Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-04-13
silyer.Mining in Nevada.

LIFE IN TIE s'wnITE PINE" REGION.
A lively account oftte scene and Incl.
Tents in the new mining region of White
Pine, in Nevada, is given by coFrespon-
lent of the Chicago Tribune, who writes
from Treasure City under date of March
ID. We copy a few passages
AMONG THE CLOUDS.
/ am up among the clouds, more than
nine thousand feet above the sea, and in
the centre of the White Pine Silver Mines,
Of whose wonders the half has hardly yet
been told,--All day long the storm has
been driving through the town, and !
have stood hour after hour at the only
window in our little cabin and watches,
the sh fling scenes of the wonderful pan
Drama before me.
Oar cabin home stands back book
from the main street, overlooking the main
portion of the town and the series of''fats"
on which the main portion of the mining
is being done. There are mining claims
all around us, the entire hillside being
lotted with the rock thrown out from
shafts sunk on the various claims; and, III
fact, our house stands on ledge which
is claimed for mining purposes, and they
are blasting out shaft in the street right
alongside US. The cabin is built of rough
knotty pine boards, which cost four hun
derd dollars in gold per thousand feet,
5attened on the sides, with cloth roof,
covered over with rough boards, not bat
tened. The snow is sitting down as |
write, and the wind Harng the candle Sc
that can scarcely see. The little cabin
has one door and one window, and is
twelve feet wide by sixteen in length.
PRICES.
Six of us, all market men whose iamil-
lies are in California rent this cabin at
$50 in gold per month. We paid SSt
for small stove, Is cents apiece for COM
mon plates, 50 for dry goods box, out
Of which we made rude table, and SINH
lar prices for few more articles Of table
and dining room furniturc--thc only re-
gular chair, a common cane-seat dining
room char, So hcre--and commenced
housekeeping. Flour costs us $l6 and
SIT per hundred pounds; sugar so cents
per pound coffee Is cents; tea 81 % /;
butter, by the keg, 70 cents pickles 9
for live-gallon keg; beef 30 cents per
pound; pork do, potatoes % to 81 cents
per pound and so on through the list !;
wood-ccdar, nut-pinc and mountain ma
hogany, cut only few hundred rods away
is $2G per cord, and short cords at
that water, melted, from snow 20 10 81
! cents per pailful, and bread % to 20
cents for loaf Of enc and two pounds.
For beds we have hunks in one end Of the
room, in which we have straw mattresses
-.ninc cost SS75, and it is made of
coarse gunny racks filled with wild oats
hay-and three or four pairs each Of the
soft, warm blankets. We need them all!
SUNDAY IN WHITE PINE.
Most Of the miners were paid eff last
night, and half of them are drinking and
gambling away their money to-day. There
are 5 600 Or 6 600 people in the White
Pine district at this time, and fifty per
day being added to the population. OF
this number probably 2,0CO or 2,5O0 are
at work on the three thousand "locations'
and one hundred real mines situated with
in couple ofmiles of this point, and al
least two-thirds of the number are in town
to-day. There is no ''s)und ofthc church
going bell," no throng of worshippers hur-
rying though the long, crooked, rocky,
uneven street, but every saloon--and
every other building is one--is througed
with people.
The bar-tendcrs fairly wear themselves
out with their incessant labor in waiting
on the thirsty customers who demand their
services. "Wtat do you take, gentle
men says the bar-kceper to each group
of customers in succession. "Whiskcy
goes y respond a the rest with solemn
alacritr, and they gil their glasses, how
all round and swallow the liquor in con-
cert. The next and the next group 60
through the same routine and then all
repeat the performance. At the back
of each bar-room is door having the sign
"Club Room" and in and out of this room
a crowd is passing continuously.
We enter with the rest and work our
way slowly through the jam around the
tables where the dealers ofmontc and faro
are holding forth. Nearly every man
who comes in lays down something, from
dollar-the lowest stake-to thousand,
before going out and not one in ten ever
carries away a dime of it; few of them
ever expect to do so, but stake their mon
ov an tho turnino of the cards as much