Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-11

One lone nan sitting. lissless. in .
great vide barrooa wedding and dozins
over day b>fors-y~ssssday's paper. 10
only too good - veil ~ too bad sieo
and sample Of the prevailing aspssssios
in business. We suspect that the in
fssussios which % long held the par.
ticipasts In the mining share market has
svspossssd FROM the stronger headed
ones. Az the card-pIsyers ssy. these
have Jumped the game" What's left
is the driblets. They who stay in the
game are the professionals. These live
BY the stock market. vim or lose-just ~
the hired dealers OF faro games do.
There's something in this view. The
mines are not worked ont. tho they
are working At an enormous depth. The
Joneses and Hsyvards and Sharons and
Floods and other lucky ones are NOT
going 10 put back their money where II
came from. They arc willing TO let an
other and more ambitious cot take the
chances and the glory. Look d the
bonanza mines. They will Sad out div
idends for year or more. probably.
Yet down they go. The late visitors.
Bob Graves, Archie BorlApd and the rest,
have gone back TO San Francisco and
carried the news Of what they saw. The
result Is terrible, pauic-Iike decline in
the bonanza stocks. Why? Are the
insiders unloading? The street il full oil
rumors. The fact Ia. the market il sen.
sisive because Il is debilitated. There
are no more Ralstons IN this world; and
Lucky Baldwin and the big gamesters
are resting from their bold ventures and
heroic jonsts. The prospect now il
sight in the Consolidated and CaliforDis
mines, three years ago. would have eel
the market booming II was sensitive
the other way. then. Il was full Of
health and courage. Nov il IL suffering
from . general debility and = loss o.
appetite. There il no more courage, NJ
moro animation. Hope il wanting. III,
question which most seriously concern,
everybody who has anything TO do with
stocks and mines is. will Hope ever re-
turn? 1t Is just barely possible that tbt
business has exhausted itself for gen
Grafton or more. When q system hal
been for too long time over.s,imu
lated, habitualIy, Il 10 very difficult
when the results OF artificial stimnIAns,
are needed. to produce the desired effect
The system 10 overtaxsd--"burnt out
~ the saying goes. As with the physi
cal body. individual. no with the aggregat,
body. stockish. Why not? What goei
by the name Of Hard Times" 10 con
tagions and epidemicsl. Seasons o
bushes, depression arrive and depar
like the cholera, and nobody know
whence they come or whittier they 90
just now oil Western Nevada u in th,
dumps. Even those whose business ha
been at zero for ever. so.long sympathi s
with the general blneness. Every bod
seems suddenly sobered. You may visi
any public Office, either on business o
in . semi vagabondish vein. lounging il
and out for the listlessness OF the thing
and TO kill time, and you will Dissolve
that loafing 10 very dull business eve
TO n professional idler. Even tho habit
ual happy tipplers have lost their gayet
and light heaYtedness; and old story
tellers sigh heavily and look glum
The incident OF meal.time 10 worth hail
ing and welcoming. il . body has . mea
OF his own that be may satisfy himsel
withal; and blessed are tho readers, 10
theirs il the solace Of books and the sileu
comps nionship OF the wise, the thought
full and the elevaiing in the world Q
authorship,