Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-10-26
MORE ABOUT THE sUTRo TuN.
MEL FIZZLE.

iwpeiStL'S wv w ""hA PSSP
this is our excuse for alluding
to tho subject at all. Against Ar. Su-
tro, personally, We have no ill.will-
vhatever-but he il engaged in a
scheme of wrong-doing, getting money,
if possible, from poor people who eau
not spare their ~hsrd.sarned wages for
ephemeral experiments in an enterprise
which, if prosecuted, would cost mil
lions Of dollars. From late develop
ment,, we feel and know that tho public
is beginning to look at the Sutrs Tunnel
scheme in about the same light as We
have been doing fer several months past.
Sutro has been trying to get what no
calls q home Endorsement Of the enter
prise, by sundry subscriptions to his
skeleton scrip for stock in q tunnel COM
pany to be hereafter organized 'on''-
chsrs-nobody knows-and With this
" home Endorsement" he expects to 60
to Washington next December, and to
ask Congress for . subscription OF
eve or six millions in Govern
msnt bonds to help him along.
Let Us SEQ how far he has pro-
crossed with his "home indorss-
meut." Towards the latter part OF last
August, he conceived tho idea that the
Miners Unions of Virginia City and
Gold Hill would be good organizations
to get an Endorsement " from. So at
a special meeting called at his request,
a limited number Of members Of tho
Unions assembled, the matter was
talked over, and Sutro suggested that a
little indorsemsnt" Of fty thousand
dollars, embodied in tho form Of re'o-
luton, might give strength to his great
enterprise. Now, it is we'll known to
everybody acquainted with both our
Miners Unions, that tkey have never
had, nor have they now-as labor pro-
tive associations, for they are not incor-
poratsd bodies with capital or credit
any such money. The miners were ac-
eommoda.ins, g~ood-nasursd, and clever,
as miners generally ars-snd il Susro
had suggested a million dollars, they
would have voted that sun with an
equally accommodating spirit, add the
same appreciation Of their ability to
pay. So the Sutro tunnel received q
"home iudorsement" Of fifty thousand
dollars worth Of resolution. 1t answered
tho purpose Sutro had in view. 1t wal
an item for tho local newspapers,
and it also afforded G telegram
for the San Francisco, Sacramento and
even the presses 10 the Eastern States
the dispatches being sent far and neal
BY order Of Mr.. Sutro, 30 that members
Of Congress would be likely to see them
Great satisfaction on the part Of Sutro
was the result. The great Sutro tunnel,
which had been ersndly pictured on
parchment, handsomely framed, and
which had been hung up on dusty Office
walls for three years past, had at ias'
received G "home Endorsement" (Tht
sober, industrious and honsst mrnbsr'
Of the Miners Unions laugh at the ide'
Of their societies either intending to pay
a dollar OF the subscription, or over
endorsing" the wildcat speculation,
Storey County, on tho Comstock, bad
spoken out, Ia, abore,) and something
must now be done down in Lyon Csunty
where the financial results Of this i'm.
mense enterprise would DO incalculsble,
most magnifcsutly bensfssns! sutro
started a subscription list in the
town of Dayton-snd we believe
be made q grand speech to the Dayton
ties. But the people Of THAI pleasant
little village do not acqSire their dollars
and cents by either dishonest schemes,
or by speculation, but in that plain,
honest way which seaehc, them TO take
care Of their earnings. So shsy told
Sutro that they would subscribe certain
sums, which they would pay, provided he
could get ten thousand dollars assumed
by responsible parties. Sutro secured
Lyon county from confer to circumfsr-
ence-coaxed, bored, and attempted 10
brou-best nearly everybody in tho coun-
ty into subscribing to his great snter-
prise" the only hope for tbs State
the only hope for the Comctock-and
the only salvation for Lyon County"
For six weeks or more Sutro has been
trying to got the ten thousand SUBJ
seribed, but it vss terribly slow work
and as we before remarked, the psopls
Of Dayton and Lyon County nrs too
honest and industrious 10 gamble of
their money on uncertainties. The
grand climax came last Tuesday-hc
great feast and barbecue! Neither the
weather, nor the auction sale Of Sutrs
Tunnel stock, proved propitious or
profitable. But the "6rst pick" was
struck, and its sound was heard, al
though not far off; nor did the
mountains shake and jingle aay
more than the pockets Of the in
credulous and cautious Lyonites,
when subscriptions were called for
not muchly. All that Sutro could get
subscribed on his list-good, bad and
indifEerent-was between three and four
thousand-not q dollar more. Last
week was a rather lively one With Su-
tro; bills for advertising and printing,
for champagne, cigars, suppers, car
riages, etc., etc., came heavily on Sat-
urday s%rsning-dnd grass wGs getting
short. SO on Sunday morning he started
out his Superintendent at Corral Can
yon, a Mr.. Bethel, and requested him to
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