The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-12-14
PARADISE VALLEY.
What sam Franciscan Says Of
the Country and the Way TO
Get There

D. F. Verdenal, of the San Francisco
Exchange. who recently visited this
part of the county and took look at
Paradise valley and mires gives his
experience on the trip in spicy article
from which the following is an extract:
An early breakfast with sharpened
appetite at the Humboldt House,
AvERITAA LIE OASIS
In the wilderness of sagebrush, was
followed by an early arrival at Winnie
mucca. where we leave the comfort of
railroad travel for the humping of the
stage. The traveller shouldn't neglect
that breakfast at the Humboldt House,
where Meachem's pleas mt face always
welcomes you with smile. The sur
roundings of the place spreading
foliage. fish poods. alfalfa grass form
strange contrast to the bleak 1ess of
the country generally. '.All in the
water" says Meachem; "do anything
With water" And so the power of
water is illustrated, being brought from
the mountains three miles away. "AIl
aboard" says Mr.. A. j. Shepard, the
agent of the Paradise valley stages, and
We embark. The weather is cold. the
air sharp. blankets and warming pans
in demand and. well bundled up.
AWAY WE GO
From ssgebrusA. sand blown Winnie
mucca to Paradise. Paradise valley
lies north of Winnemucca, and through
1t for some thirty miles runs the stage
road to Idaho. 1t is some forty miles
long by about twenty in width. Ia
some respects it is paradise, the farm
ers growing magnificent crops by means
OF irrigation. Thousands of cattle grow
fat in the fields. Well constructed
farm houses and swelling haystacks
greet the eye at every turn. The con-
trast is sharply marked between the
sagebrush and the wheat field. aud the
only wonder is that anybody should
ever have thought it possible to snatcb
the desert from its desolatbon and make
1t bloom and blossom even as the VALLEY
of the Mohawk. The shades of night
had already fallen when the stagedriver
cracked his whip for the last time and
announced,
HERE WE ARE, GENTLEMEN,
And landed his live freight at the hos
pltable door of Brother Kemler. who.
while he doesn't exactly keep a hotel,
always has accommodations for his
friends. ksmler is a character. Pos.
sessed of more wealth than be knows
what to do with. owning more land in
the valley than he can ever cultivate,
with thousands in bank. a grist mill at
Wlnnemucci, cattle unnumbered.
houses by the score. Kemler is the
hardest working man in Nevada. Up
before the dawn, never to bed until the
last man has retired. Kemler works on.
and he Is one handed mao ooly, the
other hand having been blown away by
the premature discharge of blast when
be was mining Ia California. Kemler
is Lord of Paradise village He puts
his wealth to good use, making sub.
st4ntial improvements around him.
The Paradise mines are ten miles away
from Paradise village, aud wers first
discovered some six years ago.
THE Tradition
AS narrated by the Oldest settler. is as
follows: "You see, one winter de-
tachment of soldiers were crossing the
mountains yonder for Fort Scott, which
was then at the bead of the valley, up
there. you see. Well. they camped in
one OF The c'nyons, and some of the
company went TO prospecting aud struck
pr speet But, soldiers can't be
miners. and on they went. | had
friend who told me about it, and damn
me II Tor the next five years | didn't
prospect the whole country around ard
never came within mile of ihe place.
Aud yet there it is-in plain sight
iron where We stand. and where I've
stood for six years wondering which