The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-07-28

DEVILS DARx-NEEDLEs.-A perfect
cloud of these winged air-foragers Wis
tied us yesterday. Some people call
them mosquito hawks, and wherever
there are mosquitoes they make it
mighty lively for them. Yesterday
morning the atmosphere of Main street,
was filled with them, and they darted
around in SO needless a manner that
eyes were in danger for a time. There
is a place on the Island of Kauai called
Hanalei. II is bottom land and n great
breeder of Sandwich Island mosquitoes.
just about twilight, they rise from the
moist lands in dense columns, and fly
around in search of blood. A mule or
q COW or n horse has no more show with
these lancet-armed insects than a rattle
snake has in a pig-pen. But all of q
sudden, a huge army of darn needles
will sweep along in several columns, and
before long they will have devoured the
whole tribe of mosquitoes, to the infn-
lite satisfaction of the pierced and bleed
ing animals who escape the torture of
the gallinippers. But the thing does not
end here. After the d~arn-needles have
supped on four orifve billion mosquitoes,
along m a gang Of bats and eat up
the needles. If one waits long enough
he wills see n flock of great n~ight-hawks
come along and make short work of the
bats; and then several hungry bald
headed eagles will make their appear
ance among the hawks, and when they
are gone, along come-but We will stop
here, for We might go on ad infinitum.
A SPLENDID PRosPEcT.-The furnace
to be erected by DR.. McMeans, at Robin
son, will receive its blast from water
power, obtained from The creek, at a
point where there is quite q precipitous
fall of q large volume of water. A wheel,
with under-shot buckets, will be placed
at the fall, and from this source ample
power will be had to keep up a sufficient
blast. We understand that the doctor
has made q lucky contract with the
owners Of a mine called the Carbonate,
and upon this agreement he is erecting
the furnace. The Carbonate has opened
into a vein all the way from 10 inches TO
3 feet wide, which possesses astonishing
metallic wealth. An assay of some bull
lion which was taken from it and brought
here, showed results of the most ~extraor-
binary character. 1t contained over
80, 900 to the tun of gold, and over 800
of silver. If the doctor can get enough
of this quality of ore to smelt, his con-
tract will be one of the best strokes Of
luck he has fallen across since he came
to the promised land
A WHIRLwIsD.-A sharp whirlwind
started near our printshop, yesterday,
while the school children were taking
recess. II came right upon them, and
carried high in the air hats and caps,
and scooped up columns of dust, hat as
cended in spiral circles to a very great
altitude. The whirlwind travelled very
slowly in a horizontal direction, and
must have been about ten minutes in
reaching the broken ground for the new
smelling works, followed all the time by
the adventurous young ones. who wonld
dive into its whizzing circle with the
greatest gusto. When we last saw il, it
was leisurely sailing up Momomoke
mountain, in the direction of the Water
Works tunnel. II left our office and the
schoolhouse just out of its track, and
was vicious enough at n time to have
made il dangerous for either building to
have been within the radius Of its circu-
lating strength.