Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-06-04

Uorr VALLEY. cali May 30, 1871.
In. Com Hull Nrws: The snow fell
two feet on the summit OF tue 2sih AMI
18th anil continued showing and blowing
all day. I was At Silver Lake and started
cut across the summit during the storm
ani found the snow from two In three feet
deep. I have lived Ia tho Sierra for
nearly eighteen years and mover saw such
a storm at this SEASON % the year. The
snow fell twelve inches deep In Hope
Valley.
The dairymon are all in with their cows
and IL il pretty rough on them It has
been such a cold. backward Spring that
the yras. Il short. Mr.. \. \. Mott, ons 81
our old ,lsirymen. met with q heavy loss
night before last. which at this stormy
time II hard tn replace. His milk and
dairy house was bnrnod. and the lire Is
supposed "a have caught from tho stove
pipe. lie lost 500 milk pans, lG buckets,
400 pounds 90 better, churn. butter
marker and everything used In dairying ;
loss about 81 200. This - will not lay
ON the valley more than 4 day or two, but
IA will be q beneft To the grass. There
are about four miles 81 old snow ON the
summit, varying from six inches To ten
inches deep ; there Is a good trail over II
for stock. and they expect Ia have IL open
for wagons by the 10Th 10 this month.
The FISHING In Hops Valley Is not very
good vet. but will be good in two weeks.
but in silver Lake. which Is sixteen miles
from here. IL cannot 10 Leat. have just
returned FROM there. As o a rs you drop
your hook In the water YOU have ~ take Il
out with a fish on IL. BERTHE Rising. Judge
Ri.ing's son. 81 Virginia. Is with me and
Is having line sport. lie fslel about
t~xcnty.iour hours and caught GAO nice
trout. They run in schools and some
times for two hundred feet square the
water il thick with them. send on your
anglers nov aud they shall he satisfied with
trout for the next month. The hotel at
Silver Lake has changed hands. Mr.. T.. 4. |
Hunt. from Sportsman's Hall, ON the |
Placeryille rad. having bought II. lie IL
old and experienced hand in the hotel
business, ho having kept a hotel for many
years ia Sacramento. lie Il ovcrhauling
all - the boats ani putting them In good
also putting IA " White Hall
boats. II Is a beautiful sheet Of water
about two miles long and one AMI a half
vide. surrounded by lofty mountains. IL
il twenty.fou miles from Woolforjs ami
i ~ pleasant a drive, with a. romantic
a. there u on the coast. IL You
10 not believe ID. ask Bob Lindsay. Mr..
]. l.. Scott. in lIope Valley, Is going u
ppm q hotel thi. summer, also Mr.. Il. NJ.
both ~dairymen aud well known In
he Valley 10y pleasure seekers.
One Of your Gold Hill artists il up at
Markleeville taking photographs OF all the
AIS and lAssiss ~ the country. lie H. do
ing . rushing business and they call him
Charley Noc. lie Is % pretty tn take good
pictures Of the girls, for they cannot look
aherc he tell. them; they have To look
over the top of the machine. suppose, nj
However. be il not tn blame Tor
being gvoi looking. | am going Ia take
him in TOW a few days on the summit 81
the Sierras taking views. He proposes tn
.r~nd most Of the summer travelling In
the mountains. That will take the pretty
out % him. Yours tuiy,
OLD TG,rrEE.