Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-06-11
eyer, and looks as young as he did ten

years ago.
Asa Waugamann, whose gorgeous
"two-bit house" arose like magic
alongside of the old Excelsior Hotel,
at a cost to Asa OF 5 5000 in cold twen-
ties, and which was just completed
when the camp went to pot, is here as
rosy and jolly as yer. He is minis
tering spiritual consolation to the
thirsty on the steamer NJ. l.. Latham,
which runs between this city and the
new town of Newark, across the bay.
1 took a trip to Newark with him the
other day, and we exchanged remin-
iscences of those happy days when
every man was a millionaire. The
waters of Meadow lake must certainly
be Ponce de Icons long-sought-for
fountain of eternal youth, for Wauga-
mann looks as young as Wightman,
and it seems in their case as If a
draught of its miraculous fluid has
stayed the swift advance and remorse-
less march of age.
Tom Talbert is here, engaged in real
estate and mining, and is as good a
Democrat as ever. He was he auc-
tioneer at the sale of the tide lands by
the State, and his genial wit aud ready
tact made the sales a success, and en-
riched the depleted Golfers of u State
Treasury by thousands of dollars. II.
b. Arnold, of the old firm of Arnold u
Miner, is living in Troy, New York,
where he has n large establishment de-
voted to the sale of wooden manufac-
turing machinery. Miner, his old
partner, / see here quite frequently.
He is largely interested ir your district,
being a trustee of the II. X. Consolida-
ted and Adams Hill companies. Judge
Sawyer is one of our Justices of the
Peace for this city. The Judge trans
acts his business speedily and well,
and his court is a favorite ofie. His
chances for reelection are good, for
the community can lily afford to lose
his services. The Judge is a good law
yer, and his decisions give general sat-
isfaction.
Oscar Shuck, who practiced in Mead
ow Lake, is connected with the press
here. Tom Cox, another of the legal
fraternity, olives at Trnckee. Cossit,
another, is at Winnemucca or Reno, /
don't know which. j. w. Ferguson,
as you mention in your article, is in
California, publishing a paper in Fres-
no county, u of the best IN
the State for agricultural purposes. 1t
is growing constantly. and ~Ferguson's
fortune is made if he sticks to Fresno
county. Charley Whitehead, one of
the old Board of Brokers, is inthe same
business here, and locks as if it agreed
with him. n. w. Winton is living at
Santa Barbara, under his own vine
and fig tree. Levi Stanchfield has a
big-siZed ranch in Ventura county, and
is in the sheep business. On Stanch-
fields ranch there is a natural cIrios-
,fx -, tho yhona IF a hnrnInO Gnlnhnr
mountain. Getting in its vicinity, you
feel like saying with the old Dutchman
who stopped his team to take a drink
out of a spring, and found it boiling
hot +: "Drive on, Yake; dis place ish
not more as half a mile from hell "
Who does not remember Frank Nc
Cormick the life of the camp and the
SOU of the socialscircle Frank sold
"goods" i'm the day at Lakes store,
and the term goods" included every
thing from a knitting needle toa quartz
mill, but when business was over for
the day, and the boys had collected in
front of the store, wouldn't he
take down that old accordion and
fill the air with melody as his
def fingers swiftly touched its throb-
bling KEYS. Now it was "Home, Home,
Sweet Home'' that rose on the air of
the Summer night, and III eyes grew
misty and our heart-strings vibrated as
we thought of the loved one for whose
sake we had braved the terrors of the
snowy Slerras, and who were watching
and praving for us far away at home;
then 'sDixie'' and "Marching Through
Georgia" and "Lanigan's Ball." and
when we heard the inspiring strains of
the last melody it was impossible to re-
frain from shaking a fut," and soon
YOU would see a dozen or more of US
executing "hoe downs" and 'double
shuffies,' while Frank sat enthroned
on a dry goods box, good nature and
merriment beaming from every Inca
ment of his handsome countenance.
He is here now in the service of the
Central Pacific Railroad Company, and
il all the officials of that road were as
polite as Frank, you would not hear
one-half the complaints that reach
your ear now. "Politeness costs moth
ing and gains everything" is n maxim
which the majority of railroad men
have yet to learn. About two years
ago Frank went to Mexico to organize,
down there, a branch of the Pacific
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Sacramento; but he came back without
accomplishing anything, saying the
rate of mortality is different there from
here. In this country a man has
| nine chances out of ten of dying in his
bed, but i'm Mexico the chances are all
the other way, and insurance compa-
| MES don't care about Mexican risks.
l find my paper is running short, but
I haven't exhausted my recollections,
for as / write the names of many old
friends and acquaintances ON crowd
ing into my brain. ] must, however,
| defer until a more convenient time a
| continuation of my gossip.
/ believe that your estimate of the
value of the Meadow Lake
mines does them injustice, for
think modern science will yet
solve the difficult problem of the
reduction of their ores. At any rate, !
hope the new adventures who have
followed in our footsteps may "strike
it rich," ard that they may not he
compelled t leave Meadow Lake and
say, as we can say, hat
Memory watches DER the sad review
OF hopes that faded like the morning dew"
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