Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1885-02-21

Pony PrOphesies Plenty OF snow.

COMO, Feb. 18th, 1855.
ED. TIMEs:-Our mild Winter has
produced an abundant crop OF croakers
If not of snow. Every second man one
meets has face as long as the assess
ment list of the Comstock mines, and
with dolorous voice that would do
credit to the Sexton Of country church
in healthy hamlet, bemoans our fate
in Nevada. Silver is down croaks the
croaker, and we have been selling short
on snow, and now it is too late to fill.
So he croaks on, but generally manages
to fill with whisky. He forgets, or
maybe has not read in ancient history
about "seed time and harvest" and
about the rain falling on the just and
unjust alike. He has also failed to
consider that if we Nevadans do not
belong to the small minority of the just
we certainly belong to the innumerable
majority of the unjust, and will get our
regulur rain or snow all the same.
To fortify the waning courage Of the
tenderfeet who have yet much to learn
OF the beauties and excentrcities Of Ne
vada's clsmate, l will cite a case to
prove that there is yet time for suffici-
ent fall OF snow to meet all emergencies
for 1885. Eighteen years ago, in the
Winter of IS66-'67, no snow fell in
Dayton until after the middle of Feb
ruary. On the 18th day Of this month
in the year above mentioned there came
snow storm not yet forgotten by the
cid settlers. There were eighteen inch.
es of the "beautiful' on Main street
and not drift. On Washington's birth
day, the 22d, Cross of the National
Hotel, which stood on the now vacant
| corner of Main and Pike streets, gave
grand ball which was attended by many
people from Virginia and Gold Hill
who came down in large six,horse
sleighs. Sam Hamilton and myself
were keeping livery stable where Geo.
Barton now holds forth and we let
buggy team TO w. w, Treat to bring
his girl to the ball. She was living at
the Halfway House on the Carson road.
There was no road through Daney can
yon then; it was either over the hill by
the graveyard or up Gold canyon. He
took the latter road, which was broken
to where it left the canyon. There he
brought up and could go no further.
He then dug out and came back and
we changed the buggy to a sleigh by
taking off the wheels and putting on
heavy iron runners; II was no 60, how
ever, he could not get through and had
to dance with the other fellows girls
that evening.
In March 1874 there came a storm
that entirely covered my house in Como.
| thought it the longest night ever
experienced, when striking light saw
it was 4 o'clock the next afternoon.
could not get out Of the door without
filling my house with snow in tunneling
out. Fortunately there was fireplace
and taking shovel | climbed out Of
the chimney, and sinking a shaft drift
ed TO the cabin door. That drift or
tunnel remained intact until the follow.
ing April, and a snow drift ten yards
from the door staid with me until the
10Th Of the following June. Four years
ago this Winter our heaviest snow storm
came on the 9Th of April, and see by
looking over my diary that l had to dig
through from three TO FIVE feet of snow
to get from the ranch to Como.
nigh, 60 on and multiply the in
stance where our severe storms have
come late in the season and proven
more beneficial to the springs and grass
roots than if they came earlier while
the ground was frozen hard, thereby
turning the water into the ravines.
Pony.