The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-10-08
6rurrnI Sntrlli0rntr.
THE DAS SILVER MINES.

Lively Sketches Off Mining Region,
The following lively sketches ola journey
through the silver mining districts o Neya,
da are given by n correspondent OF the Gin
cinnati Commercial:
"A mining city IL like no other in tn,
world. A railroad train beside IL is &
starveling, q regular slow coach. The rise
Of the former is a mattero Of six months higl
pressure. At the end OF that period it viii
contain glittering saloons, luxurious gam
ing houses. excellent stores, superb restaur,
ants, and confectioneres bursting with
plentitude and profusion. The pace
Keeps stop with the quantity of bullion
turned out by the mines. Multiply the
production of silver bars, and you multiply
the luxury. gaiety, and ~looseness Of the
population Let the mills shut down, one
after another, and the mines beginto peter
out, and the cantor declines into u slow
limp. Austin Just now is decidedly toe
lean for its clothes. OF all its silver mills
only one is pounding the rock into powder,
and there is n new discovery overnt White
Pine sixty miles east, whittier many of the
idle citizens are ~thronging. Now, White
Pine is not II new district, but, scratching
on its surface, some Of those owning loca-
tons there suddenly turned up a bed of
chloride silver ore ofalmost fabulous rich
ness. Specimens are numerous on the
streets and in the windows Of Austin, many
ofthem worth $40, 900 q ton.
DAY and night you see parties starting
for the new ledge. Five hundred adven-
turers are already on the ground, hunting
for locations Of ore or water privileges.
One man laid claim 10 a contiguous snow
bank, which he retails 10 saloon-keepers TO
ice their drinks. Restaurant and lodging
hpt,aa Eaa,apa ~, lore &c tho Habpaus war
s%uasion, gamblers and roughs are sending
on detachments.
oAsIRoMATIc.
Somebody has 20 pay for the luxury
that reigns over q town like Austin. The
tree-handed miner contribu es his share.
The traveller comes in for his. A shave
costs fifty cents in coin, a newspaper TWEEN
ty five, n decent room to lodge in, 81, so a
day; boot-blacking twenty-five cents, ripe
fruit, teamed from California 81 a pound;
goods and groceries in proportion. Two
Of the eating houses are choicely kept, and
a meal can be obtained for one dollar that
could hardly be excelled in Cincinnati. At
the leading restaurant in Austin, kept by q
Erenchman, you can almost imagine your
self in Paris, whom the viands are brought
10 table, The proprietor is not afraid to
disclose his gastromatic processes, for from
the street you enter his kitchen, and pass
through into q neat and and inviting dining
room You can see the juicy e~otelettes
trizzing over the Goals, and inspect your
steak if you chose, from the moment itgoes
on the gridiron until il glides into q dish
and is irrigated with steaming nut-brown
gravy.
From Salt Lake westward good bread
is the rule. II is made from California
HANaM 20 WHhagI naWaA sc aNn aunnllAW.aa 80
due but the art of making it is surprising
ly well understood in this region. The
butter, however, is decidedly inferior. The
grass taste is very materially wanting in
the best and freshest, for there is no grass
here, no turf, no lawns, nor meadows that
deserve the name. Wages in Austin are
lower than formerly. Miners receive in
coin four dollars per day, laborers three
dollars, and skilled mechanics four TO six
dollars. Common board costs ten dollars
a week. The gentle manly bankers dis
count first class paper at two per cent a
month.
STAGE ROBBERS.
when stage robbers pounce down on
their victims they command all 10 elevate
their hands over their heads on penalty OF
brains blown ont. One villain holds the
lead-horses, one covers the driver with a
revolver, one assumes the same kin office
for the passengers, and the fourth docs the
fumbling and riding, considerably sparing
the ladies if any happen there.
L
1--WE have just returned from a trip OF
two hundred and forty miles into South
eastern Nevada, a region that three years
ego was marked on the map 'unexplored'.
The Journey required eight days Of staging,
four down and back. The first day carried
us to the Ipining town of Belmont, a two
~year-oldster aGd a pocket edition ofAustin,
with its lodging houses, billiard saloons,
glittering drinking houses, end French res
taurants. Between Austin and Belmont a
salt marsh is pointed out, with the remark
that 1t is the best paying property in Ne
Vads. The salt granules rise tothe surface
during the long summersand can be scrapod
of at the rate Of several tons a day.
"Salt is extensively used in the reduction
Of silver ore, aud this ooze from the earth
sells on the ground for two and halfcents
@ pound. Twenty thousand dollars a year
scraping free salt from a few acres is pretty
generous pay. As the yield is inexhaustible
and the demand increasing, IL is safe TO say
that a Nevada salt marsh is better than a
silver mine. Belmont has a forty-stamp
ailyar mill most olaborat0ly and