Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-08-22

Remarkable Scientific Discoveries on
the Sink of the Humboldt.

the Nevada press, the various tandi
dates for State Offices have been com
PEELED to travel by way Of the Sink &
the Humboldt with their mnjorities
At. least the APPEAL has frequentl.
noticed the statement that such am
such a candidate scame to the Sink o
the Humboldt with four hundred ma
jority." This assertion general,
struck people as being a meaningless:
phrase used by one editorial writer be
cause another used it, one of those ex
pressions which creep into Journalism
and become current coin without any
special test being made of its gen
uineness. 1t occurred to the APPEAL
the other day that there might after
all be something in it, and accordingly
a man was dispatched with a pack
mule and weeks provisions 10 visit the
Sink ef the Humboldt and make !,
careful examination Of the ground
Yesterday his repor, was received.
OUR SCIENTISTS REPORT.
EDS. APPEAL la accordance with
your instructions OF the 10Th, l visited
the Sink of the Humboldt and made Il
careful search for political indications,
and am glad to te able to state that
have made discoveries Of the NEST in
teresting character. l first drained all
of the water Off the Sink and in II
couple of days the sun-dried plain pre-
scented an appearance we'll calculated to
rouse the enthusiasm of the student of
the past.
POLITICAL TRACKS.
BY scraping away a qualification
mainly of ballot paper and
defamatory atfidavits regarding the
of candidates, 1 came
to layer of sand and mud where l
hid no difficulty in tracing the foot
prints of several hundred candidates.
They came mostly from the Great East
md converged in a southwesterly direc-
ion as if making for the Capital Of the
State. / first noticed very small and
light track, which l distinguished as
having been made by the Hon. Charley
belong when he was running for the
J. S. Senate in 1864. The tracks
made but a faint impression upon the
and and in places were Totally OBJ |
cured by the ponderous imprint of two
eet which l take to be those of the |
nastod0n Bill Stewart and the cave
ear Jim Nye. These are the earliest |
racks l found, and ascrise them to
he glacial or pliOcene period Of poll !
les. The next tracks which attracted |
ny attention were the imprints made |
y the hoof Of Delos Ashley in his
Memorable race for Congress. The
racks are wide apare and indicate that
he owner crossed the basin in great
aste.
SOME HEAVY IMPRESSIONS.
On the east side of the Sink are
ONE heavy laundering tracks Of inn
1ense size. They measure nine
zen inches in length and eight across
he ball of the foot. am satisfied that
hey were made by the pOnderous
Governor Blasdell as far back as '66.
hey are characterized by wide strad-
le and laundering gait. The i'm
ressiOn of BlasdelPs kne where he
topped to pray are clearly discernible,
nd the patch in his pants where he
At down to deliberate whether to join
ne Methodist Church or the temper
nee org ,niz ,tion is delineated with
clearness. This impression
as been taken 10y such feather weight
dentists as LeContc and Hardness as
ne spot where an elephant Wallowed,
ut think my theory will stand the
everest tests. have taken some pho
,graphs of the spot and have also made
eodetic surveys, which will first pre-
.nt to the public in lecture.
SENATORIAL SIGNS.
In the center of the basin are two
el,s which at first gave me consider
bic trouble to classify. There are no
utpripts ut all, bat simply the two