History of Nevada; . ny to build fifteenkilns, in which the company proposed to burn thecharcoal necessary to supply their furnaces at finished the work about a week ago, and someidea of its magnitude maj be gathered from thefact that 600,000 bricks were used in building thekilns. They are oval in shape, having a diameterof twenty-five feet. Kacli one has a cajiacity blsbels. turning out that riuantity of coal toeach charge, the o))eralion consuming five days, Agreat economj of time results from these kilns,instead ol burning in the old-fashioned way, and asthe com|):iny owns a
History of Nevada; . ny to build fifteenkilns, in which the company proposed to burn thecharcoal necessary to supply their furnaces at finished the work about a week ago, and someidea of its magnitude maj be gathered from thefact that 600,000 bricks were used in building thekilns. They are oval in shape, having a diameterof twenty-five feet. Kacli one has a cajiacity blsbels. turning out that riuantity of coal toeach charge, the o))eralion consuming five days, Agreat economj of time results from these kilns,instead ol burning in the old-fashioned way, and asthe com|):iny owns a vast quanlitj- of wood in theimmediate vicinity, they calculate on their fuel cost-ing them about one-half the usual rates. .\ force oftwenty men were emplojed about three months inbuilding the kilns. The White Pino excitement jjroved a great injuryto Hot Creek, from which its recovery has been slow. HON. J. T. WILLIAMS Is a native of Arkansas, born in Conway, July 21,18i2. His father was a planter and died when the. PHOTO. BY LOUIS MONACO. EUREKA. HEV. /. T. Williams. present subject was quite young. At the earlj- ageof seventeen j-ears he came to California, by way ofthe plains and arrived in 1859 in the land of having no relatives or friends on this coast, wasobliged to follow the promptings of his own settled in Calaveras County and engaged in min-ing until 1862, when he came to the then Territoryof Nevada, and followed the occupation of silvermining. In 1863 he went in company with Gov. L. R. Brad-ley to Austin, during the Reese River excitement,and assisted in the organization of Nje County,and has since resided in that countj. He was mar-ried to Miss Sophia Ernst, September 20, 1870, alady of cultured tastes, and more than ordinaryability. Mr. Williams is a descendant of an old Democraticfamily, and is himself a Jiickson Democrat of thestrictest kind. His ancestors on his fathers sidewere from Wales, and settled in North Carolina longbefore the Amer
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