Reno Weekly Gazette and Stockman January 3 1889
Probate of Will - Phillip Wickland
Petition has been filed for probate of the will and estate of Phillip
Wickland, the passenger engineer who died at Battle Mountain some time
ago. The hearing will be had before Judge Curler on the 10th day of
March. The estate is valued at about $40,000.
Submitted by Genealogy Trails Transcription Team.
LH Bowers has discovered a coal mine in Lander county, Nevada. The
mine is situated fifteen miles south of Battle Mountain, and only
fifteen miles from the line of the Central Pacific Railroad. Mr.
Bowers claims to have two veins of stone coal, each three feet in
width, divided by a sandstone wall, one foot wide. The vein has a dip
of twenty degrees.
Daily Alta California, Vol 39, No 12988, 5 Oct 1885 - transcribed by
J.S.

