Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-03-29
A RIDE To THE HILL.
Some Notes that Our Reporter
Made by the Way.

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Made by the way.
Superintendent Levy took our reporter
with him yesterday to visit the mines
which he is experimenting the Bowman
and the Shoe Fly. The air was delightful,
but the road was not. 1t is rough and
washed out worse than it has been for
years before. The way to Ruby Hill is
not picturesque. From Ruby Avenue to
New Town the emotions are not stirred,
nor anything else.
New Town itself, however, presents a not
uninteresting appearance. A number OF
cozy dwellings have been erected there re-
Gently, many Of which are miners cabins.
A painter, a man with some chemicals.
came along there awhile g and painted
a good many doors, all alike, leaving the
rest OF each building implanted to await
his second coming. There is something
picturesque if not artistic in this. Each
OF these dwellings on the barren side
hill has on unenclosed back action, a UNI
mer house in the back yard, perhaps; at
any rate, 40 doubt, a necessary institu-
ton.
The impression made upon the mind by
looking at New Town is that the residents
do not intend to make their permanent
homes there. 1t is q camp in which, as
Of old on this coast, the inhabitants do not
expect to spend any more Of their lives
than is necessary to put them in circum-
stances for more comfortable living else
where-some place in the original HON
country, where there is vegetation, and
where there is full satisfaction in living.
A man often lives years on the barren
sagebrush hills of these regions, and some
have anchored all their hopes here. These
are few. Death is about the only thing
that absolutely stops a man from pining
for Goods Country" and possibly SOM
of US will pine for such q country even
after we have crossed the last river, and
our bones are furnishing nutriinent to
the CROSSWORD shrub. The dwellings in
New Town would have a more homelike
air il they and their solitary box-sbaped
outhouses we're inclosed. But New Town
is not settled other than as a " camp" and
premises are not going to be inclosed.
Children will be born and grow up to
majority in some Of these houses, but the
expectation OF moving away TO some fairer
land will be renewed indefinitely from year
to year. The lack of ornamentation and
the economy OF lumber observed in the
little village are reasonable and proper. No
one wishes to build for naught or for
others.
Ruby Hill is more ~pretentious than its
suburb, New Town. 1t has many COM
modious homes built tastefully and prop
erly inclosed. The streets are alive with
two sorts of pets. These are dogs and
hogs. 1t would require q special census to
which are the most numerous.
The dogs are of all sorts. There are a
dozen or more thoroughbred greyhounds,
many blooded settlers, a sprinkling OF
black-an'-tans, and curs innumerable
They amuse themselves v~ariously. One Of
the settlers was seen yesterday eating up a
pair OF somebody's gloves. The hogs
spend most Of their time since the thaw in
Occasionally they come upon a
feast in the shape Of a poisoned dog-one
the victims to a recent poisoning. Pass
study the habits of the porker. Yes
terdav one Of the peace officers on the Hill
the latter end of a hog, the front
end Of which was delving in the soil. The
grunter jumped and then squealed. He
said that was a curious thing. He thought
if he had been kicked and wanted to squeal
would have squealed first and then
jumped. Hence it will be seen that even
the hog may set a man to philosophising.
The most of these observations were
made while Mr.. Levy was up at the Shoe
Fly trying to convince himself, by means
Of a double magnifying lens, that what
looks somewhat like gold is gold, and not
iron pvrites. The Shoe Fly, in which
four men are at work, at present. is
we'll. 1t contains no visible boz
nanza yet; but there is a chance for big
in it. Otherwise the Superintendent
would not founder up hill in snow waist
deep daily; nor will even the prospect of
Tree gold induce the SENTINEL's reporter
TO follow his tracks up there again this
season on foot.
Our guild nunc was after information, |
however, and that he did not get much
not his fault. In company with a
he started out for the Eureka Con.
works. On the way he stopped to see
host, Ed. Troiatter, who was not
there. He had come down TO Eureka to
offer $500 for the arrest and conviction Of
man who writes those thrilling stories
wind up with a puff Of st. Jacobs
His restaurant underwent an in
however. 1t is just such a place
as q man sits down in with an appetite.
II ia neat and cozy everywhere. The
is a model; its cleanliness is re-
.arkable; 1t looks as though he kept a
special force there constantly on guard
with the scrubbing brush and furnishing
Our representative and his companion
vent next to their destination, the hoist
ing works of the Eureka Con. What news
he got there can be summed up as follows:
He met Mr.. Joseph Bice, the foreman.
Mr.. Bice," said he, elbows the boz
His answer was q quizical look
and the ambiguous words: 1--WE are
hauling up ore from it," This ended the
By this time Superintendent Levy had
himself in the bowels of the Shoe
Fly, and "Ralston was eager for q trot
down to the Bowman-whither we went.
This mine, which has been described In
in the SENTINEL, is a good property.
is shipping good ore all the time has a
fine prospect. and has paid all its expenses.
men are at work in it. Our
brought down with him a speci-
men of black metal from the Bowman
which assays $500. II much of that can
be found "Hthere's millions in it,"