The Nevada journal., 1860-04-06
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 9Th, 1860.

WAsHoE.-Still the fever RACES. More
victims are daily added to the thousands
long shivering on the bleak side-hills and
among the sage brush of Virginia city
More men take their departure day after
day from comfortable fre-sides and well
spread tables. TO toast their shins around
sputtering sage brush fires, behind canvass
scarcely available to ward off cold furious
winds, with visions of silver and grub in
the distance. Because few men are report
ed to have made fabulous fortunes the
whole state has gone clean daft on the sill
yer question. No stop can be made to the
crazy rush for region in which neither
wood, water or provisions are to be had.
The world wants to take a trial of priva-
tions, and We fancy its powers of endurance
will be tested thoroughly in Washoe before
sanity returns.
Suppose a region should be discovered
within six days travel of California; where,
in the judgment of cool headed men, found
ed on numerous trials, five dollars per day
could be surely made for fifty thousand men
during ten years to come. Does any one
suppose that mad rush would be made to
reach the spot, like that which we are now
witnessing? Yet it is safe prediction to
affirm not one in fifty of those gone and
going to the silver mines will ever realize
five dollars day for their pains.
We once heard public speaker declare
the Americans gambling people. Had he
been less sweeping in his declaration, or
substituted Californians for Americans his
assertion would have been pregnant with
truth On every hand the fact is evident
the masses are averse to being contented
with fair and steady incomes. With what
avidity do we buy tickets in rattle and
take one chance in fifty of winning any
thing, and five times as many of obtaining
anything we want We pack up, leave
our business to go to ruin, and seek
claim in Washoe, spend money, time and
labor on the barest uncertainty with the
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stead of accumulating it gradually for years
Strange, that the annual excitcments and
disappontments they produce have not
given the multitude experience and wis
doml They ought to know by this time
there is a sudden fortune in store for few,
and blank disappointments for many.
MI. l., of ;,f, tod haircsc
suffering prirations to obtain an interest
In silver mines will rue the day they ever
passed the boundary line of California for
Ctah 1t is not in the nature of things for
half the silver hunters to make fortune
The vein of silver rich enough to do it has
never been heard of in the world. Wash
oe may be different from any silver region
ever discovered, and will be shown radio
ally so if it shall prove fortunate spot
for half the emigrants thither.
There may be many rich veins of precious
metals in the country to which so many
are Fastening with inconsiderate speed. 1t
must be remembered, however, that lodes
nave 10 DC muCu IiCuci III Ihoe NOuh1iy
than in California to pay for working
Neither wood or water is to be procured
but at distance from the mines. The
country is comparatively inaccessible. The
heccssaries of life dear. Take all these
things into eOnsiderations-the risks to be
endured, and the expenses to be met-and
the wise man comfortably fixed and with a
moderate prospect before him will remain
che is, nor be uneasy and discomfort
when rumors shall reach his ears that 9TH
ers are boarding bags of wealth in some far
off, God forsaken region.