Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-09-21
SATURDAY NIaHT.

SATURDAY MIGHT.
"This is q rough country visitors
exclaim and residents agree. And one
has described the people as divided into
two classes: Workers and Bummers.
A rough country and a rough people is
the general verdict, from the outside,
on Washoites and their laad,-'spe-
cially Storsyites and their " diggings."
Yet we think we can show that there is
some civilization" in this part Of the
nation, which approache, in w%orthiness
the title of refinement. There are two
public libraries in this county, which
are largely ~patronized, and the reading
rooms attached are filed nightly with
readers. In this county there are sold
every month 325 copies of Harpsrs'
Monthly and ll2 copies of the Atlantic
Monthly. There have been during the
summer, over one thousand English
Monthly magazines of all Issues, sold in
Storey county,-about 1900 copies be-
ing indicated from the returns OF the
periodical dealers. Of the new editions
of Dickens works, there have been sold
in this county, within the past summer,
1874 copies, of the separate volumes.
Twenty-thres sets of Frouds's History
Of England have been sold in the
same psriod,-the work so far a.
issued costing $40. Twenty copies of
Mrs. Stoves religious. poems were sold
in this county in M week, and invoices
amounting to so copies Of Whittier's
Snow Bound. were sold in the same
time. The works Of the principal Amer
lean poets are in constant demand
sales being made each week Of the en-
tire works of Longfellow and Bryant.
Forty-four copies of Shakespeare-the
majority being of the most elegant edi-
tions.were sold in. Virginia, last
Summer-thirty copies being disposed
of while Mccullough, the actor, was at
the Opera House. In this connection 1t
is to be stated and considered that a
great many persons brought here with
them their Shskespeare-it is said that
you can find "win" in this county in
every household whore there il a bible
Of the sale of light periodical literature,
we cannot give IN exact estimate. Over
n thousand copies of the n. Y. Ledger
are known to be circulated in Storey.
The steamer budget of the several pc
riodical dsalers-coming three times a
month-cost about thirteen. hundred
dollars per monitor over $751; 900 per
year. This is for current literature
alone.
We have only given q hint of the
reading character of the majority of our
people. Very few Americans are there,
who do not subscribe for n or more
eastern papers. And the variety OF
tastes and dispositions exhibited in the
subscription lists at the Postofices snd
the news dspots are remarkable.
At Carson, Mr.. Fox has a book n
periodical store, which is q great credit
to that place, and of itself speaks Of a
large demand from the citizens of that
place for the highest class of literature.
Go to the new depots Of this county
the evening after the steamer mail is re-
ceiyed, and witness the crowds Of eager
purchasers! There is not a town of the
same size on the coast equaling ours in
this respectively dare be sworn. And
even tonight, when there is no new
mail-hafi to rally, because our folks
must have their Sunday reading you
will find q large number Of buyers at
Burrall's, and Lilies, and Chubbuck's,
and Begle's.
This 10 o rough country and a rough
people, you say; but the majority are
great readers.