Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-12-27

~. D0rkNs EAaass and fFsUrtsssr
OLD Hill. :,noNpkY. DEC. n. 1875
EARrHQuAKEs AT THE EAST.
There Is q chance for Prof. Stewart
o 60 on n lecturing tour in the Eastern
taking for a subject his favoriss
hsms Of earthquakes and their origin.
There has recently bssn q good shaking
ID a. the East and South. 20 lively - TO
yet up quite . scare in Richmond. Va.
md other Southern towns. Probably
here is no. . citizen Of Nevada. or Cali
fornia Who Is not glad to hear that our
trsns.montans friends have been sub
jee,ed to the fright attending a good
lively earthquake shock. OF course We
do not wish to read Of disastsr and loss
Of life from such q cause. but news OF
q shake Of SUFFICIENT duration and force
TO create q general feeling Of constsrna-
ton ID saaes 10 our padding. For years
the great objection urged against the
Pacific Coast, . place Of resi-
dsncs, was ia assumed habit Of
periodically shaking down every
sort Of sdihcs above u story
In height. or erected Of other material
than strong timbsu. and the new con.
sr's hrss question before getting COM
fortably settled was the danger to b ap-
pretended from this source. There IL
NO doubt that for n few years earthquake
shocks were not inirsqusnt on this
coast, nor that some Of them were quite
severe. Theories upon their cause, m
statistics Of thsir effects. do not In any
way mitigate the indennable terror OF
their actual visitation. They eannot oe
domsstieatsd. With them familiarity
does no. breed contempt. They remain
a. thsy have slwsys bssn-Produci's
Of m ins1plicabls dread and peculiar
n Of sws-inspiring helplsssnsss-
"whsn The ground beneath our feet BE-
% unsteady and insecure. where
shall We and solidity and safety is
III. inevitable query Of every one Who
has s1psrisncsd the strange sensation Of
an earthquake shock.
Al remarked before. We are glad mat
our Eastern friends have latsiy been e.
p~erisncing the sensations alluded to.
Not alone because '.missry loves SOM
pany." although. perhaps. that feeling
IL to some degree sngsndsrsd. but be-
esuss IL takss away from the mouths Of
Eastern critics and qusrists aformidasle
and harassing question. II . Pacific
Coaster 10 now asksdths question "hos
about your sar~thquakss'" he will imms-
diaisly rsjoin by asking his i~ntsrrosasOr
what his feelings were during The late
shocks In his section. Since the
heavy shake up in Inyo county. Gala.
some four or Ave years ago. the people
Of this coast have bad no serious frishis
from this Gauss. But. in the meantime.
in Missouri and all along the Mississippi
valley; In New York. in New England
and lastly in Virginia there has been .
succession Of shakes. some Of which in
violence would do no discrsdit to those
Of Pssino Coast origin. The fact
10 that earthquakes like w~hirlwinds.
tornados, hail-storms. floods and hrss
are confined 70 no particular country or
season. They whit the earth at will
and diffuss their evils ''upon the Just
and unjust" Commenting upon this
subject, the San Francisco CAroaid< half
ssriously. half humorously. says:
We In California are in no danger. II
the theory Of internal frss b true, our
nsiRhbors Of Nevada will in a few years
have % worked down through the up
DER strata Of the earth n to Afford .
vent TO the pent-up volcanoes that are
nov struggling to be free. and the
chances are that the Sstro Tunnel will
be the escape pipe for heat and sulphur
Gus fumes now rigging against the re-
strains Of the sarth's crust. IL the doc.
trins Of electricity be true one railroad
track and telegraph wires viii sufaes to
distribute the electric forces and scatter
them over the sarth's surface. II the
waters Of the great interior basin Of the
continent are forcing their subtsrransan
passage to the Pacific. and by occasional
bursting through caves and ehoted
v~atsr-coursea are disturbing the earth's
surface, We shall in q few years PEN
citrate them by artssian wells and use
the supsrfiuous water for inigating our
deserts and arid plains.
In The meantime, We can joke
the earth's trembling. build ssvsn-story
buildings confident that NO vorss CAS-
ualiy AN happen than . night shock
that may reveal some Of the unpleasant
secrets OF hotsls and clearinghouse
and expose toilets that are not intended
for street parade.
Nrw PATxxn.-T Through Dewey X
Co.. Patent Agents. s. f.. We receive