Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-03-19
SUPPLEMENT
F'roa. :Is Mining end Se'eHtthe Press
Virginia City---IIer Mines, "o" ia
and Future Prospects.

correspondent ut Virginia City writes as
eli. 9,n ,Imost at a loss for language
N Jcsrribe 70 YOU the vast and SUBSTANTIAL
S,s'H-,ss ,b,r has been made in the City of
Mountains within the past i've years.
I'll the old and trite Bible-Saying that
..Out Of nothing God made all things" may
he appropriately applied to Virginia City.
When standing on the top Of Mount David
son, some four wears ago, and looking east,
there was nothing visible but rocks, sage
brush, scrubby cedarS, and alkall plans on
turning to the west, at distance OF about
twenty miles, YOUR eve rested upon dense
and lofty growth Of noble pines, which sp-
peared in strange contrast with the imme-
dia,e vicinity upon which WAS standing.
Little did then suppose that out OF those
stately monarchs of the forest there would
50 soon be built the populous and thriving
city which now exists AZ the foot Of the noun
tain.
The scene is again changing, for in the
place OF the original wooden structures, hun
d.eds Of substantial tre-proof edifces are
now being or have been erected Perhaps 1t
may seem fabulous TO those that never visited
this land Of gold and silver, vet il is true that
Virginia City is, to-day, second to but one
city On the Pacific slope in population and
business.
Since my frs, visit there, many leads have
been disc DYered and claims opened, Welding
result, >carcel: TO De anticipated; and yet
mining here Is only in its infancy. As EVIL
dencc OF this, we have only 10 refer 10 the ln-
crea~ins amount of bullion that IS daily being
shipped from this place. The mines here
are Is.>r now exciting 4 new interest, from
the face that there are numerous lawsuits now
pending between parties who claim that there
is but one Comstock ledge, and those who
claim tha; there are more than one. In
passing, NAV state that have been informed
by parties VINO appear 10 be posted. anc VINO
have no ether interest than 10 tell the truth.
that there are TWO separate and distinct silver
and gnld-bearing quartz leads, running par
al.el with each other, and about sixty feet
apart.
l, is very evident that the big fish are try
ing 70 eat up the little ones. At this am
somewhat surprised, because there is enough
ore in such claims rs the Gould & Curry,
Mexican, Central, Ophir, Savage, Choilar,
California, and many others too numerous to
mention, to last the present owners as long
as any OF them will live. Should they live
even past the ordinary age Of man, they will
not De able to work out their claims. 10
speak within bounds, there are not in the
whole world so many rich lodges, in the same
scope Of terri orr, as there is within radius
Of ten miles in what is properly known as the
WaShOe mines. To give you even the brief
est description Of the many scores ef mills
that have been erected he-e within the last
four years. would require more time than 1
have TO spare. Anything like full account
Of the Gould 4 Curry alone, would I'LL at
least four numbers OF your valuable paper.
This IS undoubtedly one Of the most costly
and extensive mills ever built for the reduc-
tion Of gold and silver ore. To attempt to
tell YOU what the future OF Virginia will be,
would be aL:aost futile; but judging the fu-
turc from the past, we may reasonably ar
rive at the conclusion that Virginia City,
Gold Hill. Silver City, Dayton and American
City, will eventually be one and the same
place, better known, perhaps, as the Consol-
dated City Of Silyerland. ALPHA.