Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-05
THE EVENING NEWS.

Charles Crowell, who is Section Superin.
tendent of the new Overland Telegraph
line between Virginia and Austin. From
him We CLEAN the following interesting
particulars: The line will extend from
Chicago, Illinois, to San Francisco, Cali
fornia, and will be double the entire dis
lance. The Company was incorporated
in New York but a few months since,
with a heavy capital, and already the line
is built and working nearly to Denver
City, at which place the winter rendez-
vous will be made. On this coast equally
vigorous means have been adopted, and
between this city and San Jose the line is
being rapidly erected, and will be in work
ing order in the month of November-one
hundred men, at least, being employed in
the erection of the poles, etc. To-day,
Mr.. Crowell commences the work be-
tween Virginia and Austin, and will push
the same with all convenient haste, en-
ploying a good working force to complete
the line on or before the lst Of January.
The poles are already cut and being "pa-
rated" at Lake Bigler, and in ten days
will be delivering along the line. Mr..
Crowell is an energetic. business man, and
the line won't be allowed to be down"
under his charge. The wire and insula-
tors for the work left New York some
time since, and will arrive in San Fran
cisco by the next steamer, so that in
about thirty days we may expect to have
two lines of telegraphic communication
between Virginia and San Francisco, and
by the first Of the new year Austin will
be equally favored. We like this enter
prise, for wherever telegraphic opposition
arises something like a fair tariff is the
usual result-besides, at times, so vast an
amount Of business accumulates at the
California State Telegraph Office that it is
almost impossible to procure the forward
ing of a message for hours, and perhaps
tor days, when it is a matter Of life or
death. beggary or riches to the interested
parties. Then, too, if IN opposition line
is built, each incorporation will be more
active and vigilant in the discharge Of
duties, and in keeping the line in good re-
pair. So we say success to the new line,
and long may friendly lightenings be car
ressed by its cold-hearted wires.
FROM ExcELsIoR.-From a letter just
received from Mr.. Geo. E. Ames, Super
intendent of the Lincoln Company's
claims, at Excelsior, we learn that on
Monday the snow was eight inches deep
at Summit City, and still falling. The
California Company, who recently took
machinery for q mill from Virginia to
erect at their mine, are working on their
building with a large force Of men. and
will have it completed this week. Their
machinery is all ready to be put up as
soon as the building is finished. Mr..
Ames says that both Messrs. Long and
Winton's mills have been shut down for
the purpose of putting in amalgamating
pans, it having been found that they could
not save enough of the metal to make it
pay by amalgamating in the battery. They
will be running again in a short time.
Mr.. Winton also intends to put up steam
machinery in connection with the water
power to drive his mill this fall. The
snow has put a quietus to prospecting,
and probably but little more will be done
in that line this winter. However, there
will be quite a large number Of persons
winter in Summit City and vicinity, who
have charge of mines or are employed in
mills.
For Observation-Disclosures we no.
ticed a large stock of assayers' apparatus,
including chemicals, etc., from the estab-
lishment Of Rice & Livermore, that are to
be taken at once to Kearsarge Mining
District by an enterprising gentleman and
accomplished assayer, who will start a
business there. 1t is being whispered that
some shrewd capitalists, who first went
out to the district last spring, finding that
matters would eliminate in a rush, went
~zealously at work and threw cold water
on the fires of prospecting, by asserting
that ores brought into Storey county for
reduction failed to yield any good returns,
when in fact the amount Of silver and gold
extracted therefrom was most wonderful
in amount. Again, newly made discoy-
cries of rich quartz and placer diggings In
that section, is turning public attention
toward Kearsarge, which will, we believe,
eventually become a rich mining district.
CHupREN's CoNcRRT.-The children's
concert, at St. Johns Church, last even
ing, was a pleasant little affair. About
eighty or ninety boys and girls, Of ages
ranging from three to twelve, under the
direction of Mr.. n. A. H. Ball, sung a
great number of Sunday School hymns,
chorusses, and patriotic songs. 1t was
really inspiring to hear their sharp, clear,
u voices rising in a chorus, and see
their Young faces radiant with JOY as they
sung their favorite, Marching through
Georgia" After the singing was over,
MIR. Ball and Rev. Mr.. Lathrop distribut-
ed among the children a basket OF nuts
and candies, after which the young singers
departed to their homes, pleased with the
entertainment and glad they belonged to
the Sabbath School.
A SUGGESTION We noticed by the
records of the District Court yesterday
that Maguire's Opera House was ordered
TO be offered for rent by the receiver, MIR.
Cohen. Why does not Walter Bray, who
has become a permanent citizen Of Viz
pinia, take the affair in hand. and estao-
iish a place of amusement where one or
two evenings in a week we could take our
wives, sisters and s~weethearts, and be
amused? The city of Virginia demands
some such enterprise, and Bray is the
very man to successfully i%naugurate a
successful season at the Opera House, for,
besides being a finished actor, he is an es-
unable man, whose abilities to manage
would De sure to secure a 6rst-class lot OF
performers. Think of it, Walter.
Purchased MAcHINBRY.-We learn that
u friend Robert Apple, the interchangeable
Superintendent of the Belcher Consolida-
ted Company, has purchased the machinery
of the CrGsus Company, which he intends
TO take down and erect at the former mine.
A force of mechanics are already at work