Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-10-25
cnoAxEas AND pRoKBRs.

Nevada, washoe, has been the scape-
soa, of States, financially speaking, for
four or FIVE years. Best abused of COM
munities. And to-day, John Smith OF
San Francisco, aud John Brown Of New
York, and John Jones of Philadelphia
and Fauuel Hall Of Boston take the'ben-
eft of the insolvent act because they
have lost their call" in Washoe mining
stock sp%sculations! You go to San
Francisco from our town in mid-sum-
mer, and remark to some one that the
summer afternoon breezes at the Bay are
rather unpleasant, and the resident
whom you addressed will tell you with
a most outrageous emphasis, that he
would naturally suppose that such soft
gales would feel agreeable to a person
who was at home constantly suffering
from washoe zephyrs. We have been
astonished at the ignorance Of English
men, English writers, concerning the
geography and cotemporaneous history
of our country /; but the ignorance of
Gothamites generally, for many years,
concerning California conditions-other
than that the State was collaborating
surpassed the English standard alluded
to, aud made US more charitable to-
wards our transatlantic brethren. But
who could have conceived that across
the prairies, within q distance OF 200
miles, there would exist, notwithstand-
ing all the interchange of visits, a popu-
lar ignorance in California respecting
Nevada which tends to make the orig
inal name Of our State u by-word OF
reproach. On yesterday We received q
letter from q "fne old gentleman" Of San
Francisco, for whom we have hitherto
entertained the p~rofoundest respect, and
in it he takes occasion to say quite
coolly that he has been "Washoed" in a
certain speculation on which he and his
ION ventured. The last man who
'sburst" in San Fraucico, or last filed
notice of his explosion, financially,
failed, he says, on account Of the bot
tom dropping or pinching out OF the
Lander county mines-Austin mines.
We have NO right whatever to
suppose that that man is q liar,
and we do not say he is. But we
have known not only one but many
"insolvents" in San Francisco, who
falsely laid upon "Washoe" the moral
burden of their pecuniary collapse.
But we don't mind this, so very much,
in trouble. We do deprecate, however,
the general righteousness Of speech in
California, when Nevada or Washoe is
mentioned. We protest against it. We
say it is outrageous. We note that it
is q gross injustice, and damaging in its
reactions. We notice that when some
of our people pay a visit to California,
they are likely to come back with a
growl about the ISLANDERS against us,
and yet with "suthin' in their crop"
which inclines them to be disseminated
and fault-fnding with everything in
Slippery Gulch or in Comstock Ledge
city. They 80 away proud citizens OF
the glorious Silver Star State, ETC.; they
come back confirmed croakers against
our prospects. One or another has been
to the Bay this Fall, and he or she or
they will be cursing the country alto
gether and damning about the condition
of Main street, Gold Hill, all Winter
long. You see If it does not prove so.
There cannot be a little cav in Virginia
city, but these creatures will stand on
the sidewalk or in saloons all day,
mounting their bitter prophesies about
"everything going in" We honestly
confess, we hate these croakers. We
abhor them. We execrate them. When
it is safe to do so, we curse them. A
State that is, and has, and is soon to be
what Nevada is and has been and is
bound to be, ought not to have its proper
masculine reputation neutralized in
such n name as we now indicate.
The Croakers and some others anath-
ematize the Brokers for all the real
Washoe misfortunes. 1t does not occur
to US why that should be. If you seri-
ously and candidly inquire into the mat
ter, you can find no proof declaring the
professional brokers the cause Of all our
actual woe. True, they have bulled and
beared our big mining stocks; but that
operation was all understood and &C.
cepted in good part by those from the
outside who bought checks in their
game. And the professional brokers
did not get up flush and false times. All
the people here and thousands in Califor-
MIA went into mine purchases sincerely,
in early times. The Brokers have not
made us a flush name, or a bad name,
or robbed US. They are really, 1mmi-
grafton agents; and if we have any new
good development they the
fact tomorrow, auth%oritstively, through
the most distinguished correspondence.
May the brokers flourish, say we. They
do o denounce US on Montgomery
street. No, sir. It is the soul flour
merchant, on sweet scented Front street,
who makes his largest profits from our
merchants,-it is he and bis stripe that
hiss at Washoe.
The fact is, this State is coming up
finely and coming out bright and beau
tiful in a short time. Wait until our
Northern arabic lands are reached by
the railroad; wait until our Colorado is
regularly navigated-the only project
the greed Of the sour -four merchants
ever helped US to wait for this a very
few months Say eight months,-and
we'll stshow you sum dings."