Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-10-14
ELKo, ITS INHABITANTS, ETC.

An Eastern man, after visiting our
town, writes home concerning Elko and
its Inhabitants, as follows:
At present / am stopping in a thriy-
ing little town on the Central Pacific
Railroad, 5000 feet above the level OF
the sea. It is the county seat OF Elko
County, and the railrosd station for the
famous White Pine aud Cope mining
districts. Although only nine months
old, it contains q good hotel, banking
house, extensive freight houses, Court
house and school-house (the two latter
in course Of erectiou), together with a
hundred stores, groceries and restau-
rants, and from 1900 to 1000 inhabit-
ants. Substantial buildings are spring
ing up everywhere, daily, as if by magic.
From the Missouri River, westward, l
havo travelled nearly thirteen hundred
miles without seeing a forest tree, with
the exception Of q few stunted cedars 10
distant mountain canyons so you can
imagine that to one brought up In a
wooded country this region looks rather
bald.
Every man who strikes out into the
country for any considerable distance,
packs (carries) his grub (rations) and
blankets. l do not wish, however, TO
convey the idea that this is q poor couu-
try to live in, for statistics show that
Nevada psysa much larger income tax
pee head than any other State IN the
Union. Though agriculture is car.
ried on proftably in some portions OF
the State, yet mining is the principal
source Of wealth. Coin Is the only cir
culsting medium here. If you offer cur
reucy to a shop-keeper, he will scowl at
you as if be had a pain in his bowels.
It is a pleasure to be in a country where
you can hear the ring Of hard money on
the counter besides, gold and silver
don't fuctuste.
or the five races of the earth, four are
here as actual residents, viz {: Tho eau
~casian, Indian, Mongoliau and Ethiopi.
an. The mobile red man" rather suf-
fers in a comparison with the others.
| His cry is not "0h, give me back my
Bonded bow ~ He prefers eating broken
victuals obtained from restaurants,
wearing cast-off clothing, and spends
his time in hunting sage hens and catch
ing trout.
The white people collected here form
a representative class, who, in the inter-
est of business, are enduring a tempo
rary exile from their first love-Califor-
nia. Night after night l have nearly
6urs, the buttons off my clothing while
listening to their odd phraseology and
i~nexhaustible fund Of anecdotes.
Shrewd observers Of human nature,
prompt in reseuting an insult, improve
dent Of their money, outspoken in their
feelings, and possessing a hearty con-
tempt for everything denominated ms
high toned" Such are the men who
have lived on this coast for the last ff-
teen or twenty years. Every one of
them has led an evcntful life, and the
true record of it would be a record Of
ups and downs, of prosperity and advsr-
sity, Of wealth and impecuniosity, al
most incredible. In no other country
has there been such a struggle for
wealth and in the pursuit Of it, such
heroic endurance of hardship and pri-
walton, so much sweat of body and
sweat of brain, and heartache over hope
deferred and expectations unrealized.-
Elko Independent. q