Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-29
EXTENSION OF THE MARROW
GAIGE.

preparatory to extending the track of
the Eureka and Palisade Railroad over
the Pinto summit, and also to build
tracks connecting the Richmond mine
with the track of the railroad, for the
purpose of transporting the ores of
that company from mine to furnace by
rail. The Railroad Company have pur-
chased the track of the Eureka Con-
solidated M. Co., running from the
mine of the latter company to a point
near the present terminus in Eureka
of the Eureka and Palisade Railroad.
From this track a side.track will be
run to the Richmond mine, which will
complete the connection. The ore will
be hauled owe this side-track to the
Eureka Consolidated branch, and over
that to its terminus at the lower end of
town, where it will be transferred to
the furnaces on a side-track or switch.
The completion OF these connections
will to a great extent do away with the
hauling of ore by teams in this dis
trict, as the Richmond and Eureka
Consolidated mines the two principal
mines OF the district-will be reached
by rail connecting them with the fur
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required with the other mines, the out
look being that eventually the Railroad
Company will control nearly all the
ore transportation in Eureka district.
The railroad company have telegraphed
to Chicago for steel rails, and have sen
to Philadelphia orders for the con
struction of powerful engines for use
on the heavy grades, and work on the
road will be pushed as rapidly as cir
cumstances will permit. To prosecute
this work a large number of men and
an immense amount of material in the
shape of ties and timbers will be re-
quired, and we understand that il is the
cOmpany's intention to give home in
dustry the preference in the nnatter of
supplies and labor. The company
contemplate also the erection OF a
round-house and extensive machine
shops in Eureka at an early day. 1t is
ex pected that the road connecting the
Richmond mine with h furnaces of
that company will be completed by the
first day of January next, aud that the
transportation OF ores over it will com
mence by that date. 1t is the inten-
ton TO have the road over the summit
completed by next spring, when the
work of extending it to the southwark
~ t'ho III anu ottulO D ftbi III iIdoC
OF the mining camps lying to the east
ward and southwark of Eureka
will be inaugurated. The system
of narrow gauge railroads, as de.
monstrated by the experiment of
the ninety miles of that character OF
read which connects Eureka with the
Central Pacific Railroad, has proven
so successful that the Eureka and Pal
isade Company have been encouraged
TO extend their line, and once they get
fairly started in the extension bust
ness.there is no telling where they will
stop. They will probably keep on till
their road taps one of the transconti-
mental roads which are in ~contempla-
tion as conn etitors to the present Dad
across the continent, and the compile
ton of which is only a question of time.
RoUGH on RED MAN.-The
weather yesterday was of a character
to depress the spirits OF the noble red
man. A lead in-earnest snow storm
he didn't mind a bit; but vet, thaw-
ing weather gets him. When the
snow banks up on his wickiup it aids
to keep him warm, but in a rain or
thaw the trickling moisture works
through the holes in his residence,
which is constructed OF pretty much
all holes, and the cold drops insidious-
ly crawl under his clothes at his neck
and creep down his spine and make
him get up and howl. In such wealth
err he don't believe that there is no
place like home, and so he don't stay
at home. He wraps his blanket about
him and seeks the haunts of the pale
face and lounges Oh the street corners
and chats with his own or some other
Indians squaw. When 1t is consid.
cred that the Indians sleep at night on
the damp ground with scarcely any
shelter 10 speak of, and during the
daytime, no matter how eve the
weather, seldom enters a house, m
would think their lives must be miser-
able to al extreme. But such does
not seem 10 be the case; they were
born on the bleak hillsides and the
miserable structure for which hut is
too good a name is the only kind OF
home they have ever known. Most
OF them would die if forced to live in a
comfortable dwelling; and, SO
long AS they possess a blan
ket and get enough to eat and can
earn u little silver to gamble with,
they arc far more happy and content
ed than the majority of white people
who live in luxury.
CALL AGAIN.-Some damphool, who
has about as much of an idea of what
constitutes a joke as a hog has of He
brew, brought the notice of a birth to
the SENTINEL Office day before yester-
day. He handed it to = compositor
who, not thinking that any n would
attempt to perpetrate so miserable a
hoax, put it in type and it appeared in
yesterday mornings issue. If the per-
son who left the notice will call around
again he will hear something to his
acknowledgements to him from
the blossom end of a pick handle.