Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-06
SILVER BEND ITEMS.
From tho Reporter. March 3o.l

From tho Reporter. March 3o.l
FoR the information Of persons con.
templating q trip to Belmont, we append
the following list Of prices Of various
articles at this time: Lumber, per thou
sand feet, $l4o; stone wall, per perch,
SIS; passage from Austin, SIS; freight
from Austin, per h., fast-freight, 4@5
cts, slow do 23@3; board per week,
SlO@l2, -four, per hundred, Sl3;
sugar, (crushed) per ID. 33t cts.i coffee,
45650 cts; bacon, 5000 cts; wood,
per cord, $4@6; beef, l5@25 cts; eggs,
per doz. 81 rs; tea, per ID, $l@l 80;
beans, 5000 cts; butter, 10 cts; bar
ley, 9@I0 cts; hay, per ton, S75.
Adobes are valusless, and there is no
brick, shingle, nor shakes, in the
market.
LUMBER. - The demand for lumber
here Of the present time exceeds the
supply. This 10 owing to the deep snow
upon the mountains where the pineries
occur. Strangers travelling through this
region and combining their excursions to
the valleys alone, form no idea what
ever ofthe immense supply Of timber
that our mountains afford, and such
will be apt to construe our use Of the
word pineries as ironical. But such Is
by no means the fact. Upon the range
Of mountains in which Belmont is stu
ated, and twenty-five miles north of the
town, the head Of Pine Greek, is located
the saw mill Of Singletary b Brown.
This mill has been running constantly
since September last, and the forest of
pines in the midst Of which it is built,
it is estimated will yet furnish for the
saw enough logs to produce 100000
feet o lumber Of . quality fully equal to
that manufactured upon the eastern
slope Of the Sierra Nevada. This firm
now have q contract to furnish 10000
feet to one mining company here, for
the erection Of Q quartz mill, including
all the heavy timbers and battery blocks
required. These latter are 26x2s inches
square.
PaIcE OF WASHING. The Celestials
have combined against us, and demand
six dollars a dozen for washing. "Too
muchee, john" Wood is only six dol
lars q cord, water costs nothing but the
labor of packing it, and provisions are
but little higher than in Austin. A few
good washerwomen would do well here.
OuR ADvERrIssRs.-Persons contem-
plating a visit to Belmont will glance
over the columns of the Reporter for in
formation as to the number and locality
of the stores, hotels, restaurants, assay
offices, banking houses, lodging houses,
saloons, stables, and business places Of
every class. Strangers quite naturally
look upon the newspaper published in q
town as an index to the status of the
people, a general business directory and
a representative abroad Of the condition
of the place of its publication. If the
columns of the newspaper be adorned
by but few advertisements, the natural
inference to be derived therefrom is that
the place is either very dull or very small,
and therefore an undesirable locality.
On ther hand let the paper be we'll filled
with advertisements enumeratinR the
different branches Of business conducted
in town, and the effect is just the re-
verse. 1t indicates life and activity, and
induces immigration.
County SlAT.-The act providing for
the removal Of the county seat from lone
TO Belmont, and will 60 into effect on
the 18th of May next. i5-ls 4Rea