Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-10
NOTES AND QUERIES.


occasional fits of the blues. These are trace
able to various causes, such as the weather, tn,
stock-narket, the lumber trade, the dyspepsia
flor towns suffer from indigestion, like indi
viduals) and unusual cares and worriments
This Notary can look back and see many such
times of doubt, depression and dependency
These are succeeded by more or less numer
Gus emigration to other parts, like White Pine
the Black Hills, Montana and Bodie By and
by the stragglers come stringing along the
home stretch, weary, sad, repentant and dead
broke. In 1865 there was very decided dis
position to abandon this pleasant vale and
wander afar in search of other fields and newer
pastures. There were some pretty steady
headed people who staid here and pulled
through-some of them making snug little
estate was not held at metropolitan prices.
In fact, town lots were exceedingly poor
property when the tax-man came round.
When the Mint was building, some lots of
land in North Carson began to be counted as
worth the sum assessed against them, and
then to be valued at something better. By
and by the railroad got into shape (not with
out some serious and persistent opposition);
and when the locomotive began to screech
and puff, building lands began to be looked
after in unwonted quarters and real estate as
sumed a value it never had known before.
All this while the Comstock was in the dole
full dumps. In 1S7172 it developed the flush
times which suddenly collapsed last Spring
letting the air out of the stock balloon. Down
came upon Carson its periodical fit of the
blues Away went the usual flight of fortune
hunters The fit was one of more than COM
mon severity. 1t seems to us that the rally
is going to be correspondingly strong. The
up-heaving tide has set in already. Money |
is ever much easier than it has been for
year or more. After the tax paying season is !
over, the times will be better yet Yesterday |
one saw some great big wagons laden with |
high heaped loads of assorted goods, headed |
Messrs. ellison & Barber. There are other
businesses in Bodie which date from Carson.
The fact is, our own affairs and the affairs of
that camp are quite closely related Here is
the natural supply place for that district APP
the long-looked for feeder" is
found Also it seems as if we were going to
tap it more vigorously and effectively than any
other community. We have great faith in
Bodie. So have many cool, judicious observ
ers. 1t seems hkely-probable, indeed-that
the railroad people will reach out in that di-
rection next year. At all events, permanent
rich diggings at Bodie, is the long-loeked for
inlet through which we are to be compensated
for the exhaustion of our timber supplies and
the depletion of our aforetime population of ,
wood cutters There is sort of stability
sbout Carson which people take to and recog-
lize, instinctively When mining camps have
been deserted and worked out our little city
IT'LL stands, homelike, stable, solvent-a good =
rendezvous and refuge. 1t is good thing for
both parties-town and people-that there is
uch place 1t is like Mr.. Spendthrift's
steady going, respectable" brother. Carson
s one of the suburbs of the Comstock. We Z
an well afford to be between two such fires as :
he Big Bonanza and the mines of Bodie. .
There's deal of nutrument in it, as The Far u
ner says. We are speedily emerging from Il
he blues. Our bright side will be outmost 81
or good while, we predict,-longer than VI
yer, probably. We are convinced there is G.
70 little virtue in holding on, never saying u
die" and never abandoning the ship while IL
ct she floats. Far be it from this Querist to la
iseourage any prospectors or exploring expe- 81
itions. On the contrary we are merely en- CT
the conviction that Carson, as al
ase of supplies and line of retreat, is to be Ill
epended on. Scatter out, Oh you uneasy at
'ampers and campers, peg away at new risks, o'
b YOU venturesome fortune seekers and sill nj
ar diggers but bear in mind that Carson is pc
, the Grant Washoeite what Rome was to WI
,e truant Roman, what the fold is to the OF
andering sheep, what his shell is to the tur- re
e, what the pod is to the pea The MORN I'D
70 APPEAL, in one form or another has made 'le
anpearance six times week, with but "a
ieht interruption since May 1865. 1t has ne
en- some very squally weather in those co
relve and half years of the vieis,itudes of ia
wspaper life It has seen some very de- I'M
essing days and weeks and months-not of lof
own, but of things in general 1t Is self ioi
nvinced that it is long-lived, destined to cal