Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-01-23
A Now s.,re Tunnsl Bill.

poor mans plaster, Nj. Sutro can be
safely recommended. He sticks to a
project closer than a tick to q scabby,
Sheep. Rebuffs, ridicule, the lapse OF
wears, nothing discourages Adolph.
His "Sutro tunnel " enterprise has be-
come with him a fixed idea, q mono
mania, rs 1t were. Several years ago
he dreamed a dream. A tunnel bear
ing his name was to connect the DOW
els of the Comstock with the Carson
river. He saw himself In the halls OF
Congress, explaining to an admiring
assembly the immense benefits 70 man.
kind to accrue from the grand enter
prise. He spoke of Freiberg and the
Hartz mountains, and he saw Congress
make haste and vote him $5,0O0,OO0
that's all Adolph demanded(, and d.
rect him to carry out this great work,
which was to immortalize the name
of Sutro and give him the control of
g. 900, 900. 1t was q very pleasant
dream, and Adolph, who belongs to
the tribe of Joseph, the great dreamer
Of old, Interpreted 1t to mean that he
was wanted at Washington to receive
the IS, 900, 900. So to Washington no
went; but though he produced most
magnificent maps, had gllt-edged PAM
phlets, In which the Hartz mountains
were described, and the Sutro tunnel!
demonstrated to be the great need OF
| the age, somehow or other he failed to
make Congress "see It," But though
wears of disappointment have elapsed
since that time, he has not thrown up
the sponge-not he. He still insists
upon being a public b%enefactor, and
has succeeded In inducing old Nye to
introduce another bill In tile United
States Senate, In which $2,000,000 are
knocked off from previous estimates.
He wants only $4,000, 900 new. The
bill lust introduced directs the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to pay over to the
Sutro Company sums, from time to
time, not to exceed $1,000, 900. For
each 500 feet Of "tunnel, SHIFTS, or
branches" the company shall receive
$50, 600; tho payment Of said sums to
constitute n first mortgage and lien on
the whole of the tunnel, and all the
machinery attached. After the COM
pletion of the main tunnel to Its inter-
section with the Comstock lode, % per
cent. of the net amount collected for
tolls, drainage, transportation OF ore,
rock and material, after deducting ex-
penses, shall twice q year be paid into
the United States Treasury, In payment
of the sums advanced; and 10 per cent.
| of said net amount collected after the
completion of the tunnel to its inter-
section with the Comstock, shall be
paid to the United States rs an endow-
| mcnt fund. to be invested In Govern
ment securities, the interest to be used
for a National School Of Mines. II the
company fail to pay, said tunnel and
| all rights thereunto belonging shall be
taken possession Of by the United
States. u
This is not only fair, but absolutely
philanthroplc. Government can lose
nothing, for If the worst comes to the
worst Ii will own the tunnel, and
wouldn't that be magnificent piece Of
property for Government to own? We
should say so. Bull purps would be
nowhere In comparison.
We are not surprised at Sutro's
efforts in having this bill introduced,
for his impudence knows no bounds;
but we confess that old Nye rather
puzzles us. He knows that the tunnel
Il not q necessity, The Gold Hill
Neps. who ought to know, thus speaks
on this point: practical miners here
laugh ut the idea Of such a tunnel
being needed, for almost every mine
| on the Comstock Is dry In its lower
levels, and therefore there Is no neces-
sityof 1t for drainage uses. For rails
ing the ores all our mines are amply
provided with powerfu hoisting-works,
tand perhaps the principal need Is,
there is not enough rich ore to hoist
up. The Savage mine, ut Its present
lowest depth, four hundred feet above
the Identical spot where the Sutro Tun-
mel would strike 1t, Is dry as a powder
house-another propitious circum-
stance for the Comstock mines, show
ing that the water belt is passed ut a
certain depth, and drain tunnels are
not needed"
= We have got tired of this din about
the "Sutro Tunnel" Everybody In.
Virginia and Gold Hill knows that the
whole thing Is a "bilk," pure and un-
mitigated. Those accounts that the
press of the State publish about the
tunnel having been run In so many
feet during the "last week" etc., are
all falsehoods thrown out by the par
ties interested, and innocently clrcu-
lated Us genuine facts by the interior
press, who know no better. We have
been informed on reliable authority
that the great Sutro Tunnel now In
course of construction, instead of
being, as is generally supposed, ten
feet high and twelve feet wide, Is q
mere coyote hole. The work being
done at present is a sham to humbug
the outside world. We hope Congress
will put q final quietus on this Sutro
Tunnel nuisance. and that its origi-
nator, finding his efforts unappre-.
ciated, will turn his energies to more
legitimate pursuits.-Reese Rtrer Re,
ueiile, January 18Th. a>
A FEMALE SobDIER.-Last evening