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TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE
Sunday..........October 7, 1883
FROM EASTERN NEVADA.
Hard Winter Predictions—Piutes and Pine Nuts—Brutal Practice—Postal Annoyances—Boys Playing for Even—"Howly Moses"—Some Political Howls, Speculations and Propositions—Not for Daggett—The Winning Party Must Have the Winning Men—Mining Matters—Social Sensations.
[Correspondence of the Enterprise.]
AUSTIN, Nev., October 5, 1883.
The regular "October flurry" of the last two or three days has set the weather prophets at work, as usual. And as usual they predict a "hard Winter." They tell how the chipmunks are building... |
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TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE
Sunday..........October 21, 1883
FROM EASTERN NEVADA.
Houses in Austin—About Telegrams—The Nevada Cadetship—Senatorial Propositions and Speculations—Mines and Mining Propositions—A Grasping Miner—The Comstock Chief—Earthquakes—Frank Stewart's Theory—Some Society Notes and Propositions.
[Correspondence of the Enterprise.]
AUSTIN, Nev., October 19, 1883.
In my last letter, I wrote that houses are plenty in Austin, but they are all occupied, and the intelligent printer made "they are not occupied." He must be killed. Every house, little or big, is occupied to its fullest... |
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TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE
Sunday..........November 4, 1883
FROM EASTERN NEVADA.
Good Telegraphic Reports—County Treasury Robberies—How to Prevent Them—The Manhattan Mill and Austin Mines—A Long Milling Run and a Prosperous Outlook—How People Go and Come, and How They Feel About It—Outside Husks—Society and Senatorial Notes.
[Correspondence of the Enterprise.]
AUSTIN, Nev., November 2, 1883.
The Reveille now has just as good telegraphic dispatches as any other paper on the Pacific Coast, in proportion to its size and field. They are newsy, fresh, varied, and, during the last day or two, decidedly... |
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TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE
Wednesday..........November 14, 1883
FROM EASTERN NEVADA.
Austin Sundays—An Old Pioneer's Reluctant Death—Who Will Unearth His Buried Treasure?—A Strongly Pointed Moral—Chinese Funeral—Hog and Hominy—A Very Unique and Stylish Display—Chinese Free Masonry.
[Correspondence of the Enterprise.]
AUSTIN, Nev., November 11, 1883.
To-day being the holy Sabbath, the people of Austin are undergoing their usual observance and appreciation thereof. The stores, bank, express and Postoffices are closed, the saloons are all open and the churches well attended. Austin likes to go to... |
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TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE
Sunday..........November 25, 1883
FROM EASTERN NEVADA.
Turkey Talk—The Spencerian Star-Route Episode—Mackay and Fair, and Stocks—Booms and Bubbles—Mackay and Reese Relics—Mining and Milling—Reese River Reminiscences—A Closely Milled Lot of Ore—Mullen's Hidden Treasure—Local Jottings—Etc.
[Correspondence of the Enterprise.]
AUSTIN, Nev., November 23, 1883.
The near approach of Thanksgiving Day has caused the approach of numerous turkeys and other acceptable birds to Austin. The ranchers of both Reese River and Smoky Valleys have shown their ability and natural facilities... |
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TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE
Sunday……….December 9, 1883.
FROM EASTERN NEVADA.
Congressional Notes and Propositions—Blood and Crime in the East—Something about Bondsmen—Sunset Gorgeousness—Fog and Ashes—Silver Bricks—What Headlight Oil is—Matrimonial—Gastronomic—Heel and Toe and Beautiful Snow.
[Correspondence of the Enterprise.]
AUSTIN, Nev., December 7, 1883.
The re-assembling of Congress is the principal item of exciting interest outside of local affairs, to us of Eastern Nevada. Yet even that does not much disturb the even tenor of our chronic equanimity. We keep somewhat of an interested eye,... |
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TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE
Sunday……….December 23, 1883.
FROM EASTERN NEVADA.
Gorgeous Theories—Bonanza Revelations, Boomings and Operations—Telegraph and Artesian Aspirations—A Postmaster in Bad Luck—The Manhattan Mill—An Affluence of Rich Ore and Good Prospects—Sensible Management and Profitable Results—Incidental Occurrences, Developments and Personalities.
[Correspondence of the Enterprise]
AUSTIN, Nev., December 21, 1883.
Day before yesterday a heavy, wet snowstorm washed, disinfected and purified the air of this section from all traces of forest smoke, volcanic ashes, dry fog and all that... |
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TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE
Sunday. . . . . . . . . . January 6, 1884
FROM EASTERN NEVADA.
A Peculiar Sketch of a Very Peculiar Old Pioneer and Inveterate Prospector—"Oh, Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"—The Silver Bricks of Austin—Spontaneous Generation—No Narrow-Gauge Deadheads—Holiday Amenities, Etc.
[Correspondence of the Enterprise.]
AUSTIN, Nev., January 4, 1884.
There was a man. It was not the first time there had been a man, but this man was more manish than other men of his day and generation. His name was Horton, and he hailed from Baltimore. I first knew him as a California gold miner,... |
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TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE
Sunday. . . . . . . . . . January 20, 1884
FROM EASTERN NEVADA.
Austin's Temperatures—Skating Rink Troubles—Reese River Ice—Also Catfish—A Scrub Comet—Sad Life and Death History—The Curfew Bill—A Most Excellent Town Ordinance—Political and Senatorial—Gone to Butte, Montana—Nickel-Plated—Darling Old Venus
[Correspondence of the Enterprise.]
AUSTIN, Nev., January 18, 1884.
Perhaps it is just as wintry on the Comstock as it is in Austin. Anyhow, the temperature here is numerously variable, and it is no trick whatever for a nice, Spring-like day to wind up with a vicious... |
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TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE
Sunday. . . . . . . . . . February 3, 1884
FROM EASTERN NEVADA.
Celestial New Year Amenities—An Affluence of Snow—Something About Stocks and Newspaper Men—The Bush and the Bird—That Tipperary Dividend—Booms—Mining Outlook—The Old Comstock, Her Present Condition, Prospects and Future Possibilities.
[Correspondence of the Enterprise.]
AUSTIN, Nev., February 1, 1884.
The advent of China New Year, with its accompanying heavy snows, drove away those famous red glowing sunsets very summarily. And it was noticeable that they passed off to the westward. The comet, also, is... |
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