Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-02-23


any canvass. Snow and moonlight and Niagara
have never yet been painted and never will
be- And we have a railroad. What a relief
to see railway train, discrimination or no dis
nous we want one every hour, after two
years exile among the sagebrush, where
The sound of the engineers bell
Those sage covered vallies neer heard
Where no ShOShone called it heap hell,
And no squaw nd jack rabbit were scared.
As Billy Anderson said when he heard of
his sons death, "Well, it S a consolation, any
how THE boy might have died without his
hearing of it, you know-and railway trains
might run here for ages, but if one did not
get a glimpse of them what good would it be
to him And now have become one of those
fellows have often laughed at, whose only
amusement in life seems to be lettering
around stations and staring passengers out of
countenance, only that | used to throw them
out papers and discarded railway novels but
no one has recognized my hungry looks since
| have been here, and | think of getting up
placard to carry on my breast after the
manner of crippled veterans and blind Or
ganists, "RememI,er the Editor" for they
evidently don't know me. In month or
two, when my clothes become little more
threadbare, it will be different. We are
great people to plan, here, and chalk out for
tunes; and if, like Sellers, we could but get
a few millions as a starter, we know that there
are millions in it. We have railroad on
hand and prospective Reduction Works of
wondrous capacity, and we are going to make
this fulcrum from which we mean to move
the hidden wealth within a radius of hun
bred miles or So We are figuring for the
Insane Asylum. and we mean to have the
Capitol here bye and bye, and the AP
PEAL office and a good many other things
which it would be premature to mention.
There is room and to spare for all this, and it
only wants Prof Scott and one or two solid
men to put their shoulders to the wheel and
the thing is un .fait occomph.
We do not wish to appear too sanguine as
to the future of this city of the plain but if
the fact that we are on the direct line of COM
munication between the Atlantic and the
Pacific, and not yet connected with any "dis
ordinations" that we are only distant ninety
miles from the Manhattan, the autocrat of
Pony Canyon; and within easy reach of the
modest and beautiful town of Reno, has any
significance, then we say the claims of Battle
Mountain to a great future, as well as wide
circulation for the Messenger, the best weekly
in Nevada and only five dollars year, are
fully established. Further, We have no
Cinnamon to speak Of and those We have are
"alle same white man." for [ observe that
they play "pedro and shake" for the drinks,
and are quite civilized; in fact, if We had a
faro game here we could soon christianiz
Them for [ notice that most of them can
swear pretty roundly and in good English
Now here's field which Brother Gibson evil |
IDENTIFY knows nothing about, and state of
among our Monaghan population
which in his reports he has entirely omitted,
which shows after all how far below the facts |
missionary statistics fall There are many |
other beauties-I do not refer to the ladies'
and advantages connected with Battle Noun |
tain which time forbids me to notice. but l
must add this much: If you know any one
who wants to build and does not want to be
troubled with near neighbors, this is the place
to come There are splendid lots reaching