Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1912-11-05
PEN PICTURE
OF THE WEST
]. ]. PIERCE Delighted With
Scenes While Going Across
Continent
WRITES TO FRIENDS
FROM NEVADA TOWN


eslais broker and member Of the
Board OF Public Utility Commission
ers. is on a western trip. lie Isl
having delightful time visiting
places OF interest through the West,
and naturally obscrvant he ioticd
down many interesting notes. and has
written them In entertaining manner
for THE EVENING JOURNAL Mr..
Jeirce. in his letter sent from Reno,
Nevada. says,
u Thought u few lines might inter-
est you by letting you know what
have seen, heard and experienced ON
my way to the Pacific coast I left
Philadelphia ON The 10th inst. arriv-
ing in Chicago the following morn
ing | noticed the corn crop through
Ohio. Indiana and Iowa is very good.
The conductor. going west on the
train from Columbus. Ohio. who has
"a run of lSS miles. told me that he
did not thing that i'm all that distance
along his run there was enough wheat
grown to feed half a dozen families.
but all other crops were good. / left
Chicago at $50 D. m ON Friday the
I1th on the Overland Limited, u. r. and
S. r. H. r.. composed only of Pull
man cars and arrived i'm Reno on
Monday morning. the l4th, little be-
hind schedule time In crossing the
mountains in Wyoming and Utah and
Nevada, there was considerable ice,
and tho frost had cleared most of the
trees of their leaves, which made il
look like winter, together with the
surrounding snOw-clad mountains.
Reno is very pretty little city with
some 5000 or 900 population II is
situated on the Truckoo River and
between high mountains. There are
many fine buildings. The streets are
almost sixty feet wide and many we'll
paved There is a good servicoable
electric street car line. which runs "A
considerable distance out of the city
10 places of amusement, such as parks
and MOnana hat springs. whore large
covered nalatorium is built The
pool is about 20 feet long and so feet
wide It's depth runs from TO 9 feet
The temperature of water is from so
10 100 degrees II contains regular
bath houses for men and women on
one side are several different private
apartments about 10 to IL feet square
They contain water fed by as many
different springs from 80 to 100 de-
grecs Many persons who are af-
fictod by rheumatism bathe in the
heated apartments and many cures
nave been made
"The land in the valley is almost
q dead level, and it is watered by
Irrigation Tho farm land sells for
from $500 to $500 per acre They raise
wheat oats. potatoes. truck of diff
fereni kinds. apples and pears and
alfalfa
Visited the Mines.
ION last Sunday a party of four OF
us Went out by rail about IL miles TO
a place called the Steamboat where,
on the side of the mountain. there are
many hot springs, the steam from
which can be seen for miles. There are
several pools of boiling water. We
saw two men scalding and cleaning a
pig at one of the pools
"The surface of the mountain is solid
rock and barren. The surface in
many places is cracked open from
six to twenty-four inches wide for
several hundred feet in length, along
which in places the boiling water
spurts up two TO four feet. In places
It seems to be hallow underneath and
the water can be heard boiling and
roaring Many persons go there for
Rheumatic troubles and are generally
cured or benefited
Yesterday. Saturday. the 26th. a
party OF five OF us took the $50 train
for Virginia City. where the celebrated
IOmstock mines are located. opened
many years ago by two men named
Fair and MacKeg. out of which mine
We were told over $500 600, goo i'm gold
and silver has been taken We wer,
told that the stockholders were paic
n one time S3,00O,000 per month fOi
seven consecutive months II is the
richest and deepest mine IN the world
Through the kindness of a bank Officer
in Reno, who made arrangements Will
the superintendent Of the mine W.
were taken down and shown through
A.
NC We're ushcred into a big room
where there were a big bath tub ant
shower baths and ordered TO disrobe
Zach of use was furnished with sui
OF flannel clothes. an old hat an,
SHOES AT 10 a. m. we with Mis-,
Hazel Lee Roberts 10 years old
daughter OF Congressman Roberts
Carson City, Nevada, entered tn
cage. which holds six to eight per
SONS and descended the shaft 10 IN
2000-fo0t level Miss Roberts wa
dressed like a man. We were show
around the engine room, which i
sixty to scventy-hve feet long an
thirty TO forty feet wide 10 contain
large engines used for hosting an
drilling; also TO suck and distribut
air through the different drifts tn
men wear nothing but the thines
pants. and are naked above the wais
We were piloted through two or thrc
drifts for about three-quarters of
mile In places the heat was awfu
from los TO 100 degrees. Tubs of il
water arc kept la several places an
people dip their arms in Il. an
throw IL ON their heads aud neck
while some of the workman bin
chopped ice TO their heads The
have long rubber hin boots on. an
M them up with lump ice Son
workman will squirt with a hose. il
water on the ones at work for a fe
ninutes. and take turn about in th
way
Dowr 300 Feet.
we were then d 70 another sha
and let down several hundred fe
where we we're piloted through SIEVE
al drifts there to another shaft VIII,
we were lowered to a depth of abo
1850 feet Then we were led throui
several more drifts. Some seemed
me 10 be half a mile ling The he
IN places was almost unbearable.
often would come to a blower. Il