The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-08-19
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Of mile deep, and cut parallel into (
% many secksbuns that 3 wooden I
frame work Il necessary 70 keep She
people, The houses. and the pots and
kit,Ies from dropping down into the ?
bowels or the earth
Virginia City L to-day the best
preserved city On the coast. al the
virgin accomplishments OF the earig
times are stilI il fuH force here now
every man IL anxious to bet bis hard
pan dollar On ennytbing. and if you
refuse TO drink with one ov theze
genial and laTser-loving cusses, Va
are expekted 20 feel a bullet making
lis way into your premises at once /
Theze eivilities are pleazant snd .
make a man feel at home Immediately F
Everything cut here costs a bit. /
which Il another name for shilling.
al paper money IL diskarded, sold
and silver IL the currency.
reached Karson City, the capitol
ov Nevada at o'clock Thursday
evening, March 18th, aad quietly
took room at the Ormsby House.
Everybody seemed happy to see
me. and had IS invitashuas the
fust hour to drink, most Of which i
accepted.
waz introduced to haf the town,
think. before i went to bed the fust
rite, aud amung the rest waz Hank
Monk. who Z enc ov the noted whips
ov this kuntry, and who haz bekum
famous for life, for taking Horace /
Greeley thru here on time He IL a
wiry, kompaktIy-k1nsuukted man
and baz a eve t..-. = built expressly
for taking the right chance sudden
IT,
III was a going to be upset into a /
hundred foot deep canyon, would
Just az soon hav Hank 20 DO it az
ennv other man.
Every fu hours meet sum one
who haz sum wendeFphull story ov
border life to tell ne, j listen aud an
surprised ov course.
Nj rule il, when man wants to
be the hero or the ockashun. aud
thinks be L, to keep him thinking
right along in that way-
I never hav been able to make en-
nv thing bi convincing a man that be
waz wrong, and experience teaches
me that va kant pleaze emmy one to
mutch. without lJesing emmy thing
yourself, as VI kan to listen to them
l generally listen to the great talk
ers until they get thrue, and then
with most Of them settled IN this
way; allow so per cent for shrink
age, and charge them with 40 per
CEN for what amt so, and give them
kredit for the balance.
This don't leave them much profit
on the transackshun.
At Kacso i was plakarded to war
lie, und had the theatre full ov peo-
pie at one dollar and fifty cents each,
payable in gold.
They paid me 4 hundred dollars
/ for the texture all IN haf dollars. and
/ / started from the theatre to mi hotel
full OF moany, ali over, and as well
ballasted az though had a bushell
and a haif o. Rockway klams on mi
body
l took the mummy up into mi room
and set nj WIFE 70 counting 1t, and
when she got thru we piled 1t Up an
der the bed that night for safety.
To-day il Sunday, and all the
stores and saloons are in fGll blast,
I groups ov lazy IDjins are hanging
around the corners, Cinnamon are
hurrying along doing sum kind ov
drudgery.
The ride over the Sierra Nsvades
I Il one ov the rraudest in the world,
AMI waz mutch increased in novelty
/ by the tremendous snow storms that
hav prevailed tnare for the last three
J weeks.
I don't propoze 10 tell 4ay one
mutch about the great thing saw
thare-let them 90 and look for them
selves. This Il the only real dis
kripshun that kan be given
Thousands aud tens ov thousands
+ ov our people hav been to Europe,
and got 50 infatuated with the Won
ders thew saw thare that they could
/ hardly talk their mother tung when
they cum bak who never hav thought
I it worth their time to take q trip 70
the Paciick. and vet thare Il 10 such
I trip on the lace oT the earth for vari-
( ed scenery, remarkable enterprise,
mineral wealth, boundless expanse,
sumblime sumits, deep canyons, Wild
waterfalls, big trees. wild game and
wilder Injins.
For 50 miles on the sumits Oy the
Sierra Nevadas the snow, AZ the writ
ing ov this letter, Il p feet deep, and
in manv places more than 20
The train that took Us over waz
drawn BIZ eight engines, and We pas
sed through the snow blockade into
I Sacramento only SIX hours later from
View York City.
The change from the SUBMITS or
The mountains 10 the valley ov Sac
ramento Is one oy the strange=t im-
aginable
Three hours ride from enc vast,
I interminable scene OF rJk ribbed
mountain peak, and huge piles Of
snow. and every look o. frozen bar
reness. and we were WHARF the roses
She'd their gentel fragrance, WHARF,
the butiful callahs hav blo0med all
winter long, WHARF, the green lawns
hav ahreddv been many times shaw
en-. WHARF the aprikott and the peach
were in full bloom, with the promiss
ov q full bearing, and WHARF the or
ange trees hung laden with yellow
fruit, now ripe and reddy to pix
Nelc York Weakly.
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