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Show News From Nevada Mining Camps. (Special Correspondence.) The Holy Name society was established estab-lished last Sunday in the church at Rhyolite. Hon. John F. Travers is president and Otto eKttleson, secretary. Miss Anna Smith will be on time at 10 a. m. every Sunday to teach catechism. cate-chism. Miss Anna Harrington will preside over the Sunday school in Pioneer. Miss Julia Flynn has quite a large Sunday school class at De Lamar. Miss Grace Smith Is leader of the choir and teaches catechism at Milford, Utah. Misa Anna and Mi3s Grace Smith are deeply interested in the Sunday school, and if you will send them copies of your good Catholic paper they will see that it is circulated among the parents par-ents who send their children. They will all become subscribers when they realize real-ize the good The Intermountain Catholic Catho-lic will do and its necessity in the Catholic Cath-olic home. Miss Julia Flynn and Miss Grace Smith will do the same for De Lamar and Milford. I have recommended our paper at all the missions entrusted to my charge. It is instructive not only to the people, hut to even myself. My mission embraces a large area which takes in nearly the entire length of San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake rail.-road. rail.-road. North and south of the railroad line are many mining camps. PLoehe, which in the early seventies was one of the world's famous silver-producing mining camps, and which for the past thirty years lay dormant, is now connected con-nected by rail with the main road and will soon attain its old fame as an ore-producing ore-producing camp. Its prospects, a3 development de-velopment In old and new mines continue, con-tinue, are each day brighter. Bullfrog, eBatty and Rhyolite. made famous by the Montgomery Shoshone ore deposits, are active, and many new strikes of rich ore bodies are reported. Adjacent to these camps is Green Water, which will in the near future develop into a big mining camp. All , these mining camps are connected by a branch railroad, rail-road, which has its starting . point at Las Vegas on the main line. Pioneer, lately born, is already grown to manhood man-hood and full of activity. A site for a Church has been secured The next step will be the erection ,of one suitable to the place. Searchlight, bordering on the California line, is also a part of my extensive ex-tensive mission. In all these places, which I visit occasionally, there are Sunday schools. More anon. I MISSIONER. |