The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-06-14
THE VIRGINIA AND TRUCKEE RAIL
RoAD-WILL IT BE GRADED THIS
SEASQNi

teceste0 IN the PROJECT alluueo 10 ABOVE
are, of course, anxious to know what
the prospects are for its being pushed
forward 10 a speedy completion. 1t
must be confessed that IRE are a good
Deal in the dark. All we know of the
matter is that Mr.. kidder is at work
with a corps of surveyors in Ormsby
county, firing the rate of grades, &c,
&c, and here our knowledge of active
Operations ceases. What we are told is,
that the grading and the other serious,
earnest work is held in allegiance until
the Imperial shaft at Gold Hill deter
mines whether the Coms,ock vein ex-
tends to the 900 foot level or pincbes
out above that depth. During the past
two months or so reports have been
reaching US that the drifting will de-
termine IS in a week or so ~ and a
good many weeks or so have gone by
and the mystery seems to be as far from
a solution as ever. Some knowing ones
assert that the ledge has been found, all
right, but that the facts are kept secret
for the sake of spectators Others tell
rs that the engineers have been at fault
and that they have put the drif,ers on
the wrong track; Others still, shake
their heads gloomily and express the
belief that The Great FissHre Vein
has really petered. In the meantime
stocks are down, down, down-and the
Dailroad is - . castle ir Spain" Now.
the people of this county and of Washoe
want to know and have a right to know,
- soon as may be, what the prospect is
and what the intentions of the corpora
tors are. Something moro than mere
curiosity prompts this inquisi,ive
ness for it is a matter which very near
y coscerBs some Of our most vital in
serests. Our neigbbor of the Eastern
Slope, in his peculiarly iocisise way has
something to Say upon this matter. Iu
the yesterdays issue of that paper he
says:
On Wednesday last friend called upon US,
ostensibly, for the purpose of friendly chat;
in vulgar parlance, for the purpose of swap
ping lies. Incidentally, we talked railroad,
and elsewhere We have given the Virginia
and Truckee Railroad Company the benefit
Of the impression that might naturally be |
supposed to have resulted from the assE-
ances of disinterested gentleman supposed
to be in the confidence Of Mr.. Sharon, Chief
Engineer of that Monte Pho institution, COM
monty known as the Nevada Back Action to
the Bank of California. In the course of the |
aforesaid trading operations we received |
assurance from our friend coming direct
from Mr.. Sharon. that the company is now
negotiating for. with reasonable probability |
Of efecting purchase, of forty thousand tons
Of railroad iron, said rails being now in the
State OF California. We asked the question,
how much railroad will forty thousand tons
aye The answer was, good piece. Being
Inquisitive rs a woman we became excited
with desire to know the exact length of .
rood piece of railroad, and append the result
II our calculations: Forty Thousand tons is
DiShty million pounds we suppose railroad
ron will weigh about fifteen pounds to the
loot, that is thirty pounds to the foot of road
less, though we will call it five
hundred pounds to the rod, equal to one
hundred and sixty thousand pounds to the
nile; at which rate forty thousand tons of
ailroad iron will lay just five hundred miles
" road. After this assurance from Mr..
Sharon's and our mutual friend, the state
nent of Mr.. Sunderland to US, that the COM
'any did not intend to do any grading this
eAsen, snd his declaration to a reliable gen.
ieman Of this place that they did not want
. contract for ties until next winter, at =
ime of the year when it is impossible to run
aw-mills, who can doubt the determination
4 the company to build the road in the ,
hortest possible period of time? Who could I
.'ubt their eoBviesion that they are dealing :
nth the veriest set Of donkeys that ever en-
umbered the face Of the earth?
This 10 . rather pungent way Of deal =,
q with The matter in hand but if it t
siy sesultsia having the deirsd effect
{ calling out an answer from the cor >
ssators il will have done much more I
cod shaa harm. The Slope says, 10 I
pssser article ,(shs enc slIsdsd - BY
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Fee sens time past ~ have had sexous b
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