Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-15
WHEELEK'S FIND.
what They Think Of Flying Aero.
lites i'm New York.


The editor Of the New York Times
has read the wonderful account pub.
lislied in the SENTINEL some time
since concerning the discovery Of a
red hot aerolite that had fallen near
Diamond mountain, and found to be
of almost incalculable value, contain
ing all manner of precious metals.
That paper, published on the 9TH inst,
devotes considerable space to the ex-
preston of its views regarding the
same, and from which article we
quote:
However erroneous Professor Tice's
views AS TO weather may be. he GER
tainly shows considerable willingness
to accept disinterested advice. Some
weeks since he was firmly remon-
strated with in regard to the gaudy
but reckless character OF the various
showers of rat and such like
rubbish which have been from time to
time lavished upon helpless Western
communities, and was told hat unless
he could furnish a really useful shower,
he might as well abandon his efforts
10 rival the Weather Bureau. Some
men in his position would have sneered
at this ad Twice, and perhaps expressed
their sense OF injured dignity by
showers of Objectionable mice and
worms. Prof. Tice, however, is a very
different sort of man, and in the re-
cent Nevada shower of valuable min
erals, his willingness to crafty all rea
soDable requests is clearly demon
| strated.
There is a Mr.. Wheeler, who Guilt
Yates a farm in Diamond Valley, Ne
vada, and occasionally reiaxes his
mind by raising cattle. On the It'll OF
January last. while Mr.. Wheeler was
sleeping in his peaceful straw bed, he
was awakened by a violent shock as
though from an earthquake, and Mr..
Wheeler, firmly believing that the
State of Nevada was about to turn bot.
toinside upward, sprang hastily into
the street, yelling vaguely for the po-
lice, although his farm house was
thirty miles from any other human
habitation. No o had he emerged
from his front window and disentan-
gled himself from his too hasty dog,
than his eyes were daZzled toy ap I'M
precedentedly brilliant light which ra-
dated from tho direction of Diamond
mountain. After waiting a considera-
BILE time for the world to come to an
end, and finding That it had no imme-
diate intention OF SO doing, he returned
Ia his house, put on a few clothes, and
started for Diamond mountain.
1t is estimated that the aerolite
weighs at least 1000. 600 tons. How
much silver this Will produce at the
,nsx ~ COZ ta, ,.ait "a. ID. nGga M
nor Mr.. Wheeler, nor the editor of the
Eureka newspaper has yet been abie to
calculate, though the former imported
very large states from San Francisco for
that express purpose. There is
no doubt, however, that 1t Will
yield all enormous sum, especi-
ally inasmuch MS the gold will pay
all the cost of mining and refining,
and the silver will thus be all profit.
Mr.. Wheeler has already been con
verted TO the opinion hat silver should
be made a legal tender, and he is ready
to sell a limited amount of stock in his
| Aerolite Silver Mine to a few select
Eastern capitalists.
If Prof. Tice is really responsible for
this shower-and if we hold him re-
| spousible for other eccentric showers,
he is certainly entitled TO the credit OF
this one-h he has at last catered upon a
noble and useful career. Showers of
sill yer and gold are precisely the kind
of showers which the country needs.
They should not be layished indis.
criminately upon the just and the UNI
just, but they should be distributed
wherever it is evident that they would
do the most good. If Prof. Tees
weather bulletins will frequently pre-
dict areas of silver in the Gulf region,
together with light showers of gold
and silver i'm the Middle States, he will
be immensely respected and beloved.
His cats meat, and fish and mince pie
showers were, perhaps, well meant,
but they were sadly unsatisfactory.
Let him give us plentiful showers of
! precious metals, together with an &C.
c~asional gentle hail of diamonds, and
he will drive the Washington Weather
Bureau out of business. OF course,
there can be no doubt as to the truth
of tire silver shower in Nevada. The
whole story is told at great length in
the Eureka paper. and to insinuate
that the story is untrue. and the editor
an habitual Piatt, would be the very
height of rashness and ~indecency.