Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-07-17
THE EVENING NEWS
Rvenlns-------..Juiy ~, 1858


WADswoRrH.-E. II. Mortoa, of the
well known Sample Rooms, South G
street, Virginia, has just returned from
the new town of Wadsworth, recently
located and rapidly springing into ex-
i~stence, at the Big Bend Of the Truckee,
where the great Continental Railroad
crosses that river for the last time and
leaves it, to stretch far away across the
great desert lying between there aud
the Humboldt. He reports everything
f%ourishing in the new locality, but
II ne passenger trains have as yet
passed through to that point. The rail-
road depot is nearly completed, and he
thinks they will be ready to receive pas
sengers and receipt for freight about
the middle OF next week. That point
being a natural distributing outlet of
the railroad for the surrounding coun.
try, and the Walker river section, it is
o natural location for q town. II was
at this point on the Truckee that Gov
ernor Nye constructed his dam by a
mill site, but no mill by u dam site," as
Bro. Forbes ~profanely says, and some
three miles below is u large extent of
very iue farming land. Mr.. Morton
visited some Of the ranches, and in many
places waded through tall bl~ue-joint
grass, nearly as high as his head, and
growing so luxuriantly thick that there
was hardly room enough upon the
ground tor making it into hay. Moving
has actively commenced, and there will
soon be plenty Of hay for use there, or
export elsewhere. There is no hay up
at the town Of Wadsworth, but there
will be soon, as quite II demand already
exists for 1t, there being quite n number
of teams waiting at that point for
freight as loon as it can be brought
through by railroad. No lumber having
passed over the railroad as yet, there
are only two or three wooden buildings
there, besides which there are some
thirty or forty temporary saloons, res
t%aurants, lodging-houses, ETC., all of
cloth, or willows procured from the
river near by. The town Of Wadsworth
is owned and regularly laid out by the
railroad company on each side of the
track, but very few lots have been pur-
chased thus far, for the reason that
there is plenty more ground outside
within, the area of half Il mile which is
being built upon aud considered fully
as eligible for tow occupation, there
fore 1t is not definitely settled as to
where the town will finally be-quite q
point for q business mans consideration.
The distance between there and Reno is
thirty-fve miles, and there is u good
graded wagon road all the way some
teamsters who could not we'll afford to
wait for their freight to come through,
have gone with their teams to Reno for
it. Wadsworth presents quite a busy
appearance already, owing to the umer
ous construction trains passing aud re-
passing, making that point the grand
depot or stopping place, where heavy
locomotives from across the mountains
leave long trains of cars loaded with
rails, ties and other construction
material, to be carried farther
on by lighter engines. The Railroad
Company propose to erect u large ma
chine shop there for their own use, and
in a few days when passengers and
freight 60 through to that point, the
Overland coaches will make their con-
nection there. At present the energies
of the Company are concentrated upon
the rapid forward progress Of railroad
construction and the transportation OF
immense supplies Of material across the
mountains before the storms and SHOWS
of next winter shall set in. They can
not stop TO bother with little wayside
towns just now, although they offer to
rent lots in Wadsworth ut one dollar
per foot frontage. Owing to location
and many natural advantages, Wads-
worth may become in due time a town
Of some Importance.
4 HoaSrowN BENErAcroR. - There
was a time two years ago, when our
~neighbor city, Virginia, was almost
overrun with iogs-curs, generally, OF
the lowest degree imaginable ours
that run in huge droyes about the
streets, ready to make n vociferous raid
on all passing teams, solitary horsemen,
Chinameu's donkeys or ''any other
man - ours that rolled in wild, despc-
rate wraugle, two and three tiers deep,
every two hours in the day ut some
street corner, attracting huge crowds OF
IOdItES, CuCNh huNAAAAihSt hN"Slf
reporters and other interested indiyid-
uals ours that did increase in Numbers
wonderfully fast and would soon have
assumed entire possession OF the place,
inducing the name Of "Dogtown in
stead Of " Horntown," which it has ac-
= auired by reason of the great blowing"
propensities of its population. But, AZ
in all other eras Of oppression in the
history of nations, there arose II deiiv-
erer. Alderman Liyermore was q
prominent feature in the city
government at that time, and seeing
the great exigeucy OF the d"y,
he set him down and concocted his eel
ebrated "Dog Ordinance The Rob-
esp,errean Chiefof Police, Edwards, put
it in force, and a reign OF terror was
= innugurated amoug all tagless canines.
They were lassOed and otherwise arrest
ed by scores and regiments, and after
due course of impeachment, their
slaughtered carcasscs were sent to I'LL
all the old abandoned shafts at the
lower part of town. Alderman Liver
more's dog ordnance still exists, and
all CANNES not saved from its operations
Uy tNSs VI stIlSuuihC NC suuu'n"'hy
arrested and ANONYMOUSLY cast into the
pound. The result is that the good
effects of this wise ordinance extend
even into Gold Hill, and Alderman
Livermore Is immor,alized in the pages
of newspaper history, as well rs in the
archives of Horntown. Not to be dog
NAUTICAL, well "jes, be dogon' it he
hadn't ought to have a public vote OF
thanks rendered him.
WATER COMPANY oFFIcERs.--The Viz
cinia Water Company held an election
day before yesterday for officers Of the
ompany for the ensuing term, which
resulted in the selection OF the follow
ing named gentlemen: President, N
H. A. Mason ; Secretary, G. b. smith ;
Board Of Trust"es-Wm. Sharon, \. n.
A. Mason, John Skae, Wake bryariy
and C. B. Smith.
ANOTHER CuAScE.-Miss Ardery, who
has taught several terms in the art OF
Speuceriap Penmanship in Gold Hill