Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-10

falling over of their own weight,
on half a dozen cards at once.
Sometimes he wins hundreds of
dollars two or three times in sue
cession, and the banker pays with
the most imperturbable gravity,
the expression of his face never
changing for an instant. He knows
very well that it will all come back
to him and bring more with it.
AT some of the tables the dealers
are women-French or Spanish
and it is noticeable fact that the
betters are fewer than at the others,
the prevailing belief being appar-
emily, that the fair sex do not give
the rougher so good a chance for
getting his money back as do the
NAL dealerse.
TEAMING.
When the snow all disappears in
June or July next, all the water for
this large population must be
brought from Silver Springs, 1000
feet below us, On the south, or Ham
ilton, l 800 feet nearer the sea level,
on the north. Each of these towns
is about two miles and a half away,
and you will understand that the
grade is a tremendous one up
which to haul load going down
it is quite another thing. Sleds !
drawn by two or four horses or
mules. and laden with silver ore in
bags, are numerous, and SO are
huge "prairie schooner" wagons,
drawn by ten to twenty mules each,
laden with goods from San Fran
cisco, by way of Elko, on the rail-
road, one hundred and ten miles
northward. Barley costs fifteen
cents per pound and coarse hay
5000 per ton, in coin, so you can
fancy that it costs money to run
one Of those big teams. 1t costs
from eighteen TO twenty-five cents
per pound freight money for every
article brought here from San
Francisco, and, excepting the coarse
nay, wood and water, the country
produces nothing whatever to sus-
ain life in man or beast. / am
wrong; potatoes Of good quality
ind few cabbage come here from
Ruby Valley, fifty or sixty miles to
he northward.
THE INDIANS, ETC.
The Indians were the first to dis
over the wonderful silver deposits
IN this mountain, and guide the
Ehite man to it, but they cannot
ully understand the sudden and
marvellous influx of population, nor
ease to admire the long rows Of
10th and lumber buildings, which
re Shanties to us, but palaces to
hem, springing up as if by magic
ally on every side. Men mounted
n fine horses, with Mexican sad
les glittering with silver, brilliant
lankets and ancQrt of black bear
r llama skin, contrasting with
oriental richness with the other
'appings, dash past on the gallop,
heir long silver spurs making
lusic, like lesser sleigh-be as
hey go. These are the lucky mine
wners or spectators who have sold
aims for big prices; they are
citing all the enjoyment they can
n their money in this accursed
ountry. Missouri "bullwhackers,"
18th long whips which they flourish
nd crack increasingly over their
red oxen's heads, abound so do
linted prostitutes from all parts
Europe and America.
There are few decent married
omen here, but the majority is
yainst them, and they for the most
art keep close at home. Every
ody you meet has a pocket full of
,ecimens, and feet as numerous at
asst as a centipede. Chloride,
horn silver, ruby silver,
Id base range metal, is heard on
cry side.
A shot is fired in a saloon; there
a sudden stampede for the street; E
lie combatant is disarmed and
,rne strugglingly away by his
lends, while the other beats a
asterly retreat IN the opposite di-
elton, his face and pistol kept
ways to the foe, and in an instant
| is excitement and confusion.
This is Sunday at White Pine;
ow do you like the picture?