Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-06-17
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III our NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ouOub SSuoa
Hill, at the north Of Virginia, yester-
day morning, we stopped ut Halls
famous Pioneer Laundry, which, as
everybody knows Is situated in the
ravine just north Of the old Utah mine,
convenient to the Philadelphia Brew
cry. Here pleasantly aud BEAUTIFULLY
located. and comfortably fixed In a
thriving business, are the patriarch
Hall and his numerous sons, with their
wives, families flocks, herds and chick
ms. Here In this Arcadian spot, amid
groves of thrifty young cottonwoods,
aromatic sagebrush. wild cherry
bushes, and long fluttering p~latoons Of
clean clothes they %luXuriate, increase
and multiply beneath the grateful
shade Of the paternal vine and fig tree.
They thrive, too, for they are all work
ers, and like the swarming inhabitants
Of a beehive, the Hall settlement Is q
busy, stirring community. Even the
numerous chickens, so busy scratching
about, are patterns of industry, and
that old NANCY rooster-but We
started In to make mention only Of the
Improvement.
Within the past few months, owing
to the continued increase of business,
considerable Improvements In the
laundry facilities have been necessarily
adopted. A huge cylindrical washer,
twelve feet long by five feet In diam
eter, now does the principal part Of
the washing. The clothes being put
into It through q door In the side, with
the proper amount Of soap and hot
water, the cylinder Is made to turn at
q moderate rate, occasionally reversing
the motion, and 1t being smooth inside,
the clothes are not worn or torn Mt all,
but simply kept in constant motion
through the suds until the dirt Is all
out Of them. Subsequent rinsing, q
rub or so by hand If needed, in places,
such as about collars, ETC., or boiling,
In the case of shirts and such articles
of linen Us require such treatment,
completes this Frieburg barrel process,
If we may so term 1t. The clothes r
then passed through a powerful patent
wrinaer. near by, after which they are
ready for drying. This Is done by
hanging them out on wires Instead OF
lines-wires made of a peculiar COM
position which does not either rust or
stain the clothes. In wet weather
drying room indoors Is called Into
reauisition. heated by the large furnace
upon which the flatirons are also
heated. The great cylindrical washer,
and also the wringer, are turned Dy
steam power, the motor being a neat
little perpendicular donkey engine OF
four or five horse power. By means OF
a circular saw driven by this same
little engine all the wood consumed
about the establishment is sawed. We
also noticed q new and peculiar style
of machine in the ironing room for
ironing shirt bosoms. This consists Of
a cloth-coyered cylinder, turned by
hand, which causes the article placed
upon it to pass beneath n hollow
smoothing iron with q charcoal fire
inside Of ft-a young furnace. All the
water for boiling and other purposes Is
heated BY steam. Men do all the
heavy work about the laundry, and
three women are constantly employed
sewing OH buttons, mending, etc. An
important feature Of this establish
ment Is the very complete system OF
recording, marking and cancellng
every article or package of clothing
received from the wagons or sent out
for delivery. Thus nothing Is ever
lost, not even so much as a necS-tie or
an odd sock.
Hsme Rntsrprises.
In speaking of the domestic increase
Of the Hall ranch, we doubtless ought
10 make special mention first Of the
two fat and rosy little babies we saw,
but no, we will leave them to their
happy mothers and dwell onto us
more familiar subjects. Such a heter-
n collection Of all sorts Of
chickens we never saw, as infest those
premises. They came at the least feed
sign or p%rovocation from all quarters,
and represented pretty much all breeds
except the Shanhai or the Guinea fowl.
There was the big Brahma-Pootra. the
little Dominique, the lop-eared Black
Spanish hen, which always lays and
never sets, and the old NANCY rooster
Of no particular breed at all. And
then such a regiment of young chick
ems, partaking Of all breeds, besides
small private companies, battalions,
and settlements of little bob-tailed
fellows Of exclusive blood! Hall goes
In for '.blood, Iago blood" rs well as
eggs. If all these chickens grow up
and get to laying, the ranch will be
kept ankle deep In eggs this fall.