Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-05-31
AWHILE IN VIRGINIA CITY.

the theater, and came back to Carson on
ways of making the trip from Carson to Vir-
ginia: by the V. g. T. r. R, by private con-
veyance, giving oneself the choice of several
roads, and there is nothing in the way of
ones going afoOt aas we once knew fellow
who was not Bonanzaite to do But by rail
is decidedly the most satisfactory way of get
ting from the State Capital to Virginia. You
get your ticket-for all efforts to beat your
way you will find futile--yOu take your seat,
the less ObtrusiVely the better, put your faith
in the engineer and the conductor and, in the
language Of the cheap novelist, Gin less time
than it takes to describe" your journey is
over You whirl over the fat by Empire,
bulge down on to the Carson, scud past the
mills on the river, climb up to the Mound
House, slide gracefully over another fat,
waltz around some more curves, get a partial
view of Silver City, climb a little more, take
short rest at that bower of arborescent beauty,
Gold Hill, make another start, and in a few
minutes more you are in Storey's rich Capital
Much of the scenery along this wonderful
railroad itself being one of the grandest
achievements in modern civil engineering-ls
magnificent, almost thrilling in its grandeur
But it has been described so often, and So
we'll, that the writer in this case has not the
nerve to attempt another description. To
other hands is left the task of painting the
vine-embowered hills, the valleys rich in
outrageous wealth, the naaid-sought hooks
where the magnolia and the jessamine ex-
change their fragrant VOWS, where the bios
soming peach makes insidous advances to the
blushing apricot, and where-but maybe, des
Criptively, we are getting things mixed
Virginia City IS dull But it does not look
so. The streets are thrOnged with people,
after the fashion of our handsome town on
gala days, and We see hosts of men hurrying
to and fro rs if they had a world of business
TO transact and but little time to accomplish
it. But much of this business air, we were
assured, was assumed, and Virginia has more
than its share of non producers. Many of
them toll not except for drink or a meal |
neither do they spin but round the corner. |
The town has more than its quota of idlers,
but then it has plenty of good work-seeking
men who would gladly labor if they had a
q chance. Most of the mines have been re-
ducing expenses, which means that this forced
economy has thrown large numbers of miners
out of employment This is the real key
note to the dirge of dull times.
hon a ]
hear news is applicable to the mines of the
Comstock. One hears more about levels,
winxes, cross-cuts, porphyry, pay-chutes,
slopes, expected deals, and other mining shop
stuff here in Carson than he hears in the
same length of time in Virginia City. We
enquired of friend: "What about Julia p
Julia be id" quoth the man, "she's
nuisance. Old Moses gave her thirty days
for being drunk and disordery." We sug
yested that his Julia was not the one we had
referred to; that we meant the mine; and he
frankly told us he knew nothing about it,
which is about all that most people up there
,eem to know on the same subject. Ophir is
avorably looked upon, but beyond this no
,ne was giving ''pOints.
Want of time, as we'll as lack of space, t
must go as the apology for not mentioning :
he many old friends who kindly enQuired for
he MORNING APPEAL up at Virginia. !
Denman Thompson has been giving the a
Virginians Joshua Whitcomb" since last I
Sunday night. With the history of Thomp- t
on's recent success in San Francisco, every t
newspaper reading Carsonite Is familiar. 1t v
las had no parallel as dramatic success on
his coast We, perhaps, saw "Whitcomb' !
lnder discouraging conditions. He had i.
yery poor house, considered numerically, Il
'uch one as we would be ashamed of in
Carson, and his support was the weakest of tt
he weak. Denman Whitcomb, pardon US, n
Joshua Thompson, ia about all there is of the C.
play, he is a natural Yankee, which is the $,
highest compliment we can pay him. His Of
method is quiet, his points are all neatly N
nadas and, take him through his three act d
,ieCe he is the best stage Yankee We have ever o.
zen. But in Virginia City he has certainly d.
lot been a financial success. A portion of p'
he local press went after Thompson for 81
lis sharp advertising, and whatever the mo- ia
i've may have been, he certainly got black >,
70 through some of the Virginia papers. 3;