Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-04

-AID1On n Legitimate venture
The Stirling Company-Personal
Mention.
SAN FRANCISCO, January /, 1880.
EDITOR SENTINEL-The bright, warm sun
Of a fresh measure Of existence sheds his
smiling beams upon us this happy New
Years morning, shining alike upon prince
and peasant, saint and sinner, the million
aire and the poor man, and embuing all,
it is hoped, with thankfulness and graft
tude to the beneficent Providence whose
guiding spirit has animated and preserved
them all through that cycle which now be-
longs to the irrevocable past. This is a
day dedicated by C~hristendom to pleasant
greetings, Handwriting, friendly calls and
family reunions. To-day old scores are
settled and old feuds and enmities either
entirely ended, or, as if by common con-
sent, for the time forgotten, SO that moth
ing might maj the harmony of the occa-
sion, and it is in this spirit that your cor
respondent presents his New Years COM
pliments to the SENTINEL and its readers.
The old man of 1879 has run his allotted
career, and is now reposing in silence with
his hoary predecessors. And while we who
yet survive him doff the old and don the
new habiliments appropriate*to the bright
opening era before US, it would perhaps
not be amiss to cast a glance along the
devious corridors through which We have
passed, and draw lessons of consolation
and wisdom from the reflections which
such a retrospect could not fail to awaken.
Purchased experience is the most benef-
cial, because of its being more lasting than
that for which We do not pay either in gold
or regrets. Blu though retrospective re-
Elections may not be always pleasant, it
does not necessarily follow that they may
not ON occasions prove useful and interest
ing. The vanished year has not been
marked by any very notable occurrences,
and if we except the blnnders Of the i'm
maculate Beaconsfield, and the projections
rather than the discoveries Of Edison, the
fields Of war and science have proven bar
rem Of results, so barren indeed that some
future Macaulay in vain will seek amidst
its Heterogeneous accumulation for data or
matter worthy Of transmission to the pos
terity, which will curse the English Pre-
mier, and embalm in imperishable song
and story the memory OF the inventor Of
telephones. Our country has, however,
prospered in all material matters during
the course of 1879, and let us hope that
1880 will bring it an equal if not a greater
measure Of prosperity.
ALBION AND UNCLE SAM.
The consolidation Of these properties is
now an accomplished fact. The certificate
Of the new incorporation has been filed,
and all other matters carefully attended to
ON the part of Superintendent Robinson
and his colleagues in interest at this end
Of the line. The new company starts on
its mission with the following well-known
gentlemen as Trustees: L.. L.. Robinson,
Clinton Gurnee, Francis Cutting, Geo. W.
Hopkins, Irwin NJ. Scott, D.. f.. Verdenal
and a Mr. Mason, O wealthy cattle and
ranch owner Of your State. All these gen.
tlemen are ~well-known business men,
whose records bear evidence to their fit
ness for the positions Of trust to which
they have been elected. The new Board Of
Directors organized with the undermen-
toned officers l.. L. Robinson, Presi-
dent Clinton Gurnee, Vice President
Lazard Freres, Treasurer D. b. Chisholm,
Secretary, and E. n. Robinson, Superin-
tsndent. Having organized, the new Board
by a unanimous vote supported a resolu-
tion to call a stockholders meeting for the
18th proximo, for the purpose Of eleeting a
new Board of Directors, SO that all inter-
ests involved will be fairly represented.
And as active exploratory operations are to
be Immediately reinaugurated, il is prob
able that a light assessment viii be levied
by the new Board, when it meets, after the
election on the 18th Of January. The COM
pany do not owe a cent, a fact which speaks
/ ..1II fA- tlaf ma n a2apannk pgryg an ~ a
ested outsider, | yesterday learned from
the Vice President, Mr.. Gurnee, that the
assessment TO be levied would not exceed
ten cents per share, which will give an ag-
! gregate of SIT, 600 for working expenses.
This sum viii be ample to start with, and
ii is not improbable that before it shall
have been spent, the property will be placed
in a condition to impart renewed hope and
| confidence to its shareholders. The Albion
is u
LEGITIMATE MINING VENTURE,
Conducted in an honorable business man
ner, and being listed here, is open to all
who wish to purchase. 1t is not a hogging
concern, and there are no washed sales to
be paid for in commissions by those who
are most interested in its fortunes, the
same as still is and has been, the case on
the part of more pretentious but utterly
worthless enterprises. Eureka, | fear, will
| vet suffer from such nefarious practices,
and without their promoters are frowned
| down by such as have the interests of the
camp at heart, and a stop put to the bond
\ ing and sale of wildcat locations IN time,
before more harm is done East and else
where, it will be Invested of its well-earned
reputation, and by and by sink to a con-
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| the estimation of those who now look to it
with fresh confidence. Already are com
planning murmurs heard here, and the like
complaints are beginning to float to us
across the continent. But if the Eastern
folks who nave purchased, are already
eyincing signs of dissatisfaction, what will
they think by and by, when they begin to
work and meet with no commensurate re-
turns from their investments? But enough
for the present. l shall return to this sub
ject again.
THE STIRLING COMPANY
Held its annual election on the Sth in-
slant, and placed the following Directors
at its head W. b. Harrub, VIM. AIRING
ton, E. II. Rixford, J. Bailey, of the Union
Insurance Company, and Adam Hall, who
acts in the dual capacity of President and
Superintendent Harrub, Vice President,
and j. Bailey, Secretary. The Stirling
property is well located, and if the Eureka
Tunnel should give as good an account OF
itself as it is hoped it will. Adam Hall bids
fair to be in time amply remunerated for
all his labor and his weary watching and
waiting. to say nothing Of his pedestrian
exploits in scaling the PERCEPTIONS slopes of
the grand old mountain, wherein his prop
erty is located, and wherein, too, stands
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