. M. A. BREIGER a new stock of Worsteds, Card Boards, Pear) Beads and Wood Splits. Fashionable Fancy Work and French Stamping for Braiding and Embroidering ‘ge to oraer. << ———---—— What's the Use Of writing so many letters to your friends; they will get more local news in one MINER than @ dozen letters contain. Sent to any address in the United States three months for $2. Gentlemen! «Go to J. B. Stephens, for your GOOD FITTING BOOTS. Orders taken for Ladies" Drees Bhoes. Our Good A. G. Beniis, Wishes Follow. late Company’s this morning Superintendent mines, left of the the ———_—__~ ~me + Third and Last Call! I take this public method of informing all those having for the year paid on or month, they attorney for overdue accounts on my books 1879 that, unless the same are before the 0th of the present will be placed in the hands of an collection. J.J. HALPIN, Brewery for Rent or Sale, A first-class brewery, in complete ordér, situated in Silver Reef, for rent or sale cheap. Apply to L. Hornpeng, Silver Reef. (Salt Lake Tribune please copy for one month and send billto Miner office.] oF oe Take Notice! Allpersons knowing themselves indebted tous are requested to settle their bills at once, otherwise suit will be instituted against them. HeirzveMan & Pousavde. +o —___—_—_ Shoes! at Mre, C, Hanson's, Main ; 6 Apverripx in the Minen. com- off The a-ehare of the third, and by shooting match to One rifle, one Improved Mayor Skinner, of Beaver, day morning last. died on Thurs- The thermometer fell 8 degrees below zerd at Beaver on Sunday and Monday mortings Remington No. 12. double-gun, and one Colt’s pistol. Any one of these say nothing of intrinsic score of 20 out of a possible if they are ambitious value; 25. to enter into a shooting contest for the championship ef. Southern Utah, they can find congenial spirits here who will accommodate them. RUMORCRAPHS. The following are current street rumors— they may or may not be based on fact. The reporter, therefore, gets out of any responsi- bility in the premises by simply that ‘it is rumored:” announcing That another vocal and instrumental enterfor the exclusive benefit ‘hospital, will soon be given in of the the Catholic Church, That the solar eclipse not an eclipsc of Sunday Utah fire brick are used in building the new crystalizer of the Richmond Company, at Eureka. last last was in the shooting match there will be five bullseyes the shooting match at the race row. made 2 track 1o-mor- Shoemaker's menagerie, wants to the to-day as he was ‘‘greatest a few cen- showman,” etc., thinks he would be a great attraction and paying addition to his already magnificent collection of wild animals. When he sends a suitable cage along, Shoemaker wil] ship the animal. up his premises ‘Dried, with one of himeelf of osculatory with Saintess liva That Operator Morrison can thump more music out of an ordinary tin pan in five minutes than Wilhelmj can scrape out of his $5,000 fiddle in a month. accident-occurred Railroad, on on Saturday afternoon a week Hill, ago. tion men, named David Rowe Baker, had on started on the diyide prov iskons, and were walking run by three engines, Two the Mendon, whenn-theye were overtaken with a few severe bruises, dead when limbs, Burns man en Whiskies, for Baker, of Sandy, says the Salt city, and to the Valley House FANCY is Silver Roof Blacksmith Shop. MaIN. STREET, Wa Groceries, Provisions, LUMBER and gon Teme Work, PATENTS, Street, Noxt door to the Drug Store, A. LEB MANY. SOLICITOR OF AMERia a pees Patents. weet ngton, Hl er siness connected with Patents, ohathar} before the Patent Office or the Courts, promptly attended to. ch made unless & patent issecured. Send d for cireular, tf ® Keeps stways, the best Wines, Liquors and Oigare, ~—. : GEORGE MILLER, ET on tint th ns Metta inactails ete ‘LSINOWOT8 ‘Wd R. A. SPEACER, CONTRACTOR —-AND— BUILDER. Cerner of Main haat eet eet eee ) Horse-Shoeing ‘all the same." QRAIN. ‘ELK-HORN SALOON. Main [tjUOMEEIO pus Udig ‘enon AND Of all shapes done on short notice. where ‘sume wxaTIs BEEF, BLACKSMITHING( Lower Main Street, Silver Reef, the deceased gentleman used to stay. He went to the rack, sprang up and smelled each coat, and then flew out and ran up and down the street, almost wild.. When he returned,to the Valley House, Mr. Brixen took one of Judge Baker's old coats and laid it out in the yard, andthen: took the dog-out to it. The animal immediately laid down on the coat and séemed satisfied, and made it particularly interesting for those who AVRO 4 to remove [{t. { * pipiens SILVER * *30023g ByURC ‘UsLNIVE N. BUBB, J. A. TURRILL, Lake wg-6t' ‘02 pepucye <i;dwoud eseps0 1 “BVEO CHROMOE, And full line of Miners’ Notions, 3. R. RICKARDS. Having had many years of bare experience in the preparation and compoundingof medicines for the sicknea afiticted, on well qualified Bak- ret ARTICLES, To which I beg to direct public attention, CUTLERY, 1Gan8, Tobaccos, ConrRoTIONERY, J. E. JOHNSON, tDruggist,.Pharmacist and Chemist, Herald, died und was buried a few days ago. He had become possessed of a dog, which it was said had saved his life, and he therefore entertained a strong affection for it, which ‘the dog reciprocated. Since his death the animal had been kept tied up at Sandy, but the other day he got loose, and immediately pan. to this Heavy & Light Iron, Copper & Tinware DEPOT, medicinal and prepared sot only to put up prescriptions with cure, accuracy and dispatch, but prescribe successfully for the afflicted, ox manufacturing - PURCHASING prinotpally Old Bran- Baker, first reached. WHITE LEAD, ZINC and PUTTY am peepered to duplicate SALT LAKE the er was about 20 years old and anmarried. Judge NEWS trouble inward CLoTHEes BLUEING -- The best in dies, Rum, Gin and use, kept instock. track. AND DRY PAINTS, ESPECIAL OONVENTENOMS —GENERAL— et. sec- MIXED : J. R. RICKARDS, or Sores, Bruises, oe freemen a ieka, ‘gyrups, Essences, etc, Pure Native Wings, and Choice béing struck with a projecting step of a car on the hind part of the train, was killed instantly, being CUARANTEED. HAVE PURCHASED MR. JESsup’s interest in the Peter’s Leap sawmill and are prepared to offer better inducements to parties wanting lumber than any other firm in the Keef, and can deliver special orders much sooner than any other mill-os mpany. obtain the but ee Cuts, Wounds and Sprains, os ing Plaster for Uhest, Bide o: +e LLER—Good for sted any is heir to,. both for outward and ores also, be- In Southern Utah, Liniment —- For Rheumat- application flesh a snow-plow, clearing outward Copetie SaLtve—For heali along the track, by Work of. SASH and PANEL DOORS and WINDOWS SATISFACTION E Droiice, THING 8yRUP — For Pains, Coite and Rest- sectionfo AND OckY MountTaIn CouGH Batsam,--For Colds ete Hoarseness, Sore Throat or Lungs The wind was blowing so fearfully, that the plow was upon them before either could see it,or the engineer on the lead engine could see them, both were struck with the plowand knocked to the side of the track. Rowe escaped Country Hives,6 and Joseph L. foot from for DONE seasora’ 10 Obiidren, on the Utah Mendon OF— Carpenter (both ee Ri oe Wind or Pain in Stomach o Colics, Diarrbca, Dysentery, vinx, ‘hota, Ria lee Morbus, foothache, etc, LM—For Intiamea, ae Ag Sore Eyes, Skin Eruptions, Chap tween Mendon and Hampton’s, Cache Valley, house ae ism, Neuralgic Paius in the body and Bruises, Sprains, Swetled Parta, eee requiring ———— + >a Northern and and Scalds, Ohapped Hands, and for all diseases That the bright torch of Hymen will soon be in a blaze, with a male man of the Reef as one of tke principals. and The largest and most complete stock —ALL KINDS che, Loss, ot Appetite, Jaundice, epeniemncees Fevers, Volds, Bilious Rocky Micaeitk ‘oquerville, Hardware, and Moiding, JOHNSON’S Home-made Family MEDICINES, exercises In great variety and of best manafectare, CARPENTER’S and BUILDER'S Sash, + Canss——— : ee Complaints, - and Ranges 4 Medicines, Preserved marine Edi- said Saintess being afflicte time with incipient dipbtheria. [P.S.—This is probably a slander. Wedon‘'t believe George is that kind of a clothes pin.] Cooking and Heating Stoves Be |\Shingles, Boneset Pitts — For Liver Complaints, Dys- in acquitting 18 AND Doors, _BTO., ETO., ETO. - Stand. L.umber Foreign and Domestic. Candieswi eee pute, Etc. Groceries and Grocery ds, Tobacco, Cigars and Sn Crockery aad Glassware, Lampsand Lamp Stock and Wooden ware. (Corda iaeees frum ee) ‘Home That George Miller canght his sore throat A‘ fearful Canned, MELTING POTS — BONE-ASH, LITHARGR, south of Salt Lake. Paints acd Oils, Scaps, Perfumery, Articies, Instruments. Patent Medicines, “Oye, Notions aad FParcy Goods, Static nery:and Books, ‘fable and “Pocket : ‘utlery, Laundry Goods... Fruits— Fresh, son’s electric illuminators. a young Reckathorn & Miller DEALERS ae Assayers Goods FRESH BUTTER & EGGS AT ALL TIMES. ae Remember this place sells cnonnte =than Toilet That Halpin, with his usual enterprise, will light and A FULL LINE OF any other house. APOTHEOARY, Drugs buy it—particularly the * tiger As the latter beast was caught in King Se s juriglesa good many hundreds cf years ago, and is as untamed is Going Ont ef the Seat Busin«ss and is selling his s.ockh below cost, And dealer fn and ’ BAIL AND BAB IRON. - COMMISSION MERCHANT, That P. T. Barnim “the greatest showman on earth *—P. T. is a regular subscriber to the MinEk—has heard of the Reverend M. soon Ge At} Their: Old Silver Reef and St. George, Utah, in BELTING, PACKING, FAMILY GROCERIES J. E. JOINSON That a number of valuable mining properties are about to pass into the possession of Eastern capitalists. GAS PIPE AND TUSIXNG, "TRON AND BRAse FITTINGS. The largest sssortment and most complete stock statement. supplies, _Contoai pardot ot ALLin MIENg Of Aliso a good Supply of Miscellaneous, in Utah CIGARS BEST LIQu ost Cuns, Pistols, Etc. A full line of Guns, Pistols, Canes, loose and fixed Ammunition, Cutlery, Plated Goods and Lamps just received at = HALPIN’S. MEDIOINES IRON and STEEL, fo be had in Town at « Bit » Drink. The trains on the Pleasant Valley narrow gauge railroad are experiencing a good deal of inconvenience from snow, at present. It has taken about a week to clear the track fora distance of 30 miles. The trains are irregular, and coal shipments are not half equal to the demand. of HARDWA RE, Mill, Mine and Bicksmit' HAVANA Bent Henningsen, of Logan, accidentally shot his hand with a gun last Monday. One finger was nearly torn off and another injured, Moral—Don't have any fingers on your hand, then they won't get torn off. That Constable Joe Hoag is a regniarly ordained deacon in the Mormon Church, he having been initiated by no lees a personage than the late Brigham Young, at the dedication of the St. George Temple, three years ago. Sailor Jack gives this as a fact—under the promise that nothing should be said about it—and avers that Squire Cassidy, the Rev. M. Shoemaker, Bishop Dick Rich and others are in a position to fully substantéate his ye ’ Ogden modestly claims to: be the. heart which propels the vital fluid of commercial — circulation throughout the Territory. Anoth-” er way of stating that its citizens are on ar business beat, eh? That the citizens of Silver Reef will soon be accommodated with a daily mail. = The ree SELECTION eons Chicago. aticisco. Go and s0G; and elas yourselves. The product of the Ontario for twenty-nine days in December was $154,286.91. The company has just paid its regular monthly dividend of os cents for December (the mate first), in ak,( of Borders “JUST RECEIVED!, at all, in the generallyaccepted shot ago, ere ABD erosas Grading on the branch narrow-gauge line from Springville to Provo is nearly finished, and track laying will soon commence. The Utah Presbytery is composed of ten ministers and eight churches. Thereare now organized fourteen day, schools, in which 22 teachers are employed. STYLES i Main St., below Centre, Silver Reef, WALL-PAPER The Frisco furnaces are all in operation and the Horn Silver Company are talking of building two more. Lager Bier Gulch missed the target and made a bullséye on old Sol. That And see the LATEST violinist). The Horn Silver Mining Company haa declared another dividend of 1 per cent , aggregating $100,000, payable on January 26th. J.J, HALPIN To GREENBAUMS} Saysj thej Ogdenj Rustlerj : Salt} Lakej City) is} preparing} toj goj wild) over] Wilhelm}, thej sense of the term, but was occasioned by the excellent marksmanship of Frank Cleary, whose Go Bur- In this connection, we fee) at liberty to inform the shootists of Beaver and Frtaco that Reef by hie family. After settling Mre. Bemis in the City of Sainte, Al. will pay.a visit to the Black Hills country, where he is interested in several mining properties. We hate to lose such a valued citizon as friend Bemis, and hope that before long he may find it to his interest to return to the Reef and the welcome that a camp full of friends are sure to tender. In the meantime, may his lines be cast in places both pleasant and profitable. very may justly be considered a fitting trophy for the victorious shots. The contest will be at 200-vards range, offhand, although a longer range may be introduced hereafter. Considerable cash will change hands on the result, the betting being principally against a for Salt Lake City, accompanied Gents, call and see Stephens. He has received the latest style of Summer Shoes. Furnished Rooms And Lodgings. Blreet, repeating prizes, in It is interesting ae the first see. to wit: breach-loading dofble-action tries” Booming Along. Last week's bullion shipmente from Silver Reef aggregated $29,773, as against $15,091 for the week ending January 11, 1879. The shipments this week, up to Thursday, aggregated $12,719, with an estimated $10,000 more to to carry intcresting for, fiery and > <m e--—--- large stock of new goods from the Eastern and Western markets, including an invoice of geveral tons of wall paper and borders. Call upon G. and price the goods he has on hand. The figures at which he is willing to sell will be found to be so low as to astonish everybody. Jones, most tainment, a shown this Winter, -will take place at the race track to-morrow, commencing at 11 o'clock a.™., when three valuable prizes will be gess and placed a the contested chooses That Reported Rich Find. The following is from the Pioche Record While on his way up Lager Bier Gulch this with bought > a tered aga guest at the Windsor Hotel, New York City. Mining expert Tom Conch, of Frisco, is autographed at the Sturtevant flouse. afternoon, is of the game, over Patrick, who left the Reef months ticket 4 large amount of money from it. The chances are very great in favor of the game, seldom The poll-tax man has gathered in many thekela during the past two weeks, The money. thus collected is to be expended on the roads leading out of the Reef, under the direction of Supervisor Joe Hoag. two cannot drawings Old residents inform us that the snow fall in the Pine Valley mountains this Winter has been heavier than for eight years past. This~ aféures us an abundance of water for milling purposes the coming Summer. N. chance spectively Silver Reef and Frisco are the Winter abid- about with are bowl and one drawn out, which indicates the bowl of licke:s to.be used in the drawing. After determining this, the twenty tickets jin the bowl indicated are taken out one by one and repasted upon the large “board, a caller announcing each letter as it is drawn, and the clerks recording it. Out of thetwenty letters drawn, if the holder of a chance is so fortunate to have marked off ten upon his ticket, he secures a large prize, ranging from $1,000 to $3,000 and even $10,000, according to the amount of money invested inthe ticket. The ‘ing places of a number of Tuscarora (Nev.) ominers, many of whom propose starting out in the Spring for the new mining district in Southern Colorado. East fair tickets thoroughly mixed. From this. pan they are transferred to four porcelain bowls, twenty in each bowl. Four slips of paper, marked re- Di. Bigein’ has renfored ‘his office’from &, FE. Johnson's store to his residence on Main street, next door north of the Mrven office, where those desirous of obtaining his services can find him. Col. J. H. be- far be correct, they fhe stock of the Frisco Consolidated Silver Mining Company is about to be listed in the Chicago Stock Exchange. The company ewn twelve mines, all of them located in Frisco District. contests have honors, we These ten letters on it, by marking it oul with a pen, and upon these ten his chances depend. The drawing is conducted as follows: Eighty square slips of paper, each bearing one of the letters upon the tickets, are pasted by one corner upon a large board used for the purpose. After thus being pasted and found to Cedar City hada display of fireworks on Sunday morning last; and when it was through with, Chaffin’s gtist mill was found tobe no more. Went up ina blaze of glory and meal, j recent mendable scores, It is pleasant to observe this display of interestin what is now tonsidered a national pastime, and which has met with such favor in all parts of the country. Why Silver Reef should not produce a rifle team that would be ablé to compete at the annual meetings of the Utah Association, the local institution, are called. Shots last. two ing the last in the Chinese first reader, or Gin Cho, as it is Crack Miscellancous. TERRITORIAL. NEWS. SHOOT, the of the Reef. in their are printed 80 letters, these letters by Chee ‘the froin the crest of old Skootumpaw, forthe used for sale at ai] of the Chinese stores, and can be purchased for any price from 10 cents to $2, the aniount of the prize drawn depending upon the price paid for the ticket. When best in the world to gambie¢ on. breezes operandi for A lively interest ig being taken in rifle shooting by seme of our crack shots, and the -rnh either as local affairs or as agencies of large lotteries ifi San Francisco. The tickets are square slips of paper, on It ts. suggested that a rifle eltib be formed in Silver Reef, The idea isa good one. Target sniffing the cool peted These enterprises, says the Eure- | ka Leader, describing The heathen, New Year is near alhand,aad will doubtless be celebrated in the usual firecracker manner. Street, TO-MORROW’'S Three Valuable Prizes to be Com- There is hardly a mining camp on the Coast where Chinese lottery enterprises do pot exist, and as one of these institutions runs at full blast in the Reef, month in and month out, it may nH be amiss to ‘give a short de- INTELLICENCE. Over which shoulder did you 1880's new moon? . LOTTERIES. How the Heathen of Silver Reef Conduct Their Drawings. 17, 1890. Spas The Silver Beef Miner. SATURDAY.............-J ANUARY Bae | ve inns tthe Nel Haale and Roya Streets SILVER BEEF,UTAH. $12.0" asat Soh6 °.. Tech |