Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-11-18
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
SAN Francisco, Nov. IA.


DEAR TINES:
TIE world has all gone wrong.
There is not day passes but some
thing new comes up to check the
ambitions gambler in his headlong
run Saturday enjoyed themselves in
the stables, while their owners ours
ed outside, and wished that some-
thing could be done to check tho
fall of water, with which the skIe
were inundating the earth.
Vigorous betting subsided after
the day broke and the track was
found to be too wet for present use,
but that does not matter, enthusiasts
tic Englishmen are still in hopes,
and if we can in California get
Derby day regularly established,
will be too happy. 1t is good
thing to have holidays, and now il a
race day can be made holiday of
what perfect bliss. These enthusiasts
now believe that the first fair day
will be the race day, and that busi-
ness will be closed IN order that
clerks rs we'll as masters, shall en-
jov the races. 1t is fine thing to
cultivate and breeding good horses.
Horses that will outstrip the wind,
that shall become an institution and
shall help mankind to deveiope his
lower propensities, in order 10 get
money without an equivalent. What
"A fine race we are going to have one
OF these days. A race that will beat
the world if it continues to progress
in the way it has been doing, from
the first coming to California up to
the present. Is is fine thing to
live on excitement, to have nothing
else to do but stimulate ones self
by all kinds of sensation, to begin
with liquor to end with racing. 1t
was pride once to keep from gam
bling, it Is a pride now to be fir st
class gambler in California. Not, of
course, in the old fashioned Cali
fornia style of doing it, not by call
ing people together by bands OF
music, and telling them to come in
aud see what fools they can make OF
themselves, by letting professional
gamesters swindle them, but by
saying: BY Jove, what fine horses
we have, how they do run, raising
stock should be encouraged, let us
bet little to help the movement,
and the blase man of the world
stimulates himself alresh, and in
vites the young ones to join him just
to show the spirit OF the times, to b
that OF putting on steam in all
things.
1t is good thing to be rich so
every body says, but to be rich just
now, has dark side to it. People
get money to bet with someway, but
nothing besides. Real estate secu-
rity of the best quality will not bring
money from anybody's pocket and
every body wonders what has be-
come of it, and why people are no
encouraged to pay interest any
longer on small or larger sums whe
exorbitant interest might be obtained
by usuers. 1t does look as if it has
disappeared entirely, but where ca
1t have gone to, when the Who'll
world complains of its lack.
The Stock Boards are forlorn.
Three days We're given TO mourning
for Mr.. Sherwood. 1t may be, fast
ing and prayer was included in the
absence of business, but nothing
came of it, not stock stirred !;
everything opened again with dull
ness.
The advocates of stock gambling
declare, if an excitement could be
gotten up in stocks, the world
would move again. 1t might be
perhaps, if the money is stored
away in old stockings, and conf