The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-05-24
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Facts and Eapcies Of Correspondent,

Facts and Eapcies Of Correspondent.
The following extract from long
communication in the Cape May Wave.
shows how strangers blend truth and
fiction in their descriptions Of Nevada
sent to home papers: /
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Humboldt county, Nevada, is in a lit4
tie valley in the Humboldt range OF
mountains. It is on Che Central Pacific
Railroad, AIS miles from San Francisco
and Ads from Salt Lake City. 1t is
4,335 feet above the sea level. The
climate is about the same as Cape May,
SO far as the temperature sscon-
cerned; averaging about 70' for Au,
gust, and 30 for January. Since /
have been hereit has been below freez.
ing point every night, but the days are
warm; but an overcoat is necessary
after 5 P. NJ. The humidity is very va
riable. 1t may be dry as powder.mill
and in few minutes a big cloud will
come swooping along, and you can have
fog, rain or snow, just as you wish.
1t chills one thoroughly, but by the
time you have a fire started it is clear
and warm again. AS the valley is only
about 40 miles ~ long by s miles, wide,
and inclosed by high mountains COW
cred with snow, it does not take very
large clond to act as sort of huge ex-
tinguisher, and make it decidedly dark
and gloomy for us. AT the summit,
just west of here, where the snow
blockaded the railroad last week, there
has fallen nearly 40 feet of snow this
Winter, so far The worst climatic
feature is
THE SAND. STORM.
The prevailing wind here is south
west, and when it comes along in the
AFTERNOON, 1T is accompanied by a steady
stream of sand, that fills up yards, bur-
les sidewalks, and forms huge drifts in
the streets; in some. places the tele-
graph line is under sand, and others
poles had to be spliced to keep the
wires clear, and houses have been bur-
led. In the year $3.50, when the chaps
then living come out here prospecting.
and sink their shafts, and strike ledge
of tin cans with fancy labels, coal oil
cans, whisky bottles, telegraph lines,
houses, ETC., suppose they will put
them in their cabinets and get up long
winded theories as to what kind Of peo-
pie once lived here. I thought old
Jersey was "some" on sand, but the
Nevada deserts gets away with it
"bad."
The town is named after old Winnie.
mucca, Chief of the Piutes. This tribe
is peaceably inclined. The squaws
chop wood, scrub, and some Of them do
washing for the whites; while the bucks
dress up in any cast off thing they can
find, paint their faces in gorgeous col
ors, have a.big feather in their. hat, and
red or green blanket thrown over
their shoulders, go stalking around
playing gentleman, and riding from one
station to another on the cars. The
laws compel the railroad to carry them
free, but the company will not permit
them to enter the cars, so they sit on
the steps and platforms.
Old Winnemucca has a daughter,
THE PRINCESS SARAH.
Who is really the Chief. She is
very intelligent, and she rendered
very efficient service to the Govern
ment in the late Indian wars, as scout
and interpreter to Gen. o. O. Howard.
Sarah was brought up by an American
| family in California, and has a good
English education, but when she
reached womanhood she grew tired of
| the restraints of civilization, ran away
from home, joined her tribe, took to
drink, and PANIED out bad. Just be-
fore came she attempted to deliver a
lecture in the opera house here, but
hoisted in so much tarantula juice,
which not only tangled her legs but
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