Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-08-21
LETTER FROM "RAILRoAp spIkE.p
TRucXEI MwApows. Auvust II.

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EpIroR News: I have just returned
from = trip "up the mountaius"-th
second one l haYe found time to make
this year. The Dutch Flat Company
expect to make al independent Ink"
rs they call it, of about twenty miles
on this side of the mountain, before the
end Of next month. should Judge that
they had about y thousand persons ut
work on the line, this side Of the sum-
nit. The summit tunnel will be through
this month-that is, the headings ,
will be through. But | think it will
take another month, If not longer, to
trim the hole out TO the proportions
required for a train OF cars. All the
culverts are completed, from the summit
10 Cisco. Many of them were made last
Fall. The effects Of n nitro-glyceriue
blast is wonderful. 1t is terrific, and
no mistake. An inch hole, three feet
ieep, will r-r-rip up the rock in u man.
ner that is .satirical on gunpowder.
And they use this explosive mighty
careless. often thought, as | saw
them directing Chinamen to "keteh
EN-, heap inter-" and observed how
they made John hurry along in the
..hold and handle" business, that Johns
life VIII, no, quite US valuable as II will
be when (if ever) he becomes a voter
for the corporation. The tunnels on
the side-h,ll, this way from the summit
tunnel are on u bee-line, M you can
look through them from the enbank-
nent Just southeast of the stage road
on the top of the tunnel grade. They
zee very pretty pieces of roofing. The
Eoremen all talk OF what great lime
they Intend 10 make when they get
down on the Truckee and Humboldt
bottom. They say they will show the
Unlon Pacific II trick or two in the way
of rapid railroad building. They say
they will lay at least two hundred and
6fty miles of railroad in Nevada next
year. asked several foremen, who |
thought might possibly know about the
matter, ,fit vas the intention ofthe Com
pany to bring in negroes from the East.
Most Of those whom | questioned, re-
piled that they thought not; that they
thought the Chinese were smarter and
more active workers than the negroes
were or would be, and that there was
no occasion for importing negroes rs
long as the Chinameu agreed 10 the $50
per month and IL hours u day arrange.
meut. The men in charge OF the work
IRE very civil to strangers-leastwise
they were 10 me. They all talked very
co~mplacently Of what the company"
intended to do when they got in Nevada.
| said, al suppose you will horse
everybody that is for the Placerville
route" They laughed, and said the
Plaeerville route was played out; and
that the Central Pacific would "do the
Railroad business for Nevada hereafter,
we guess" One foreman thought it
quite likely that the Company would
nave a few thousand negroes imported,
Just 10 keep the Cinnamon from break
ing loose on another strike. This man
voluntarily remarked TO me that "when
we get IN Nevada some Of our Cinnamon
may make u break for the mines, If they
can get employment in the mines. AT
any. rate" said be, "four dollars a day
for miners, will be played o as soon
as we getthere." Aud he added. that"S4
Il day is a id high price for common
laborers." This man was highly eulo-
CYSTIC Of Chinamen. He said they were
LAS intelligent rs the Irish, and they
didu't give any lip when they were told
10 do anything" BE said that the
trains would be principally Unnamed" by
Cinnamon, in a few years. Locomotive
engineers and baggage masters, as well
As brakesnen and hand II workmen.'
| hardly think that they will make
the full connection over the summit
this year. A great deal Of roofing work
has 10 be done, which will retard them
one
I Was down TO Washoe City a few
days ago, aud from there went up into
the mountains. There is an immense
deal of timber being cut and sawed for
the Comstock mines, this season.
saw '.0ld Snarley," BlAsdel's Uri-
nal, in Washoe City. He looked as
hideous aud snarled MS pitifully as
ever. He is apparently enabled to lin.
yer along on the crumbs thrown to him
oy u community who commiserate his
condition, while they naturally loathe
his presence.
| will write again in 4 few days.
Yours,
RAILROAD SPIKE.