Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-16
startling statistics. !.

=. The following comlcai article
which we find in the Auburn "Stars
and Stripes" knocks Cosmos "
higher nor kite, The closing SEN
tence is not complimentary to the
assembled wisdom of Nevada:
Ii, these latter days there seems
to be a mania for statistics, and for
founding abstruse and be-dizzying
calculations thereon. ~ 1.''
We recently noticed in one of our
ablest and most valued contemporaries,
1.-THE Stockton independently statistics
Of the growth of the city Of Chicago
from nothing to its present popula-
ton of 10000, on which a caicula-
tion was made of its prospective
population some years hence, pro-
vided it should maintain its former
decenial increase, in the future. The
calculation was continued up into
the millions, and, we suppose, would
have been prolonged had there been
more figures in the font.
Within the past few days we have
been furnished with interesting sta
tistics upon which we desire to in
dulge in figuring to a limited extent.
Sometime in the month of July,
say the 18th, the Hotel de Bomare,
or Bummer's Roost, as it is familiar
ly styled, was established in the
town Of Auburn, with a total patron
age of two (2). On the lst instant,
viz =: January i, 1865, its patrons
numbered thirteen l3), an increase
Of FIVE hundred and fifty per cent: in
five and one-half months |! ~ H.
Now, if the rate of increase should
be no greater in the future than in
the past, land the probable infuxof
population on account ofrecent quartz
discoveries. and the early completion
of-the Pacific Railroad would justify
us in anticipating o considerable ac.
celeration) this hotel would have a
patronage, on the lst day Of Janu-
ary, 1880, Of seven billion two hun
dred and eighty-four thousand one
hundred and six! In such CON
tingency there would probably be
no necessity for another 6rst-elass
hotel upon the face Of the earth.
Our readers can form some idea Of
the immense prospective business Of
this house, when we inform them
that on the day named, if its patrons
are all in good health and consume
the present average of beef, Il. e.59
pounds per day per man, it will re-
quire nine million seventeen thou
sand four hundred and eighty bpl-
locks, ofeight hundred poundsweight
each, per day, to supply. this one
establishment, and if they were
driven four abreast at the rate of fif-
teen miles per day, allowing but
eight feet, for the space occupied by
each, it would take them one thou
sand one hundred and twenty.three
years to pass given point
Again: Iffacilities were furnished
for seating the immense number Of
five thousand at a time, to receive
their meals, and but half an hour was
consumed in eating dinner, clearing
and relaying the table, it would re-
quire "eighty-two years, ten months
and eight days (omitting fractions)
to dispose Of each meal, In other
words the unfortunate whose fate it
should be to wait for the last table,
would have had time to raise three
generations while waiting for dinner.
We will indulge in but one more
calculation and leave the details to
the Imagination of our readers. If
sausages were desired for breakfast,
and each boarder ate but six inches
of sausage, IA preposterous presump'
ton, if the present set afford any
criterion) !" six. hundred and eighty
three thousand one hundred, and
forty-two miles of sausage would be
reqnired!" involving, necessarily,
the death of every member Of the
canine species in Sacramento for the
and straining the capacity
of the Nevada Legislature for the
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