Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-10-21
DRAWING or THE GREAT
LOTTERY.


cocted, projected or conceived OF on
the Pacific coast has ever created one
hundredth part Of the real deep inter-
est, combined with confidence, that
the present great Mercantile Library
Lottery has and does, especially at the
present time. The tickets have been
sold universally among all classes OF
people, and with the progress Of the
selling has continually increased the
confidence Of everybody, inciting a
corresponding desire to be the pos
SCISSOR of at least n ticket. We begin
TO think, from conversation with every
body, tina. about every man, woman
and child IN Gold Hill or Virginia has
got n ticket, or at least 4 coupon
As the tickets are now all, or nearly
all sold, We cannot be looked upon ~
"capping" for the coacern II we make
mention Of the most conSrltulatory
idea existing in the matter OF the
chances for winning a prize. Our
Spykens, the kappie3t, richest feeling
ticket holder oft!icm all argues thuslr:
"Well, I'm sure Of n thing, cant
win less than 800 anyhow, and faint
10 use for anybody to tell me, that the
blind bow can stick his hand G2S times
into that wheel without drawin' out 4
prize for me-" AS this matter Is II
Of such general interest TO so many
people In this section, and as the great
important day for the drawing is so
near mt hand-ouly a week from next
Monday we publish the following
from the San Francisco Chronicle. rel
alive to the modus operdndi and details
of the drawing, as far rs arranged M
understood at present:
1.-The drawing will commence at 3
o'clock OH the morning OF the 3lst
instant. and will be continued until
the whole Of the ticket; have been
drawn, an operation which it Is esti-
mated will occupy twenty hours-that
l., until 5 o'clock on Tuesday morning.
A committee, not yet appointed, but
TO consist of some Of leading citi-
zens. will be in attendance ut the lot
tery wheels to prevent even the suSpi-
cion of foul play. The details Of the
drawing have been planned with the
greatest care to the same cad, viz.
perfect fairness. All the countcrpartS
of the coupons have been, from timc
10 time, carefully locked up. On the
day Of the drawing they will be pro-
duced again. and each Of the winning
tickets presented will be compared
with these counterparts and have to
correspond with them In some secret
popularity Of marks. The 100000
numbers corresponding to the tickets
were printed at Sacramento by IL. ).
Croker & Co., who possess the only
press In the State capable Of perform
inc that class Of work. AT II I'M
pression It strikes sixteen numbers,
Mt the next the sixteen consecutive,
and so oil from ! to 100000. 1t Is
what Is called a raiiroad-ticket press.
Oval-shaped slips Of leather. bearing
the numbers, have been placed on cop
Der wires, 1000 oil each piece. Ihey
will be counted three times at Dorc g
Peters office, and will be then sent to
2. w. Bourne, Secretary Of the Me-
chanics' Insurance Company. and I'D.
Wiepin, at the Pioneer building. who
will Count them all. The first lOO,0 O0
has already been counted and sealed
up, and, with the second loo, 900, will
be delivered on the morning OF the
drawing, at the Pavilion, under the
seal Of Messrs. Bourne and Wiggln.
At 7 o'clock OH the morning Of the
drawing the tickets will be placed In
the wheels. In the large wheel, the
mechanism of which has already been
explained, will be placed the numbers
from l to 200, 900. A second and
smaller wheel will contain printed
tickets, representing the G2S amounts
which constitute the prizes. Each
ticket will be Enclosed In n small gilt
box. The wheel containing the num-
bers will then DO made to revolve for
half an hour, by which time, the tick
cts having been thoroughly mixed, the
actual drawing will commence. 4
blind child will draw q number from
the large wheel, and n second blind
child will draw a prize from the small
wheel. Tho box containing the slip
of paper with the amount Of the gift
upon it will be opened before the audi,
ence, and the result announced aloud
Immediately. The concert will, o.
course, be merely q nominal part o
the affair, and VIII not be allowed t
interfere In any WAY with the progress
Of the drawing.