Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-12-14

Opposed to Everything But :

We regret. but are not astonished,
to find that Mr.. Sutro of the Sutro
Tunnel and Sutro Independent"
has copied our brief remarks u on
the projected narrow-gauge railroad
from Eldo-=ao Canyon to Virginia
City, and made his comments there
on an occasion for direct opposition
to the project. This. We say, does
not surprise US in the least. E6w-
ever much we may regret to find so
notorious-not prominent-a citi-
zen of this county opposed to an
enterprise that, if carried out. will
give the county additional wealth
in property and benefit in every
way her people. Mr.. Sutro starts
out with string of assertions that
all of the various routes now being
looked over by those engaged in
the project are utterly impossible
to successful railroad building; that
the hills and the rocks interpose an
impossible barrier to the iron
horse; that, if it were possible, the
railroad would not be built; that
the movement is an electioneering
dodge; and that, lastly but not
least, if the rocks and hills did not
interfere, and that if it were pos
sible, and if the parties who now
propose to build it were in earnest,
and that if the road were completed,
it would be failure. For all these
assertions the great Polander pre-
sents no argument to uphold them.
no logical deductions to sustain
them. He simply says it is Be
CAUSE what? Why, because,
the Sutro Tunnel is being run to-
wards the Comstock ledge, and that
when that tunnel is finished every
thing which Virginia City, Dayton,
Silver City, Carson, Gold Hill, and
all the people this side of '.King-
dom Come" need and ought to
have can be hauled, fioated, drained,
steamed and flown through the
SUTRo TUNNEL. Poor old man if
ever engineer went clear crazy over
an invention of the mind, that man
is Adolph Sutro. To his half
crazed brain, the Sutro Tunnel is
omnipotent, omnipresent, omnipa
rous He mutters, as one with
mind diseased, of the great things
which the Sutro Tunnel is to do
for future generations, and no mat
Ter what other project may be put
on foot for the better development
OF the country-so it has not the
Sutro Tunnel as its Alpha and
Omega-the great bore is leveled
at it in bitter opposition. Tunnel,
and nothing but tunnel, enters into
his every thought, word, newspaper
article and private discussion. To
his diseased fancy the Sutro Tun-
mel is Nevada and Nevada is the
Sutro Tunnel. In nothing else is
there feasibility, honesty or virtue;
and were we imbued with the same
erazed spirit of cussedness as Adolph
Sutro, nothing would have charm
for us but the Sutro Tunnel. The
ordinary pleasures of life would be
as an undesirable mist; the wealth OF
knowledge and universe would be
dross; golden ambition would be
mockery; religion and salvation the
merest bagatelle! even the promised
rest and glory OF the heavenly land
would fade away and be "stale, fiat
and unprofitable," when placed in
the balance against the Sutro Tun-
mel. Poor old man! we have more
pity than scorn for his enthusiasm,
and it is more in sorrow than in an
ger that we notice his incoherent
mumblings. For the sake of the
deluded men who have poured their
millions into the mouth of the Sutro
Tunnel, and lavished their thousands
to sustain the unlimited extrava-
gances Of the great Dutchman, we
hope our children's children may
see the tunnel completed. But if it
ever is, we as confidently expect to
see Adolph Sutro in a mad house as
we now expect TO see him oppose
every interest of this county that
does not have its origin IN the Sutro
Tunnel.
A dispatch from Bremen Haven re-
ports that a bag Of dynamite, in
tended for shipment, with the pur-
pose Of exploding while the vessel
was at sea, exploded before leaving
the wharf, killing 81 persons and
wounding %.