Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-01-31
n EVENING NEWS.

believed tnat TUG ihe
pleasspt one, for the reason that he has
a free pass into every show, theater and
all places Of amusement, and that he
has but few cares onjhis mind. This is
a mistaken idea, however, for during a
dull time like the present, when local
matters of interest are scarce, he has a
feeling similar to that Of a scholar when
he is called up to recite without having
a lesson learned. After spending a
whole day wading through the mud and
slush, carefully examining the surround
ing country and oil that is going on,
and writing it up with great care, al
ways taking care to paint everything IN
the brightest colors possible, he meets
some one on the street who is not far
seeing enough to discern the difference
between dull and lively times, who
SAYS: "well, it is very little news we
find in the papers these times" This
complaint is being made in regard to
the papers published in this State at the
present time. We hear it every day we
live. If these parties must have some
exciting news for each sue,'can' they
help us2 Let them make the item, and
we will warrant it shall lose nothing in
writing up. But when men persist IN
being quiet and orderly, not even violat-
ing the peace by punching q neighoor
in the nose, how are we to lind sensa-
ton items? All we agree to do is to
keep the public posted in what local
matters there are, and this we do with
all the enlargement they will bear. II
We write of the mines, many ind fault,
and say it is stale; that they know more
Of the Yellow Jacket, Crown Point, I'M
perial or Gould l. Curry than they want
to. II we write Of schools, they say
they have no children; and so on through
the whole catalogue. We make..mention
of this for the reason that times are dull
and local news scarce, and to warn the
public not to look for too much, and
they will not be disappointed.
AMONG THE MINEs.-During. yester-
day afternoon, we paid,,a visit to quite
a number of the mines of Virginia. The
first we called at was the hosting works
of the Gould & Curry. We found that
many changes had been made in the
works in the past two months. There
are now three large engines in the
works. One is a Corlis, and made on
the same pattern as the n in the new
works of the Yellow Jacket. This n
does the pumping. The other two are
used for hosting out ore. The larger
one is used in the sinking department,
and the smaller ones in hosting out
from the levels. The works as they are
now arranged, are very complete and
are Of sufficient capacity to work the
mine to the depth of 900 feet. There
is but little ore being taken from the
lower levels at the present time. Near
ly all that is being taken out coming
from zeal the surface, or above the up
per level, and is Of a deep yellow color,
containing more gold than silver. The
new pumps have freed the shaft OF wa
ter, and the work of sinking has COM
menced. The rock in the shaft is quite
hard and has to be blasted out. The
Gould l. Curry, like all the other mines,
has its dumps filled to o~veriowing with
ore. From the Gould & Curry we went
to the hosting works of the Savage.
Here we found everything going along
as smoothly as the large engines that
drive the machinery. The surveyors
and adopts in quartz were down in the
mine at the time we were there, exam
lining the ledge to ascertain if it was not
some one else's ground that the Savage
Co. were working on. How they will
come out il is hard to tell. The large
dumps are almost full of q superior quail
ity Of ore, there being between 1900
and 1000 tons. The ore now being
taken from the Savage and that taken
from the lower level Of the Yellow
Jacket, is almost exactly the same. All
the mines we visited had their dumps
full, and have but a small show for re-
lief.
POLICE CoURr-VIRGISIA.@. Burns,
arrested by officer Gould for disturbing
the peace; John Grant, arrested BY Officer
Billings for disturbing the peace; James
Pagan, arrested by Officers Gould and
Brunton for disturbing the peace; 7.
Hill, arrested by Officers Billings and
Harmon for being drunk. The man,
Grant, is probably laboring under
severe injuries, as this morning, while
we were in the station-house, groans
were heard coming from his cell. He
is a very disagreeable and quarrelsome
man when under the influence Of liquor,
and has probably been beaten or kicked,
whereby he has been injured. An ex-
animation had not been made when we
were there. Those who drink OF the
sweet waters Of life, must necessarily
drink some of the bitter. Since the
suspension Of the mines the amount OF
drunkenness has been fearful. It has
been for the past week impossible to
pas down the street fifty yards without
coming in contact with from n to a
dozen Of intoxicated men. If the mines
would start up again, it would do mnch
for the morals Of Virginia.
The WEArHER.-This morning the
sky was as clear as in mid-summer-not
a cloud being visible. The SUI rose as
bright and warm as though it was the
middle of May instead of the last day Of
January. Owing to the peculiar seren-
i,y of the sky we would not be
surprised to see the whole day pass
without its storming. As this is the
last day Of January, we hope there is to
be a change of programme for the next
month. Some good weather is very de-
sirable just now by the whole State.
Unconstitutional the streets yester-
day were filled with people, it seems
that in Justice Murray's Court the Con-
stable could not excuse the carrier Of
the NEWS from jury duty, and as a re-
suit the paper was at least an hour be-
hind the usual time Of delivery. News
paper men of all others are o class who
should be excused from jury duty, as
the interests of the whole community
are affected by having a paper stopped.
Constable Lannan, "no more sueh con-
duet as those"
ARRIvED.-This morning, by Over
land Mail, the body Of Mr.. Bowstead'
formerly a foundry man in Sacramento
city, but recently Of Austin, Nevada