Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-11-02
A LOCAL RETROSPECT AND PRO
puENY

buOlClk NAAah AAao we
among an intelligent and candid people.
Now all agree, %hereabouts, that Gold Hill
and Virginia for the past twelve months
have more than SHIELD their own" in mine
yield, in population, in general prosperity.
The evidences tending to this conclusion,
making i. clear and correspondingly sat-
isfac,ory, are at our doors, and upon the
record Of our daily journals. The bullion
product is in the commercial. the mono
tary tables Of the land, and cannot be
gainsayed or sneezed at. II registration
Of votes counts anything on the census
line, we have not lost a figure for a man;
Of course, due allowance is to be made for
q natural and expected increase Of voters
this year over last, when fewer and less
important offices were in the catalogue for
nomination. But the increase is sufh-
GENTLY demonstrative Of the seven thing"
on the list OF inhabitants Of Storey to-day
as compared with the tally Of '65. In
fact, from this indication alone, We might
claim a larger number Of residents now
than we had one year ago. The profits Of
our principal business Arms. we are conf
dent, this year exceed those balanced up
in IS; and sales must have been as large,
in bulk, TO secure such a result. inasmuch
as merchandise has been cheaper to a no.
ticsble amount
And yet, with these assertions distinct
ly known for the truth among all men
entitled by communications or interests to
know the same, We are provoked every
week by being obliged to read in some Of
our California, as we'll as eastern exchanges,
that "Washoe' has gone to the dogs,
is "played out" .of no account whatsum-
ever" depopulased and damned and-and
so forth. New York, Boston and Phila-
delphia papers may be permitted to indulge
In this character Of calumny, for they
have no regular and reliable correspond
ents here. but California journals should be
competent to speak the truth respecting
our condition and prospects. Old
"Washos," and especially the glory Of old
Washoe, which is the county Of Storey,
is so far from being a decayed district or
in . decaying condition, or in q coma
that never before had a mining section
such a substantial record for its years, or
such splendid prospect for its immediate
future. And let US recount how this is,
for our W congratulation, and the sham
ing Of some folks over in California, and
the enlightenment Of many ignorant little
ones in the Atlantic States.
Old Washoe has borne all the evil that
i, the regular retributive reaction Of "fush
times" From wildcat e1citements, our
section Of country has gone down the
dseps of depreciation until the name, spo-
ken here, at home, as we'll as at q distance,
was the emphatic definition for the an
cient and right caustic slang terms Of
"bilk" and "fakar." Time was, q few
months ago, il it DO not now under date,
when q Washoe man wal subject Of ccnmon
curse in San Francisco. Standing in the
shadow Of some one Of the many magnif-
cent edifices, thousands of laboring men
have denounced the land of sage-brush
and the inhabitants thereof; rehearsing
how they have been swindlsd out Of their
savings by the spectators, and bringing
into contempt the stock Of the Nevada
ledge companies. We have heard men
read over the list Of hotel arrivals, in San
Francisco, and whenever they struck 4
name prefxed to Virginia City," "Aus-
tin" or "Gold Hil," break u into sx-
pletions against the unfortunate, the very
likely innocen, denizen Of this State, who
hailed from the i'd dead beat country"
In short, "Washoo" has been . word to
evoke torrents Of exscration from a vast
number Of people whose bad opinion was
founded on peeunisry suffering incurred
BY investments in our barren ciSterns,
baptized "mines." But the day OF popu-
lar denunciation has passed, and to jeal.
GUS or inconsiderato journalists alone do
We now look for anathemas against the
"alkali deserts Of the youngest State in
the Union" Il is possible that some
heavy capi,ali.s in Boston, Philadelphia,
New York and St. Louis may still be in
the habit Of making abusive speeches con-
corning the razor-back leads in the eastern
or central portion Of our State; but We
already know that they will SOON have
cause to resract their bad judgments, and
our "pheelings" amt half so much hurt
by their fulmina.ions as they have been
by the rsproach Of men Of the middle
classes in our adjoining States.
While wildcat" has squawled out Of
the market, the genuine mining interests
Of the State have become known and ap-
preeiated by folks here and the world at
large. The Comssock ledge has its bull
lion sheet published whenever money
changers barter. and q Monsieur Nscksr
in Pari, can tell as truly Of the real worth
Of Gould s. Curry to-day as any other
man-save it be the Superintendent and
Foreman Of the mine. This little burgh,
even "Gold HILL" is q place Of renown
for its regular dividends, gouged right out
Of insxhaustiblo chamberS Of silver. AL
that pertains to the cost Of working our
ores has been syssematized (and 80 pub
lished,) to such an extent that money-men
abroad and everybody at home, can