The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1893-07-27
ENRoUTE TO CHICAGO.
Notes Along the Way to the Silver Con.
vention.
WINNEMUccA DEPOT,


smile and clear voice that would ring
with loud hurrah for silver says,
"all aboard I" Whew says the
engine; the driving wheels of our
iron horse begin to turn, and we are
en- route to the great meeting OF the
Bimetallic league at Chicago. Ne
vada's life blood is being drained !;
she means business; and Humboldt
county, ever true to the white metal,
sends her delegate. Her chosen re-
preventative feels little strange to
I think of what his trip means. His
railroad ticket says: Description
of passenger: male, slim, young,
light eyed, light haired, mustache. :"
There you have it according to Mr..
Ferraro's punch marks, and full
enough for an advertisement in a
matrimonial journal.
Slim-little in avoirdupois, and
young in years; what can he do in
the interest of silver? Do his best,
and no more. He has been to con-
ventions, associations, and confer
ences before, but they have been
along other lines of Christian service.
This is to be new experience. Call
it a silver convention if you please,
and that is what it is, but surely
there are moral interests involved in
2 the strenuous efforts now being
made to destroy the peoples money,
that to prevent il possible its further
degradation, and to seek to restore it
to its position provided for in the
constitution and needed in behalf OF
the country is a Christian service.
With this conviction and faith your
representative feels that he is in the
line of duty and fears not.
At Battle Mountain they said.
everybody in Nevada is for silver. "
Certainly. Here the thought of the
blue feeling at Austin came into
mind, bringing with tia little right
eous Indignation.
Palisade is reached, and Ruby Hill
Pand Eureka are thought of. As
many as three hundred cars of ore
! have been received at this point in
one day from these camps. 1t was
thought that July and August would
be the best months in the year. But
alas instead of an increased ship
ment of ore, the mines have shut
down.
From Palisade we pass out through
one of natures gateways. To our
right the lazy Humboldt creeps
along on either side are tall, rocky,
and in places almost perpendicular
cliffs. Soon Carlin is reached. Here
we change conductors. Carlin seems
to be quite little town, but there
are no trees to adorn the place and
shade the homes. We never miss
7 the water till the well is dry. Leav-
ing Carlin we again wind along under
tall cliffs that lift their awful forms
from which great boulders have
broken away and rolled down their
steep sides. Say what you please
about the wild barrenness OF Nevada's
mountains, and call nature cruel in
casting up such vast stretches of
dosolate hills. they have a beauty and
attraction peculiarly theirs, and it is
interesting and instructive to ride
along their base.
Elko is the largest and prettiest
town so far seen east OF Winnemucca.
At the depot ! was pleased to meet
the Rev. F. S. Witter, pastor OF the
Presbyterian church. He is strong
believer in free coinage. Well,
THE shades of night are falling FAST
AS from Nevada towns we pass.
Gut to our hearts there comes good cheer:
The dawn of freedom draweth near
j. III. N. w.
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