Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-10

We presume that every person in
Eureka will agree with US when we say
that money was never before, in the
history of the district, half SO scarce
and hard to get as at the present time.
Our immediate business relations ex-
tend to nearly the whole community,
either in the shape of subscriptions or
a Advertising and we are, therefore, placed
in a position to know exactly how dull
the times are. Money is not to be had at
all from a vast majority of the COM
munity, for the simple reason that
there is scarcely any money in circu.
lation outside of a favored few. From
the earliest days of the town a similar
state OF affair has never hitherto pre-
vailed. The reason for this is quite OBJ.
vious. The mining interests OF pretty
much the entire district were locked
up during the late protracted and Sc
we're winter, and in consequence of the
great depreciation in silver but little
has been done in any of the mines to
date. Our community is large and
pretty much all branches of business
are %overdone. During the present
season, until within the last few
weeks, our mines furnished en-
ployment to no more men than
did those of Treasure City or Belmont,
while our town is ten times as large as
either of the places mentioned. This
Is a true statement Of the case, and we
make it for the sole purpose of setting
our business men right in the eyes of
wholesale dealers both East and West.
1t is r that matters in connection
with the mining outlook have
frightened a little Of late on &C.
count of a greater number of men
being employed, but there is not the
slightest probability that money will
be much easier for the next three or
four months to come. Laborers have
been SO long out Of employment that it
will take them a great while to get
even with the world, and until they do
they will have no money to throw at
birds. We always like to write en-
couragingly of u town and its pros
poets, but in this instance candor COM
pels US to predict that the present un-
precedented dull season will extend
close on to the holidays. Eureka is in
the mud this season, but inasmuch as
our mines are quite as good as ever be-
fore we can trust to time to place us
oGhiu jill tuo DlSH Iodu vi pros peTly.
Improved times may not come this
year, but 1877 is certain to find us on a
satisfactorily firm basis.
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THE PEST HoUsE.-Considering the
prevalence of the smallpox in San
Francisco and other places between
which and Eureka there is daily COM
munication, would it not be a wise
p~recaution to have the pest-house put
in a condition fit for the reception of
patients? We understand that the
doors and windows have been taken
away, and even the batens from the
sides of the building stolen. 1t would
cost but little TO repair it sufficiently
for the reception of inmates, and
II would be better to have it
prepared before the disease makes its
appearance here than To wait until
there is a case in III midst, and have
10 keep the patient in town until the
building "a be put in a fit condition
for his reception, thereby mourning
danger to others, which might be east
ly avoided. Perhaps we may not be
visited by the scourge, in which case
the precaution would be useless, but it
is better to be prepared for the worst,
especially when So important a pre-
caution is attended with so little ex-
pense.