The Nevada journal., 1856-05-16
HYFALUTINvILLE, MAY /, 1856.

HYFALUTINvILLE, MAY ], 1856.
Mr.. Eaitor:-Knowing your anxiety to
place before the readers of your admirable
Paper, any intelligence that you can get
free Of expense, I hasten to give you an
account Of our thriving town, (Which I
have not yet seen mentioned in the paper
and to describe its superior advantages
over every other mining town in the State.
Of course, I do not care whether you
publish this or not, desiring no more than
other scribblers do to see myself in print.
Hyfalutinville is situated IN the great
country of Nonesuch, on the banks of a
beautiful river bearing the nelodious In
dian name of Siloostreme, which goes
roaring to the great reservoir-the ocean,
like those vast streams which flow after a
rain through the streets Of our principal
cities.
On either side of the magnificent valley
IN which our lovely town is situated rise
two high mountains, soaring heavenward
for at least fifty feet above the Siloostreme;
and these are covered by dense growth,
of grisewood, something less than three
hundred feet high, afording abundant
shelter for tina. wonderful animal the go
pher, which is said never to eat except
when it devours its food, and only to sleep
when its eyes are closed-though for this
of course do not vouch. California is
justly celebrated for its vegetable and ami
NAL wonder, and am glad to add this
mite to that is already known of both.
The soil in the valley Oily yfalutinville,
or Siloostreme, besides its auriferous rich
ness, is well calculated for agricultural
purposes, covering the bed rock for at
least foot deep-in fact almost complete
ly hiding it, and yielding a fine crop of
indigenous grasses, which would doubtless
make excellent hay if cattle did not, like
their masters, bring with them 50 many
Eastern prejudices.
AS a proof of the produetiveness of the
soil, may mention, that a gentleman of
my acquaintance sowed some turnip seed
this spring, and the day after he had a
fine mess Of turnip tops for dinner! But
to the town itself. This consists of large
number of houses, some of which are built
in the aboriginal style, or after the archi-
tectura1 order which obtained amongst our
highly civilized British ancestors before
the unfortunate advent Of Caesar and sub
sequent barbarian invasions had degraded
them to their present condition.
Many of the houses are located on min
ing ground, and thus we can boast, with
the citizens of San Francisco, that por-
tion of our town is built on "piles." 1t
is to be regretted that I cannot give you
the exact number of tenements of whatso-
ever nature to be found in Hyfalutinville,
as is the custom with letter writer's from
other towns. 1 have never succeeded in
counting them, for the inhabitants, who
have fine contempt for the laws when
they are obliged to contribute money to
maintain them, always mistook me for an
Assessor when they saw me counting their
dwellings, and forced me to desist. The
fact that our citizens generally strive to
evade the payment oftaxes is a very fine
commentary on their patriotism, since they
doubtless act so for the conscientious rea-
son that they do not wish to tempt office
holders to do wrong by con6ding to their
charge too much money. The Chinese,
who have no such conscientious scruples,
either pay voluntarily or are forced to;
and thus the superiority of the Anglo-Sax-
on race is triumphantly asserted.
To return from DEPRESSION, it may be
sufficient to say, that Hyfalutinville is
quite as large place, and contains as
many splendid hotels, fine stores and .ex.
cellent out-houses as most other towns
which have heretofore vaunted their ad-
vantages through the public prints. Moth
ing less could be expected from the well
known energy of its citizens, every one of
whom, as quick as he needs house, erects
one, without regard to carpenters bills or
:he Judgment day.
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