Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-02-18
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
FtrRoH OUR ImeuLAR CORRESPONDENT.
A LADIES, QUARRRL-INFoR-
NATION WANTED ABOUT NJ.
VADA m ASKED BALLS Il
JURY VITA AN OPINION
MABSANIRI.LO.

The wicked articles that have re-
appeared in certain Nevada
papers on the excellence of sagebrush
asa nourishlng food for cattle, and Its
properties as a hair restora-
tive and r~enovator, has justly excited
the Indignation of nj local press.
The articles in question evincc such n
deliberately malignant. intention to
a halo of romance and poetry
over desert alkali plains and barren
sides, with the presumptiye
motive Of seducing the sinew and
muscle of this State to emigrate in
that direction, that no wonder the
Cal triumphantly asks, Have these
editors ever tried sagebrush for
If any Of the Nevada jour
nails answer this question, l wish they
would oblige me by answering All
other at the same time. l ~penitently
confess that as correspondent of the
NEWS 1 ought not to be so wofully and
unpardonably Ignorant, but I should
like to know what Nevada has done to
be looked upon as such an irreclaim-
ably vicious and desperately naughty
sister of all the other States. l have
pondered over this subject more or less
for a year. Ihaye diligently searched
through the columns of the News,
Enterprise, Independent, State Register,
Rereiue and Sentinel; I have labori-
ously waded through columns Of corre-
spondence and ponderous editorials ; |
have done everything indeed that n
mar Is expected to do in pursuit Of
truth and knowledge. and yet am not
a whit wiser than | vas twelve months
ago. All | know is that Nevada is
supposed to be given up to all kinds Of
wicked devices; that she is supposed
to be morally reprobate to be scared
with unholiness; to be constantly
Matching vile schemes for the deluslon
of unwary capitalists; and to be in
fact as full of vain tricks and dark
ways rs it Is possible for n State to be.
If San Francisco wants to point a
moral-lo, there Is Nevada. If Cali
fornia wants an illustration Of total
depravity, she points to Nevada: If
anybody wants to symbolic good-for-
nothinguess, they point to the sage
brush State, so that at last | have
almost come to the conclusion that
Nevada is n nicely developed speci-
men of wholesale unregeneration.
And, while replying to this inquiry,
some OF your papers might at the same
time answer q few others, and thus
either dissipate or confirm certain
statements that have been so repeat
edly impressed upon C~alifornians that
they are now accepted as truths. Is 1t
true. for instance
First-Tlmt the Bank Of California
owns al undivided half interest In the
State?
Second-That 1t controls the election
of the township constables in Storey,
Ormsby and Lincoln counties?
Third-rhat it spent 81, 900, 600 last
September to achieve this triumph of
bloatcd capital?
Is it true
First-rhat the Central Pacific and
the Virginia City and Truckec Rail-
roads hold the otter hall interest IN
your State?
Secoud-That Senator Nye also owns
a half interest:
Third-Tlnt Representative Fitch
owns another?
Fourth-'rhat some one has stolen
your State Prison, Insane Asylum,
State Capitol, and Land Office, and
that none Of the buildings have been
G since?
Fifth-That all your mines arc con-
trolled by the Bank of California?
s Sixth-That they are all controlled
BY INSCRIPTIONS rings?
Seyeuth-That these rings think
nothing of setting fire to q mine or
two for the purpose of deDreciating
their own property?
These statements have been made so
often, either directly or by inucndo,
and both by newspapers here and cor
RESPONDENTS In Nevada, that nine
ne6nlc ont Of ten regard them as crys-
taIizrd truths. to be received, sadly it
NAV he. ne evidences of human fraiity,
hmt vct ma bevond impeachment or de-
NAL IF these thing, are so, | can
only suupss that yoIlr citizens should
Immediately retain Elder Grant and
tempt Scudder; procure n reinforce
ment of clergy, metaphorically get OH
the anxious seat as soon rs possible,
try a dose of that raging hypnotic,
Choral Hydrate, and having thus
Durged souls and bodies, make some
Slight attempt at reformation. Some
times l nave tho"gns 'na. .res nv nv
5icNs on t' "nd envv. that tho in.
vesters in tho seventeen hundred min
ing companies formed a couple of
years ago IN San Francisco to develop
the nlcuel res9". IT, u IN 49, unt haO
con,iny miliionories by promulgating
these yarns. That, those who look
upon every legitimate business enter
prise Oh me Sank OF EnI,,otn," Us %f
lnsluio"s "tIIeh Oil thG SCnsI.tut'onio,
the onited States anu al tlose wiz
nave pau o.t teE uoinus naon,sad ~ Ii n