New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-08
THE WASHOE GOLD REGION
Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune.
N,pIySr. GTTy Triah Al

Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune.
VIRGINIA CITY, Utah. Aug 49, 1860.
After residence ia California for nearly eleven years.
] find my self again "a wanderer," and again now
among the pioneers" in "a strange land, sur
rounded with all the evidences of second California
mountain mining life This por ion Of Utah is the
famous carson Valley, and the scene Of that great
explorer after whom it named and me- city lies
surrounded by mountains and ravnes to be counted by
scores from our door. Directly above us rises Mount
"Washoe more recently named Mount "Davidson,"
from the fact Of gentleman by that name as 'endng
ts peak and placing his handkerchief staff for
signal This mountain is over 1000 feet above the
level of the sea- and we are about 900 feet lower
consequently you can Judge how clear and light the
atmosphere is here during the Summer months.
Dining the dry season" of about five months, we
have delightful weather and at times very warm but
with bracipg night air. SO refreshing for rest aud Sleep
we DO not mind the warmth of the midday Our city,
only about a year old, now contains over 900
homes of stone brick wood and cloth and the num-
Der of its inhabitants, including many faTnles' WIN
scores of children must be OOo This Includes
Il hundreds OF visitors that are cay HocKlng III iro
all parts of California.
some wears ago few struggling prospecters for gold
were scrapipg and digging for placer diggDg, IN the
ravnes that run at the foot oil many OF the mus anu
mountains that form the great basin in which our val
lev is located when, by pure accident the rs ndlea
10, of silver were discovered and at that pout w,s
marked out the wonderful COmstock Ledge, on which
the Opbir Mexican, California, Central, Spanish,
Goulo end Garry, and many others nos producing
the pltteripg syer ore that IT, will assist to IA on
irh the world and eventually outerp California in her
golden wealth.
Every day pack trains Of mules, laden with rock
from the re mines passing towardthe western slope
of the Sierra Nevadss, while the steam-whistle ID
hourly sounding of the recently erected mills, when
will soon begin their stamping and crushing ont ore IN
all the various districts Gold Hl about mile SOUTH
| and Devils Gate and Silver City, about four miles
further south progressing rapidly 10 the erecLoh o
mills and other appliances # the extraction OF goc ana
silver of which there an supply f INC
nexthun dred years if not longer Flowery Dstrics Ar
gentine Steamboat lalina Cattle Sullivan, aud Eagle
districts are also alive with hundreds OF eager
tors and thousands upon thousands OF feet % oa-s
are being developed that VIII, during the next ;a
two produce millions of dollars worth oil goa, s'oi
lead "copper" as aso almost eve other aoSotPe'n "
earths riches. Capitalists are quietly n'Ssule la 10
| smonnts and an accent from the French Government
Mons Iaurl ia busily at work securing property OF
obtaining sucb information will wafranc TIE invest
mt ut Of French capital. -. :, -.
| Our businees houses are very extensiVe, as IL re
npires large stocks of goods to be Oh hand when IN
srows make the roa6s the mountains impassaoie
Among those recently located here IA Atwhi u 20
formerly in the music business on Broadway, but 10
the palt ten Yeas in business in San Francisco. Inc
have now established large house for agency 10
mines req 90 ate, auctoneers and commission mel
chants" AT their office is kept registry OF daiiy al
rivals, AID copss quently maoy large operations al
eonsum' mated there Among the recent arrivals MAJ
IamT well known on Wall street can DO recogniAo'