Show Virginia City as She la A poet could write on The Deserted I Village with Virginia City as the subject sub-ject and surpass Goldsmiths immortal immor-tal production on the same topic said E L Hearne of San Francisco The first time that I was ever there the population of Virginia City was greater than that of the entire state now Everything I Ev-erything ran wide open Magnificent hotels and opera hals palatial resI dences stores that would haye done I credit to New York millionaires who spent money freely I maintaining a society I I so-ciety that for brilliancy and gayety could not be equalled in the United States I I was there a short time ago The I hotels and opera houses are closed the residences empty and the stores removed to other and more prosperous places Dwellings that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars are given over to the bats and the broken panes of glass the shutters hanging i in the wind give a grewsome sense of lone liness In years to come it will afford I magnificent spectacles of ruins and even now in some sections of the town I there is a sense to the beholder of be ing a city of the past Millions were il made and lost and the history of Virginia I Vir-ginia city would be one of the most thrilling stories ever written I |