Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-11-27
WHITE PINE DISTRICT.

Mr.. A. S. Evans, the correspondent of
the Alta, writes from Hamilton, the
principal town in White Pine District,
under date of November nth, and gives
the following sketch Of his first sight of
tho promised land. The stage on which
he and eleven others were travelling,
left Austin on Saturday forenoon at 9
o'clock, and did not arrive at Hamilton
until Sunday evening at dark.
rRoN AUSTIN TO HAMILTON.
A more dreary landscape or a more
tedious journey than that before tho
traveller between Austin and the White
Pine Mountain at this season Of the year
could hardly be imagined, certainly not
adequately described. Apparently bar
rem plains, covered only with ~sagsbrush
and scattered punches Of sand and
bunchgrass-reddish brown hills, dot
ted with stunted juniper, cedar, niger
pine and mountain mahogany-and
great mountain ranges, white with
snow, make up the entire landscape.
Having taken one good look from any
one point, you may just rs well put your
head in the coach again and let it stay
there for the remainder Of the trip {; you
have seen all in that limo which you will
have to see. Some eight or ten miles
from Austin, going eastward, you
emerge from the mountain range in
which that town is situated into tho
Great Smoky Valley, through which
"The Pathfinder Of Empire" blundsred
on his way to California. The valley
spreads away to the southwest to the
limit of the vision, the great Toiyabe
Range, white with snow and glittering
like frosted silver in the clear sunlight
of winter, on the northwest, and the
Monitor Range on the southeast.
THE SCENE ON II ROAD.
Tho story of tho great discoveries of
the precious metal at White Pine has
gone abroad already through all the
land, and the tide of adventures press
ing forward to the new locality Is widen
ing and broadening and deepening at
every point as we advance. Flooding
along with s~low-moying ox-teams, laden
with supplies for the coming winter ;
on horseback, leading horses or mules,
packed down with food and tools for
prospecting in light wagons, In
heavy wagons, In prairie %schooners, in
carts, in stages, in fast freight wagons,
and or foot, in an unbroken line came
the dust-bsgrimed heroes Of tho strug-
gle for sudden wealth. In clouds of
dust on the yellow plain, up the hill
sides, down the canyons, through all the
weary day, through the long reaches Of
the silent night, tramp, tramp, tramp,
the boys are marching. Look forward,
and the line stretches out across the
plain to the mountains look backward,
and you see them streaming forth like a
mountain torrent from the canyon. We
find them encamped in tie sage brush,
around their wagons, or %sbivering in
their blankets in the hay stacks.-when
there are any-at the lone wayside sta.
tons. Hunger and cold and WEAKNESS
in the present ; poverty aud possible
destitution, hunger and suffering in the
not remote future, do not deter them.
Look in the face Of each and you see the
same fixed, determined expression, the
distinctive expression of tho representa-
tive American the maj who is ever
ready to rush off to scenes of any new
excitement, to fight the Indian or tho
rebel, to attempt the grandest enter
prise ever conceived by man, to organ
ize a new Territory, "start" II new
paper, found o new party or sect; the
most determined, selEreliant, restless,
aggressive, enterprising and relentless
in purpose individual to be found on the
face Of Gods cath. Success 60 with
him.
FIRST vIEw OF HI PROMISED LAND.
We climbed the Diamond Range in
advance of the stage, in the sharp frosty
morning, Immediately on leaving Shan
mons Station, and from the summit of
the Pass beheld, towering in the north
east across the plain and above the in
t%erveniug range Of lesser mountains, the
bold snow-capped summit of the White
Pine Mountain, behind which was lying
hidden the great silver deposits 10
which u steps were bent. Though
having an altitude of ten thousand feet
above the sea, the mountain rises above
the plain only to- the apparent hight Of
Mount Diablo, which It greatly resem-
bles in outline as seen from a distance.
Crossing the plain through dust so deep
that it ~impeded our progress at every