Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-09-06
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From the Springfield Republican.
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.


PERILs AND PRoFITs OF THE BUSINESS.
VIEGINIA, Nevada, Juae 27, 1865.
California, mature at IL, plants colo
ny IN l859-60, which ripens into new
state in 1864, Nevada is the first child
of California Bachelor unclcs and fond
friends sometimes think children are born
in order to wbeede them out of silver cups;
so Nevada sprang into being under like
metallic influence. And if she promised
to give, rather than to get, she fails yet
to keep full faith for though in her six
years of life, she has yielded sixty mil
lions of material for pure coin of the
realm, she has absorbed much more than
that amount of California capital and Ia
Dor. Coming west out of the barren plains
of the great interior basin, even in their
midst, we strike the first wave of Pacific
coast life at Austin, 800 miles from San
Francisco, 200 miles from the Sierra Ne
vada, in middle Nevada. huddled and in.
coherent along the steep hillsides of a
close canon, running sharply up from the
Reese river valley, lies the easternmost
and freshest mining town of the state and
the section. Two years old, Austin has
already had population of 6 or 5000.
cast 1000 votes at the presidential elec-
tion, and, now, experiencing her first re-
action, falls back to 1000 inhabitants
1t bears family likeness to Central City
and Black Hawk in Colorado houses are
built anywhere and everywhere and streets
are then made to reach them; one side of
a house will be four stories and the other
but two---such is the lay of the land not
tree nor flower, nor grass plot does
the whole town boast-lot one but it
has the best French restaurant | have met
since New York. daily newspaper, and
the boot blacks and BARRIERS and baths are
luxurious and aristocratic to the continen-
tai degree while one of the finest speci-
linens of feminine physical beauty and
grace presides over lager beer saloon ;
gambling riots openly in the large area OF
every drinking shop--miners risking to
this chance at night the proceeds of the
scarcely less doubtful chance Of the day ;
and weak. minded and curious strangers
are tempted by such advertisements as
this.-
| Mammoth Larger Beer Saloon. in the basement
corner Main and Virginia streets. Austin. Neva'
da. Choice iQaors. wines. lager beer and cigars
served by pretty girls. who understand their bus'
Gambrinus, Venus or Cupid can spend an eve
ming agreeably at the Mammoth Saloon.
Both inquisi,ive and classical, we went in
search of this bower of the senses; and
we found cellar, whitewashed and saw.
busted two fddles and clarinet in one
corner bar of liquors glared in another;
and fat coarse Jew girl proved the sole
embodiment and representative of all these
proclaimed gods and goddesses. We blush
ingly apologized and retired with our fa-
ces to Mistress Venus Cupid, &c, as
guests retire from mortal monarchs-lest
our pockets should be picked ; and shall
take our mythology out of the dictiona'
ries hereafter,
All UP the Austin hillsides, among TIE
houses and beyond them, are the big ant
hills that denote mines or the hopes Of
such. Down in the valley are the mills
for crushing and separating the ore, Back
land around the corucrs, and over the
mountains for many miles, are similar
though less frequent signs. The main
Austin belt however. has been successful
Ily traced for but five miles, and one in
width. The veins Of ore lie thick i'll the
rotten granite of the hills. like the spread
fingers of some mineral giant. Also they
laro small, sometimes as inches, rarely WI
Idening TO more than three or four feet
But to compensate for this disadvantage,
they are exceeding rich and generally re-
liable But then again, the metal is sc
compounded with sulphuretts of Other
metals, with antimony and arsenic, thai
lit is hard to extract and requires roast
ling, burning or smelling process, like the
Igold ores of Colorado, in addition and In
termediate to those of crushing and anal
gamatipg, to successful operations. About
so veins are now being worked successful
Ily. and as many more have been satisfac'
torily prospected, and are being put IL
condition for operating, or are awaiting
the coming of capital and its machinery
Water flows into all the veins freely, anC
much labor is required to pump it out
The first necessity Of every mine, indeed
is steam engine and hosting apparatus
TO draw up water and ore from the bottom
of the shaft or tunnel. But few OF tn
mines have mills connected with them
several of the older and strong compani,e
only combine both operations and max
the two profits. The mills are ioca.e'
with regard to wood and water, ratne
than to the ore. aud the latter IS carrie.
sometimes for miles to be worked, Ha'
a dozen mills working some 20 stamps II
all, are already put up in the Austin an, .,
neigh boring canons; but only about o'
stamps arc now at work, The numoe
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