Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-12-09
NEVADA AT THE CENTENNIAL.

The Carson Appeal, which is just now
our source of knowledge. thus sarcas-
tically hits at those who would peddle
bullion at tho Centennial. The subject
is that quartz MILL" the proposal being
now made to combine business and
renown, pleasure and profit. by disposing
of the "little silver brioks" for sundry
pecuniary considerations:
As to the supply of ore for running the
proposed mill, We understand that the
Consolidated Virginia people have agreed
| to furnish it on certain reasonable terms,
Whiting for their pay until after the ore
is worked by the proposed Centennial
mill. OF course the cost price OF the ore
with freight charges and the expense OF
working added would make the outlay Of
money something like double the value
OF the bullion that might be extracted;
but it is proposed to make little bricks
3 OF bullion right there in the Centennial
8 building and offer the same for sale for
q two or three times their value; the GUS
l. toners being of course the people from
Q the rural districts" whom the Enter
,r prise talks OF, and who wouldn't mind
being thus playfully chiseled. OF course
b. it is mere guess and an extravaganza
ss estimate Of Eastern gullibility which ere.
ID ates this market for our bullion, and OF
IS course, also, there is q chance that the
rustics Of the Atlantic sea-board wouldn't
or bite at our little silver hook; but this is
to the way out of the besetting difficulties Of
We this mill business and it must go fol
that we see something more betting the
0S l;,xskx, pf Ckoka in nniattv nv
hibiting her staple products as we shal
~ do in our cabinet (if it is ever set up a
the Fairy. than in thus doing CheaI
s5 Jack, hot muffin business with paten
To- quartz mill and Charley Palmer at
OF tachment. Perhaps it would be we'll t
to send pioneer ahead to find out If thu
1t. State of Maine intends to set up
id shingle machine; Massachusetts, n cod
Ie, curing factory; Pennsylvania petro
in leum refinery; Ohio slaughter-house
of Illinois grain elevator and Delaware
peanut rooster before we make definit
"A arrangements for the State of Nevad
- ore-reducing and brick.peddling Bureau
oi II tho older States are going to set NJ
il shop at the Great Fair, and huckste
IL their wares. we may also be justified il
establishing and carrying on, unde
30 Pennsylvania State and Philadelphi
De municipal licenses, a siiver-nugget fac
ull tory and custom. made double-pric
nv brick retailing shop. Once the invest
~ ment is shown to be sure pay, nothin
No else remains to bother us but questio
IL of taste. Seriously, however, We shout
,st not feel proud of any such doings as "
Al. have hinted at if carried on in the nam
-. and under the authority OF the Sovel
W eighty OF Nevada. We all take our laug
ito at the small, nickle-s spending, fppenn,
ex. higgling ways of the typical Easter
mo tourist; but the States they come frol
-, might turn the laugh against our sma
NIX Centennial swindle and ask our represeI
on tatives at Philadelphia il this quar-
en- mill contrivanco were a specimen OF oil
"a lavish, never. mind-the small-change wa
~ of doing things in the sage brusl
sh' Moreover. precedents are precedent
and we do not relish the notion of Il
State going into the quartz crushing or
ore reducing trade even in the toy-sbf
10 way; for if il can be made a paying bus
ila- ness it should be left to private ente
,er. prise and not monopolizsd by the Stat