Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-01-02
WHITE PINE ITEMS.

LUZ A0ii0nin6 - SVnuCuouu summa-
ry of items which we End in the White
Pine Nsvs, the frst number Of which
came to hand yesterday:
A petition has been largely signed
and addressed to the Legislature, ask.
ing for the creation Of a now county,
out Of Lander and Nye. The petition
asks that it be named Ruby" but the
Ners asks that the name Do changed to
I" White Pine" The Necs says it is
talked Of in the financial and CONNER
cial circles Of New York, London, Paris
and st. Petersburg, and will soon be
associated with, If docs not overshadow,
the names of Washoe, Chanarcillo, and
other famous mining localities" The
Ners further says that they have plenty
Of white pine trees in that region to
render this a fit name for tho new u
~ /; while on the other hand, the region
does not produce any rubies. It strikes
US that both names are inappropriate,
for q silver-producing region. The
Legislature had better drop both names,
and call the new county SilvsradO. tits
%euphonious and appropriate.
The altitude of Treasure Hill is sup
posed to be less than nine thousand feet
above the level Of the sea.
Frank Drake and Samuel E. Greeley
have been named as two Of the County
Commissioners for tho new county.
The third has not been selected yet.
The News has the following sensible
advice: We do not wish to encourage
premature immigration to this district,
since 1t would DO wrong as well as i'm
polite to do 80. The snow now covers
the ground here to q depth that pre-
vents successful prospecting; wherefore
but little can be done in that line before
spring"
Notwithstanding the reports that
smallpox exists at White Pine, the
Ners denies it, and says that everybody
is healthy. But, "persons coming here
from lower attitudes experience, for a
time, some difficulty in breathing,
owing to the rarifed condition Of the
atmosphere"
It 10 estimated that there i, . popa-
latiou at White Pine Of four thousand
people. Board, $l2 to SIS per week.
Single meals, 81 90: Lodgings, in
bunk, 81 90. rat the brewery" $40
per night Water, seven to ten cents
por gallon. Stove wood, at Treasure
City, $50 per cord at Hamilton $l2,
aud at Shermantown So. Lumber,
S275 to $500 per thousand.
The reported rich strike made two
week, ago, was on Nazeppa Hill, three
quarters Of o mile south Of the Eber-
hards, and at q point Eve hundred feet
below the latter. The ore is not exact
~ Of the "Ebsrhardt school," but 10
very rich, selected pieces sssaying a.
high as three or four thousand dollars
per ton. The strike caused a great rush
Of miners to the vicinity, in which there
have since been a large number Of
claims located.
A German, named Khules, and q Cor
nishman, named William Kissel, had q
quarrel, at Shsrmantown, on the Gath OF
December. Pistols were drawn, and
Kisssl was shot twice, one ball hitting
him in the face, and the other passing
through his right breast. He was sup
posed to be fatally injured. The Ger
man was arrested, but discharged BY
the Justics-Kissel having forced the
quarrel on him.
The editor Of the N.~s says he passed
through tho L" wealth dripping chambers
of the Eberhardt" for the fourth time.
"Wsalth dripping" 10 good-it is new
it i, poetic. But it is hardly up to
the Shakspsrian idea Of Macbeth lsav-
ing the chamber Of death with the fatal
dagger dripping with innocent gore.
Still, "wealth dripping chamber" i,
original, and we'll worthy the original
character which pertains to White Pine.
Wonder whether they haven't got a yir-
gin chamber in the E%berhardt2
The White Pine Neus is a neat little
paper, we'll filled with local news-rith
the shabbiest advertising patronage for
a new paper in a supposed rich district,
o. any paper on the Pacific Coast. It
is published every Saturday, BY Pitch
ford b Simpson, at ten dollars a year, in
advance. 1t has our best wishes for its
success.