Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-07-21

BEARS-ThE GOLD KILLERS AT
MeKINNEY,S, AND WHAT THEY
ARE DOING-MUSIC on THELAKE-
EVERYTHING LOvELY-THE GLO-
RIOUS LAKE AND AN ODE THERE.
on.
McKINNEY's, LAKE TAHOE,
July 18th, 1873.
DEAR NEWS: 1t was 8 o'clock last
Saturday evening when our bosom
friend Spykens and ourself, properly
provided with carpet sack for our ex-
ira shirt aud a bottle Of soda cocktail
in our starboard p~ea:jacket pocket,
LEFT Gold Hill for q rusticatlng voyage
to and upon this famous inland sea, so
unequally aud unfairly divided be-
tween California and Nevada. OF the
trip over the Virginia and Truckee
Railroad, with Its oft described mean
dering sinuosIties and all that sort OF
thing, we need not speak. The train
went along smoothly and took us
through to Reno comfortably and OH
time. rs usual. Among Jul fellow
travellers were Col. Abe Curry, Jos.
L. Goodman Of the Territorial Enter
prise, bound for Donuer Lake, where
his wife had preceded him a day or
two. john Booth, late Of the Phoebe
Record. (he only went rs far As Carson.
to his family X. II. Lindsay. WIN.
WOODBURY. and L. d. James Of Virginia
aud two or three festive young school
teacheresses from that city. At Reno
we met the National Guard Brass
| Band, which harmonious combination
of Virginians and Cold Killers every
body knows Is not to be beaten BY any
similar band on the Pacific coast.
They came down the day before. aid
formed u very welcome addition TO our
company. They also were bound for
Lake Tahoe, after stopping II night
at Donuer Lake. We did not yet
away from Reno until 4 o'clock Sun
day morning, owing to a car Of the
west bound train Oh the Central Pa
citic getting OF tho track, but In an
hour aud a halt after tEat we disem'
barSed ut
Truckee.
Here we waited till S o'clock A. NJ,
the time when the stages start out for
Lake Tahoe. And here We took
breakfast. Good hotel, plenty Of wait
ers about the tables, plenty Of water
in the coffee, plenty Of water In the
milk, plenty more In the river; III
fact Truckee Is a good wltering place
as we'll as a thrifty town. IL Is also
the great depot for lumber to build
other thrifty towns with. Spyken>
noticed one thing at breakfast, which
was that the pepper-boxes were treach
erous. The top came of the II he
went to pepper his soft boiled egg
with and dumped the entire contents
into the cup, spelling his grub and
aud souring his angelic temper for the
balance OF the day. Met several very
agreeable gentlemen mt Truckee and
one queer looking duck with his hair
cut, rs Spykens termed II, "a Ia
moved" (bobbed of short and scrag
Cyl was polluted out to us rs the editor
Of the Truckee Republican. Among
other old acquaiutances, we also met
Billy Lowenstine, formerly OF the
firm OF Kelly & L~owenstlne, groccrs.
Virginia City. Billy Is In that same
line of business yet, aud thinks
Truckee a better place than even Gold
Hill or Virginia. The most noticea-
BILE characteristics Of the place. how
ever. to Spykens, were that breakfast, u
general overplus Of water, the staunch
old locomotive Samson continually
p~atroling up and down the track
through the centre Of the town, the In
eyltable Chinese quarter, with Its very
d,s.stink-tive attributes, aud long.
tailed, blandly smiling population,
and the dark, flashing waters Of the
rruckee River rolling rapidly BY the
neat cottages aud comfortable dwell
lings Of the white folks.
A Beauufai Drive.
That drive of fifteen miles up the
river, from Truckee to Tahoe City, Is
at least one OF the prettiest and most
romantic In the world. The river.
full of nice. clear, soft, cool, ~splashing
waters, stranded saw logs, trout and
things, rolled Of Its way rejoicing to
dilutingly tone down the alkaline
waters Of Pyramid Lake. water the
cattle and fertlllze the soil Of rruckee
Meadows, aud furnish eligible baths
for the Remedies. The road followed
the river all the way, winding among
tall pines aud frs and green shrubbery,
with grand aud lofty mountains Oh
either hand, giving occasional glimpses
of snow away In the distance through
the green boughs aud foliage, and
there WIS very little dust to annoy
anybody.
The Fish Pssds.
Some 81 miles from Truckec the
stage stopped at Frazler's fish hatch.
ing establishment on the left bank OF
the river, and the passengers were al
lowed time to take a critical look
through the Institution and observe the
modus operdndi Of trout Matching anu
trout raising, by paying the sum al
twv-bits each tor the privilege. We
were shown a series Of ponds, like the
fish. artifielslly erected, In which were
trout from five years old down to those
Of only a few weeks Or days old, ana
around to the shed In which We're the
Matching boxes or series OF sluices Ia
which the eggs were placed for iucu.
bation. There we saw the myrisds OF
little orange colored eggs or spawn.
which had just been stripped or
squeezed from the female trout and
spreau over clean white gravel or sand
with a thin sheet Of water passing over
It, and followed the progressive stages
I'LL we could see the little minnOws
part Of an inch long, with eyes like
goggles, aud the uncolsumed eggs still
sticking fat to their jolly little frog
bellies. This trout raising Institution
Is said to be a very profitable concern.
Won sehnidt's Dam.
This famous institution Is at the
head Of the river, where 1t comes out
Of Lake Tahoe, and the plratical man
who devised 1t has been to a good deal
~ofexpense and no profit In TIE matter
thus far. He concocted q wicked
scheme to divert the waters from
Truckee river, and turn tho same over
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