Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-05-12
How They Drove the Last Spike Mt Day
ton-t;l0ry and Jubilee on the Banks Of

Aou- ~ secsSS Sh tuN iAhh " u
the Carson.
Let no one suppose that the people If
Dayton are asleep, or anyways liable to
be so when railroad glories are convulS-
ing the continent, aud reveling within
the alkaline borders of the great Ameri-
can Basin. Did Dayton rejoice over the
completion Of the great continental rail
. road? Did she drive the last spike?
We should say she did. Read the fol.
lowing letter, received by IA Yesterday
from an aged and venerable resident Of
Dayton, descriptive of what; they did
down there on the banks OF the raging
Carson, Monday, to finish the railroad:
THE SPIKE INSERTED.
wish 10 thunder you had been here
yesterday noon. At II o'clock the teie-
graph Office was crowded with anxious
listeners to the spike driving, aud wheu
w. T. Harmed, the grn'le'nanly op"r,-
tor, announced that il was done
three r~ousing cheers went up Tor the
railroad and Charley Cruckcr. Then
all hands made II big rush for the Nat
tional, where, by special invitation OF
Cross, they took II drink 10 the railroad
and Charley Croker. Well, you may
believe that set the ball n rolling beau
tifully. Flags went mp, whistles blew,
horns footed, bells OF all sorts, sizes
and descriptiouS-frcm u church .beli
down to triungles and tin cans-rung,
jingled and ratified. All the guns and
pistols in town were let loose. The Day
ton battery, consisting of half Il dozen
nnvilS, Numbered wild, and the cusSet
est noise anybody ever knew Of wNS
kept up for two hours; twas enough TO
drive any respectable spike crazy.
ANOTHER DRIVE AT rnE SPIKE.
As soon as it was fairly dark, Bird
sail & Co.'S mill was beautifully ilum-
mated, the shrill whistles sounded, nnl
once more our usually quie, town of
Dayton presented II scene impossible To
describe. Everything that would make
u noise was brought into rcQuisitiou.
Bonfires, ,orch.lightS, star lights and
lightuing-uot seen, but | guess some
of them got hold of some whisky that
had II little in it. Well, we had II gen
eral jollificatiou all about the railroad,
Charley Cruckcr and the last Splk".
Everything considered, this was II of
the grandest celebrations that ! ever
witnessed. The streets were crowded.
There must have been either Ill per.
sons or Ill, 900, | don't know which.
Only think of it, 50 many, yes, and nll
live in Dayton.
THg POLICE AROUSED.
We have Ii policemen, boys Included,
and they tried their internal best 70
stop the noise yes, and the stupid
fools even tried to stop folks from
whisky-nol mean whisky, for we
hnin't got any mean whisky here
Well, the police tried to control the
celebration, but they couldn't 10 II, for
all the diSuitaries Of Dayton were in
the celebration, unl they told the mall
titude to go in and celebrate Charley
Crocker, the railroad aud the last spike,
and never mind the, police, and If the
police arrested them, they (the iigui.
t%arics,) would clcir rhcm for $40 each.
That Was fair, you know, So the police
lbuUHl lHtN wiz " - shNsha WI
cluded to take lightning, no, s%trychnine,
no, d-n it,, | mean whisky, and cc!c-
brate the railroad, Charley Grnckcr
and the last spike, with US. iOu hrt
we had Il gay old time
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT oUr.
Our fire department here is huge e:
they turned but in full force with their
whole apparatus, which consists Of =
hook aud ladder truck, without any
hook or ladder, with 10 or 40 mea and
boys on the ropes. The old original
Chief Engineer marched at tue head,
with his fire plug hat on, shouting ut the
top of his voice, /" go it boys &" stop
her boys !" a. back her boys " - take
up" " fall in" or " fall out" rs the
case required ; and so we marched up
and down the principal streets, and up
to BirdSall & Co.'S mill. where We gave
three big cheers for Charley Crockrr
and the last spike. Thea we am
back down Main street on the double
quick-that is, all of US that could
'run-for things, were getting II little
mixed. Some fell ont, some fell down,
and some housed tho machine. After
that we took Il smile, and gave three
cheers for the last spike. Some went to
bed without help, some with help, and
| guess some didn't sleep on feathers.
| think railroads make iuroAds on TEN
perance societies sometimes, don you ?
sCALPs TAKEN.
By means of special agents, we
secured both of those las, spikes, and
now hold them as trophies of the great
railroad victory. They were pried up
on the sly and telegrnphed on TO Dayton
il less than four hours after they were
driven. One ia pure California gold,
and the other Nevada ~Silvcr-solid and
good, aud no humbug. They were
sent to the Dayton Anteleluvian So.
ciety, care of George Shaw and Ben
Carrick. and are kept on exhibition for
n few days only at the National, be-
tween the hours Of 5 \. NJ. and IL r. NJ.
We Just calculate to drive them two
id old spikes sbou, twice a year
hereafter, or oftensr if the pnhlrc re-
quircs it. When i, comes down to
good square spike driving, | tell you
US Dayionites are strictly " on it,