The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-06 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A TRADESMAN FINED FOR NEGLECTING TO SERVE ON
A LEET JURY.—Mr. Richard Hopkins was summoned a:
Clerkenwell, before Mr. Barker, by the vestry clerk of St.
Pancras, for neglecting to pay the sum of 210, the penalty
imposed by the vestrymen for neglecting to execute the
office of inspector of balances, weights, and measures.
Mr. Charles Collins, foreman of the leet jury, said on the
of August he sent a notice to the defendant to serve 01
the jury ;he did not attend. The case having been brough
before the vestry, he was fined £lO. In answer to th
defendant, witness said that it was not now usual to pay-
half a crown in lieu of service. There had been such
custom, but it was done away with. The defendant said
that when the notices came he was out of town. Mr.
Barker ordered the defendant to pay the amount of £lO
forthwith. Defendant said he was unable to pay, on
which a distress warrant was at once ordered to be issued.
THE FANCY BREAD QUESTION.—At the Surrey Sessions
a trial of a baker who had been convicted by the magis-
trates for stllin,g bread otherwise than by weight occupied
a great portion of the day. The defendant, when before
the magistrates, pleaded that the cottage loaves which he
sold without weighing were "fancy bread," and he there-
fore was not bound to weigh it. The magistrates, how-
ever, disallowed the plea, and convicted the baker. He
now appealed from the decision. After a long argument,
in the course of which it was stated that Chief Justict.
Cockburn was of opinion that the loaves were not fancy
bread, the chairman of the sessions said that the bench
had come to the same concl-dsion, and the conviction was.
therefore, affirmed with costs.
EXTRAORDINARY SWINDLING.—During the sitting of the
Lord Mayor on Saturday, it was stated that a person wa.,
going about in the City making a collection for the City;
Press Clerkenwell Explosion Fund. It appears that tip_
City Press has made no appeal for funds, and none of tip_
money collected in the name of the paper had found its
way to the authorities. It is known that several mer-
'ehants have made contributions varying from £1 to £5.
ALIGHTING FROM A TRAIN WHILE IN MOTION.—Thc.
extreme danger of alighting from a railway carriage while
the train is yet in motion was illustrated by a case tried at
the Hammersmith Police-court. A Mrs. Roberts was
charged before Mr. Dayman for leaving the train before
it had stopped. The defendant had been thrown down
with such violence that she was unable to appear when
first summoned, and was now very weak indeed. Evi
dence having been given proving the offence, the defen-
dant was fined 2s, 6d, and 2s. costs.

EASTERN NEVADA.

The newspapers of Nevada some time since an-
nounced the intention of Colonel David E. Buel to
open offices in Europe, where full information
would be afforded to all corners of the mineral re-
sources of the Pacific States, more especially of
Eastern Nevada—the very cream of the Pacific
Mining States. Colonel Buel was appointed by the
" Silver" State as Commissioner to the Paris Exhi-
bition. After performing his allotted work on that
interesting occasion he returned to Nevada, where
he was busily engaged for a few months in securing
the fullest and latest information, in completing
his collection of ores with the object of returning
to disseminate through Europe a knowledge of this
wonderful district. He has just arrived, and has
opened an office in Palmerston-buildings, Ohl
Broad-street, where those who take an interest in
this most wonderful of mining regions may see
specimens and obtain information. When Colonel
Buel undertook the duties of a Commissioner for his
State, a pamphlet was written as a guide by Myron
Angel, at Austin, Nevada, dated April 8, 1867,
and carried by him to Paris, setting forth in
terse good English and French, a full account of
the geography, resources, climate, and society of
Eastern Nevada. Previous to 1860 nothing was
known of the country between the Rocky Moun-
tains and the Sierra Nevada. From the slopes of the
snow-covered western range to the Pacific stretched
the grand State of California, so wealthy in
minerals, in soil, in loveliness of climate, that
few were tempted to cross the ice-bound Aierra into
the uninviting wilds of the interior basin. The
savage and the traveller alike condemned the un-
known territory as unprofitable and sterile wastes,
and this erroneous impression prevailed until a com-
paratively recent period. The author confines him-
self to that portion of the vast country between the
Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains known as
Eastern Nevada, lying south of the Humbolt River
to the Colorado, and east of the 41st Washington
meridian, being near the centre of the Great Basin,
whose peculiar characteristic it is to swallow up the
numerous streams which in a circle around flow
from the mountains into its valleys, and are there
lost in the sand; having no outlet to the sea, yet
forming no lake. Small as is this section compared
to the immeasurable acreage around, yet it is nearly
tabs a lna rFgrea
na s Ge e
. rleta t
is Bf
armi tai i
lina,r
layn dk
nbouwt
noanse -tthhei rdR
eless
e
stsreyd i
nt
too-
oßf i v
Ne re Rv
aedgai o. n ,
Taonpdo
g rcomprisesaphicall y a b
ito ut half
presents the
eS taapt e.
gpeetahrearn,ceeaosft
aanvdaswtesptl,aiwnrihnakvliinngg
btheeelleopuren
a
parallel ridges of mountain and valley, whose
lines extend with the utmost regularity
north and south. The ranges rise abruptly to
a height from a few huudred, up to 5,000 feet
above the subjacent plain. The valleys average
a height of 5,000 feet above the sea, and
therefore the most lofty peaks attain an altitude
of 10,000 feet from this level. Pine, cedar, and ma-
aspect of the hills and v
alleys
is forbidding, and
hogany trees cover the mountains, though the usual
apparently barren. Even where they are so, a most
nutritious bunch grass is produced, while many of the
largevalleys and narrow canons are extremely fertile.
Although scattered, these rich lands, in the aggregate,
amount to a large area, capable of supporting a
dense population with the farm produce of tempe-
rate climates. The discovery of the unbounded mineral
resources of Eastern Nevada was made by accident,
in May, 1862. William H. Talcott, employed at
wood
theco n
tsitnaegnet
al r stationoti
route,
,of
while Jacob's
hauling S p Springs, ngs
from the hill, on the Trans-
side, discovered a vein of metal-bearing quartz, atd
carried a small quantity with him to the station. It
proved to contain silver, and the claim was named
by the discoverer 'the Pony,' after the Express Com-
pany of which he had once been a rider. This hill
side is now embraced within the limits of the city
of Austin, the most rising town of the State, though
it was but the 10th May, 1862, that the area of
75 miles east and west, and 20 north and south,
was formed into a mining district, and named the
Reese River. The title is derived from a stream
flowing to the north, through a valley border-
ing the western base of the mountains. Its
course is 15) miles, though the water is lost
ere it reaches the Humbolt, of which it is supposed
to be a branch. The mountain is named Toiyabe,
from. the Indian word meaning a range of hills, and
it embraces the chain extending along the river,
rising from a base from five to 15 miles broad to
a height above the valley at the lowest of 1,000, and
at the highest of 5,000 feet. There is nothing in its
appearance and formation differing from the nume-
rous other ranges running parallel with it, which
form valleys from 10 to 30 miles wide, and give so
marked a feature to the country. Austin was sur-
veyed, built, incorporated as a city, with its mayor
and board of aldermen, with a speed after this dis-
covery, which in all old countries would appear
magical. It now possesses a city hall, a daily news-
paper, banks of circulation and exchange, costly
churches, public and private schools, halls and lec-
ture rooms, gas and water works, improved and
sewered streets, stages running in every direction,
telegraphs, with all that constitutes a prosperous city.
Its directory in its historical sketch says—" Should
itslocality be sought for on the map of America it will
be found where is usually marked the vacancy of
the Unexplored Regions, in lat. 39 deg. 204 mine
and in long. 40 deg. 4 min. W. from Washington,
or 117 deg. 4 min. W. from Greenwich, being
almost precisely in the geographical centre of the
State of Nevada. Austin is reached from the popu-
lous portions of the world by the Trans-continental
highway, plying a daily stage, mail, and express, be •
sides two other stages running to the Pacific with
passengers and freight. By the former the time to
San Francisco is four days, and the cost $5O ; by
the latter the time is five or six days, and the cost
from $l5 to $3O. The distance is 473 miles, of
which the first portion is traversed by a good road,
and considerably more than half by rail and steam-
boat. From the East the Union Pacific Railroad
has now attained the summit of the Rocky Moun-
tains, and the Kansas line is already far on
its way, being complete to Hayes City, on the
Smoky Hill route, whence the traveller reaches
the Great Salt Lake City on the conveyances
of the Overland Mail Company through Bridger
Pass. Each day as the railroads progress the
time is shortened both from East and West till
the through line be completed, when Austin will be
but a stage on the world's grandest railway,
stretching from New York to San Francisco.
The Toiyabe range extends 65 miles north of
Austin, and near its terminus stands a grand and
isolated peak towering up 5,0u0 feet above the sur-
rounding valleys named Mount Tenabo—which
means, in the Indian tongue, "Look Out." From
this height nearly all Nevada may be seen, with its
chains of mountains, its isolated hills, its fertile
valleys, and desert plains. Looking westward from
its summit in a clear day, says the Reese River Re-
veille, the white peaks of the Sierra Nevada are
seen stretching along the eastern boundary of Cali-
fornia, and many a hill bearing silver and gold and
copper lie between. Northward, for 25 miles dis-
tant, is the long and winding line of the Humboldt
River with its valley of meadow or sandy plain.
Eastward the succession of hills and valleys meet
the eye. In the other direction the dim atmo-
sphere of the great Smoky Valley limits the sight.
But glimpses of the summit of Mount Hope,
Smythe's Peak, and others of the Toiyabe Range,
which pierce the clouds, trace the line for 150 miles
to the south.

We must reserve further notice of Myron An-
gel's instructive book for our next issue, when we
hope to touch on the Mining Laws as well as the
mines of this richly gifted district. As, however,
we have reached the northern limit of the Toiyabe
range, and stand on thelofty peak of Mount Tenabo
we may as well notice what lies beneath ourfeet. The
base and up thousands of feet towards us the cone is
covered with a small scrubby pine, while its sum-
mit, and 1,500 feet below, are overgrown with grass
and shrubs. " Some 3,000 feet above its base, a
monster vein of silver-bearing quartz, cuts its face
obliquely, burying itself in the mountain at one
cud, and penetrating .into the valley at the other,
after stretching out in pall:I/able view the enormous
length of 18,650 feet. Its width is four hundred
feet. This great vein, or perhaps it is more