Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-11-28
the cheapest in the end, and will al
yyoya find ready sale,

err or no ; but parties intending winter
ing In the mines must either take over
q stock Of provisions, and have tnem
hauled from Argenta, or 20 PROVIDED
with means to purchase them at Hamii-
ton day by day for four months, Prooa.
bly, at an advance on the prices quoted
by US as the present ruling rates. The
climate appears to be exceedingly
healthy, but, owing to the great elsVa-
ton of the country, and consequent rarl,
f~ication of the atmosphere, We would
advise no person with weak lungs to
winter there. Colds, rheumatism and
feyers will doubtless prevail to some e1-
tent before spring, as the result OF ex-
posure, neglectand carelessness.
PRESENT oosr OF LIVING.
At present n%ecessaries Of life in the
White Pine country are pretty high
priced, but of good quality and abund-
ant. At Hamilton and Treasure City
are quite q number of restaurants at
which n tolerable square meal may DO
obtained. The price per meal 10 81,
and board by the week $l2. There is
no hotel in the district, and but one or
two places where q bunk to sleep In can
be rented. The price of a single bunk
bed, with n mattrass and blankets, At
the store Of Wakefield Il Wheeler, at
which the Office of Wells, Fargo Is Go.
is kept, in Hamilton, is 81 per night.
This is the general resort Of oil new
corners, Ind q man who is in season to
secure a bunk is looked upon as a IA
vored mortal. Others, less fortunate,
sleep on their blankets on the hoor Of
the store, in saloons, restaurants, tents,
novels, or in tho open air, as they a
catch it. The prices for various arti-
Giles of food for man and beast are as
follows: Flour, Sic per hundred
pounds potatoes (grown in Nevada
and of superior quality, l23 cents per
pound onions, 10 cents per pound ;
sugar (brown), 81 pounds for 81 ditto
(crushed), 3 pounds for 81 coffee
~iground), Is cents per pound-no facil-
tiles for grinding it in the district ba-
con (sides), 374 cents hams, 373 and
40 cents ; shoulders, IS cents per pound;
beef, fresh and of good quality, rs cents
pork, do. do, $4,000 cents per pound;
eggs, from Salt Lake (so-soish), SIG
81 % per dozen F.; do, fresh, So per
dozen; ten, ST. % cents per pound /;
candles, 35 cents per pound barley, 10
@l21 cents per pound hay, $3.50 per
ton drinks, rs cents each, and no
credit at the bar. ..s .-a
Wood OF good quality is abundant, and
can be had for the cost Of cutting and
hauling. All the wood land in the vie
cinity is being claimed by parties who
propose to cut wood for the mills and to
supply tho minors. Lumber costs $3.50
per 1000 feet for ordinary, and $l75
per 1000 feet for choice at Hamilton,
where there is a large steam saw mill
with o single circular saw constantly
engaged in cutting lumber from the
"bull pinc," Tor "nigger pine," as it
would be termed in the South), which
grows on the White Pine Mountain
proper, in considerable quantities, and
of sufficient size to afford saw logs 20
or 25 feet in length and two feet thick.
At Treasure Hill $3.50 and upwards Is
charged for boards, which arc hauled
from Hamilton or Single Springs, or
from remote district, by heavy teams.
Half a dozen men clubbing together
could in a few days put up a shanty Of
cedar posts chinked with stones and
mud, and rooted with cedar boughs and
earth, which would afford comparative
ly comfortable quarters for the party
through the winter. Those erecting
buildings of sawed lumber at present
line them with cotton cloth to exclude
the wind, then shingle or tin the roofs.
A horse will seat his head of" in a
week or two, and parties coming into
the district at this timc will do well to
send them off to tho lower valleys, 20 to
80 miles away, whore they can winter
OH bunch grass and white sage in the
open air, only requiring the attention Of
a herder. Clothing and blankets cost
about so per cent. moro than In San
Francisco.
A SHORTER ROAD.
In a few weeks-tho weather permit.
ting-it will be possible to reduce the
staging on the trip by one-half. From
IluulllkOu " III uShlCok pOihs ~ nv
the railroad can be reached-near Fort
Halleck, east of Gravelly Ford-ths dis
lance is not over ITO miles, possibly not
more than 100. The new road will
leave Austin far to the westward, and
passing down an open valley country
directly northwnrd, will present no
heavy grades. 1t can DO constructed
cheaply, and must be opened immedi-
atcly. It may run through Ruby VAL
ley, or it may leave it to the right and
pass to the westward. There are nov
probably 5000 in White Pine District
and vicinity wholly without mail facil-
titles, and dependent solely on Wells,
Fargo & Co.. for their letters, papers,
etc. A mail route should and probably
will be opened between the railroad,
near Fort Halleck, and Hamilton imme-
diately on the earl reaching the former
point.
THE rUTURR OF WHITE PINE.
Will the deposits prove merely SUPER
fetal and soon work out, or will they
lead to the discovery of permanent
lodges ? is daily asked. Quien ,abe 1t
is certain that the deposits already un-
covered cannot DO worked out in a year,
and meantime $1,000, 900 or $40, Ooo, 900
of bullion will have been produced and
shipped to San Francisco. All through
the White Pine District new
discoveries of greater or loss
Importance are being made dali
", and at Duckwater, 40 miles
southeast at the new Sierra District,
65 miles south; at Eureka, 80 miles
wcst-all around, in fact, new discov-
erios arc being made. Stretching from
the northern line Of Idaho to the Sonora
line on the south, is broad belt Of
metaliferous country as yet but par
TALLY explored or wholly untouched.
All this will be hunted over next year
by prospectors,. stimulated by the White
Pine discoveries. TO our friends We
say Go slow /; buy or locate for what
you can see, in this district and in
stead of expanding vastsums in running
costly tunnels to strike imaginary lodes
ut gree, depth, adopt the Mexican rule
where you sec ore, 60 for it Tor gopher
1t, If you prefer that expression). There
is wood enough hereabouts to last for
years to come for the present the
minos nre rich beyond calculation, and
for the rest, let tomorrow take care Of
itself: " Sufficient unto tho day is the
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