The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-07-11

made a visit to Eureka, and the fol-
lowing is an interesting account of
his trip and his impressions of what
he saw and learned of the old Base
Range:
On Friday last, through the court
esq of w. L. Nielsen, proprietor OF
the Idaho garage, a representative
of the Record had an opportunity to
make a trip to our neighboring
country seat of Eureka. The trip
was made in Mr.. N~eilsen's Case "40''
and the other members of the party
were Attorney A. L. Haight, who
went over on legal business and +.
E. Carlin, of the Ely Wagon and Car
riage shop, who, like the Record man
went along for ballast and to see the
country.
The trip afforded an opportunity
to see the new Veteran cutoff by
which the dreaded Veteran hill has
been eliminated from the road to
Hamilton and the Lincoln Highway.
The new road is a fine piece of work,
leading from the Boston Ely down
into the canyon by long, easy curves,
wide enough to give abundant pass
ing room for vehicles and with the
outer edges of all fills protected by
rock abutments. On the western
slope of Jake's summit, we found
Jas. Mcdonald, Raymond McKernan
and Russell Moyle busily engaged
with teams and scrapers in making
further Improvements to the county
road.
All along the road the red. white
and blue stakes of the Lincoln High
way afforded aid and comfort to the
tourist. Some complaint having
been made of the road W. White
Pine summit, tourists owe the Lin
coin Highway are now routed by
way of Hamilton. This adds five or
six miles to the distance between Ely
and Eureka but the road is far bet
ter and there are some exceptionally
fine bits of mountain scenery along
the road between the summit and
Hamilton.
Reaching Six-mile house, we stop
ped for a chat with Dennis Coyle
and to replenish our supply of water
for the long run across the desert.
Two six-horse ore-hauling outfits
were watering at Six-mile on their
return trip from Eureka where they
had been hauling ore for Witcher &
| Nyce from the Jennie A lease.
A short distance from Six-mile we
overlook a lone pilgrim hoofng it to-
ward Eureka with his entire worldly
possessions done up in a shoe box.
He joyfully accepted our invitation
to ride and we had the pleasure Of
setting him down in Eureka in an
hour and 80 minutes. thereby saving
him a long and toilsome journey and
probably some suffering from thirst.
Fourteen-mile station is aban-
doned but water is available from a
deep well. On the gate OF the cor
raj is scrubbed in pencil a moving
appeal to travellers to keep gates and
doors closed and not to burn up the
fence posts for fire wood.
AT Pinto creek, seven miles this
side of Eureka, the ruins of an old
furnace and mill are the first signs
of the old-time mining activities OF
the district. The plant was substan-
TALLY built of brick and must have
represented a large expenditure.
Reaching Pinto summit. we coast
ed down the long stretch into Eureka
at an exhilarating rate of speed. In
advertently and without malice
aforethought, Bish struck a "thank'
you-ma'am " and threw his passen'
gers high in the air. Luckily, every
body lit inside the tonneau and we
arrived in Eureka without further
accident and were Hospitality wei
coined by Dan Morrison, proprietor
of the Brown Hotel.
Directly across the street from the
hotel on the principal corner of the
main street stands the court house,
a big brick building erected in 1875
when the camp was in its glory. Here
we found County Clerk Mechanics
Recorder Father and District At,
torney Morgan in peaceful posses
ion. Martin Mahoney is high sheriff