The Newtown bee., 1904-08-12

lining process later on. This system is called placer mining, from the fact that the hydraulic process was invent ed in Placer County, Cal, method that has rendered valuable many Cali; fornia mines that were considered passing along on a railroad train could only give opportunity for hurried view, and one must be wide awake to seize his opportunity for sight seeing. The refuse from this process is called "tailings," and contains gold so finely divided that it has been swept by the current through all the apparatus em- ployed. These "tailings" gradually settle in their course down the moun- tain side until they reach some ob- struction, placed for that purpose, and make deposit, which if not look aft CT by the miners becomes the prey of any who wish to take chances of find
 ing enough to pay for their trouble. we saw camps, of many roughly con- Structed huts, and were told they were camps of Chinamen, who give up their time in working over the s'tail- ingS" and really make more than they could at any other kind of work. THE FIRST TOWN OF ANY IMPORTANCE at which we stop after entering Ne vada is Reno, thirty-five miles east of Truckee. It is a thriving town and the seat of WashOe County. It takes it name from General Reno, who lost his life at the battle of South Noun tain. It is popular stop for tourists because of the scenic beauty of it's sur roundings and it's being the junction point to the famous Comstock mines
 A to4 i,.r r1@ n41 Rr1, the shouting as if pandemonfum was let loose. It did not sound quite like a mountain call to dinner. I asked 8 passenger what all the uproar meant He replied we are in the most noted gambling town in the United States, and things are wide open. One might think all the names to be found in the gamblers vocabulary were being slung broadcast to attract the atten- tiOn and to entice and entrap the un- wary. Had we been blindfolded we might easily have thought ourselves walking down the midway. of Connec- fair. At Wadsworth, thirty-five miles east of Reno, On the eastern bank of the Truckee river, and where the rail- road shops of one division of the road are located, darkness shuts down upon us, for there is nu moon and the watch says 1O.5O p. m. In thought we com init ourselves and our loved ones to our Heavenly Fathers keeping, crawl into our berthS while our train speeds on. So smoothly did our train run that our sleep was undisturbed and it was 4.30 next morning when I dressed for an- other day of sightseeing. Until the berths were all made up and our car was ready for day use my seat was on the platform of the rear car, which be- ing, fortunately, the car of an official, for the early morning hours: We had passed over during the night the Ne vada desert, strip of country 15O miles wide and said to be the most desolate and unintereSting of any sec- tion to be travelled over on this line of the trans-continental journey, and for that we had previously planned by going over the Sierra Nevada range by day and the Nevada desert by night. The first surprise of the early morning was to see the beclouded sky, from which vivid lightning flashed, followed by the pealing thunder reverberating from crag to crag in the distance. A premonition of what was coming to us later on in our Connecticut home. We have still 400 miles to go before we ICdCu OuI uOAU oOoPPtAk k!oCnS 0o4l l Lake City. The first stop of the early morning is at Golconda. We have en. tered the mining region of the the sill yer state, and are only three miles from the great Golconda mine, one o1 the most famous silver mines in the United States. We here enter a vel watered valley, though not fertile which am sure must be the valley 01 the Humbolt river, and to make surt the conductor is asked to verify it which he did. It is not large valley only eighty miles long and ten mile! wide, and the only fertile valley we sea in crossing the state. It is stream less in size than the HousatOnic rivel and the railroad follows it closely fol over 200 miles until it finally emptie. into Humbolt lake, which is said t' have no visible outlet.
 THE VALLEY IS OCCUPIED BY AGRI
 CULTURIsTs
 and stock raisers, horses, l shoul' think, being predominant. The Hum bolt range of mountains loom up a our right for long distance until VI reach what is called "Twelve Mill Canyon", when the road penetrate the mountain where the walls atta1l a height of 1000 feet. Because tn
 rock resembles the rock walls. of tn
 Hudson this canyon has been calle' the Palisades of the HumbOlt. w
 are now in the heart of Nevada. Hav
 passed through very many little wa. stations that serve as breathini
 places and give postal facilities for tn
 sparse population of the surrounding
 country. One who has never traverse
 the state can form no idea how fe1
 and far apart, outside of mining camps
 the people are. With an area of 110
 700 square miles and population, aC
 cording to the census of 1900, of AZ, B
 how could it be otherwise. In area 2
 states could be carved from it as larg
 as Connecticut, and yet the state
 population is only little more tha
 half that of our hustling city (
 Bridgeport to-day. The first static of any noticeable size since enterin the state on the west is Elko, 3(
 miles to the eastward. It is the cour
 ty seat of Elko County and here V
 find churches, schools, business blocl