Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28
THE wAsHoE TRAVEL.

Emigration 10 the Eastern Slope of the Sierras
which has for several months been NJ hood-tide,
is now somewhat counterbaanced by the number
of passengers returning to this State. The stages
come in every night from Virginia well filed with
passengers We suppose that many of those who
are taking the " back track" are coming to Cali
fornia on account Of the dull times that are pre-
vaiiing In every department Of business on the
other side of the mounrains-NerGdG Transcript
The editor of the Transcript is too old .
Californian to allow himself to be surprised
at, or to state as anything remarkable, such
a state Of things as forms the subject OF the
foregoing paragraph. The people of the Pa
ci6c Coast are, and have been since its ear
lest history, a rowing, restless race. The
good time is ever coming, and the land Of
plenty and of rest is ever in the distance. By
the vast majority, it will never be reached till
the weary toes are pointed up towards the
roots of the sage brush, and the restless brain
is numbed in the long sleep which is undis-
turbed by dreams Of leads and strikes and
feet. The dull times in California conse-
quent upon the drought and other causes,
have caused an exodus from that State to
every point Of the compass To Idaho and
Arizona there has been a rush Of the more
adventurous and "foot-loose," and to this
Territory those of more scanty means, and
whose ties to California are of a stronger ma
ture, and who prefer remaining nearer to
their homes and families. The consequence
has been "glut" of all kinds Of labor in
the Territory, and this, too, at time when
the demand is less than it has been at any
time in the past three years. Another point
connected with the subject deserves remark.
1t would be astonishing to one not thrown in
the way of knowledge of the fact, to be told
what numbers Of men arrive in this Territory
perfectly penniless, apparently possessed with
the idea that, their foot once upon the silver
soil of washoe, all care and labor is at an
end and their fortunes made. Those who
have tried it on have already found out, and
those who have not, We can inform that such
men are Gas much mistaken as if they had
burnt their shirts" If there is place on
the footstool Of the Almighty, where man
has got to come down to the brass, and work
for his living, that country is Washoe. The
profession of playing bean-poker and seven
up and cribbage for the whisky, which is fol-
lowed with such assiduity and complete sue
cess in the small towns of California, has not
thus tar proved success in this Territory.
Hotel-keepers have adopted disagreeable
system of cash transactions, and the stock of
slime" whisky was exhausted at all the
bar-rOoms several months ago, and they have
ceased to import the article. This state of
things, is disasreeable to gentlemen accus-
toned to a life OF elegant leisure; is distress
ing and disgusting to the sensitive and chiv-
alrous mind; and the consequence is that all
the lines Of travel on the back-track are ex-
tensively patronised, from the several stage
companies down to Foote & Walkers man
santa line. 1t is hardly necessary to dilate
further upon this point. As that sage
navigator, Captain John Bunsby, remarked
to his friend Ed'sEd Cutie, "the force of our
hObserwatiOns lies in the Implication of
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