The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-15
THE NEVADA SILVER MINES.
Lively sl,etchcs Of Whining Reeion..

IA mining city is like no other in the world.
A railroad train beside it is starveling, regu'
lar slow coach. The rise OF The former Is mat
ter of six months high pressure. AT the end OF
that period it will contain glttering saloons,
luxurious gaming houses, excellent stores, su-
nerh restaiirants aud contectioneries bursting
with plenitude and profusion. The pace keeps
step with the quantity of bullion turned out by
the miues. Multiply the production of silver
bars and you multiply the luxury, gayety aud
looseness of the population. Let the mills shut
down, one after another, and the mines begin to
peter out and the canter declines into slow
limp. Austin just now is decidedly too lean for
its clothes. OF ali It's silver mills only one is
pounding the rock into DO Eder, and there IS u
new discovery over at White Pine sixty miles
east whittier many of its idle citizens are
thronging. Now, White Pine is not a new dis
trict, but, scratching on its surface, some OF
those owning locations there sud tenly turned
up a bed OF chloride silver ore of almost fabu-
lous richness. Specimens are numerous ou tue
streets and in the windows of Austin, many Of
them worth $4,000 ton. Day and night you
see parties starting for the new ledge. Five
hundred adventurers are already the
ground, hunting for locations of ore or water
privileges. One man has laid claim to a con-
tiguous snow bank, which he retails to saloon
keepers to ice their drinks. Restaurant and
lodging-house keepers, traders OF the Hebrew
persuasion, gamblers, and roughs are sending
on detaChmenls.
GAsTRoNoMlC
Somebody has TO pay for the luxury that
reigIs over a to 0n like Austin. Tue free handed
miner contributes his share. The traveller
comes in for his. shave costs fifty cents IN
coin, a newspaper twenty five, decent room 10
lodge in, $3.50 q day; boOt-blacSing, twenty-five
cents; ripe fruit teamed from California, ST. n
pound; goods and groceries III proportion. Two
of the eating houses are cholcely kept aud
meal can be obtained for one dollar that could
hardly be exoelled in Cincinnati. At the leading
restaurant in Austin, kept by trenchman, you
can almost imagine yourself in Paris, when the
Viands are brought TO table. Tne proprietor is
not afraid to disclose his gastronOmIc processes,
for from the street you enter his Kitchen, and
pass through into the neat and inviting diniug-
room. You can see the juicy c0teteteS irlzzIng
over the bright Goals, and inspect your steak, If
you choose, from the moment it goes on the
gridiron until it gllde5 into the dish aud is irri-
gated with steamlng nut-brown gravy.
'From Salt Lake westward good bread is the
rule. 1t is made from California flour, to which
some of its excellence is due, but the art of
making 1t is surprisingly well understood in this
region. The butter, however, is decidedly
interior. The grass tas e' is very materially
wanting in the best and freshest, tor there is no
grass here, no turf, no la gns, nor meadows
that deserve the name. Wages in Austin are
lower than formerly. Miners receive in coin
four dollars per day, Iaborers three dollars, and
skilled mechanics tour to SIX dollars. Common
board costs ten dollars a week. The gentlemanly
bankers discount hrstclass paper at two per
cent month.
STAGE ROBBERS.
'When stage robbers pounce down on their
victims they command all to elevate their hands
over their heads, on penalty OF brains blown
out. One villain holds the lead horses, one
covers The driver with revolver, one assumes
the same kind office tor the passengers and the
four Ii does the tumbns and rflIng, couside-
ratey sparng The ladies' II any happen " be there.
SALT
"We have just returned from a trip of two
hundred and forty miles into Southeastern Ne
Vada region that three years ago was marke
on the map 'uueXpored. Toe journey required
eight days OF staging, four do 8n and four BACK.
The first day carried us 10 the mining town OF
Belmont two year oldster, and q pocket
edition of Austin, with its lodging houses
billiard saloons, glitteIing drinking houses, and
French restaurants. BetWeen Austin and
Belmont a salt marsh was pointed out, with the
remark that 1T is the best paying property in
Nevada The salt granues rise to the surface
during the long summers, and eau be scraDed
off at the rate ofseVera tons per day.
'Salt is extensively used in the reduction of
silver ore, and this ooze from the earth sells,
the ground for two and half cents pound.
Twenty thousand dollars year for scraping tree
salt from few acres is pretty generous pay. As
the yield is ineXhaustible aud the demand in
creaslng, it is safe 10 say that Nevada salt
marsh IS better than silver mine. Belmont has
forty stamp silver mill. most elab IRA .ely aud
con6dingly built by stockhol Iers IN New York.
who we've never within two thousand miles OF
their imposing property. The mines intended to
run 1t have not been sufficiently developed
the splendid establishment is Shut up, and Bel
mont laDguishes.
HOT SPRINGS.
''The second days ride took us to a little
mining town called Hot Greek, which has suf-
pill burnt down. Hot Creek stands at the
mouth OF massive, magnificent canon, beetli1s
with precipices, and picturesque for every foot
OF its six miles winding way. few feet from
the hotel in the valley are cluster of boiling
springs, that bubble up from the bo oWels OF the
earth strongly charged with sulphur and other
chemicals. The springs number eight or ten,
and range from the boiling polnt down to 'as
hot as you 'can bear it, little bathing booth
and wash tub on the brink show that they are
utilized, and we are told that it was not uncom-
mon TO cook eggs and meat in this devils labo-
ratory.
lone of the hottest of the springs is not
pressed into culinary servitude, because 1t has
the quality OF dlscoloring al metals, including
gold and silver. Hot Creeker has theory
for the springs HI Insists that they issue from
a 'brevet hell close at hand. The hot water
takes its way down the valley, and runs for
several hundred yards before its temperature
becomes endurable. The rushes and other
vegetation that spring up on the banks OF this
ardent creek are of the rankest texture, aud q
green so rich and deep that IL is quite a novel
feast 10 the eye. The fact is noted as curious
that on one side OF the cauon the springs are all
hot, and on the opposite side, fifty yards distant,
all cold.
INDIANS.
sat different points we observed
specimens of two tribes of Indlans-the Sho-
shone and Pah Utes. Near Belmont party OF
Shoshones were seated GU the sunny side of a
wayside tavern, engaged in playing Iudlan
poker, game OF which they are extremely fond
A twittenng old squaw, with her feet incased in
pair of prodgous cowhide boots, appeared to
be the expert, and she raked down the silver
half collars with the composed countenance
OF a Fourth street professional. Tue Pah- Utes
are of more wretched type, half nude and half
idiotic
''The Shosbones circulate through the streets
of Austin, the men wearing European apoarel
and displaying a broad taste for American