Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-05-15

sod near This town, and G.. A. Brier
who also held a position on the same
paper, SAUNDERS the last, long sleep
under tho cold inhospitable soil OF
White Pine mountain. Judge Frank
Tilford, now of Salt Lake, was there,
and he also contributed an occasional
polished article to the columns OF the
SIN. w. w. Barnes, proprietor and
editor of the B0rar Miner, alternated
as foreman OF the concern and chief OF
the yachters on the lake. Osoro, II
of our compositors, has since died, and
J.. w. Ferguson, another of them.
was, two years ago, a member of the
California Legislature, from one of the
southern counties. Tom Cox, and Tom
Hanna. and Alec Whiteman, and Little
Friedman, and Jim Jones, and Judge
Galloway, and Asa Waugaman, and
| Charlie Higgins, are still all on mer-
cy's side of eternity, we believe, but
scattered the Lord only knows where.
Clay Simms and III Bishop, both in
business here in Eureka, fought, bled
and died along with the rest of us in
Meadow Lake. Ike Brokaw, the first
Marshal of the city, is in San Quinten,
for fifteen years, for shooting Hand
some Charlie, in San Francisco. I'VE
signed a petition last Winter TO get Ike
out, and hope his friends will make
the r%itlle.] j. A. Brumsey, general
agent for the Home Mutual Fire In
surance Company, in this State, also
lived at Meadow Lake through all of
it's days of veal and woe. Brumsey,
who, by the way, is an accomplished
civil engineer, used to lay out our
streets and deliver our Fourth of July
orations, at both of which he was a
brilliant success. Doc. Cords, Il roll
licking fellow but a # rst-class physician,
returned to Iowa and got married. He
always played his part whenever the
boys found a proper subject to go
body-snatching. Well, there was great
fun at Meadow Lake. In Winter sea-
son we danced every night-the whole
town. Tunnels were run in all direc-
tons under the snow-average depth,
p feet-so that we could cross the
streets and go from house to house
with perfect comfort. tSnow-shoe rae
ing also ranked prominently among
the Winter amusements. With
proper "dope" on the Norwegian
runner, a man Tor woman either may
descend a mountain like a blue streak
of creased lightning. Talk about d
divine creature on Plimpton's roller
skates-that is nothing compared with
the sylph-like form of an angel IS
aerie on Norwegian snow-shoes, prop
erly and efficiently "doped." ("Dope',
was the technical name for the axle
grease preparation which we smeared
on the bottom of the runners.) Every
thing depended upon the "dope," and
there were as many varieties as there
were old buns in town to manufacture
it for a drink of whisky. There was
great rivalry among the manufactur-
ers of the lubricating substance, and
around bar-room stoves the hours
were generally whiled away in dis
cussing the comparative merits of the
different brands. Once, when we had
up big races, we knew one fellow
to cut another to the heart for no
greater offense than that of "snaking"
his "dope." This was high treason,
and we all justified the cuttIst; so did
our talented committing magistrate,
who held the act to be justiiiab,e hon.
icide. Sailing OF the bosom of the
placid lake day and night was the
strong suit of the entire community
during the warm season.. We had a
brass and string band that sometimes
went out in the middle ofthe lake at
night and discoursed the sweetest mu-
sic that was ever echoed back from
soaring mountain tops. 1t was thus
that life was spent in Meadow Lake
during the brief years of its existence.
We might go on indefinitely relating
incidents of that towering altitude, but
| our space warns us to "down brakes,
and we must yield to the memorable
command.
Now, as to the mines: Lodges are
numerous all over a large area of rug
ged country, but there is not one OF
them that will ever pay expenses.
The ore near the surface shows we'll in
bright spangles offour gold, but there
is not enough of it, and people arc
liable to be deceived into the BELIEF
that they have a big thing when they
have not. The ore may possibly
change when great depth is attained
but we wouldn't care to put up much
on the surface indications.