The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-29
LETTER FROM NEVADA.

A Mining squabble-stamford & Co.-Los An
geles-Smuggling Chinese Prostitutes
Collector Shannon.
VIRGINIA CITY, New, Aug. 10, 1876.
The California mine is in row. The
California is the second best paying mine
on the Comstock, and nominally as profit
able as the Consolidated Virginia, both
paying dividends regularly of 50 per share
per month. But it has not been paying
these dividends as long as has the Consoli-
dated Virginia, for while the latter has paid
twenty-seyen monthly dividends, ten of
$500 each, and seventeen of $1,0S0,000
the aggregate of all the dividends paid by
The California is $3,240,000. But the Cal
ifornia, being on the Comstock lode, next
the Consolidated Virginia, is considered
worth fighting for, and now three men
have brought SUIT for one-twelfth of the
mine, which they claim they bought from
| John Bishop, pioneer prospector in these
| diggings and one of the original locators of
this claim. The PARTIES in possession claim
to hold it by deed from Bishop which the
plaintiffs allege is Il forgery. The thing
looks rather black, one of the witnesses al
ready tcstfying that his signature TO the
document is forgery, and the plaintiffs
have offered to drop the suit if the defend
ants will produce the deed (Which thus far
they have net produced at alb and prove
that Bishops signature or that Of any enc
Of the four witnesses is genuine. AS the
suit is for 40, 600 shares of the stock, and
the stock sold in market yesterday for $50
per share, there is likely to be lively
fight over it. The case has been transfer
red to the United States circuit court at
Carson.
A similar suit, brought by one Kinney,
is pending against the Consolidated Vir-
ginia, but probably won't amount to any
thing.
Since silver struck bottom in the Landon
market, and began TO rise, stocks have fol-
lowed suit, and mines which had announced
their intention of reducing their working
force under the depIess will not do SO
now tina. confidence is restored.
STANFORD co.
Los Angeles, California, is destined in
time to be one of the leading cities-the
second, if not even the first-on the coast
She is now expecting through communica
ton with San Francisco, by the completion
oil the Southern Pacific railroad, ia couple
of weeks. Great advantages will CONF
with this railroad connection with the resi-
| - ba ,rnrlI h,t
they might be, were not the Southern Pa.
ciic simply an offshoot of the Central Pa
, ctlc and completely under the control OF
the notorious Stanford & Co, whose
avowed determination is to build up Sar
Francisco at the expense Of all the rest OF
the coast. These men took special UNI
J bragg at the want Of Difference with which
they were treated by Stockton, one Of the
most promising places in northern Cali
fornia, and declared that they would SCI
the grass grow in her streets, and their
threat is almost Consummaled. The Sac
ramentO Union, at one time the most sue
cessful and popular newspaper this coas
had ever known, had the temerity to stan(
| for the peoples lights against the Contra
= Pacific railroad, and Stanford Il Co.
crushed the paper. Their power was fel
against it in a thousand ways, underminin!
7 its reputation and reducing its patronage
until, after heroic fight against the to,
great odds of corruption, it succumbed
These are instances of the record of Lelant
Stanford and his associates, and hence tn
D opening of railroad communication will
Los Angeles, the road being controlled b,
, Stanford, does not warrant the high hope
that city INDUCES in with regard to its ef
feet upon her future.
LOS ANGELES.
But there are other reasons which lea
i me to predict tor her brilliant future. Il
u the first place, Southern California has
9 soil and climate fit to make it the garden
Of America. Save when an occasions
drouth occurs, there is nothing wanting t
make this veritable garden of Eden
n Oranges, lemons and other tropical fruit
e abound grain yields abundantly, the So
h being of the best, and all vegetation grow
with luxuriance never seen except unde
: a tropical sun. Then Los Angeles is right
o " located to be great railroad center, am
n the Texas Pacific railroad will here hay
J.. its junction with the Southern Pacific, an
it is to the Texas Pacific that the people O
( this coast must look for relief from tn
gigantic monopoly of the present overan
road. The Northern Pacific may help u
some, but it will be so far north that
will be more unreliable than even the pres
J. ent route, in winter. Therefore, even
}. Northern California, Nevada and Oregon
4. the effect of the Texas Pacific in reducin
fares and freights will probably be of NOR
l. value than the benefits from the Norther
h Pacific. But to Arizona and Souther
o California it will be the most valuable aux
Hilary to the progress and development G
the country that they could have Lo
Angeles will reap more of this benefit tba
any other one place Then it is likely tina
"a In the not far distant future, through tn
= energy of John p. Jones, road may
built from Los Angeles, or from his SAINT
q Monica road, which starts from Los Ar
g geles, via Mono lake, Walker river an
# Carson valley to Virginia City. Jones /
!. specially interested in Southern California
~ having built up colony at Santa Monica
which place will probably be the seaboar
outlet of Los Angeles and all that section
as its natural harbor advantages are unsul
passed.
Besides, Southern California will Que o
> these days be state by herself. There
/ considerable talk of the matter already, AN
G it is on the increase rather than the dc
4 crease. The northern part of the state
0 peopled largely by emigrants from tn
: northern states, while further south Mex
v cans and Spaniards predominant. Tn
completion OF the present overland rail