Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-11-15

Sres will ever again disturb the equanimity
OF the good people Of the Richmond, nor
| yet interpose o barrier, however Tempo
rary, to its future operations.
And now, to glance at other matters. 1t
has been said that the people of Eureka
were ~prejudiced against this company.
| Why should this be? Do persons or COM
munities generally become prejudiced
against their benefactors? Hardly, il cap
able of entertaining the least sentiment Of
gratitude. The Richmond has been always
looked upon as the
CHEF OF THE CAMP,
And, unlike its neighbor At the north end
OF town, it has always been an impartial
employer OF labor, its officers having no
sympathy, whatever, with . sentiment
which would ostrAcise one class Of men
while anording encouragement, labor and
substantial support TO another. Besides.
who is there that will deny that much Of
She prosperity which has marked the past,
and markes the present, too, Of Eureka's
career, has not been derived from both the
u~nilagging and the extensive operations of
this company? Moreover, the unparalleled
Weld of its property has been instrumental
i'm removing from the minds of British in
vestors much Of the injurious and unjust
~prejudices entertained by them against
American mining properties, because Of
their losses in connection with some of the
bowling, yelping felines foisted upon them
by a few unprincipled sharpers.
People may boast about public Sc nti-
ment being inimical to English incorpora-
tions, and more particularly SO to the
Richmond. This is all bosh, sheer non
,o,co x~. 1rpa1un in .vh;ol, ~
| well informed person takes stock. There
is no such scurvy, ungrateful feeling ami
mates the people of Eureka. On the con-
trary, they recognize in the Richmond, in
the British Mill and Mining Company, Of
Pinto, in the Mineral Hill venture, and,
when it existed, in the Ruby Consolidated,
too, as indeed they do in all such enter
prising corporations, friends, who furnish
them employment and business, and who
spenu their money in developing and util-
izing the
WONDERFUL MINERAL WEALTH
Embedded beneath their brown and barren
appearing hills. The inhabitants of this
section justly appreciate the entcrprising
spirit which has been displayed by the
Richmond, and not since the Lookout
litigation Of 1873, were the sympathies of
the public for its misfortunes rendered
more unequivocally manifest than they
were at and since the late confiagration.
Men of all ranks and shades Of opinion,
from the leading merchant. professional
man and mine superintendent, down to
the stalwart sons OF toll, We'd with each
other in the matter of giving substantial
assistance to stay the progress OF the
devourins element, and prevent it from ex-
tending to other quarters Of the premises.
BY their united aid, too, the boilers, engine,
and other less expensive apparatus were
saved. The blowers, blast conductors,
water pipes, smoke, dust and fume condenser
the parts in more immediate proximity to
the furnaces, howeyer--were despite all eff
forts, rendered so unserviceable that they
all will have to be supplemented by new
purchases.
And apropos of speaking Of the engine. I
cannot allow this opportunity to pass with
out eulogizins the Judgment and practical
experience which instigated its removal
from its former subjacent position to its
present elevated and altogether most APP
propriate situation. This change insures
dry steam and lessened consumption of
fuel henccforth, two desidcratums not to
be dcspised. Steam connection was eff
fected q few days since, and the furnaces
and buildings are in SO forward a stage OF
construction, as to insure their completion
at or about the time heretofore designated
list proximo). The coal bin, too, has been
rebuilt and coal receipts resumed, much to
the qualification of the carboniferous
brigade. The railroad trcstle-work and ore
bins are also nearly completed, as are many
Of the chief improvements, and when the
metallic roofing puts in an appearance, all
will go as merry as q marriage bell at the
Richmond. J.. d. Power.
Eureka, November IA, 1878.