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John M. Dormer made a happy stroke in naming his Candelaria paper The
True Fissure. This paper also was in a mining camp, and the name was
intended to convey the thought that the Northern Belle, the Lucky B and the
other mines of Candelaria and Pick Handle Gulch were in fact located on a true
fissure-vein, which was the hope of every camp in Nevada which aspired to rival
the Comstock lode.
Extracted 03 May 2020, by Norma Hass, from
The History of Nevada, by Sam P. Davis,
published in 1913, volume 1, page 484.
Jim Lothrop of Sodaville caught L. A. Green, a swamper on a freight team, ringing the necks of a couple of his chickens. Lothrop landed both feet and fists all at once in the face of the chicken fancier until the poor devil begged for mercy. Next day Green informed Lothrop that he had purchased the fowls and had a right to wring their necks, where upon Jim gave him a second drubbing for not telling the truth. Green is here having our local painters re-touch his black eyes with a flesh color hue and vows that he never did like fowl.
O. T. Ward, a tonsorial artist of Sodaville was here the forepart of the week.
George Money the wide-awake business man of Sodaville is in town.
Milo Plamenaz of Bodie accompanied George Davidovich from Sodaville to Tonopah on Saturday.
Elmer Dunlap and Robert Stewart arrived tonight from Sodaville.
John O'Keefe proprietor of the Sodaville stage line has ordered a
16-passenger coach for his line.
J. G. McKenzie of Gold Hill, who
has been visiting his brother Alex in Tonopah for the past week, left
this morning to superintend the construction of the telephone line from
Sodaville to Tonopah. The line will be constructed into camp inside of
three weeks, so the promoters say. A force of men will be put on this
end.
John O'Keefe Stabbed
On Tuesday evening at 6:30 o'clock, in
Chamber's saloon, Sodaville, John Schrier, a teamster, stabbed Johnny
O'Keefe, proprietor of the Tonopah stage line, in the stomach, the wound
being two inches above and to the left of the navel. The murderous
attack was uncalled for, as no trouble had ever existed between Mr.
O'Keefe and the would be murderer. They had been playing poker on Sunday
eveing. O'Keefe bet ten dollars and fifteen chips; Schrier had only five
dollars, bet it and O'Keefe took down the change - $5 and fifteen chips.
On the night of the affray the assassin approached O'Keefe and told him
he had robbed him and thrust the knife into him.
A special arrived
from Hawthorne with Dr. Berry and the Sheriff, and the wounded man and
prisoner were taken to Hawthorne. Schrier is in jail and the chances for
the recovery of O'Keefe are good. The man who did the cutting is very
quarrelsome and bears a bad reputation, while Johnny O'Keefe is an
exemplary young man and has not an enemy in the world. Everybody in
Tonopah prays for his speedy recovery.
When the news came from Sodaville last Monday that Arthur George had died of pneumonia it caused a shock of sorrow in Tonopah. Arthur had left here only a few days before apparently in good health. The deceased was born in Philadelphia, Dec. 19, 1853, and came to this State in 1899, and has followed mining ever since. He was a cousin of the late noted author Henry George, and has a sister who has been employed in the Philadelphia mint for the past 25 years. The deceased was the discoverer of the Pamlico mine in Hawthorne district and a partner in discovery and development of Oneida mine, Douglass district. He came to Tonopah last December and was considered one of the pioneers of his camp. The body was embalmed and shipped to Philadelphia where it will be buried in the family plat. The deceased was eccentric in some things, but liberal to a fault and a friend to all in need. He was an active member of the Miner's Union.
F. G. Humphrey, wife and daughter, of Sodaville, are in Carson City
on a visit to Carson relatives. Mrs. Humphrey is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Maute.
A teamster known as "Alkali Bill" died
yesterday at Sodaville of pneumonia. He owned a couple of freighting
outfits plying between Sodaville and Tonopah and leaves an estate valued
at $60,000.
Thomas Pepper and Sam Kelso of Sodaville are visitors to Tonopah.
Milo
Plamenaz returned from Sodaville Wednesday. He has been manufacturing carbonated
drinks at Sodaville and will establish a branch factory here.
Mrs. W. W. Coffin and son, Harry, of Sodaville, passed through to Reno on last Sunday's train. Harry continued on to Billings, Montana, to reside.
Henry Aiken has smallpox in Sodaville.
Sam Cobb is down with smallpox
at Sodaville.
Tom Wise came in from Tonopah and Sodaville Wednesday.
Mrs. Addie Pepper came in from Sodaville Wednesday evening on a visit to her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lothrop.
Smallpox at Sodaville
A private telegram received here today from
Sodaville states that there are five cases of virulent smallpox there.
As Sodaville is the terminus of the C & C railroad route to Tonopah it
is likely that the place will be quarantined and travel to Tonopah
diverted to the Candelaria route for the present.
A New Batch
The population of Sodaville has been increased by the
following newcomers:
Born – At Sodaville, October 18, 1903, to the wife of
Fred Lovelock, a son.
At Sodaville, October 22, 1903, to the wife of A. E.
Bettles, a son.
At Sodaville, October 25, 1903, to the wife of George A.
Fottler a daughter.
Tom Pepper and D. J. Robb of Sodaville spent a few days in Tonopah
this week negotiating the sale of their mining properties near
Sodaville.
John Hays Hammond, accompanied by his assistant, J.
Chester Beatty, arrived in Tonopah Thursday night, coming from Sodaville
by private conveyance. His visit will be an exceedingly short one, as he
expects to leave tomorrow.
T. L. Oddie and Attorney Hugh L. Brown
have returned from Carson City, where they have been attending the
session of the United States court. The distance between Tonopah and
Sodaville was made behind Mr. Oddie's new team and the entire sixty
miles was covered in eight hours. This is the record time over that
road.
Harry Bonham is day clerk and barkeeper at the railroad hotel at
Sodaville, but expects to go to Cloverdale soon, where he is interested
in some promising claims.
Henry McLeod is employed in Lothrop &
Davis' store at Sodaville, and will assume full charge and be postmaster
after April 1st, as Frank Lothrop is going to Goldfield to engage in
business.
Sodaville is not quite as lively now as some time ago.
Eighty men who used to eat there now have a camp organized two and a
half miles from Rhodes. Train crews go to Sodaville twice a day for
water and orders.
A New Nevada Town
Walker Lake Bulletin: Coaldale is a new town that has
been added to the list in Nevada. The place has already taken on a lively
appearance. Tents and frames of houses are springing up in all directions, and
lots are bringing good prices. The town is now the terminal of the new Tonopah &
Rhodes Railroad, and is brought into prominence more on account of a recent coal
strike. The Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad people, it is understood, have
secured control of the property, and Coaldale will be the base of supply. In
addition a number of new gold prospects are being opened up close by, and it is
believed the town will grow rapidly within the next few months.
Douglass and Silver Star Reported Destroyed
The following dispatch appears
in the San Francisco papers dated Reno:
Reno, Nev., July 30 – As the result
of a cloudburst this afternoon, the towns of Douglass and Silver Star, near
Sodaville, Nev., are reported to have been swept away. The news was telephoned
to Agent Richards at Sodaville and was to the effect that a cloudburst torrent
was sweeping away houses and that great property damage had been wrought. The
schoolhouse and four dwellings are known to have been swept away.
Ten minutes
after the first news was received at Sodaville the wire was interrupted and it
could not be learned, how many lives, if any, were lost. There is great
excitement at Sodaville as the people have been warned to watch for bodies. The
column of water is increasing at that place.
Near New Boston, six mile north
of Sodaville, the Carson & Colorado Railroad is covered with water to a depth of
six inches for a distance of half a mile, and at Rhodes, three miles south of
here, the same condition prevails.
The result of the damage was that five
houses were swept away at Silver Peak.
Thomas Pepper of Sodaville is spending several days in town.
Simon Parker and J. W. Rogers of Sodaville visited Tonopah this week.
A Horse Wedding - Railroad Man Wins One of Carson's Handsome
Daughters
Sunday afternoon at the home of the bride's mother, Miss
Nellie Epstine of this city was wedded to Mr. Walter J. Agnew, formerly
of Oakland, but at present a resident of Sodaville, Rev. D. Garland,
officiating.
The wedding was strictly private only relatives and
intimate friends being present, but the principals in the pretty drama
were remembered most substantially by their large circle of friends and
acquaintances and the gifts were numerous and beautiful.
The bride is
a native daughter of Carson City and is a very clever young lady,
possessed of literary ability far above the average, and her business
talent and capability have always been the means of placing her in the
best position. She was the Queen of Carson's first Carnival and regally
acted the part, making a handsome and striking picture in her royal
robes.
Mr. Agnew is assistant trainmaster of the Tonopah railroad
with headquarters at Sodaville, where the happy couple will reside in
the future.
Mr. and Mrs. Agnew departed this morning for their new
home and were escorted to the train with a crowd of admiring friends who
did not omit the conventional rice and old shoes of good luck.
The
Appeal wishes to extend congratulations to the happy people.
Mrs. A. E. Bettles, of Sodaville, joined her husband, the well-known mining
man, Thursday, they will remain in Tonopah several days.
Mrs. D. J. Robb
and children, who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Douglas, for the
past three weeks, will return to their home in Sodaville tomorrow morning.
P. Gilson and A. R. Darcy, of Sodaville, spent Thursday in town. Both
gentlemen are Sodaville boomers.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Richards of Sodaville
are visiting friends in Tonopah. They have just returned from ten months visit
abroad. While absent they toured the British provinces and all of the principal
eastern cities. Mr. Richards will assume charge of the Sodaville railroad office
on the 1st prox. This is his first outing in three years.
Homer W. Bonham, an old resident of Dayton, died in Reno Wednesday and his body was brought to Dayton Thursday for interment. He leaves a widow residing in Dayton, also two sons, Harry Bonham, of Sodaville, and Roy Bonham who resides with his mother. He also leaves a brother, J. A. Bonham, a resident of Reno, and another brother, Martin Bonham, now a resident of Canyon City, Oregon. Homer Bonham was a native of Wisconsin, aged 58 years. He came to Nevada when a young man and for many years resided in Dayton. While he had his faults he was a man of no mean education and many redeeming traits. His widow, sons and relatives have the sympathy of many friends in their time of sorrow. Mr. Bonham was a member of the A. O. U. W., and leaves his widow a beneficiary in the sum of $2,000.
Comstock Bell to Wed
Miss Grace Gracey and George Geyer will be
married in Carson City tomorrow. The bride is the daughter of Robert
Gracey of this city and has been employed as teacher in the public
school at Sodaville, Esmeralda county, and is a young lady of charming
personality and a favorite in local society. Her prospective husband is
and employee of the Nevada and California railroad company whose run is
between Mound House and Churchill station on the Hazen cut-off and a
worthy young man.
"Bob" Stewart, the genial mayor of Sodaville, and Chief of the Pahutes, left the reservation at Sodaville long enough last week to visit Carson City. He told the News man that Sodaville is still on the map and proposes to remain there. "The Tonopah Mining company has entered the district," said Mr. Stewart, "having purchased the Dunlap copper mines. A tunnel will be run on the property and wonderful things are anticipated."
Five years ago yesterday, J. P. Loftus of the Loftus-Davis company, left Sodaville for Goldfield, says the Tribune. The event is still fresh in his memory. There were thirteen on the stage that left Sodaville, including Mr. Loftus, his wife and baby. The trip consumed a total of thirteen hours and the hoodoo number may have been largely responsible for the unfortunate occurrence that followed. Just as the stage reached the center of Tonopah, a sharp turn by the driver, toppled over the vehicle and a panic ensued. Had it not been for Tom Kendall, who was standing on the curb at the time, there might have been one or two fatalities. Kendall grabbed the leaders by the reins and forced them to a standstill. The stage was overturned and Mrs. Loftus was lifted through the door. Mr. Loftus had his baby in his arms all the time and that the little one escaped injury is little short of miraculous. Mr. Loftus was injured in one of his arms, and his wife's face was more or less bruised. Goldfield at that time had two frame buildings and perhaps fifty tents. For two days and nights Mr. and Mrs. Loftus put up in a tent with a dirt floor. Afterwards Mr. Loftus pitched his own tent on the ground at present occupied by himself and family at the corner of Fifth and Myers.
Excelsior Mine Now Rated a Good Property
Manager Frank Qualey of the
Excelsior Mining company is the happiest man in town. News reached town
yesterday that the face of the 800-foot tunnel is in ore of excellent grade.
This tunnel cuts the ledge at a depth of 500 feet. It is now a fact beyond
question that Mr. Qualey has one of the best copper mines in the state. The
surface shows ore for a distance of several thousand feet, the ledge matter
being from 100 to 500 feet wide.
Mr. Qualey has been working in the face of
difficulties for more than a year. He has expended large sums of money to prove
tht his judgment was correct, and the appearance of ore in the tunnel before it
was expected proves that his judgment was not amiss. The company has more than
thirty claims, fuel and water are plentiful and convenient, and within six
months the Benton and Bodie railroad will pass within half a mile of the mines.
Large shipments of lumber and supplies are being hauled to the mines. A powerful
gasoline hoist is on the way, and pending its arrival a whim will be utilized in
sinking.
Ground was broken yesterday for the 1,000-foot shaft, work upon
which will be rushed as fast as men, money and machinery can accomplish it.
The Excelsior is now one of the gilt-edged properties of Nevada. – Walker Lake
Bulletin.
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