Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-11
LETTER FROM HUMBOLDT.
KNOXVILLE, Jan. 4, 1868

EDITOR NEwS:-l nave Watcueu nnu
waited for the roads to get into q half
decent condition, SO q letter to you
would be sure of reaching its destina-
ton before Spring, but l have given 1t
up, and am going to take the chances.
Hill Beachy Is doing his "lcyel best"
to put the mails, and such unfortunate
beings who must travel, through in good
time: but the clerk Of the weather is
too much for him.
The Storm
Beat anything ever saw in Humboldt,
and l have been here since '62. It
began to rain on the 18th Of December,
and kept it up for two-thirds of the time
for six days. It ,prinkled, rained,
poured, CONF down in sheets, and then
would mist. Every variety of wet
weather ever known in any part of the
globe was ably represented. The little
creeks become noisy torrents, opening
great channels through gardens, under
mining houses and covering valuable
truck patches with IN infinite variety Of
boulders. Some damage has been done
here by the waters, but we have suffered
most by the condition it has left the
various roads leading in from every
direction. They are cut up all over the
county, and some of the grades in the
mountains are ruined. And then tho
wind, whew! 1t blew straight, at right
angles and in circles, as though it never
expected to blow again and meant to
have a grand biow to wind up with.
The air was filled with ire-wood, cots,
thatch from roofs, small dogs and dirty
Piutes, pebbles, and once in a while O
souaw. 1 saw one of tho latter under
the lee of the Exchange Hotel but the
harbor was an uncomfortable ono, as
she was standing under the caves and
the water was pouring of the roof in a
sheet. She concluded to try to tup the
street a few doors, 80 she sailed out I'M
der a single reefed mainsail. 1t did
seem to me that the gale freshened for
her especial benefit, just at that mo-
ment, for she almost went down at the
first gust. She righted-bent her bare
| head to the storm and made a dash half
way across the street-then undertook
to como about on tho other tack. No
20. The mainsail got loose at this
| critical moment, her head fell off, and
| she went before the gallo at the rate OF
fifteen knots an hour, making the mud
and gravel fly some. In about a mo.
ment she came to under the lee OF
| Dunno l. Leonard's law Office out of my
sight, and / suppose the scene here
| closed. Not 30. The blood Of a long
line of brave ancestors was up, and in
a short time she shot out from her new
harbor, but this time under bare poles.
I looked Just once, no more than once,
and sloped into the bar-room, just able
to utter "whisky hot' as l dropped into
q seat. shan't forget the courage and
pluck Of that squaw for many q day.
Farming.
Up to the commencement of the
storm our farmers were all actively IN
ployed in fitting up their places for the
coming season. Many new farms have
been taken up this fall, and next years
crop will double that of this. Large
brush fences are being built around the
fields to keep out the rabbits that arc
here about the size of a Spanish jack,
and will eat three times as much barley.
A friend Of mine had twenty-seven
acres of grain destroyed be these long
cared gents. Fortunately a fence of
sage-brush two feet high is an ample
protection against them. Fleet Of foot
as they are, thcy have no idea of jump
ing over anything. Adams Touring
mill in Paradise Valley, was to have
started on New Years day, but have
not heard from those parts since the
storm begun. I have been told that
Mr.. Adams has engaged twelve thousand
bushels Of wheat, raised in the Valley,
said to DO Of fine quality. The starting
of this mill will be quito on era in the
historyiof Humboldt. II virtually re-
leases Ne from tho California aour mar
ket, aud also will enable US in another
year to furnish Southern Idaho with
bread. The mill will not turn out silver
bricks, but it will keep q little moro of
those produced at other mills, within
our own borders. 1t will be the penny
saved.
In Mining,
There is nothing new. Gov. Fall keeps
the Pioneer mill at work day and night,
on rock from the Arizona, and the bull
lion he ships from this little mill would
make the eyes of Comstock miners stick
out a eject" The Essex mill, at Dun
Glen, will start ten stamps in a few
days, with plenty of ore in sight. Ma
son keeps melting out the bars at
Orsana, at the rate of eight tons per
day. Notwithstanding he is turning out
seven thousand ounces of silver a week,
he has got tired of counting the crude
bars and measures them by the cord.
Oh, yes Humboldt is played out"
Political.
The Cops. are in exceeding good
humor over the election of Casserly.
They found the principle wing of their
party would carry the day and elect a
straight out and outer, and they we'll
knew that would raise their hopes In
this State. They are willing that the
"time honored principles" [bah]
should be dropped for a season, fby so
doing they a once moro insert their
bills into the public crib. Can they
hide tho cloyen foot and deceive the
pannIAo Ws shal1 oas /