Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-09-26
SOUTH GATE.
A Run Over TO Tom Fitzpatrick,
N what was Seen ON the Roaa-

and what was Seen ON the Road.
BY invitation Of Mr.. A. E. Kaye we yes
terday took a seat behind one Of Sweeney
Il Co.'s best livery teams, for q ride over
the summit to South Gate. It was a cool
and invigorating breeze that swept up
Eureka and down Pinto canyons, and the
only disagreeable part Of the ride over
there was the dusty roads. The Railroad
Co%mpany's toll-road is in good fix for
heavy loads, and is lined with wood, coal
and freight teams. At the head OF Eureka
canyon the Water Company are corral
ing" more springs, ditching and putting
in pipes and boxes. Traces Of the cloud
burstiof two years ago are on every hand,
and the washes, cuts, gullies, driftings and
slides Of rock, sand and debris, generally,
only the wear and tear Of ages can efface.
High water mark shows that in the can
yon, three miles above town, the flood must
have been OF as great volume, and travel
ing with far more velocity than it did
through the streets Of Eureka.
ouht across inc ulVlde, AZ the nrst
springs, is Robert Hager's milk ranch, and
his COWS range pom q Thousand hills"
They are looking fine, too. Milk, taken
from his cool spring-bouse, tastes as deli
cious as we remember it in the days of
old. This is Mr.. Hager's summer resi-
dence, n he says there is most always q
lively breeze stirring-in fact stiff enough
to raise the scrub cedars out by the roots,
at times.
At the Pinto station there was consider
able hustle of trains going this way and
that. Brother Smith was reported to be
at the ''hub," attending to the official
count in the Republican primaries, but
his garden sass was growing and ripening
all the same. 1t is refreshing to look even
upon 80 small q field devoted to agricul-
ture.
Mr.. Moses, OF Duckwater, was deliver
ing hay at the Pinto station. He has a
contract for hauling sixty or a hundred
tons from Mendes' ranch, On Duckwater, to
Bro. Smiths place. If we remember cor
rectly, the hay is to be delivered for
S35 per ton. 1t is Of splendid quality and
excellsntly cured.
Mr.. Potter's residence and the Maryland
mill are monuments suggestive Of better
days. This mill was centrally located for
the treatment Of Secret canyon and Silver
ado ores. 1t will not be allowed to rust
out. Much prospecting is going OF in
those districts, and (1et us pray) crushers
and shelters may yet find work in that
same canyon.
Below Pinto station, upon either side OF
the road, grazing high up on the mountain
sides and low down in the ~ravines, are
many head of horses and cattle. The
range must be a very good one, for the
animals gave evidence of nutritious grasses.
There is a spot on the right hand side,
just after pulling up from the old italian
wood station, that reminds a Coloradan Of
the Garden Of the Gods. This is a minia-
ture affair, but the domes, the towers, the
p~inacles and the monuments are there; not
to be compared in dimensions and grand
ure with those Of fame and history, but
still as perfect in form and feature. "Lit-
tie drops of water" nave worn them into
the shapes they now assume. Some over
20 feet high; others are no more than three
or four feet above the rock pedestal upon
which they stand. Many Of them are
capped with red rock domes, and the
bodies, being Of white sandstone, in a twi-
light view resemble a group OF ghosts.
At Tom Fitzpatrick's, business looks
lively. 1t is Toms duty to see that man
or beast, passing that way, fills up, and no
one growl after treatment, though they
may grunt. For a horse hotel. Tom has
the old Illinois pattern matched and
lined with stable offal. 1t will hold 80 or
100 head Of stock, and is as warm as any
stable in Nevada. His corrals are con
veniently arranged, and the only lack on
the premises is a fountain Of clear water.
In front of the doorway leading into his
residence, Mr.. Fitzpatrick has a very
pretty imitation mat, Of alfalfa and sun
flowers, no larger than a door rug.
A Mr.. Marsden has erected a barley-sack
blacksmith shop, a block away from the
business centre. 1t is cool, and furnishes
all the weather protection necessary.
Marsden catches about all the blacksmith
and wagon repairing work he wants to do
and is c~orrespondingly happy.