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

The following letter from IN olu print
or and editor was received by one Of our
citizens yesterday, who kindly furnished
it US for publication
TREAsURE City, jan. IS, 1869.
FRIEND D.: Your letter of the 18th
inst. was received to-day. l don't
know what to say to you about this
region ; it is q little tho d-dest place
you ever SAW. What it will all amount
to in the end no man knoweth. II is
now my private opinion that many a
man will leave here disguised between
this time and next fall, and pronounce
the whole thing a great humbug it
may be 80 and it may not. This is q re-
m~arkable country, and there is q large
quantity Of remarkably rich rock here ;
but it is obtained Mt great expense in
most instances, and the question which
remains to be settled is, whether the orc
is Of sufficient extent and richness to
dsfrsy the expense of extraction and
working. Your head is very level about
a wayside station between here and
Elko such u place will pay big next
summer. Whether you can obtain one
or not is more than | can say-it is well
worth trying for at all events but
don't know what stops to advise you to
take in the way of trying. There will
DO money made in this camp next sum-
mer and money lost, also /; | had none
when | came here, and have held my
own pretty we'll thus far. AS to how |
will come out remains to BIO seen. |
have no largo fortune in sight that
know of, but have hopes Of obtaining
one. Liquors are now plenticr in this
town than water, and saloons thicker
than fddlers. in HI, and yet there is
room for more. I don't know anything
Of the parties mentioned in your letter,
nor anything about their prospects.
Don't make any calculations on my
body you don't know, and very little on
those you do !; for "white' man is very
uncertain" nt best. / don't know 1t,
but I'll bet 90 cents that that claim for
which - has beeR offered twenty
thousand dollars is not in existence, or,
in other words, it's q blk. Don't you
60 nary cent OF it until you know more
about il. And no man, or set Of men,
own FIVE acros Of ground in this town
near Wells, Fargo Il Co.'s Office that's
all gas. | know Harris was here the
other dny he has located in Sherman
town, about three miles from here, ut
tho foot of the hill. Almost everybody
else is here that you ever saw or heard
tell Of. | presume you will be here
soon but don't you fattcr yourself
that this is Hperfect poorman's paradise,
for it is not; Il poor man has to stir
himself here like old scratch TO make
grub. There will be a rich harvest
here next summer, however, for the
rcapcrs, but many q poor fellow will go
by the board for every one who makes n
fortune. If you come into this part of the
country bring with you some kind of n
house of duck or canvas. Locke &
Lovison, at liz ] street, Sacramento,
make them cheap, they say, and quick.
Lumber is $500 per thousand feet here,
and shingles S55 por thousand eonss-
quently you a figure and tell what u
board house will cost. About coming l
have no advice to give you might do
we'll and you might not. So far, | have
had to scratch gravel like the ID to
keep above water, but I think | have
the thing now, and I will como out oil
right next summer. If | don't, I'll
leave for the white settlements, there to
pitch my tent, and live and die. Yours
truly, in n hurry. j. G.
rive copy tho above from the Reno
Crescent of last Saturday ; and if the
symbolical letters at the bottom do not
mean John Church, formerly of tho
Virginia Union, perhaps they mean Jim
Crack. Church has been at White
Pine about three months-and, having
gono there without money, he Gays he
holds his own pretty we'll. SIGH is
life.