The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-09-09

up to their capacity. Mr.. Flood and
Mr.. Fair both say they expect to ship
81. 0OO, 900 of bullion month when they
get fairly started. While this seems an
extravagant estimated it would not be
more remarkable than the discoveries
already. Indeed, it is held by experts,
among them DIR. Linderman, Director
General of the Mint, who went into the
mine at the same time / did, that there
are from 100000 to S15, 100000 of
ore in sight. DR.. Rogers, of the Uni
versitv of Pennsylvania, an expert
mineralogist, said the ore seemed prac-
tically inexhaustible, and from the
manner in which it lay he thought there
was no doubt there were millions in it. y
Gen. LIE Grange, Superintendent OF the
San Francisco Mint, is of the same
opinion.
The Consolidated Virginia is situated
in the heart of Virginia City, not 200
yards from the railway station. Here is
Il city of about $1,000 inhabitants, two
or three years old, about 1000 feet
above the level of the sea, with inhabi
tants in the garb of laborers, but with
the habits of Parisians. Here are res
taurants as fine as any in the world,
though not so extensive as some, nor as
elaborate in appointments here are
drinking saloons more gorgeous in APP
pointment than any IN San francisco.
Philadelphia, or New York, and here are
shops and stores which are dazzling in
in splendor. The people here seem to
run to iewelrY. | have never seen finer
shops than are here, and the number of
diamonds displayedin the windows quite
dazzles ones senses. The club-room is
nearly as well furnished as any in New
York, except in pictures, books, and
| bronzes, and the manner of living of the
inhabitants generally is upon high
scale. No coin less than quarter of a
dollar is used here, and when L offered a
dime to the artist who polished my boots
| he gave me such q look that would
have been proud to exchange places with
him and give him the dime to boot. He
handed the money back to me, and.
for fear of making another mistake, /
gave him a S. gold piece, and he
gave me the change. I have never been
in place where money is SO plenty nor
where it is spent with SO much extrava-
gance and recklessness. Every man in
the street seems to haye his pocketful
of gold; one who would pay less than
% cents for morning paper would be
looked npon as sneak-thelf. The
houses are mostly of brick on the bust
ness streets, and the sidewalks swarm
with people, It is as dificultto get along
on G street in the evening as it is to go
along Broadway in the neighborhood OF
Fulton street in the middle of the after
noon. Every young blood in the city,
and every old one too for that matter.
has his fast horse or his pair, and
althoug Oh he may be clad in rough attire,
you may rest satisfied that his pockets
are full of money. L doubt if there is
a city Of 100000 people in the United
States which has as much wealth as Vir-
ginia City. There are some very ele-
| CANT residences in the city, and there are
families like Mr.. Fair and Mr.. Mackay' s
that would grace any station, but taken
generally, society in Virginia City is one
of the enigmas of life. It should be
remembered that several thousands Of
the population of this city are always
under ground. In all the mines there
are three shifts of hands. Each shift OF
| detail works eight hours. One shift
goes down at 2 o'clock at night, when it
comes up another goes down to stay I'M
I'll o'clock the next morning, when
that in turn comes up and another goes
down and stays until 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, and so on day after day, in
Guiding Sundays.