Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-01-23
PROSPECTIVE.

days give token of approaching Spring.
Although, thus far, We have had but little
of that kind of weather, the idea of which
is usually associated with that of winter,
yet that season is invariably one of stagna-
ton to a greater or less extent. During
the winter the climate IS uncertain and
unreliable, and enterprises projected in the
fall. which involve the necessity of heavy
transportation and extensive outdoor Ia
Dor, are always postponed until spring.
Enterprises of that character, almost with
out number, are now lying in allegiance i'll
every district in the Territory, and most
numerous and most extensive in this locali.
/ ty. The Gold Hill District is now, and must
remain for long time, if pot perpetually,
! the region of the most extensive mining
operations in the Territory. Its extent is
great, its richness already established, and
its prospecting days are past. Each shaft
| sinking, and each tunnel now drifting, Is
sinking and drifting towards a certainty.
With those whose title to their claims is
unquestionable, the possession of paying
mine is merely question of time. Such
| being the case, those who have confidence
in their titles are fastening to place their
mines in adequate working condition.
| Wherever we meet with such company,
and find it working by the slow means of
windlass or whim, and with the limited
number of men that those slow hosting
works can keep employed, we find that
they have made, or are about making ar
engagements for the erection of extensive
steam hosting machinery in the spring, as
soon as the advanced season gives securi-
ty of good roads for its transportation
across the Sierras. That spring time is
now rapidly approaching, and two months
more at the farthest will see the advance
teams of the heavy trains loaded with the
huge engines and ponderous machinery
and timbers required in the prosecution Of
mining operations upon an extensive scale.
For many of the mines, the machinery has
been already ordered, and will be upon its
way as soon as the passage of the noun
tains can be safely attempted. These are
principally for claims on Gold Hill proper,
the lodges of which were struck, or their
existence fully established last fall. The
results of the last few months, which
have established the fact that the Gold
Hill lodges stretch down through Ameri-
can Flat and Blue Sulphur Spring District
have given strong and vivifying impulse
to all the companies now working along
that line. The number of mills and
steam hosting works that will be required
along this line will be immense. In the
erection of these works a vast number of
mechanics will be required. This is
class the supply of which has ever been
unequal to the demand, in this
country, and the importation of the great
number required will be material and
valuable accession to the population Of
| the district. The new town of American
City, in the southern portion of this cor
poration, is being rapidly purchased by
persons who will commence building upon
their lots immediately, when the roads are
in condition for the hauling Of the lumber.
Before another winter sets in there will be
almost q continuous city from American
Flat to the southern end Of Virginia,
broken only at points where the rugged
conformation of the mountains imposes
natural and insurmountable barriers. The
! permanent and inexhaustible character OF
the mines of this range, JustiGes the SUBJ
stantial and costly style of buildings and
works which it is proposed to build.
Instead of the frail wood and cloth tene-
mentS, which characterize those ephemeral
towns of California, where mining is the
sole resource of the district, the people of
Washoe find it for their interest to erect
substantial edifices of brick and stone.
The reasons of this difference are manifold.
All building timber used in this bare ard
timberless region must be of necessity
hauled such distance that the transport
tation is the chief item in its cost.
Another point in consideration is the risk
of conAagration, against which, from the
popularity of the conformation of the
country, it is impossible to effectually
guarl. In this immediate vicinity, too,
there is an abundance of good building
stone, and clay suitable for the manufac-
ture of brick. The number of brick build
ings which are already projected, will re-
quire the proceeds of many brick-yards
and the employment of many men in that
branch of manufacture. These improve
ments, which are fixed fact, and which
will commence with the opening spring,
give assurance of an approaching season
of unexampled life and activity in every
branch of business in the Territory, and
next fall will record progress and ad-
vancement in the scale of population,
business and wealth of the country, with
out parallel.
The MINES and MINING INTEREsTs.-
One of our Congressional delegation
writes to friend here, who questioned
him concerning the Governments intent
to tax the mines, and says: al do not
know, with certainty, what the plan of
Gen. Beale is, but shall see it in a few
days, as it will be printed at length with