Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-03-27
LAND or rnE n
An lnnigraars Lssssr-His opin-
Ion Of the Csuntry.

The following letter. which vas found
In the room Of a lodging house in vir-
ginia City q few days after the occupant
started home. speaks for itself. II is
evident that he considers the u
OF this country somewhat overestimated.
and was anxious TO see his Mary Jane
and get back 70 . country whore cigars
are cheap:
VIRGINIA CrrI. March 3, 1875.
Dean BHornrR: Well ! have got here
ut last, and q funny country II n, I can
tell you. Why. there amt q farm in
tho whole country. no meadders nor or
chards, nothing in the world but rocks
and sand and hills and great big chaxms
and ravines. I haven't seen a good
sized tree. ! wish I hadn't come here
at all. but was back with you all In the
sugar camp. What people does here to
enjoy themselves I don't see. There
amt no girls here to see Of
nm evening or to take TO church
On a Sunday or to spelling school at
night and no good roads through the
woods to SO buggy riding. Tho nights
is the worst. 1 can manage to knock
through the day. but night fetches mo.
There Amt no place 10 60, except into
a bar-room, and there there isn't any
place 10 set down. There in mon though
that spends hours gambling. Some
times l stand and look on but I don't
understand IL.
l don't see any chance to get rich here
AMI l don't believe anybody has got
much money either. You never see
such a rough built town in your life. II
people was rich amt il likely they would
1.-Two in fine houses. There isn't hardly
as good q house in this town Us lots Of
the houses in D.. And the people
dresses rough. and still n good many Of
them pretends TO DO rich.
They say there Is any quantity OF
money taken eut OF mines here. but l
havn't seen ID. There amt no style
about anything. You cant get a job Of
work IL you Was dying for it. and II you
want to dig out silver, you have got to
sink o hole like q well about a thousand
feet down straight in the ground. I'd
like 10 know how a man can do that. and
how long IL would take him. The
whole country is a hunbug. and ! would
rather have one acre OF ground in old
Clark county than the whole OF II. Them
there bonanzers lisa blk. / hayn't seen
no bonanzer. This is no place for a
poor man. II costs man q million dol.
lars 70 buy n place TO dig silver. and
after he has got a place II costs u million
more to dig Il out. II q man has got
that much money he Is q fool TO do any
thing. and II he hasn't got II. how n
he.
I would como right homo, II l wasn't
afrade Mary Jane and the balance OF
them would laugh. l guess II will be- q
long tiino before I como back in six
months. and buy Square Richards
house ON the hill. ~ | was telling Mary
Jane the night before l camo AWAY.
Don't youtell her there aint 10 silver here
or she might turn in and marry John
D. before l get back.
I have spent most all my money.
Cigars is twelve and a half cents apiece.
I havn't seen no five contors in the
country. let alone two for aye. Aud
everything is high. People eats in
place and sleeps in another. Eycrytime
you cat you have got TO pay. Some
people sleeps In blankets. II amt very
cold here. but the wind do blow fearfnlly.
Men that works has got to SO down
about half a mile straight in the ground.
They say there il water down there hot
enough 10 bile an egg. When tho men
comes up. they aro half naked and all
over slime and mud. / havo seen il
myself. There 10 sratc high mountains
all around here covered with snow. 1
wonder who first como hero. Il amt
no new place. and II IL was such a CRATE
place. wouldn't somebody have heard OF
II before.
There's no use a talking. I am coming
home. Blu. don't tell amy body I'm
coming till ! get back. and then III tell
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