The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-03-30
RIO COLORADO.
Ilng About IL from One that
Lives Near BY.

80 tht'AF,'s AfNNst A'htiNh -. Hssft
observed, not without concern, howl
about Mr.. Cassidy's ignorance of the ex-
istence of so great river (!) as the Rio
Colorado The Republican papers, since
the passage of the Howell bill, have been
full of this thing. The whole matter is
so UNANIMOUSLY false that do feel that
some one of Mr.. Cassidy's friends should
dispute it. If the whole Treasury Of the
United States could be expended to make
the upper part Of the river navigable it
would be impossible. Ihave lived within
25 miles of it for Is years and know just
what am talking about. From Callyille
to its source it can be forded now, and
has been as low as that since last Novem.
ber People patronize the ferry because
they fear the 9uicksand that might be
found anywhere in the stream. When
the SHOWS melt in the mountains, or
when a terrific rainstorm occurs, then
there is a river, but as soon as the water
runs down the steeply-graded stream
then, again, there is no river. The river
Virgin empties into it at the town (!) Of
Rioyille. One of the meanest Mormons
on this earth, and the author Of the let.
ter that appeared in Mr.. Powning's paper
on this subject, lives there, owns little
ranch, the only farming land that the
water can be got on from Hardyville up.
The ferry, postoffice. etc.,-that's Rio.
vile. The Rio Virgin river runs through
high land, hills or mountains, the greater
part of its length from the source to
where it empties its muddy self !" into
the Colorado, and every windstorm that
passes over these hills fills it with sand
Then the heavy rains in the hills carries
down every wash torrents of water laden
with sand which gathers with that blown
in by the frequent winds, and the whole
load is rolled into the majestic Rio (!)
Colorado. l could write for a day to
show the little need for steamers on this
river. ]. B. f.
The above correspondence is taken
from the Eureka Sentinel of the 9th,
and certainly portrays the Colorado
River in much different light than we
have always been led to believe by the
descriptions given us by the old settlers
along its banks. 1t looks to us that
81. B. F." has some spite against the
Mormon who runs the ferry at Rioville,
as can plainly be seen by the spleen ex
hibited in his letter to the Sentinel
What has our settlers along the Colorado
got to say in reply to the above letter?
Fishing with Giant Powder" is the
heading given to long article in the
Modoc Independent, descriptive of an
adventure which befel party of men
| who went out ON a raft on Goose Lake 9
year ago to kill trout, one of them being
the Sheriff Of the county, and all las the
Independent puts it) being, "generally
speaking, abiding citizens of good
reputation. Well, these respectable
gentlemen went out on the lake and
prepared cartridge to be dropped to
the bottom of the lake, there to be ex.
ploded and kill raft load of trout. But
the fuse got caught in in chink between
the logs of the raft, and when the fish
ermen" had got well off from the spo
where the cartridge was supposed to be-
it exploded and sent them twenty feet il
the air. The Independent says that they
have all since sworn of, and hereafter
they will obey the law.
81 had a very pleasant time" Davit
Davis is reported to have said on his re-
turn from Saratoga Springs last summer,
81 enjoyed myself Immensely. Will,
there / made the acquaintance of severa
charming ladies. One in particular, ,
young lady from the South, was exceed
lngly agreeable, and if were a marrying
man don't know, ha, ha, what NIGH
do. She used to slap me playfully on tn,
cheek and kiss me in way that mad
me quite forget my years and feel younl
again. There is something wonderfully
attractive in these Southern girls--won
derfully attractive"
A little work published in England i
entitled, "Thirty Ways of Popping
the Question:" Good gracious! 1t make
the Precipitation run down young man
back to pop the question only one way
and if he had to undergo the ordeal o
thirty-four additional pops there wouldn'
be much more than grease spot Of hin
left.
Several days ago water was struck il
the new railroad we'll which is beinl
sunk in the bed of the river about half
mile north of Calico. At depth Of sew
enty -four feet water began to flow in 8
fast that work had to be suspended ant
a pump put in place.
A century ago the Hawaiians wer
savages and cannibals. Now they us
the telephone, have bank defaulters
support gambling establishments an
show other evidences of Christian en-
lightenment and modern civilization.