Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-10-08
FROM rHE QUAKER CITY.
PHILADELPHIA Prsu SAINT ,e 1917

PHILADELPHIA, PENN, Sept. l6, '67.
EDITOR OF THE GOLD HILL NEWS 1T
may be of some little qualification to
your readers to have sometimes q few
words from "the States " through some
other channel than the newspapers,
which at the present time are so alb
sorbed in politics that they cannot tell
the truth. All that you inhabitants of
the far, far West get in the way of what
might be called readable matter, is a
few lines on your interests, so mixed up,
and blended with some political scheme,
that you, who are on the ground, do not
recognize it as being connected in any
way with your interests. You must
depend upon your own "Press." Your
own energy and perseverance,, for your
future success. You have many friends
here. who a~nxiously look for truthful
accounts from the great Silver State Of
Nevada. Many, very many, have inves-
ted their money in mining enterprises
there (; but how few have realized their
dreams of future wealth to be gained by
casting their all, we might say into the
laps of an infant community as aid and
nourishment in building it up to a ma
tional prosperity. Scores of'bogus COM
panies have flashed up and fourished,
until the rascally incorporators had oil
the available cash the gullable people
possessed, then dropped out of sight.
And, Mr.. Editor, it is in my opinion
your duty, and the duty of every honest
man in your State, to publish to the
people of our country the names and
Status" of every honest and reliable
mining corporation in Nevada, rs well
as to expose the swindlers. By allow
ing those leeches on the body financial
to escape with impunity for the sake Of
the cash paid by them for lauding their
fraudulent concerns, the State of Neva-
da has suffered to the extent of millions
Of money in the one matter of emigra-
ton. | have myself seen n whole col
ony, some four hundred in number, of
hardy Germans, en- route for Nevada,
persuaded to go to another State by
agents who held in their possession the
published frauds Of mining companies,
and land spectators.
The mercantile and mechanical COM
munity, both Democrats and Radicals,
are iucensed at the course pursued by
the President course crushing in its
effect on those whose import duties
compel them to pay u high price for
gold. Much loss and distress has been
caused by the sudden and unparalleled
rise in the yellow metal in the past two
weeks, and Mr.. Johnson has lost thou
sands of friends.
While the mechanical and mercantile
interests are suffering aud almost para
lyzed, but agricultural matters are in II
most prosperous condition. The truck
farmers particularly have had, and are
now having, a rich harvest Of ready
pay for anything and everything they
bring to market. The strawberry and
blackberry crop were both a great sue
cess, and for a time the city was almost
suffocated with the two delicious fruits,
some of which were as large as crab
apples. For the past month everybody,
high and low, rich and poor, have been
reveling in that delicious and whole
some fruit, the peach. The crop has
been immense, and in the beginning
commanded a very high price-say from
three to six dollars per basket Of three
pecks. But peaches, like water, must
find a level, and come within the reach
Of all. Good peaches were sold as low
as twenty-five cents per basket and No.
| at one dollar and fifty cents.
The profit on the culture of peaches
is almost too great to be believed. One
man in Delaware sold his crop to n New
York party for S75,35O; they gathering
it and taking it away at their W ex-
pense. His orchard covered eighteen
acres, and his total expense for hire
and culture in three years was sixteen
hundred dollars. An acquaintance of
mine in New Jersey told me he cleared
two thousand dollars off eleven acres Of
ground, although three-fourths of his
crop was frosted in the bud.
1t is needless for me to write you the
general news, for the telegraph is more
speedy than the mail or pen. So Twill
weary you no longer, and close by re-
peating my request that you will show
up the bogus mining companies, and let
us know the good ones.
Yours. CLIouor,