Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-20
SATURDAY MIGHT.

favorable aspect Of home affairs land
while We do not suppress any facts
that look d~iscouraging for our commu-
our caution has been against that
style of magnifying domestic evils to
newspapers on this coast are
confessedly too prone. We have too
often seen editorials in California and
in Eastern papers, under the equivalent
caption of "played out" in which the
utter failure of all washoe communities
has been lugubriously or with malevo-
lent chuckle prated about. We think,
from what we note on this subject, from
time to time, in Atlantic journals, that
our people are Toe apt to say in their
letters to friends or relatives in the East:
''Nevada is a bankrupt State" "Gold
Hill is not likely to hold out on its pres
ent bullion yield" etc. Certainly such
sentences must be penned with a repre-
hensible degree Of thoughtlessness; ar
guing against the real and cheering gen.
eral prospect, on the ground, perhaps,
that some one mine on the particular
month preceding the writing has not
yielded so much as in the three months
yet preceding. We are glad to believe
and know that our folks are not an ex-
aggerating people; the day of local stock
infaters has passed. Grateful for that.
But we may complain against the whole
sale dependency Of any man who has
just met with some special cause for per-
sonal regret in the price or prospects Of
some one Of our many mines. In the
vast stream of our correspondence that
sweeps down from these mountain towns
to acquaintance whose good opinion Of
the country it is desirable to procure or
maintain, our residents should exercise
s~crupulous care in stating the exact
truth in regard to Jul mining develop
ments-whst they are likely to be on
the basis Of the past yield; what they
would be if we had the railroad facili-
ties that we ought to enjoy and from a
slight comparative investment might
obtain. And We insist that telling the
exact truth in regard TO our developed
resources, will place Storey county in
high favor in all rightly appreciative
circles, and tend to induce investments
largely to the benefit Of these commune
ties.
A railroad from Virginia to the
Truckee would at once enable our peo-
pie to work At least three times the
number of mines now developing, and
| employ ten times the number Of miners
| that are now engaged in this county.
1t is of first importance to encourage
the construction Of this railroad. And
| every good word sent abroad under this
| assurance will. count in favor Of the
capital project. Remember this: and
make a paragraph of it in your next
epistle. w want outsiders talking fire.
queutly of this: "If there was a railroad
from Virginia and Gold Hill to the
Truckee river, in Nevada, Storey county
would soou TURF out S25, 900 900 in bull
hon every year. With such a road the
price of fuel would be immensely re-
duced, at the Storey mills; and ore
| could be transported to reduction works
on the river at such rates as would en-
able the mining companies to realize
handsome profits from even $40 rock"
Then capitslists-who are influenced
much more by the popular reputation
of a project than you might imagine
will have their speculative ideas turned
h~abitually toward an investment in the
work Of railroad construction; and soon
they will take hold ofthe enterprise, and
build the road. Say a good word for
every reasonable plan that is broached
for railroad communication. And tell
again and again of its advantages to all
parties concerned.
We acknowledge that we have a great
faith in the future, the immediate
future Of Nevada-thst it will DO a
glorious future. From the point on our
northwest where the Feather river rail-
road will enter the State, to the port OF
Calville on the Colorado, we believe the
air line crosses mineral wealth that 10
iucalculable, ineIhaustible-tha before
another decade shall have opened will
be developed to au extent Of which our
people now scarcely dream. OfNevada,
we expect that Storey will ever remain
the center or superior Of productive
richness. Let our citizens improve
every opportunity to speak Of State and
county as they abundautly promise, and
seek to secure those facilities Of COM
m~unication which will obviously en-
nance our interests a hundred-fold.