Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-27
OUR ANswER

The Enterprise says that We "painfully
squirm under its g exposure of the char
acter and ultimate object Of the proposed
division of Storey county" We assufe
that conceited bladder that if we "squirn-
ed /" at all at its pettifogging bomoass' we
were not aware of it, and that our faneied
writings were not caused by physical or
mental agony. Our attention was direct
al 10 !. column of what was probably in
landed "a srreasoning against the pro-
nosed division of the county, but which,
when Invested of the broadest and most
slaring nonsense, and the most shameless
Misrepresentation, left nothing but skel-
eton of unmeaning words to either
"squirm" at or answer. There was one,
only one, point--if it can be called a
"point in the whole of its harangue,
to which we paid no attention whatever,
regarding it at the time as mere makeup,
without any pretension to earnestness.
That was an allusion to an intention, on
the part of the friends of division of
Storey county, to annex Gold Hill and
American City to Lyon county. Believ-
ing the idea to be merely one of those
flights of the imagination to which the
editor of the Enterprise is subject We
passed it by without comment. 1t ap-
pears, however, this morning, to be a sort
of "last ditch" with our contemporary,
and we shall proceed to bury him therein
at his own request, and so end his gable
upon a subject which it is apparent that
he knows nothing about. Behold the
ditch: .......
Eve now put the question directly to the
NRws-Does not the proposed plan Of dirtston
inrolre IN the secret purpose Of ITS projectors
a convection of Gold HiR and american City
xith a part or the tchole Of Lyon county
Although the editor of the News has "not
vet seen the bill of Mr.. Bishop" he is evil
IDENTIFY pretty well acquainted with its pro-
visions, and we are anxious to be informed
| Of the probable disposition of the new county
in the event Of its creation"
That is categorical. 1t shall have an
answer, as distinct and unmistakable as
the question seems to demand. The
petition now in circulation, and which
has already received the signatures of more
than thousand citizens of Gold Hill, asks
that the portion of Storey county lying
on this side of the dividing line between
Virginia and Gold Hill be set apart, and a
new county created out of the territory so
segregated, to be called the county OF
-; the name to be hereafter suggested
by meeting of the citizens. The legal
as we'll as the common sense presumption
is, that a written instrument if it means
anything at all, means what it says. This
petition asks for the creation of a new
county, and defines the boundaries there
of. 1t does not say "Lyon county once,
nor do the boundaries described include a
square inch of the soil of Lyon county
If the foregoing answer Is not sufficiently
explicit, and does not completely exercise
.Ehe phantom which has troubled the i'm
agination of the Enterprise, We must
abandon the patient and turn him over to
the priests.
In its confident assertion, that, I" of the
legislative delegation of the county, but
two will be found to favor the bill of Mr..
Bishop, should it be presented and we
doubt whether Mr.. Bishop himself could
summon the resolution to vote for such a
measure :" the Enterprise only makes
another exhibition of that blind Ignorance
upon every subject connected with thu
people and the sentiment Of Gold HILL
which has distinguished its every article
relating thereto within the last Sixteer
months.