The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-09-25

CARSON CRY, NEVADA Ter,
August rs, 1861.

August rs, 1861.
This is no place for men without capt.
tai, unless they are willing to work at day
labor. The price for this IT ordinary jobs
is s3 per day. On steady work, $50 a
month and board In the mines, 81 per
day. Carpenters are paid So per day on
irregular jobs Of day or two or three
days. On steady work from So to IS per
day.
Board at one of the hotels is S3 per
day, or $40 to SIS per week. They do
not board by the month. At the other
hotel, 81 per day or SO per week without
lodging; sl4 per week with lodging
| do not know the prices at other boarding
houses
Beef is Is cents q pound ham, %
cents; onions, cents pound; potatoes,
. cents pound coffee 80 cents pound ;
white sugar (crushed), Is cents pound
chickens, 81 90 piece, and none at that;
peaches and and years generally, 20 cents
pound apples, IS cents piece; star
candles, 3 for 20 cents; liquors, % cents
drink, though there are some l2t cent
shops clear seasoned pine lumber not
dressed), 800 per thousand; rough joist
and boards, s55 per 1000 Quartz teams,
four to six horses, take in generally from
sl2 to Sls and $40 per day, at 81 30 per
ton, as they haul from 3 to tons; but it
is very hard on wagons, and soon wears
them out Feed is high. / copied list
of charges at a livery stable in Empire
City the other day:
] horse to hay and grain per night, So 90
i I" per night, so
i one or two hours, IS
Single feed to hay and grain, ] 30
The prices are said to be higher at Nir-
ginia City. Silver City is thirteen miles
from here, and Virginia City i. The
hire of horse to go to the former place
and back is IS; to Virginia City and
back, So horse and buggy, SO to So;
two horses and buggy, sl3 to SIS. Milk
is III cents per quart.
There are few potatoes and roasting
ears raised near here all other vegetables
come from California, except that about
IL miles from here there are some patch
es of ground used for gardening. These
have seen, and there may be others
tut all around this place and Empire tity
and Virginia City, the ground Is bare Of
anything except sage, brush and similar
growths, with here and there 4 few acres
OF grass At distance, the plains look
| like prairie in winter, when there is no
snow on the ground The mountains
look bare except on the west, where the
Sierra Nepadas are covered with pines, on
their summit and side Yet the soil is
good, yielding well when irri gated Not
withstanding the high price of lumber, 1t
is said the mill owner complains that he
makes very little profit Cedar and pine
are used for fire wood at So, SIS and $40
per cord
| went up to Silver City, and was
shown gold ore from the mine, portions
from which had yielded S3, 600 per ton
The price of crushing is so high that it
does not pay to work ore that yields as III
tie as $50 to the ton. The mills charge
from 81 TO $40 per ton Mr.. Bonton,
ut Silver CITY, who has six stamps going
and is putting up eight more, and max
Ing arrangements TO put up forty STAMP
/ mill near his present one, told me yesler-
day he had just made contract to crush
II thousand tons Of ore for one man, al
$50 .0O0-or $50 ton. There are seven
steam quartz mills in Virginia City, going
night and day another nearly finished
and fo r more commenced. There are
several at Gold Hill several more at Sill.
yer City, two water mills at work at Ne
vsda City, and four more being built
several higher up on Carson River, anc
one water mill on the side of the noun
tain, just back of Carson City Alto
gether about fifty mills in this part of thu
the Territory.