The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-09-20
EVREKA-I ITS BUSINESS AND POP
ULATIOU.
EUREKA, New, Sept. Is, 1871.


EDITOR REGIsTER:-As per promise
1 undertake to do Eureka for the
Register. So without further ado here
goes. As regards the location of the
district, ''you know how it is your
self" but for the benefit of your nu-
merouS readers aud other outside
barbaIians, l may as we'll note III
passing, that it is situated eighty-five
miles due south, as the bee flies, of
Palisade on the Central Pacific Rail
road. The road is level, but dusty
Lord save u.s." how dusty, Your
Methodist aunt would not recognize
YOU after making the trip. One fell
low, who arrived by the stage a few
mornings since was Immediately
staked off for a rutabaga ranch by
some enterprising Eurekans. The al
titude hereabOuts is not so great as it
is over about Pogonip, though l be
lieve that the aquatic fowl hangs q
little higher here han any place else
in the State. The Winters are said to
be mild, Vet no person, not even that
+antiquated personage-'the oldest in
habitant''-will claim that this is a
tropical climate. The whole of East
ern Nevada appears prosperous and
Eureka is more inclined hat way than
any other portion of it. Why sir, l
religiousIy believe that the 'Great
East" alone will produce fifteen mil
lions for the current year; ard the
country has scarcely been scratched
vet. Talk aboutthe mineral resources
of Nevada being exhausted, A man
had lust as we'll 60 out and pull up
one single sagebrush and hen claim
that he had lifted every sprlg OF that
fragrant ''yarb' within the broad con-
fines of the State, as to talk about a
limit to the bullion producing capac-
itv of the State of Nevada. But | dl-
gress, for Eureka proper was what /
s~ignaily intended oeXercise my Faber
No. ) on.
The town Of Eureka has improved
wonderfully since / passed through It
less than a year ago; which suggests
the thought that 'somepody has peen
here since I'Ze peen gone" 1t now
has - gin mills. l undertaker's estab-
lishment, ) fast freight and , daily
stage lines to the railroad, 4 hurdv
houses. 8 livery stables, > hay yards,
10 restaurants, blacksmith and wagon
shops. 3 hotels, 15 lodging houses, )
schools. > churches-One Catholic, the
other Episcnpal-4 stationery stores, ,
furniture stores, l4provision and cloth
ing stores, l skating rink well patron
led, express and postot1ice, banking
house, first class water works Major
Mccoy prOprIetOr), one bathing pond
condensed waterL, , bath houses, :
barber shops, / drug stores, 3 ieWelry
stores, ) assay offices, / butcher SHOPS,
> boot and shoe stores, milk n vege-
table ranches till you can rest, l den
fist. a live daily paper, 9 lawyers, I
| doctors, and Notwithstanding the
Democratic prOclivities of the place, a
| large and constantly increasing Mon
golian population. The lawyers sue
| coed in swindling, and the doctors III
killing, about as many people here as
any where else.
There are ten furnaces i'll full blast
day and night, producing about fifty
tons of bullion, worth on an average
$3.50 per ton, which gives 4 monthly
Weld uf $50, 900, OF nearly s., 200, O0J
annually. More furnaces are needed,
and a few good custom mills would be
kept in constant operation. One Is
already in course of construction, and
another is projected. Considerable
English capital has lately been in
vested in the mines of the District,
which will undoubtedly greatly en-
nance the permanent prosperity OF
this section.
There has never been any particular
excitement about the place, and it may
therefore be fairly inferred that its
growth is of the kind known as healthy
has gone up solely on its merits
As an evidence of how matters have
steadily progressed, less than 0 votes
were poIled here last Fall, and o
the population of the District is eSti'
mated at about 5000, which is being
augmented daily.
The furnaces 5000 bushels
of charcoal daily, and to produce II
requires the services of about 400 men
But that's enough for this time.
CASS.