Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-10-03

Mr.. ]. J. Owen, editor of the San
Jose (Cal) Mercury" has another
excellent letter from Virginia City in
his paper of October list. We have
only room for a portion:
"VIRGINIA City, New,
Sept. %, 1875.
One who visits Virginia City for
the first time cannot but be surprised
at the immense works Of human skill
and enterprise to be witnessed on
every side. Here may be seen ma
chinery of marvellous construction
and power, with aimost ole continu-
Gus succession of mills stretching
from Virginia to Silver City; popu-
lation of some twenty-five thousand,
nearly one-half of which is employed
under ground; city (three of them,
in fact) located in one of the most
desolate, God-forsaken regions of the
earth, with not tree, nor rood of
level land, nor cart-load of arabic
soil within an area of mies-and all
this wealth, and enterprise, and inge-
nuity, the result Of the discovery OF
the inexhaustiblc deposits of silver
bearing ores that lie buried beneath
the foundations of these bleak moun-
tains. If, in the future, these dep s.
its should f;iil-a contingency that is
becoming with every new develop
ment more and more improbable
those cities, with their stately struc-
lures and teeming multitudes, would
speedily become depopulated, and
the festive coyote and cheerful bat
would revel amid the ruins.
THE PRESS.
Our arrival at Virginia was duly
heralded by the press, of which this
city, Gold Hill and Silver City are
we'll supplied. To the LYON COUNTY
TINES, tri-wcekIy, published ut Sill
yer City, by Mr.. Frank Kenyon, for
merly Of the Gilroy "Advocate," of
our county, we are especially in
debtcd for editorial favors. The
TINES is a live paper, ably edited,
and is making for its capable and
gentlemanly publisher both fame and
coin. At the office of the "Territo-
rial Enterprise we met that able,
Woodworking journalistic counter
part of Ben. Avery, Mr.. Goodwin,
who can put in more hours out Of the
twenty-four, on morning paper, and
to II better purpose, than any other
journalist west of the Rockys. The
senior editor, Mr.. Daggett, is also q
fine writer-when not suffering from
inertia. The local department is in
capable hands, and altogether the
Enterprise" is in no sense inferior
to the best journals of California
The Virginia "Chronicle" is an
other excellent ily-to the courte.
Gus editors of which we bow oul
thanks for fraternal favors.
THE BIG BONANZA.
The late developments in the Cali
fornia, Virginia Consolidated, and
some of the other principal mines Of
this section, warrant the belief that
mining for silver has scarcely yet
been commenced at Virginia. Al
though the main shafts of some OF
these mines are now down over one.
third of a mile, they are apparently
but just at the portals OF the real
treasures of these mountains. The
supply of ore is apparently mex.
hsustible. The deeper the miner de.
sends the richer is the ore and the
more Of it; and there seems to be nj
lower limit to these deposits short Of
the earth's internal fires. And w
doubt not, when those are reached
some enterprising genius will inven
an extinguisher, and the work o1
mining will be carried forward, o.
downward rather, indefinitely.