Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-11-09
LETTER FROM WHITE PINE.
From the Reese River Revelle, November 3d.

From the Reese River Reyelle, November 3D.
HAMILTON, November LIST.
EDITOR REvEiLLE 1T was u cold,
chilly evening in October that | took
passage by Shannon's line of fast sail
ing, copper bottomcd, clipper built junks
for White Pine. The ubiquitous Brown
was aboard, Of course, and by the time
we reached Hamilton ] was pretty well
acquainted with him in fact, he intro
duced me as his room mate, but ii he
found any room on that stage it was
more than / did, except that part OF the
trip when we walked. The town Of
Hamilton is at the foot Of a mountain,
and Treasure City at the top, conse-
ouently we concluded to take q day for
the ascent. Brown was fortunate
enough to find an old friend who volun-
teered to be our guide and show US the
city, both by daylight and gaslight.
He was somewhat interested in 0 silver
mine, he told me, and intimated that be
could be induced to part with it. As be
was dilating on the beauties Of his mine
to me, Brown whispered hoarsely in his
ear that I was connected with the Press.
You never saw q countenance fall 80
rapidly ; but he recovered in q few min
utes, a~pologized, and said he took me
for q capitalist, hut on learning his mis-
take he extended his heartfelt regrets II
he had hurt my feelings, and said he
was once a poor man himself. had his
sympathy. He then turned his attention
to Brown ; said he would take S50,Ooo
in greenbacks for his interest, and hast
ened to show us his claim, which con-
sisted mainly of two stakes and II notice
| with the Recorders signature thereon.
After gazing inteutly on the layout q
few minutes, Brown asked him it 1t wal
particular about its being g~reenbacks:
u No." said he, "but as q loyal man |
feel 1t my duty to encourage the Gov
eminent by taking its bonds, and here
repeat that it is the cheapest property
in the district, and I'll let you have it at
$50, O00." Brown looked at him stead
ily for a moment, and then, like lngolds-
by's friar, he "put his thumb unto his
nose and spread his fingers OUT Tho
ambitious seller took the hint, and
walking up to Brown he shook hands
cordially and said, al beg pardon, old
boy, l thought you had money and was
on the buy. You exposed q twenty care
lessly this morning, don't do it again
while you are in the district" Brown
explained that Red Wheeler had given
him that twenty to hand to q fellow in
Treasure City, and it was more money
than be ever carried about him. His
friend remarked that it was rough on
the fellow in Treasure City, and now be-
came very sociable with us.
What an irresistible temptation there
is in silver mining to blk somebody
this man knew his claim was not worth
fifty dollars, but he instinctively
attempted to sell it to US for as many
thousand. Having come to an under
standing with us, he now took an inter-
est in showing us the country. Pointing
to the crowd of busy miners on Treas
ure Hill, be said, these arc men who
have followed every mining eS-
element from California to Reese
River, they live from excitement quite
as much as by what they earn, and are
particularly sweet on lawsuits just
now as a source Of excitement.
The FIRST thing q man docs here
when he gets a good claim is to prepare
for a lawsuit. The course pursued 10
as follows: he secures the services Of
lawyer Bilkly who Immediately goes up
to view the vein. Striking an attitude
with one hand as near heaven as he can
reach, he %propounds a c%ouundrum,
Ny God, if this isn't q vein what is
it 2" and echo, after contemplating him
a few moments, answers, What Is It,"
Bilkly advises a Man-dam-us, which is
administered, and the other party fol-
lows in a few days with q God-bles-us.
Work is now stopped on both mines,
and the parties adjourn to Austin. The
poorer Of the litigunts starts early with
a pack animal and q little grub, the
lawyer takes the stage, and the luxu.
rious and bloated owner OF the "yein"
rolls l~eisurely in in IN open b%arouche.
All are striving to get their rights
Bilkly gets his first. Lawyers all full
of the one ledge theory are summoned
from Virginia, and the case is opened
with the unauswerable argument from
Bilkly, that his clients property must
be a vein from the profuse manner in
which it bled when he tapped it. The
machinery Of the law now begins to
grind "slowly, but exceedingly fine,',
until one of the contestants is chawed
up. We in White Pine are now anI-
iously waiting to hear which party it is.
Yours, truly. SAMUEL.