Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-04-10

We extract the following from . letter
published in the Chicago TTbsns. written
by a correspondent at Virginia City. under
date Of March 22d:
Virginia Is wholly . mining town ; In
fact. owes all her wealth. prosperity. and
moral obliquity. too, TO the almost un-
prscedented richness Of her minerals, for
she has no agricultural or manufacturing
interests. and. consequently no commerce.
on which most Eastern cities depend for
an existence. Upper Virginia depends on
lower Virginia. hundreds Of fest below. In
the bowels of tbs mountain. Nor 10 this
all that depends ON this subterranean
town. II Is the treasury Of tbs Pacific
coast. Millionaires BY the hundred may
be named who w their fortunes 70 the
Comstock lode. II has made San Fran
cisco tho richest city on the continent.
decorated II with hotels, theaters and pub
lie buildings among the largest and hand
soonest In America. increased II population
one-thiri, and extended It's commerce BY
rail and steamship TO every quarter OF the
globe. II will. indeed, be . sorry day for
San Francisco n. a. many stock gamblers
assert, the bonanza. which has done all
this. IL about exhausted.
Public interest and curiosity naturally
cling ~ q man who counts his wealth by
the millions. Everybody has respect for
q man who by his own unaided arm or
brain has acquired such great wealth.
Just now the men most prominent before
tho people Of the coast arc Messrs. John
W. Mackay. James q. Fair, James q.
Flood and william s. 0'Bricn. the So
called
"BoSASzA KINGS"
The men who had the nerve and foresight
to 20 ahead and develop the lower levels OF
the Comstock, thereby gaining princely
fortune. for themselves. besides making
scores OF others millionAircs and bringing
thousands into respectable competence.
Aud probably no men upon this coast care
iess for the applause Of tho passing crowd
than they. Quiet. unostentAtious, hArd-
worked. they bear their millions modestly.
and would choose neither To be fiattered
nor abused. But they can escape neither.
for while one part OF the community CON-
mend them for their pluck. success under
difficulties. great charity and personal
worth, another class - principally CAL
%ifornia street brokers soundly berate
them for being. In some unaccountable
and unexplained way, responsible for their
losses ON the stock board. such IL human
greatness. Perhaps. after all. IL 10 better
to remain poor and less conspicuous.
Personally. all four Of tho arm are the
most affable. -ociable and modest gentle
men you will meet In q days journey.
They arc always approachablo. There Ii
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About their Office. Whether d DO an
Eastern natob. q bothersome newspaper
man or q Sister Of Charity. every visitor
il equally sure VI 4 respectful audience.
Indeed. they even treat their libelers re-
s~pectfilly. They always keep . placid
outside. and they know how TO say M
to an importunAte visitor without giving
of.nse. Messrs. Flood 0'Brien, whose
names constitute the firm name. manage
the San Francisco business. which Is COM
posed Of large real estate and building In
%ieresis. and reside in that city. while
Messrs. Mackay and Fair reside In vir-
GINA. and have charge OF tho immense
MINING, WATER AND LrNnE
Hsrcabout. having some 5000 men In their
employ. Virginia City Is supplied with
water brought from a mountain lake some
fifteen miles away. The method OF bring
ing IL here Ia . triumph OF engineering
skill. quits exceptional In experimental
hydraulics. This great achievement was
worked out by Mr.. Fair. who. besides be-
ing n thorough and practical mschan-
ic. Is we'll read In all the forms of demon
s~trativc science. II cost the firm upwards
% -, 900, 900. The wood and lumber
lands Of the company consist OF l2,ooo