Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-01-16
CORRESPONDENCE.
WINxkMuccA, New, January l.

EDITOR NEWS TINS town 10 not quite
so lively as il was when I left in Sop
TENDER. The "roughs',, have most of
them gone on to the front and to White
Pine, though a few are left as is shown
by some poor fellow who has overesti-
mated his capacity for carrying tangle-
foot being ''rolled" every now and
again. This looks as though it would
be q prominent town. 1t is the end OF
a section and the site of a machine shop
and rouud-house, both now in the course
of construction. The round-hou,e is to
be large enough to hold tw~enty-eight
locomotives, and the repair shop will
be able to do all ordinary jobs GU the
rolling stock of the road. This is the
place Of departure for Hill Beachy's
line of Idaho stages, and all the freight
for the North. Mark my words, it will
remain so. The new road that will be
open for travel in the early spring will
shorten the distance to Silver City
about sixty miles, and be all easy
grades, no sand and plenty Of grass and
water. Another road is being built to
strike the railroad somewhere about
Gravelly Ford, but it never can COM
pete with the shorter and better route
from here. Tho business men are con.
6dent of doing we'll i in the future, though
no one expects Winnemucca to compete
with New York in trade. A word about
the
MINES
in this and adjoining districts. mean
those that are situated in Humboldt
County. Ny eyes are daily made glad
by the sight Of rich ore from Winnie
mucca Mountain, right on the other
side of the Humboldt from this town.
Two companies are now at work and q
third will start in a few days. This
latter claim has lately been purchased
by two old Humboldt miners, who have
seen about all there is good in this
State and Idaho, but have come back
to their first love. There is u lump OF
rich ore right out Of the groupings from
this claim now in this room that will
weigh 100 pounds, and assay $500 per
ton, and plenty more of tho SAM sort
in sight. This claim was bought for a
mere song, Out it could not be bought
from tho present owners for a hat full
of stamps.
The Chinese war at KNOXVILLE, and
the smallpox, are the subjects Of talk
on the corners. ! am pretty well posted
about the former. Mr.. Fall has always
been in the habit Of employing quite a
number of Piutes and Cinnamon. To
the presence and labor of the former no
one has wei objected, but to the latter
feeling Of bitter hatred has always
been exhibited. There has been moth
ing political about the matter, and the
idea that John G. Fall was trying any
experiments in political ethics is simply
to those who know that gen.
The fact is, he thought the
Cinnamon the cheapest for certain kinds
Of labor, so employed them, as he had a
to do. The laboring men Of the
town thought the Cinnamon would be
safer somewhere else, so hired u team,
quietly loaded Johns traps into the
wagon, and carted them to Mill City.
There was no violence used, no loud
talk-everything IA done with de-
cency and in order"
This morning we had quite n breeze
here. A box car came down from the
front, said to contain six or seven Chi
namen sick with smallpox. The car
was run down u hundred yards or so
below the depot, and switched of into a
side track. The report was rapidly
spread about town that the conductor
who brought the car down refused to
take it any further ; but just about the
time the citizens got ready to do some
thing, the thing moved on. stepped
into the drug store q while after, and
found my friend, DR.. Buchanan, in his
glory, putting in vaccine matter for two
aud n half u dab. | thought it wal
cheap, so bought a little Of it.
White Pine fever is worse than small
box as to the number it takes of. Every
loose man, horse, OK and dog is on the
track. | stoou Dy q wagon luis morn'
ing, and watched the stores Of flour,
bacon, tea, ETC., etc. whisky, that
went in. (which wsy?" "White Pine
or hell !" answered bull whack. 1t re-
minded me of the beautiful May days oil
&C., when I packed my traps in Sacra.
meuto and pointed my nose for Hum
boldt, to stop a year and make a pile.
Well, l have been here more than a
''year or two," but the pile ! We'll, the
less said about that tho better; but my
Yankee pluck is not all gone, as you
may hear from me at White Pine, likely
as any way. This country is good
enough for any man who can work and
be satisfied with making about FIVE
times as much rs anywhere else, unless
it is White Pine. SQUEED.