Show A SHOW SHROUDED REGION istock Is buried in ilie do cou Co tho the glittering 0 WINTER diversions INTHE OLD CAMP world on 11 anners A grand jill ill the ciral of snow on to ne lie tomb preparing for christ about abo houldy gifts toys ancient locie at and modern ball and theatrical 8 manc Q Os and mills mill T imail 1 cm nov nor doc 15 1892 N although thus tar far wo havo have had no cold old in wenorn nevada ally ly hare bito had bad a big t f ah of 0 snow now a fall we t buried the city almost that ht at t first Erst had due dog ourselves we after Ile Io wever waver broken roads drifts and the snow was no inconvenience all ill the 0 craft t plying about the city being upon and tho the streets stra being as smooth runners a skating rink our people got about as thau in sum aum lea nm more ore the sleighing is as perfect zer though it had been made mada al to ta 1 order freight of all kinds readily handled by means of 0 1 is more iii ledd than could be done with wagons there is not so much lifting to bo be 1 llone done in loading sod unloading then lor for the dell delivery ory of goods about town the sleighs are ara lound found to be very convenient the youia people are hiving a regular carnival cat of sleighing which ready greatly on en the town and makes basino basl sli brisk with the keepers of livery stables all the business of 0 life calling for the ala of 0 vehicles la 19 now dow conducted upon anners un ners and in sleighs our people at toad all funerals the dead now dow glido very gently to the tomb even in tho the ease cie of the pauper r thare alln re la Is no such thing as rattling his bones over aver the stones none the whole country Is now one vast idd field ol of mow no in tilo the light of the tun sun his 0 glare claro 19 almosa blinding ID n alie city ti houses and other objects alfford relief to the ea aies es but out on the plains pities and mountain slopes it Is differ at thorn there men who be would not suffer buffer from roni iBon blindness must most either weir wear colored glasses or paint rings of black aromnd it and the eyes with gunpowder or charcoal coal though men thus protect their eyes they seem never to think of the horses boy aldo or drive it Is probable that honel bones as well as men man suffer sillier from snow enow bliD doess it would be very easy to protect their eyes by using strips of colored muslin with WILL eyo TO holca cut in them SNOW ros FOR THE MILLION our big snowstorm began with rain ird and forthe tor the first three days I 1 II 11 I 1 was thawing rapidly neit tho the ground otherwise it Is calculated there would hue hale beon been no less than seven even feet of scow on the level at bodle which Is 1 egber than this place the snow did lot melt as it toll fall and the amount there it at the end of the storm was ton ten I 1 set feet this almost equals the snowfall in places in the high sierras the horses dr draw aar b tog the ike sleighs on which the malls dialls and engers are carried between didlo uia and hawthorn Ert borne are now BOW provided with the main sierra nevada rang a of now presents present a grand appear all the peaks above the timber lice ire are arrayed in unbroken ali glittering biering white alt presenting the appearance of a waggling procession slon of giants in their shrouds about these thage peaks the snow most lie to an immense depth on the interior ranges of mountains of nevada there ll Is evidently a great depth of snow incur is as at the altitude of their summits thero there golting molting during the storm in valley the amount of moisture that tell fell is reported to have bavo been fifteen inches this alone Is 13 sufficient to pretty thoroughly saturate tho the soil aall of the ranches and ranges therefore the farmers farmen and cattlemen are already on oil the life side illo tor for another year plenty of water ter tor for running the mills of the carton river Is also alao now assured ONLY A A STEP TO kummen not kot a few of our people are now going over to the california side bide of tho big ridge they can turn into their thedr Slee ller banks in the evening on this side of the mountains mountain and turn out in tho the morning amid green valleys valleye and whole etc of 0 flowers fl owera those who have plan plenty ty of olmon money yand and nothing to do are thus ible able to avoid deep snows and make their winter later a every very light one yet many prefer berthe the snow EBOW and cold to the warm lither and flowers of the golden alta S the young and active find our latr weather an excellent tonic and mason more rosy cheeks abec ka and sparkling oyei eyes state are to be b teen seea on our recta thau than in the summer PRE FOR FOB THE HOLIDAYS preparations tor for christmas are now occupying tho the minds of our people and rexcy t business Is brisk with dealers in laty goods not so many diamonds its now how sold on the comstock as in the ill flush limes but still many costly articles are purchased as gifts A toa fea we this ahls year Is the gnat number dumber of spoons and other small articles in solid silver these are bought to be M to friend ad stathe in the atlantic states there lim they have such a a horror of silver even to see sea it or hear ll it mentioned cause IB their gorge to rise at usual many books are being told sold Is rift goods but this year nothing byl irk in demand except forchilli irea til all are selecting tho the works of the old authors who have h ave tood stood the test of BI As many of these have been brought maat out 0 in blended bildings and till u how and numerous illustrations they lye constitute very acceptable gifts 1 are 11 glad to t one all old 1114 a favorite austor Lilli tor fully and un on angly ng ly illustrated to iu the best 0 style 1 of modern art where this work 01 Is well loe done it t dds adds almost as algell v h to lo our or as would an anh geni of the iha uit text by the author 11 4 11 nd am limit books book so 0 o abominably illustrated that vie bays tried to shut our yoa eyes to we may be able to so cn pictures 0 historical person tut but when an abortion ot of a ico face to it 1100 en to to us LS AS a likeness of 0 tho the herot so ol of whom we are re reading we are dis he ted would infinitely to have moice face to our imagination for it the ite rising generation thora there are ara t ant a t hoilly now end wonderful toys toya ton oo oland anid InTent inventors ori are day and night hitting lit n their brains ln in tuo the lops of 0 in i u pon poll something new aud taking ill tilt a babil toy loy line and tho the result is 1 such a dorlag variety varlo tyM as would have hav set but cli boy y ot of fifty 1 years ago 80 wild the iran of 0 today are re ravi favi bools tan in tl regards 1 I playthings probably it iha much to la done 11 lor for the lh rising ire kenera genera V no bing Is III lefa icu to bo be dono b a ves ul a century ago a B lalle a study dy 61 6 tho the settle his m idill and 1 then ten set H to 0 o work an mid d 1 nn 0 rol DOO ill lt miniature tl ur tor for some ome brook or idding I 1 would il f inch slid nd would woud wako ono lie tint that rue ran the arma as 11 the big mill such a boy bo would thereafter all his life a good notion lotion of all tho the parts of a now the boys have even their sleds and wagons made for them ANIU balls slid and parties almot almost without num b pr will now bo be lii in order until the end of t the tha year the musicians of the town will reap a rich harvest aa 83 their services vices awill will be in almost constant demand besides the grand balls ball on christmas ind and now years there will bo be many arl veto rale parties and parties riven given by so Ci dioties OtIes iet los also parties given between towns own tho the milos may bo be dull but the coming men and women never allow the times to interfere with their enjoyment of life they musk mako tho the lay hy of whilo tho the sun of youth still shin cs tor for each year brings them nearer to 0 tho the serious business ol of life 1110 we shall have plenty of amusement ill the ho theatrical lino line henceforth and all through tho the holidays manager rigor of 0 the opera bouso Is bringing to his place tho very best companies corn pan lea obtainable tai and Is being well patronized although at the firt first glance it may look to a a company traveling through this country as a groat great undertaking to leave tho the main lino line of railroad and climb to our city on oil tho the mountain yet the trip Is one ODO that can be mado made very safely slid and comfortably it Is nothing now to what it was in the old times whoa when theatrical companies came all ali the way over tho the Sl sierras erras by stage came through blind ing ns clouds of dust to in summer and bronge blizzards and avalanches in winter those old time actors and actresses bad about as many pioneer ex am erlon cei ces as any other class of 0 people TUE THE COMSTOCK MIXES in the mines the outlook Is by no means bright yet work in most places mong along the lodo lode Is progress progressing inz pretty much as usual some ore Is still bolus being found in the old levels in streaks and bunches there Is 13 no longer any large deposit of milling ore in any one place it must now bo be gathered from small feeders and tho the tall tail ends of deposits formerly worked in a tow few places there are prospects that thai promise ore and large deposits tire are by no means impossible in ill the hope of finding now bodies a great doal deal of prospecting Is a being dono done there are still largo argo unexplored areas on the vein in avoral places and in one of them a deposit of oie may bo be found that will causo cause the now almost defunct stock markot market to arlio and howl in a single day the whole aspect of affairs on the lodo lode may bo be changed when a man Is poor and out of 0 luck lock no one arants to claim acquaint unco with him or to have anything to do with him and it Is tho the same ame alth a mine when it Is in borrasca a mine with no ore in it Is like alko a man with no money in his bis bocket there Is now an abundance of water in tho the carson canon river to run all the mil mi 1 s but they aro are by no means crowded with ore A find of some kind will soon be necessary in order to keep the mills going THE OF AV AN ribe FIRE at the iho con cal fc virginia gas from the bo old firo fire ot of nearly twenty years ago is s again showing itself and giving trouble when a more handful of firo fire life so eo long one need not wonder that the center of the earth Is till still in a molten mollon shape capo in the bottom of a in the bolcher mine a ottlo little pile of rocks amounting to about three wheelbarrow loads was onto once found to be red hot hoi three years after a fire A fall of earth upon the iho hot rocks had shut out the tha external air and the lot lad had kept their original temperature had bad remained just as when first sealed up in the con cal virginia a lot of charred timbers have no doubt contributed to the preservation of tho the buried fire charcoal that shows no sign ot of firo fire Is liable to begin burning on exposure to tho the air A few years ago in clearing out the burnt see cc tion of tho the con cal virginia a miner found apiece of compressed and ebon izod iced wood that was as a heavy as a lump of granite ho do showed bowed it about tho the mine and at change of shift that night took it homo home to his bis cabin and laid it on a shelf after ho he had bad eaten his bis upper supper and talen taken a smoke the miner put out his bis candle and went to bed lie had bad almost fallen asleep when he bo was aroused by a light alight in his room the specimen on he bo had placed on the shelf was n all 11 aflame during tho the two or three hours the piece of wood had boon in his bis possession it had shown no sign of lire fire I 1 think superintendent lyman Is wrong A hen ho he gives it as his bis opinion in his bis recent report that the gas now showing itself comes from a fire kindled through friction among the timbers by the bottling of the ground in the mine it Is a lo vivification of the old bre bra through tree free air roa ebing some som point where the remains of the fire 0 of years ago was sealed scaled up the settling of the ground probably opened a crevice to the abo point where tho the old firo fire lay burled buried THE SEW axa zoad FIELDS it may be that wo shall cealo mining for sliver silver and sot sol to work at digging diamonds in this state the diamond holds fields reported to have bays been found la in idaho idalgo on snake river are near n oar the mouth of the bruneau velch stream heads beads in nevada at the head bead of tho the bruneau are exten extensive live volcanic plains and as diamonds are considered by the south african miners to be of volcanic origin wo we have good indications on which to start in in nevada about the head waters of the owahee owyhee are also extensive mesas on which aie soon numerous volcanic blow biow outs it if we have no diamonds up at the northern boundary of nevada we surely have them down in tho the death valley country tr for these are the best diamond indications to bo be found anywhere on oil the pacific coast there thera are not only blow outs of lava but also flexible sandstone bode beds of Indu rated gravel irons ironstone tono hills composed of strata of red blue and yellow material and other such anch indications as are found in the aba various diamond fields of tho the world although prospectors have noticed the flexible sand stones the beds of lava covered gravel and the curiously striped hills of this region DO one his has thought of searching in it for precious stones all the prospecting has baa been for or gold and sliver tho the death valley region ought to be good for something and it may yet turn out to be bathe the great diamond country os america daz DAK DE QUILLE |