Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-03-14
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The Commissioners and officers OF
Lyon County, and the Commissioners
OF Ormsby and Storey, witha number
other OF guests, were invited by the of
ficers of the Virginia & Truckee Rail-
road Company to make an official in
spection of the road last Saturday-the
principal object of which was to view
the branch from the Santiago mine
down to Silver City. Accordingly at
twelve o'clock on Saturday, the loco
motive LYON, .(Mr. Hood, conductor,l
attached to a passenger ear, left Viz
ginia City with the following named
gentlemen:
From Storey CoWaty-County Com
missioner Ed. Patten, Major L. b.
Storer, Captain I. G.. Taylor, Chief
Engineer Ike James, Colonel D. T..
Avery, United States District Attorney
VIM. Woods, Colonel Frank Denver,
n. A. II. Ball, Esq, Marshal Crandall,
and Philip Lynch, of the NEWS.
From Lyon County-County Commits
sioners J. +. Roney, W. Buncher, and
w. W. Byron ; District Attorney VIM.
NJ. Gates; County Assessor G. G. Nc
Fadden; Public Administrator j. II.
Jaqua; Sheriff G. w. Shaw; County
Clerk W. A. Luders; County Auditor
l.. l.. Crockett; County Treasurer B.
II. Carricl-and Messrs. G. w. Keith,
|. d. Cross, W. A. Seaton, George P.
Howe, p. Barnes. G. L. Brant, Charles
Mayer, - Atchison, DR.. p. 4. Kirby,
r. 4. Mullard, General Joseph Munck-
ton, and Assistant Conductor Riley
Armstrong.
From Ornsby County-County Com
m~issioners A. B. Driesbach, S. f.
Jones and H. F. Rice; and Major
George Tutfy, Colonel John Z. James
and Colonel Milt Elstner.
The "Lyon"r ran down through Gold
Hill with its distinguished load of pas
sengers in handsome style, and kept
on down through American Flat at n
speed and smoothness which surprised
everybody OH board. Near the San
tiago mine the train switched off on to
the Silver city branch, which is a mile
and q half long, with a down-gnde of
one hundred and thirty-two feet /; and
when the train arrived at the monster
dump and high trestle work which
stands two hundred and fifty feet above
Silver City, the Lyon" saluted the
Silverites by blowing her steam whistle
loud enough to bring the whole town
out on to the streets. The Bacon mill
was the first to respond, followed by
the Pioneer and others.
The Committee Of Inspection exam
ined the Railroad works at this point,
and expressed their entire satisfaction.
A trestle work seventy feet In hight
and about q hundred feet long has here
been constructed, with very heavy
timbers, upon which the ore cars from
the Gold Hill and Virginia mines are
run, the cars generally containing
eight tons Of ore, the contents being
unloaded simply by Withdrawing u
heavy iron bolt from the bottom of the
car, the ore then dropping down into
dumps or compartments allotted to the
different mills-the Bacon, the Trench,
the Pioneer or any other mill. An
incline road with cars then conveys
the ore two hundred feet in hight to
the Bacon and Trench mills, and
empties it into the dumps at the bat
teries. Several other inclines are to
be constructed. The whole of this
loading and unloading is done without
the use of q shovel, and the capacity
of the works Is already sufficient to
supply all present demands OF the
mills in the neighborhood. The whole
arrangement Is n Of the finest me-
chanical conceptions in the State, and
reflects great credit on Mr.. James, the
chief engineer of the road.
Amer the works at this point had
been satisfactorily inspected by those
who came for that purpose, they were
invited, at half-past N O'Clock, to a
most sumptuous collation. : spread
upon the high trestle work floor, and
which consisted Of everything usually
prepared for such occasions, and which
was greatly relishei by the company,
After the cloth was removed, a num-
Der Of very pleasant sentiments were
drank and responded to by gentlemen
who were called upon. The first n
Of which was proposed by the Lyon
County Commissioners: 80 the pro-
jectors and accomplishers Of the Vlr-
ginia and Truckee Railroad" This
sentiment was handsomely responded
to by Col. Avery, on behalf of the
company. The health and prosperity
of William Sharon, Esq, was then
proposed with three cheers-which was
responded to by Mr.. Ball tMr. Sharon
being In San francisco. and the
cheers, with a "tiger,'' were given
with u vim. Lyon, Ormsbya and Storey
counties were also complimented with
sentiments and cheers. ieringtop,
superintendent; james, Engineer;
Ball, Secretary the Press, and others,
came in for sentiment and cheers.
Conductor Hood then called "all
hands aboard" and the "Lyon" started
off at a thirty mile " hour gait up the
steep grade, and over the hills and far
away towards Carson, six miles Of the
distance being made at the rate Of o