Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-11-20
THE EVENING NEWS.
sa,urdn, Rvcaips----..Nov. go. 1869
Thanksgiving Day, we as we'll as o.he


individuals iufssting this section, took
u fancy for a holiday trip TO Carson,
and accepting the benevolent offer Of
John Piper, we were transported thi;her
in Piper's gay buggy, propelled by his
famous bloodsd horse "Johu"-named
after Tor before) himself. Piper's Opera
House troupe also went TO Carson, but
they, like the Gold Hill aud Virginia
printers who went, rode on one of the
construction trains Of the railroad.
They speak highly OF their trip, and SO
must we, in order 20 keep even. We
took the direct route, however, and
could have beaten them down there, in
view of the eccentric meandcrirgs they
had TO take around, through aud among
the mountains Oh that wonderfully
crooked road, but we did not care to do
SO. We got sight at that railroad nu-
merous times, now winding around di-
rectly at us, and then shooting OF ut II
tangent directly from us, sometimes on
Que side Of us, thea IN the other, and
then on both. The San joaquin river,
where the water gets damned and
confoundedin its W crooks sometimes,
until it doesn'tkrow whether 10 How mp
stream or down, is somewhat similar.
All these long, sweeping crooks in the
railroad are said 10 be requisite IN order
to modify the grade and enable the
struggling locomotives to overcome tue
great ascent between Carson and Vir-
GINA. Taa: is ~evideasly so, for there
arc some desperately steep grades in
that road occasionally. Large numbers
of meu are hard at work along the iinc
bsllas,ing the road, polishing off the
inequalities, aud finishing it up in good,
substantial style. II will take about
Two weeks longer to do this, when reg
u,ar passenger trains will be run over
il.
TIE CITY.
Wide, roon.y streets, q rigid adher-
ence interchangeable lines and II disagree
able proximity 10 the State Prison, are
the principal Typographical character
islics OF Carson. The houses are broad
and low, diGused over n great space OF
land, n. though .hc p!,Ce was smhi-
~,iously striving to spread itself, like Q
California land grant. II Is rather Of q
pleasant place in which to cass ones
iipes-to rcside-tho men arc all good
fellows, the ladies generally good lock-
;p-. aud the whisky is considered good.
Now hat the railroad is about con-
ple,.d, connecting it with Gold Hill,
Carson must a~bundautly improve and
prospsr. The great Mint is there, the
Legislature sits there occasionally, there
are good garden and pasture lands IN
the vicinity, also plenty OF good water,
and the big moGutains back OF the city
Weld plenty of timber, wood aUd lu'n-
Der, for home use and eSportHtion.
The Mint will coming in n
few days.
Q CARSON ~ MOONLIGHT.
The Csrsoni,es are pretty good on the
dance, but never have been aolc 10 run
a ,heater without legislative assistance.
They however recognize true talent IN
that iiue wheu they see it, and ~patronIze
IL 10 n certain extent it is the second
best '.show town" ia the State. P'per's
Opera House Troupe, now performing at
Moore 4 Parker's little thester for a
season OF three moonlight nights, are
doing good business. Their opening
WAS night before last, and nOtwitasiand-
ing the outside attraction Of II grand
hail Mt the now hail, which WIS worry
fully attended, the theater was rowded.
Then they have the Silver Star Base
Ball CLUB, the champion OF the State
thus far, down there. and plenty OF meu
who delight in horse racing, and rho
have the stool: TO de il on. The fall
races were iuauguratad Thanksgiving
Dsy. and close to-day. We took q
moonlight round Of the handsome Sa-
looms. such rs the Magnolia, Mart.
Reese's, and others, and the principal
topic Of conversation was about the
races and about horses. The comPara-
tive merits of "Topsr,' "Tsmarac, ,
Flora" I" Ramrod," and other noted
hors.Hesh, were duly discussed, ana
purses, plans and preliminHries made up
for the morrow. Billiard playing ap-
psared to be extensively induised
in, MS we'll as lager aud other
exhiurants, and taken all in all,
Carson really seemed RICH,
comfortable sor. Of a place to be in.
We would like TO make special mention
of Lieutenant Governor Slingsrland,
Lance Nightingale, Captain Wallace,
liou. Lewis Dorou, and many other con-
genial gentlemen whom we had the
pleasure of meeting, but time and space
will no. allow. We are theirs truly,
ALWAYS, whether the moon shines or not.
As to hotels, there arc no better in this
section than those Of Carson, ut any
rate We found a splendid comfortable
bed at the 0rpsby, and might have
slep. e~loriously il John Piper hadn't
snored so loud. Filing a cross-cut
saw was nothing TO it. There he lay on
his Jolly back looking happy aud placid
in the calm moonlight, with his mouth
wide omen, dreaming that he was II new
locomotive just fred NJ, with u light
down grade before him. He had
dropped short oy from a hearty. laugh to
that ~bsrbarous Suore in the space of
about five seconds, and i he hadn't
looked so thoroughly jolly, lsmb.like,
and entirely at peace wish the world,
we should have kicked him. His vile
can realize the evaporation Of that
more
PETER o'IElLLV.
The history Of Pete O'Reilly, rs the
discovsrsr, or one of the discoveries of
the famous Comstock ledge, is too fami-
liar to all residents Of this section to
make it worth while for US 10 refer to
that circumstance, particularly, u, this
time, but just now /" sad feature 10 his
~.yeu:fur life record has eliminated.
POOR Pete has, especially of late years,
become n firm believer in the doctrine
of nredes,inG:.or. lie ~r'padiaied spir'
i,ualism altogether, yet claimed sna'
there was an innate supernatural pres,
encs within or about him which had
nr.destiued and f~o.eordained hin to &C.
eomp!i,h great ends-io make Two
Grand mineral discoveries in his sec
ton, one % which WAS The coms'0ek,
ond the second was in the To-"
hills about a mile to the soaihwSrd o!
Carson. There for the last tasee OF
four a he has worked ,nnneiing In
IN. bowels of the earth with deStee
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