Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-08-14
THE MISTAKE OF GOING TO DALLS
GROVE"

DallS " GroVe Is only grove by compar
ison. 1t would be called very open clearing
IN wooded country. The shade wherewitf
the rays of the midday sun are modified and
withheld from the face and form of tired hui
mainly Is very decided and very grateful, 81
far as it goes but it is subjected to the con-
ditions of a most emphatic and decided "cor-
ner," as it were. 1t consists mainly of the
shelter of four or five pitch pines, two tele'
graph poles, aud an open work board fence.
Twelve or fifteen people and a horse could be
kept quite we'll shaded there by discreet OBJ
servance of the movement of the earth IN Its
diurnal voyage round the sun and the timely
and nimble shifting of their quarters. But
for the purposes of an indiscriminate or pro-
miscuous shading, if we may be permitted the
employment of the expression, this Grove"
should be taken ride and-tie, or turn about
with very short shifts, or the shelter is some
what unsatisfactory, especially to crowd of
three or four thousand people who have start
ed out for a days pleasure and recreation, in
the dogdays. 1t would be all right were it
not for the heated impotence of the off shifts
while waiting for their turn at the shade.
The dozen or so who, for the time being are
out of the glaring sun, are apt to procrasti-
nate their stay to the dissatisfaction of the
sweating thousands who are left standing in
the open, unrelieved save by the small pro-
lection of an occasional parasol sustained by
a cheerful hopefulness and fortified by calm
apd OH Dotionoa Ruf oil this 10 NO
fault of the proprietor it is merely phe
nomenon of nature-one of the peculiarities
of the Great American Basin, supplemented
by Caledonian misapprehenson As we
have limited, comparatively speaking, Dalls
Grove is a very cool and refreshing retreat
Situated in the midst Of the Fortymile Des
ert, or suddenly discovered by the lost wan
derer in the Death Valley of Pahranagat, it
would seem like unto Blessing, with great,
big, bountiful b. We are led into these con-
sentative remarks by the following comments
upon the Caledonia Picnic, which We find in
the Stage of Monday "The exodus of peo-
pie from this city and Gold Hill on Saturday
last was at least twice large as on the occa-
sion of any other picnic excursion this season,
and the Caledonia Club doubtless realized
handsomely by it but we have not yet met
a single person who attended but is thorough
ly disguised with Dalls Ranch as a place of
holding picnic. All complain of lament |
able lack of shade and the many other little |
accommodations that should be provided for
the decent entertainment of 5000 or 1000 |
people The ranch or grove, possessed the |
novelty of being new to our people, and con-
sequently took out great many people who |
would not otherwise have gone, they doubt |
less thinking that the committee had found a
better place than either Bowers Mansion or
Treadway's Park. As a result the major pOr-
ton of the throng, after wandering hstlessly |
about until they were nearly roasted alive,
made for Bowers Mansion, three-tourths of a
place to lie down and open their lunch bas
kets. cts all all wind" ETC., and so Nat
Holmes was the gamer by it. He expected
a number of them would pay him visit, but
was hardly prepared for the rush he was sub
iected to. They swooped down on him like
an army of locusts, and literally cleaned
him out" Fifteen or twenty people even
stayed at the Mansion over night, and several
returned to this city on the railroad excursion
train last evening. The committee of the
Caledonians doubtless acted according to their
best Judgment, and considerable expense was
incurred i'll trying to accommodate the pic
nickers, but the place itself is failure for
the purpose it was used on Saturday, and it
is doubtful whether fifty persons who were
present on that day could be induced to go ,
again.
personal. Mr.. b. b. Minor passed
through the city yesterday en- route from
Bodie to the Bay. He represents things as .
particularly lively at Bodie The Bodie mine
still continues to turn out $4,000 of gold
bullion per day, and the appearance of -.
The mine at all points is highly
satisfactory. Mr. Minor is connected with .
he Mono County Bank, which will commence
business in Bodie this week The bank has
. capital of 500, 900, and numbers among .
is stockholders Messrs. Robert Graves, +
Robert Barton, Henry Eppstein, W. S. Hop
1ins and other substantial capitalists of San Z
Francisco. Mr. Howard +. Hastings, for
many years cashier of the Merchants Ex-
,hange Bank of San Francisco, has been ,