The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-09-25
UnmitiRated Trash.

The following extract, purporting to have
been written by correspondent Of the Chi.
cago Post, has been going the rounds of the
press for some time, but as many of the
journals copying it were not supposed to
know much abou: the locality described, we
were not at all surprised at its reproduction
from time to time in many of them. We were
not, however, prepared to see n respectable
newspaper, published in our own State, giving
currency and credence to such stupid trash,
and yet the Gold Hill News has been guilty OF
that folly. Here is the extract:
/ The Humboldt valley is from ten to twenty
miles wide, probably the latter, as the pure
air enables one To see great distance, and
deceiTcs tho oyo of the inexperienced. AL is
sublimity, desolation and grandeur. With
the single exception of q few rods from either
bank of the Humboldt, there is no earthly
sign or token of vegetation. All the noun
.aln sides are bare, covered with stones, rs il
Just thrown ont Of a volcano; not a tree. not
4 shrub. save the sage grass, not a bird not Il
iTlng animal, and not a sound, save the
rafting Of the coach. All is silence-desoln-
ton. Mighty mountains, basking IN a burn
ing sun, and plain covered with ribbon of
bright green, lying in the center. while its
broad edges are deep yellow or dusty brown
dust IN clouds, covers the stage, blankets the
horses, blinds and stiles those inside, while
we OF the outside, shielded by green wells and
seated high up, escape in some measure its
suiiocating and binding power. We leave
Elko at 10 o'clock, lying 5000 feet above the
sea, and are doomed Tor - hours to follow
the Humboldt. until We climb gradually mp
and up 20 l., 600 feet above it., where | now
write, and even here I look up Treasure Hill,
LOO feet higher.
The above is but part of the wonderful
tale of imaginative creation with which this
knight of the quill regales his credulous read
ers, but we have not room for the whole of it.
1t is evident, however, from the gross blum
ders of fact which it contains. that the pre-
tended correspondent was never on the ground
which he assumes to describe The idea of
following up the Humboldt valley from Elko
to White Pine is good joke, and yet it is
rs near the truth as the remainder of the
article; mot tree, not shrub, except sage
grass, % not bird, not a living animal, and
not sound, save the rattliug of the coach. ="
All OF that nonsense may sound very fine in
Chicago, where distance shrouds il in a halo
Of romance, but TO people who live in this vi
clnIty, where the mountain sides are mostly
covered with a growth Of cedar and nut pine,
where the market is gorgcd with thousands of
tuns of hay cut in the neighboring valleys.
and where our tables are loaded with wild
game, taken in this supposed desolatc region,
it sounds like the empty bubble of crack
Drained enthusiast who feeds his Imagination
at the expense OF truth.
''Twcnty-two hours climbing gradually
along mp the Humboldt to Hamilton, Il. 900
feet above it," The Humboldt is j, ZOO feet
above the level of the sea at this place, and
Hamilton being II, 900 feet above the river. its
elevation would necessarily be about II. 900
above the level Of the sea or 5000 feet above
the line Of perpetual congealation, where the
SHOWS never melt. \ fine place Hamilton
would be for quartz mills and mining opers-
tons, where ice would refuse to melt in mid
SUMNER and where no plant or shrub could
live for u day.
The people of Chicago who know nothing
of our country, may be excusable in believing
such stuff, but when it is Endorsed by a Jour
nal of our own State, who ought to know
better, we feel called upon to denounce il and
Its author rs n fraud and cheat totally I'M
worthy of belief.