Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-14
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Nearly all of the United States troops
on the plains are more or less disaffected,
all of which goes'to show that a Railroad
is the only feasible base of an Indian war.
This road is In the hands of spectators.
While everybody confirms this statement
no n attempts to deny it. One branch
is engaged in a quarrel-the same to which
Sam HalIett last summer fell a victim ; on
the other, the chief engineer recently re.
signed because he could not stand the out
rageous swindling carried on by the con-
Germ.
What is Colorado to do in the premisess
Il may be said that she can do nothing.
Il is certain that she will do nothing with
out an effort. We have on our table a
lecture by Senator Stewart, Of Nevada
on the mining interest, delivered before
the Cooper Institute of New York.
Senator Nye was honored by a sump-
tuous dinner, at which all the big guns
were present, before he left New York
City. Nevada, in her first short session
IN Congress. got the possessory rights OF
miners confirmed.
A Washoe Correspondent of the San
| Francisco Bulletin gives a long list OF new
mills constructing and new mines opening
IN Nevada by Eastern capitalists. Mill
lions of eastern money are seeking invest.
ment in that State. ,
Nevada has no great interest in our rail-
road, She looks to San Francisco for sup
port. and that end of the Pacific road is
| being pushed with commenda6le energy
and singleness of purpose. Which goes
TO show that position is Of value, that Ne
yada is eclipsing our light, and that we
must depend on ourselves for the further
ance Of our " interests.
We ask, then, what can Colorado do in
| the premises: Whatever hopes may De
Justly entertained with regard to new pro-
cesses for extracting gold, is it not plain
that a Railroad is our only hope for a
prosperous future: Whit, living would
be reduced to one-fourth its present cost.
Supplies of all kinds would be available
at New York prices with only five cents
additional for freight instead of from ht-
teen to thirty-ive as at present. Busi.
ness would expand. population would
flow in, property would rise in value, ten
thousand mineral veins, now worthless,
would return a handsome income to their
owners, the entire laboring population OF
this territory who own mines would soon
become prosperous and independent, the
Indians would easily be subdued to peace
or swept from the land of the living. Our
people have been exiled from civilization
10 long that they appear to have forgotten
the stimulus a railroad system gives to the
industry Of a country. See Illinois with
her two millions Of inhabitants and
countless wealth What has raised her
to this proud eminences Less than nifty
wears since she was admitted into the
Union, a weak colony of $4,000 men. To
day she has more real strength and vitality
than some nations Of Europe centuries
old. Her admirable system Of railroads
has done this. Why, men live who re-
member when the travel from New York
TO Boston or Philadelphia was accommo-
dated by two lines of stage coaches. Now
twenty trains of cars are required Tor that
u It is estimated that there are
100000 Americans travelling in Europe
who spend an average OF ten dollars per
day each. With o railroad they would
come here and spend their money. Have
we not a Switzerland and Italy OF our
own. Spas equal to the most famous in
the world
But it will be said that a representation
in Congress would do US no good in re-
spect to a railroad. Those who say so
know they are uncandid in so saying Tell
a New Yorker there is such a place as
Chicago and he stares in wonder. Men
ton St. Louis in Washington to other
than a Missourian and he opens his ears
as at the mention of q foreign land-a
country which had somehow escaped his
notice. But for SaLd Creek, and the tact
that they wanted to tax her, the last Con-
press would not have mentioned Colora-
do, President Lincoln ignored her In his
message. There is, TO cut the matter short
lust this about tiff Colorado is not rep
resented there, her interests Will receive
shabby treatment; while If she 10 repre-
sented there, benefits may be secured for
her worth a hundred times the cost OF
| State government. Other sections go to
| Washington full of their W interests
and prepared to take advantage OF every
thing thrown IN their way and that Is
why, at present, the mining interest Is
considered lawful game for everybody.
Let us, then, remain a Territory forever
cut IF from all the righ's and amenities
of Americans; let us do without a rail-
road, without Courts, without a vote IN
national affairs let US abandon our mines
to the speculator, allow the Indians TO
murder and torture Dull women and chill
dren and friends and destroy our prop
erty 4; let US abide high freights and high
living and stagnant mines and mills; let
US rejoice in the unproductiveness OF our
lodes continue to abhor State eggs ana
butter, State postal facilities, state OF mat
rimony. Of Colorado, and the State prison.
ave /! aye i! forever! So shall our popu!a-
ton and wealth cease not "to grow smaller
By degrees and beautifully less" until at
length we shall hand Colorado back to
the Cheyenne and Arappahoe and return
home to die in poverty and disgrace! -
Colorodo Journal.
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