Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-20
MORNING APPEAL.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
INGERsoLL's LECTURE.

Robt. G. Ingersoll AS to who he is, what
he has done, what he proposes and what he
is supremacy capable of doing, nothing that
we could say would be anything but super
fuous. He is as widely known to all who
have brains enough to understand the drift
of his discourse, as any man living. Our I'M
sought advice is to go early so as to be sure
to be comfortably seated and not miss any
part of the discourse 80.
THE GOAT RANCH
Yesterday, by invitation of Sheriff Swift,
we took a look at the goat ranch, the farm
ing operations there going on, and the hot
springs which have their rise within and
flow through, that property. The enclosure
where the kids are kept presents very in
teresting spectacle. Here are somewhere
near four hundred little goats, ranging from
few days, to six weeks old. 1t is the live
Hest school that can be seen in all these
stock swamped attitudes There is con-
slant succession of small duels in the rearing
up and head butting way a deal of prancing
and skipping and small cavorting. Mostly
they are white; and all very feecy and what
womankind call cunnin'. One shudders at
the thought OF their becoming roast lamb or
even of affording the material for three-but
toned gloves In the pens are the mother
goats with their wee, staggering toddlings.
They are all exceedingly healthy The
Angora goat is not prolific as the more
common animal. Mr.. Swift says that the
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Here and again when Nanny drops her kid
in the sage brush, the little thing falls asleep
and so gets left out in the cold when the
flock goes to fold. The chances are against
the survival of such benighted little fellows. |
If they escape the coyotes, they get chilled |
to death The Sheriff is quite farmer. |
He has an extended area of land-nearly 800 |
acres in all. A small patch, (about eight
acres,) is leased to some Chinese gardeners.
Of course they are doing well They know
the virtue of work and assiduous cultivation.
One of the SheriffTs potato fields, patch of
five acres, is doing splendidly. There is
four acre lot of wheat that is very strong,
superb in quality and quantity, in fact. We
found moving machine at work in the
twenty acre field of alfalfa-the first cutting.
This yields about two and half tons to the
acre, per moving, There are two crops a
year. These crops are all obtaii med by irri-
cation, of course. The water for this pur-
pose is obtained from the hot spring afore-
said. This spring is not surpassed in all this
State, prolific of hot springs, for its con-
stancy of flow and health giving and healing
properties. 1t affords remarkably expedi- !
tious relief to rheumatism and kindred disor- r
ders. The presence of iron and other min +
eral substances makes it of superior quality
as an Alternative. The very considerable flow
age from this spring is indicated in the fact s
that it is abundant for the purpose of irrigat- c
ing all the acres we have alluded to as being L
under cultivation--in the neighborhood of +
fifty, probably Doubtless it could be made D
to go still further. Here, then, is Il farm L
which supports nearly 1000 goats, and which, IL
within itself, has spring of very great value T
in itself as spa, and whose surplus waters "
are of very great utility. We congratulate
Mr.. Swift upon being the owner of one of the
most valuable pieces of property in the State j
SOMETHING OF BoDIE AND VICINITY
Judge McClinton' who returned from visit N
o the Rodie Mining District day or two cl
ince puts in possession of the following m
'aluable facts in relation to that interesting -,
egion: The Standard Mine which is develop &C
ng so splendidly, is situated on what is W
,onwn as Bunker Hill. These mines have III
,een known, or rather they have been visited r
or about twenty years. Many of our read
rs who date back to the early days of Cali
ornia viii recolect the Kern River excite oil
nent. That WAS IL 1856 or thereabout
That was failure in the goldvhnding way; ia
nut it lead to the discovery of the Mono an
mines, or, more correctly, it lead to the find co
NC of some placers near where the Bodie 40
uartz mines are now opening. (Bodie him di
elf fell victim to his venturesomeness. BIT
lie was fsozen to death near the min TO
~ camp which now bears his name %
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he town of Bodie is about ten miles south %,
est from Aurora. The Standard mine is ca!
me 5000 feet above the sea. 1t was for str
lerly known as the Bullion. 1t was discov- gre
red many years ago, as we haYe intimated,
fter being frequently located, abandoned,
lmped and relocated, it has finally come into 20
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