The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-06-03

what Professor stewart Says of Ms
Agricultural and Mineral Re.
From the Virginia Chronicle.

Professor w. +. Stewart, VINO yes
teclay returned from visit to the
Paradise mines, gives very interesting
account of what he saw there. The
mines are situated about fifty miles
northwest from the line of the Central
Pacific Railroad, and are reached by
wagon road traversing a country as
level as floor for the almost entire
distance. This road runs through the
best portion OF Paradise valley, which
generally at this season of the year is
very beautiful, but which at present is
noticeably backward, on account of the
lateness of the spring. The Professor
also noticed lamentable lack of energy
on the part of the farmers, who take
not the least pains to beautify their
grounds or improve their farms beyond
the bare requirements of the successive
crops. Not tree is to be seen from
Winnemucca, the point of departure
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valley. 1t is one whole region of sage
brush, where not under cultivation,
and the remaining portions are very
similar in appearance to some of the
agricultural counties of California in
which men have settled with the evil
dent intentions of passing their lives
with the least possible expenditure of
energy. Yet the valley is destined some
day to produce immense quantities of
the cereals and to support a population
equal to that of the whole State at the
present time. There is margin of
land skirting the hills around which is
at present mere waste, but which
might be made immensely productive
by the introduction of water for irriga-
ton Tie general character of the
country leals Professor Stewart to be-
heve that artesian wells could be
secured by boring few hundred feet
into the earth.
, +BUNG-EYE," GoUGE-EYE," "KNoCK-
EM-sTrFF."
Paradise City is town about the size
of Dayton, and the trading center of
the valley. The inhabitants of Spring
City, another town i'll the mines, being
of jealous nature and having dispo-
sition to grim humor, have named Para
disc Gouge-Eye," which, it is sup
posed, was suggested by the many con-
flicts among the people at time an
terror to the introduction OF better
quality of whisky. The unfortunate
people thus stigmatized have responded
by calling Spring City " Bung- Eye"
while little town situated close to the
mines, on account of its naughty con-
tempt for the others, has by unani-
nous consent been awarded the title of
"Knock -em-Stiif These names are
used entirely by the people, the others
being held essential only in formal pro
ceedings at law and for service in the
presence of dignified and Christianlike
strangers, who generally. by reason of
their seldom appearance, fill the people
with an irresistible desire to show off
to the best advantage. The pictur-
esque effect of the use of % Bung- Eye"
and "Gouge- Eye in the higher social
circles of the valley is spoken of as
something to be seen nowhere else in
the State. 1t is easy to imagine the Ian
guage that Charles will use when,
dressed in his best suit, he calls upon
Lucinda for the pleasure of her COM
panionship to ball to be given at the
Granger Hotel at Bung- Eye, but is dis
appointed to find that she has pre-
vious engagement with Henry to attend
a church festival at Gouge Eye on the
same evening. The climax of pictur-
esqueness is only reached, however,
when the children with fearful eyes
plead with their parents for permission
to visit Knock 'emrStif in quest of a
days innocent pleasure in the aidst of
the exciting scenes which characterize
that commercial center. The Professor
diverges from a description of the
chief feature of the valley to dwell upon