Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-09-28
SATURDAY NIGHT.

n NJ nV very Steet uoPtu Somo
together and form one ledge. In most
cases, the actual demonstration has fol-
lowed the prophecy. In early times the
ledge called Comstock pitched to the
west, when the "back claimants" the
81 Dorado Co.'s, etc., sang high notes
and got 'em ; 200 feet Of clear straight
shafting defined a change of the pitch
to the east, and then the tune changed.
With four and Eve hundred feet of shaft
ing came determined necessities for
moving the hosting works of the large
Companies to the east. Down the hill
goes the Gould & Curry, the Gholiar-
Potosi, tho Savage, the Hale Norcross;
and now the Ophir is striking from an F
and G. street block, and the central Vir-
ginia mines will soon experiment in a
line with the ophir and Gould & Curry.
Meanwhile the Bullion Company-the
most p~erssvering and proportionately
deserving company in the county-have
not found the Comstock and the Impe-
rial and Empire have crossed over to the
opposite (eastern) ridge bounding our
canon, and opened communications with
their levels. 1t appears to us probable
that it will soon be ascertained definitely
that the "Comstock" keeps on a straight
line, not minding or being indicated in
direction at all by surface eccentricities.
If the compass of the great ledge a be
developed as On a straight line from the
Ophir to the Imperial, if att depth of
a thousand feet that fact shall be made
to appear, then the Sierra Nevada and
the Utah are well posted on the north,
and the Succor mine and the Pride Of
the West have "started in" correctly,
and all our Western prospscted Gold
Hill mines and Silver City locations are
bound to cross the gulch, if they want
to make u plumb descent or the ledge.
The new Imperial Empire buildiug'is
now so nearly completed that its pro-
portions and general "architectural
effects" car be appreciated. Of course
it has, technically speaking, no archi-
tectural points. 1t is built for use; in
no sense for ornament; and is Of the
simplest form adapted to give the space
required. Yet it is fit to crown and
grace the material, geographical head
of Gold Hill. A temple Of industry,
grand in its proportions. We can look
at it and point to it with pride. The
Flag never looked more glorious to u
eyes than when unfurled from the staff
that springs from the cupola. The
building 10 all business in its style and
capacities; the stockholders will never
discover money has been thrown away
on its corAices, or that an attempt has
been made to freeze them out by expen-
di.ures upon its friezesi The machine
~ is to be Of massive proportions; the
granite foundations for the engines and
pumping apparatus showing that a bur-
den Of giant muscle is expected to re-
cline and toll upon them. The Super
intendent Of the Empire, Bob Graves,
was delayed in the matter of building
considerably during the early part of
the outdoor working season of this
year, by reason of lack of adequate lum-
Der supply; but the hosting works will
be ready for operation in abundant mar
gin before the SHOWS come down upon
US. An excellent Superintendent is
Robert.
To "Comstock Straight and the I'm
psrial-Enpire" we may appropriately
propose a toast on this Saturday night.
For when the "Comstock" shall have
been developed as a clear 300 feet wide
ledge, from the Ophir to Silver City, we
shall have a present rational sxpscta-
ton fulfilled /; and when ten or twelve
such hosting houses shall grace the
eastern side of Slippery Gulch as the
one which adorns its northern peak, the
"glory Of old Washoe" will really
begin.
The Chief Engineer Of the Virginia
and Truekse Railroad Company has
made surveys for tracks to come in on
D and G streets, Virginia, and for a
branch track on the eastern side of Gold
Hill.
Running over these statements and
suggestions, it is possible that a dispo-
sition to emigrate on the part of some
Of our readers, who are too good citi-
Gems to be afforded as losses to our COM
muuities, may be restrained. Just
think, this Saturday night, or this day
Sunday, if you are not making so much
money here as you imagine or believe
you might and would in another State,
just think, judge, as to thei''times" here
when the locomotives will make I'M
broken rolls from Sacramento to the
silvef pits of Storey Hold on, a while.
Only two years hence these comfortable
conxeniences will be realized.
There is q long strip Of almost entirely
unstopsd ground between the Gould and
Curry and the Ophir new shafts. Mind
thst2 And when such energetic men
as John Rule and Billy O'Nssle get hold
Of the propsrty-title, there will be deep
diving and wide out-strstchings, until
the connection is made in riches.
|. POWER OF THE IxAaINArIoN.-A box,
supposed to contain a dead body, was
recently forwarded from Boston to Hal
flax, by the Eastern Express Company.
Such boxes often emit an unpleasant
smell and when this one reached Port
land the odor was so offensive q team