Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-08-30
LErrRR FROM .RA1LRoAD SPIKE"
TRucxrs MEADOWS, Aug. Of, 1857.

isfied that the Dutch FIAT haiiroau oo"
pany are very anxious to have the
"Branch Road from Virginia to our
Trpckse started as 0 o as possible. l
Judge that they see breakers ahead from
the wunion paciic," which they would
like .oyproyide against by having 1t
handy TO say-that they arc In our State
not as q Pacific" but as q s'Truckee
and Virginia Railroad Go. A
Branch" can DO run up to the State
line, are well as stop on these bottomsi
and If the "Union Pacific" a enJoin
them from crossing the State line, they
will appeal to Congress either for an
amendment to the law, or for new spe-
cifc appropriations for their railroads,
their "~branches" In this State.
Itnotice by some of the eastern pa
pers which I receive, that 1t is suppos-
ed land perhaps 1t 10 80 reported oy
the Dutch Flat Company's agents.
that the Truckee and Humboldt levels
are as convenient for railroad construc-
ton as the Platte river plains. Having
crossed the Plains in early times, must
say that l entirely disagree with those
who make that statement; l am quite
confident that it is q much "harder road
to travel" with railroad grading work
on the Nevada route than on the Ne
braska. think that $50 miles of grad
ing along tho Truckee and Humboldt
and out into Utah, from Crystal Peak,
or from this vicinity, is worth at least
400 miles of railroad grading beside the
Platte. In this | may be somewhat
mistaken-as 10 the proportion Of labor
but l cannot be far wrong. But when
the road is graded on our line, it will be
much more permanent and secure thar
the sand and flood and, | may say, snow
threatened track t'other side. Of the
Rocky Mountains, in the youngest State
Of the Republic.
The crops down here may be said to
be "average;" LIDO not think, by what
has been gathered and what is now in
sight for harvest, we can call this an
extraordinary year for yield.
/ notice there is a great deal Of COM
plant in your town and in Virginia in
regard to the high price Of potatoes. |
have been up and,down this and Washoe
Valley lately, and have noticed the
CLOCKS" of the ~''spuds" as you call
them-occasionally going into a farmer
friends field with him and hoeing up a
sample hill-and | am prepared to say,
that when the Washoe crops Of the Irish
staple actually come into market, you
will have an abundant supply, and
ought not to pay. more than one-third
the figure demanded according to your
paper of last Saturday. In 1864, sold
potatoes from Washoe Valley for four
and one-half cents to FIVE cents, in
~greenbacks, and thought got u very
fair price.
The people around here are very much
interested in the close approaching CAL
ifornia election. Most every one here
knows Gorham, l should say, and many
are personally acquainted with a ma
jority of the candidates on one or the
other ticket. Some bets have been
made here, in s,quiet way, on an seven
thing" but as the shareholders do not
desire n visit from road agents, the
caution has been passed not to tell the
locality Of the bank. So will reserve
the names of the betters, and the
amounts Of the wagers until after
Wednesday next.
An extra number Of Snarley's paper,
that is to say more than one, came up
here this week. I see he attempts to
make merry over the fact that be is
losthed, and perhaps he is so constitu-
ted that it is a matter Of satisfaction to
the creature that be is execrsted by any
community in which he manages to
SQUAT and issue q scrofulous looking
weekly for black bag charity. One Of
his lies in his last issue, fabricated, |
presume, in wrath at you for printing
my letters, reminds me that when ! was
at Washoe City some time ago, Snarley
was ~chuckling hugely over the re-pub-
LEGATION 10 many Of the California jour-
nails Of his reply to the Humboldt
Register" 10 which mention was made
by Snarley of Vice President Richard VI.
Johnson having a mulatto wife or mis-
tress, etc. | wondered, at the time,
that the Register didn't see fit to take
notice Of the fact that Snarley's gr-r-eat
editorial-(the argument of which is
simply disgusting-in favor Of miscege-
natiou)-was copied almost rer6atim
from a letter that appeared in the Anti
Slavery Standard, in 1852, and went the
rounds of the Abolition and Wing press
of those days; the substance Of which |
have heard repeated over and over
again, on the stump, in the East, by II
certain class Of politicians who were
once Democrats, but who changed to
Wing, or Free Soil, or Know Knothing.
Their change Of politics may have been
for excellent reasons, but there is, as |
have said, no decent point iu the stuff
which Snarley stole and passed Off at
the coinage Of his own leprous brain,
in attack upon the Register. 1t is pos
sible that Snarley may have made the
text somewhat more filthy han the
original, but his Vice-Presiden mulatto-
wife reply was printed, almost word for
word, in the Anti-Slavery Standard of
1852. a
We are having a lively set of sports
men in our neighborhood, of late.
Within Eve miles of my W place there
is excellent game, which is being
banged down by the agreat guns" of
your county, with a sharp-shooting fatal
ity. I recently had tho pleasure of
meeting the man who ought to have
been our Governor, the man whom
Snarleyow and his then colleague dirtily
denounced. He n the finest looking
man in this State, I'll take my oath,
and we might we'll be proud could we
introduce him to distinguished visitors
to our mines from the East and Europe
as "Our Governor" Just imagine once,
the difference between the impression
In favor of u State, our people-a
really valuable advantage, all must
confess-John B. Winters would create,
as compared With the effect upon stran-
gers, who ought to have a welcoming
entertainmentatth tho Executive mansion,
made by the cold, suakey looks, fool
ish gable and demoralized cocoa BAN
quets Of the Vetoerl
am going to take a trip into Hum
boldt county In a few days, when will
lot down a few lines of my observations
In that section of the State.
q Yours. RAItRoAD SPIKE,
HORACE HAWKS issfond of exhibiting
Ia ..-,5oa ~ 'Old Tastament acrin-