The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02

~ ARSON, New, April 1.-The i'll
 wind that has blown the clouds
 out of California's sky and with O the clouds the rain that is due
 California's farmers has immense ly improved the prospects of Carson Valley. In all the valley there are no beef cattle for sale. All have been dis posed of and at excellent prices. For days past two and three carloads of cattle a day have been shipped from here. Hundreds of tons of hay have been sent out of the valley within the past month at prices more than double what Carson Valley ranchers received heretofore. <.
 The quality of timothy hay raised near Carson is of a peculiar excellence. Once upon time Haggin & Tevis be- lieved it economy to get the supply for their racing stable from Carson, though it cost them $2OO ton by the : time it had reached New York Ne vada's capital Is not dependent for it's prosperity upon the mills or the mines, the State and national institutions or the farming country, of which it is the center. It is the condition of all these interests united which disposes the Car sonlte to. believe that the turning point has been reached and prosperity lies stalght ahead: Carson possesses all the attractions with which Nevada en- dows her most favored: cities. It has the river. and the mountains. It is level and tree-shaded. It's supply of pure spring water comes from. the : mountains behind. It is we'll known that when. Nevada water-like cer- tain celebrated little girl who wore d T - A,,,l Carson's is of the best. As to the climate of Nevada's@ capital-though 1t disgraced itself and Nevada last March by furnishing what is now known as prIZehSht weather-the physician at the States Prison. located here. reports that in four years there has been but one death among. the eighty convicts. And Carson's climate is at least as rner- citnl to the just as to the unjust. ":i
 *ANENT@ HOME ENTERPRISE. :.
 It is years since this particular Sec tiOn of Nevada has been in condition anything like. what it is to-day. A week ago Carson organized an. irn- provement club, to which. the best men in the town belong. The club proposes to build up the. place.: to 'encourag ge home trade, to reach a 10 900 mark in population. Years. ago@. Carson women supposed it impossible to supply. their 2 households and their wardrobes here. ' l. and bonnets and furniture. Nowadays they patronize Ormsby County nler- .:.chants;> as a result the; Carson store 5 keepers. are keeping a better class of 2. goods and their prices are more TeaS- .onable The merchants have become . encoura ged to reach out for more busi- ness. They advertise nowadays fully twice: as much as they used to-: And the~neXt link in the commercial chain, I the: newspapers, are issuing extra edi- I tions--an innovation heretofore un- known in Nevada-and increasing their circulationS throughout the country
 The Pine Nut excitement comes just at: the right time to lift Carson upon a wave of success. Within three days 2000 acres of land have been taken up near: what was known as the Zirn mine,s twenty miles from Carson, where a pocket of ore assaying $60,000 a ton was. found some years ago, and "old Zirn,' as Carsonites, call the discoverer, 1 made his fortune. And then a sudden end came to the golden tale. For min- CTS hitherto at Pine Nut have been repeating the experience of the carly Comstock miners, with this I difference, that the Pine Nut prospec- tors have been seeking for quartz and scorning placer.
 ORMSBY COUNTS MINES On California placer mines that pay IS or 20 cents to the cubic yard divi- dends have been declared The Pine Nut gravel extends over 700 acres to a depth of more than 50 feet and is worth $4 a cubic yard. If Pine Nut were To- cated near Dawson City there'd be a stampede up at the Klondike. People in Carson are deeply interested in the Pine Nut region. They may well be; for if half what is claimed for these wonderful placers is true, Carson's Improvement Club will have to raise its mark. Ten thousand people will not content 1t two years from now.
 An interesting fact in connection with the Pine Nut mines is the pres ence in Carson of James M. Wishart of Oakland. the inventor of a gcld-sav- ing machine, a sort of improved rocker which the management of the Pine Nut mines will adopt, provided that tests to be made early next week at the | mines shall be as satisfactory as those l