The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-27

SILVER CITY, New, June 10.
Kditor Rutlond Globe Those of your
readers who have not seen a Nevada min
ing town can have but poor idea of its
appearance. From Nam street of this
village we can, with the thermometer at
10 deg. in the shade, look west and south
at snow-covered mountains, while to the
north rises, beyond the intervening lower
hlls, Mount Davidson, with the flag staff
distinctly visible.
NEVADA VIEW.
There are mountains on every hard, and
The other day ramble of an hour took. a
party of Us 10 the top of a hill east of the
village, from whose rocky peak we could
see Virginia City and Gold Hill lying at
the foot of Mount Davidson; Silver city
further down the ravne toward the
Carson river, and 10 the south of us lay
the Carson, with it's slow, placid waters,
its ribbons of green banks stretching away
to the southwest for many miles through
the burning desert, and in the distance the
Sierra Nevada mountains, with their erests
of eternal snow. BY the aid of small
telescope we could see that those mountain
peaks were covered with the dead trunks
of massive pines, still standing in the snow
and ice 1t is the snow upon the noun
tains which, by the wise provision of ma
lure, melting in the scorching Nevada sum-
mer sun, supplies the Carson with water
through the long, parched summers, and
gives US even the little vegetation which
maintains an existence along its sluggish
banks. Aside from the trees upon the
mountains, invisible to the naked eye, the
only thing in the shape of tree larger
than the omnipresent sage-bush, was the
few trees to be seen along the Carson,
though on every hand rose the massive,
brown, barren hills, of alkaline sand and
the Sutro tunnel, with the works
Of the tunnel company and the
village which has grown up around them,
| consisting of dozen or fifteen houses and
| twice as many regularly -laidou streets
among the streets. This collection of the
marks of civilization is what the Sutro M-
dependcat calls a city. The largest of the
dwellings, as large in fact, as half dozen
of the others, is the residence of the AS
syrlans, a large, unhandsome, cube-shaped
white building.
| SILVER CITY
IS composed of the dwellings of something
like 800 or 1000 people, about twenty
| liquor saloons, half-a dozen other stores, a
| court house - feet square, Implanted on
the outside, and occupied as an office by
the only lawyer in town, two churches, six
or eight grist-mills, etc. The main street
is the Virginia and Dayton toll.road, and
| the other ''streeis" are left to take care of
| themselves the year around, 30 there is
little trouble about highway taxes. Mos,
Of the houses are painted, and few have
! flowers or grass in their front yards,
| hough the extra charge for water, which
has to be literally supplied to make vege-
tation grow, and which amounts to the
| little sum of $40 per month for a front
yard thirty feet square, deters many from
lndulgng 10 this luxury. The houses are
| generally built of wood, and in very few
Instances are they lathed and plastered on
account of the great cost of lime, though Z
man is now burning some very good lime,
naving discovered Il limestone ledge. Most
Of the walls and ceilings are of matched
boards, painted white. Rooms covered
with costly carpets are sometimes seen
with upholstered and unpapered walls. as
he swelling and shrinking Of the wood
would soon ruin the paper. Many houses
are not even thus celed up, and especially
is this the case with the ceiling overhead,
which is generally Of canvass nailed to the
bottom of the overlays. There are, beside
this many very cheaply built cabins occu.
pied by miners, who either do their OWE
cooking or get their meals at hotels OF
boarding houses. A little further oui
from the center OF the town
We came to the "Campoodlesr oil
he Indians, good many of whom camp
hereabouts. ln this village there are bu
three hotels and several private boarding
houses, and they are generally all full
Frequently people come into the vllag,
and are unable to find place to lodge, anC
SO sleep on bench in some saloon. A
the hotel where i board there are 1871
ooarders. These pay $3.50 per week, anC
10 one can get room to himself for les
than $40 per month. There is one choJ
house in town where meals are to be had a
all hours.
Such is Silver City, and the principal oc
cupation of the people is playing cards fo
money and getting drunk, but the reason
is that when they work they are IN tn,
mines and out of sight.
TIE suTRo TUNNEL.
People in the east hear occasionally O
the Sutro tunnel. People on the Pacifi,
coast hear of 1t oItener. Mr.. Sutro is nov
at Washington trying to get additions
legislation in his favor Some discourage
ment which he has recently met will
there has led the papers hereabout to speal
of the dlscomhtive Of the Assyrian in term
of ridicule. Adolph Sutro boasts of As
syrian nativity. The tunnel is commonl,
alluded to AS 1.-THE great bore" becaus
people have been bored so much by tn
plans and calculations of Mr.. Sutro amen
the tunnel. Yet the tunnel seems destine,
to be great advantage TO the mines alon
he Comstock.
The Sutro tunnel is to be about fou
miles long when completed, and its objec
Ia 10 drain the mines of the COmstOck
These mines now employ huge pump
driven by powerful machinery, TO raise tn
water to the surface, at great expense. Ii
some cases pump throwing a stream
from eight to ten inches in diameter, is no
sufficient, and hosting tanks have TO b
used also, and in many instances mines ar
compelled to entirely suspend operation
tor months at time from excess of water
One would not imagine, in a country wher
Tor very want of water no vegetation ex
cept little stunied sage brush will grow
that such troublesome abundance O
water would be found in these mines, bu
80 II is. believe that at anm,