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Page: of 179
88 MAY 29 & 30, 1863 NEVADA TRANSCRIPT
We know there are some of the above named individuals who are not in favor of the prosecution of the
war at all. They are bitter secessionists, out and out. ..
Wm. K. Spencer, agent of the California State Telegraph Company, in Grass Valley, has resigned his
position, in order to look after his interests in Nevada Territory. His place has been supplied by R. J. M.
Franklin, from Upper Canada.
[DEATH] John B. Moulder, who was hurt on the 18th inst., by falling into a ground sluice in some
mining claims near North Bloomfield, died on Tuesday last from his injuries.
SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1863
VIRGINIA CITY, May 26, 1863.
Ed. Transcript:—Has a blight passed over Nevada county, making it impossible for people
to live there any longer, or have the aforesaid people all run mad? I do not believe this question
can be answered without accepting one of the above propositions as the true state of the case.
For my part I am inclined to think that the latter is the correct answer. So many Nevada men
are here or at Reese river that I frequently stop to think and remember if any acquaintance of
mine is left in the old town. A baker’s dozen is about all I can bring to mind, and I expect every
minute to see them coming, carrying the Court House along with them, which, when here, I
will suggest be converted into a lunatic asylum for the safe keeping of crazy Nevadans.
How on earth can you muster sufficient fortitude to write for such a beggarly number
of readers as must be left in Nevada, passes my comprehension. It appears to me you must
feel somewhat like a miller grinding away when there is no corn in the mill, and the only
consolation I can think of for you is that if your “audience” is small it is select.
This epidemic extends over other portions of California besides Nevada, and the result is
that the streets of Virginia city are literally crammed with crazy people who talk incoherently
about “feet” when most of them have no other feet than those they stand on. I can see nothing
to justify this general exodus from the lovely State of California to the bleak and sage covered
mountains of Washoe. With the exception of the Reese river mines (and these have yet to be
tested) no new discoveries, worthy of the name, have been made in Washoe within the last two
years. I make this assertion without fear of contradiction except by persons who do not look
below the surface of things or who are otherwise interested.
In spite of the statements published about the “boundless extent of our mines” and all that
sort of thing, the stubborn fact cannot be got over that pay rock, in the Virginia district, is
furnished only by a few companies on the line of the Comstock, to wit: the Gould & Curry,
Savage, Ophir, Mexican and Potosi. The consequence is that many custom mills are idle and
that the majority of those who work do so at little or no profit, as they must accept such terms as
these companies choose to dictate to them or “dry up.”
As to the numberless companies with high sounding names you read of in the papers and
in which “feet” are daily bought and sold at high figures, the question of their ever proving of
any practical value appears to be entirely ignored or the affirmative taken for granted. These
answer for brokers to carry on their bearing and bulling operations. The mills—the only true
criterion of the worth of a mine—will have nothing to do with them; that is, with such as have
any rock, for many of them have no rock whatever, either good or bad, and never will have. But,
the enthusiast will tell you, wait until the law suits are settled, till the owners have had time to
develop their mine, and then you will see! Why, bless you, I can name claims on which work
has been going on these two years, that have no law suits, have never yielded a pound of pay