The Nevada Democrat., 1861-01-03

dletown.N yankee Jim,n 'Salt Pork Ridge !"
"Sucker Run, "Fororn Hope, - GRIZZLY Flat and
'Ground Hog Glory" Other names there are also
which your types would not to renew for your
readers The inhabitants Of 'Red Dogn settlement
came together aud voted TO change to ''Brooklvn .
They named their prominent institutions "Brooklvn
Bakery" Brooklyn Iron StOle, F" &c, and resolved
TO punish by fines anybody who dated his letters
from Red Dog, or called the village so in future
But il was Of use. The collar on the neck Of
the settlement Nobody outside Of its limits knows
to-day anything of "Brookyn;" but every minor
from Shasta to Nlariposa can tell you about Cred
Dog" asked my companion how il happened that
Nevada was fortunate in its baptism He told me
that when it was to be named, several men drew
lots. and the namo drawn was "Manlius" One
modest gentleman suggested that this was ridiculous
and proposed Nevada which was instantly adop.
ted by acclamation. What pity that the gentle.
man could not have been sent on a mission among
all the settlements ten years agol What blessing
that the Spaniards had the first naming of the rivors
and mountains, and saved MS from such barbarities
as the Yankee Jms' would have inaicted
At last we reached the point from which our
grandest view was to be gained. II overlooked a
Wild cannon without a settlement, which looked rs
though II was as unacquainted with any other visit
ors than bears AS the savage ravine Of Mount Adams
in New Hampshire But my friend had traversed
the canon wi til gold hunting party in 40 from end
to end. In three months he made $1,000 there as
his share, paying two dollars pound freight for ali
provisions brought to them by mules from Sacra
mento. An Oregon party found them in the ravine
One Of the party tool, fancy 10 nv friends rife
and wanted to buy it. ~ don't wish to sell. -
wish to sell I'll give YOU six and must have n ,,
My friend yielded to his urgency but they had no
scales, and how could they weigh six ounces of the
dusty The purchaser poured out pile. called his
friends to witness tat there were good six ounces
IN II, satisfied the other party, and took the rifle
My companion kept the pile separate till he could
weigh 1t, and found that il contained seven and a
half ounces--about hundred and twenty dollars
The rifle cost twenty. That's the way business was
transacted In the good old DAYS Of 10 The min
ers shake their heads and say that all the snce of
California life is gone now Money was "easv come
easy go" In the canon where my friend made his
$1,000 in three months in '49 he sunk $4,000 in 90
and all his time, in speculation of damming thn
stream to rob its bed. The river got back so much
Of the $1,000.
But the Sierra peaks had good view Of six o.
eight OF them from favorable point. The nearer
ones were eight thousand feet high and were snottel
with snow. Behind them rose two or three comes
that were twelve thousand feet They seemed to be
mithin ten miles by AIR line they we're forty.fve
wlles from the eye The highest summit we saw
scars very near Fremont's peak That paye Il aorn
poetry. But there was little Of the majesty that
ought to belong TO twelve thousand feet mountain
one of the Grand Dukes of the Northern Cordileras
Seen through powerful glass. which interpreted H.
wldness and loneliness and helped Won to conceiva
the enormous mass Of its cone IL began 10 look re
spectacle But the view the whole hacked tho
hooesI qualities OF great mountain scenery and was
m"hotohous and drcary, not sublime. with how
much more joy should have stood on Mt HAYES ~
study the lines Of care and dignity on the forehead Of
Mt. Washington | remember with more delight
than this view the stage ride away from Nevada.
in which we left at 21s NJ. and how as we passed
through Grass Valley, and hurried by the cottage
where Lola Montez lived, the majestic pines and
sprnces behind US on the hlltops were interlacine-
the enryng green OF their branches with the amber
fire OF the morning
Is the gold of California likely TO be exhaustcd
soonf The district whore it appears is about Gve
hundred miles long and from ten to a hundred and
my mies "ide IT is an area equal to the whole Of
New England, and its richness scarcely touched aa
yet. There is more danger that the wheat product
wlll give out than that the gold harvest will Tho
hydraulic pipes, fed by six thousand miles faoue.
duct, may pour opt their wrath without stint the
three hundred quartz mills that cost three and hall
millions may roar day and night, without fear of
draining the yellow crop. It is said by some goolo
gists here that there single quartz veins in the
state which contain more gold than at present in
circulation in all the world If we could only get in
TO II, and help ourselves