The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1890-03-08
COMMUNICATION.
PAHRANAGAr VALLEY, Feb. 2S, 1890.

Mr. Editer:
l have just found out that dads smart
boy countryman can be double discount
ed. l got letter from fellow in Colorado
who has gall enough to set up half
dozen government mules in business and
still have plenty left for his own use.
He asks hundred questions more or
less about this portion Of Nevada.
What is its latitude and longitude?
How many points the compass varies
East? What is our altitude and kind of
climate? Whether there is any land to
be taken up, if not, could he buy some
cheap and how cheap? Do you know if
there is lots of water of good quality!
How about bunch grass, white sage,
and are there much alkalie stretches to
travel over? What's cattle and horses
fetching, and have they any good stock
such as Jersey or Durham cows, and
Percheron horses? If he came with a
big band, which trail should he take,
and what stations he ought to make of
a night to get feed and water? What
sort of a country is our'n for fruit vega
table and cerials, and what kindg How
about our mining prospects and is Hike
bigger place than Phoebe? What does
the ore assay and pay in different plac-
es. Have we plenty of mills and does
the ore require roasting? Il wonder he
did not ask if we were making use of
the same moon as himself). DO think
there's going Ito be a big boom. and
where is the new railroad going to start
from and where land, if not Phoebe or
Hike, how many miles away, &c, &c, &c,
adininnatum.
Seeing he'd sent two cent stamp 1
wrote back to say it would take me and
a Phoebe RECORD reporter about two
months work to gather sufficient tie
stickticks to answer all his questions, SO
l concluded he'd better forward me a
couple of hundred dollars as retaining
fee, and his business should he attended
to forthwith if not sooner.
In the mean time I've sent him an APP
pie box weighing $50 pounds full o.
samples towit: ANevada agricultural re
port for 1873, chrome and valentine
also specimens of every Vegetable, whit
sage, bunch grass, grease wood, core
wood, and some TASKS containing dixi
wine water, valetane and the last on
with some of our summer climate in i
carefully sealed with red wax. fille'
up with a lot Of dads iron ore and blacl
and white limestone SO that he shout,
be able to use his own judgment on ever,
thing. l like to encourage enterpris
you bet SOL sent the box by EXPIRES
G. O. D..
But to come back to our muttons as W
say in French--our cats had catastrc
phe! She's the mother of one of tn
greatest wonders of Nevada. Of cours
its kitten, but that kittens got five leg
and two tails, or might say eleven leg
and two tails, because there are two fou
legs in front and three behind ones in
Guiding the tails. If the darned thin
would only have lived what fortune
could have made by showing it rount
the world and have become secon
Barnum after while, but I'm like Byro
II never had a light gaelic, but
would pass in its checks, and prevent n
from getting any.
However put the poor thing into b
jar of alcohol SO that it should have
spiritual existence for I know it had
feline heart. These are tears l she
brother iiiiiiii Truly yours in so
row. * Bill Smithers.
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