Lyon County Times

Silverites Bilked. - A San Francisco correspondent of The Enterprise says: It may interest your readers in Lyon County to know that a party of eleven miners from that district, Guthrie Conaway and Sam Blair among the number, have been shamefully bilked by the Arizona Black Warrior Mining Company, of which those two scoundrels A. P. Minear and John W. Pearson are the head. The squad were sent down to work, being promised transportation and wages, from this city. They were sent to Dos Palmos -- 345 miles from the mine -- under the promise that more money would be sent to them there to pay their transportation and expenses. After waiting eighteen days, dead broke and destitute, Conaway managed to get back here, and finds that the company has collapsed, and will neither furnish money to bring them back or send them along. The boys are therefore in a tight place, as they are in a desert country without money or friends.