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j CARSON CITY.( Next to Genoa, Carson City is the most important place in Western Utah, and may eventually be the town of first consequence, as its citizens believe. Situated in the midst of the recently discovered silver mines, whose surpassing richness is now astonishing thej*world, it seems destined to be the trade cen-3-is11ter of a large population, even if it neverit* rj attains to the dignity of a Territorial or ’ I State Capital. Its situation and present I condition are worthy a passing description. ’I It is built nearly in the middle of Eaglecro]by utasol Mir reh theTin andere; has the rati| Valley, which lies east of Nevada county 011 | mir a line with the other valleys of Western Utah, and connecting with them by passes leading through low foothills. Eagle Valley,I like all its lovely sisters, is perfectly flat, and ' j walled in by bald, brown, sterile looking hills, which yet at morn and eve are charming in their illusory tints of blue and purple.It is ten miles long by four wide, approximately ; lies nearly due north and south ; consists of grassy land, mostly good for tillage, and which is watered by springs and by a brook running from the mountains on the west. The valley affords indications of having once b|pn the bed of a. lake, and traces of the old shore line are visible 011 the eastern side in the coarse grey sandstone•which is the principal rock of all Western i wn Utah. O11 the same side there is a warm I tlie sulphur spring of considerable extent, whichee.9eitfensncbeericiTof tpasthevertioiP.ncties bili fit a4haltheis much resorted to as an agreeable bath and ™rivi one in ( the tha ver:A of (1 ganjfor its sanitary properties. Carson river is separated from the valley on the east by a low range of hills, from three to five mile3 off, higher and more rugged ones rising beyond and shutting out the view of the great basin in which sink the Truckee, Carson and Humboldt. The southern boundary of the valley is Clear Creek, flowing from theSierras eastward, across which one step3 in-, to Carson Valley. Carson City, when we I j were there a fortnight since, was a place of i wj1( about thirty completed tenements of all 5 | sorts—mostly frame, but a few well-built adobes. The foundations were laid for other buildings which only awaited the material for their construction. This will be afforded partly by Forsyth k Colburn’s saw-mill, now running at the base of the mountains 011 the west, where a brook supplies the motive power, and groves of sugar pine the timber. Other lumber is brought from *lea9 • J • lt;Washoe, the adjoining valley. A kiln of 1 1S 1 100,000 bricks, the first ever made there,had S1CJ just been burned, and there was sonic talk CVC1 2 j of using sandstone as a building material.We were shown a small specimen of clear,erf11is 11 eigl tliei a s paiiagoUtheJIIs fisoft white marble, said to have been found *crcreplt;Sgonacelt;thoisevtwillsoletionbutforeThascesstbrlt;conin the mountains to the east, which assertion we hope is true. The town is built in the Spanish style, with a large plaza, or square, in the center. It is watered bv a meandering brook. Surrounding it were the camps of numerous emigrants, some with tents and some living under wagon tops, and all, we were told, intending to locate in the valley or at the diggings. The land is all claimed, but we noticed only one enclosure—a large one belonging to a Doctor King. The Mormons were once tenants here, until called in by Brigham Young, when there was a prospect of conflict with Uncle Sam. Major■Ormsby was the principal holder after them, mac and sold the lots 011 which the town is being c^yt Ibuilt, disposing of them at low rates, say j a c $25 or $50, and even giving away lots to j f°r such as would agree to put houses thereon.A part of the town site was sold in lots of ten acres each. The most favorable building sites are now held at figures ranging from $300 to $000. The town is a bustling place ) | for its size, rather forty-ninish in its characteristics, abounding in liquor saloons andthose who frequent them. Two of the principal stores. John C. Fall lt;fc Co's, and Flei-shccker's, arc doing a fine business, their cash sales having reached as high a figure in 2 j a single day as $*1,000 and $3,000 rcspect-' I ivelv. Both of these establishments are crowding in goods for the winter. On our return we passed several pack trains andheavily laden wagons, bound for Carson City from Marysville over the Henness Pass route.The telegraph office does a better business than most of the interior offices in California, and wheh the Wires have been stretched on to Virginia City the amount of custom ] vap will largely increase. Langtons Express, ) connecting all the settlements on the eastern i st0 slope with our own State, arrives here every Thursday from Downieville. Another express is to be established over the Placer-ville route by next spring. The citizens of Eagle Valley are a wide-awake people.—They have nearly all had considerable pioneer experience, either in the Western States or in California, and act now as if they foresaw a great destiny for Western Utah, and meant to realize the resulting advantages for themselves. The condition of society is rather better than in most new settlements, despite the anomalous aspect of political affairs. The emigration this year brought into the valley a number of families, and the weekly dances at Pierson’s Hotel are as well attended by the fair sex as similar reunions j nar in the interior of California. If a separation j bet from the hated Mormon rule can be effected, as it ought to be, and the people speedily agree, as they will, to abide by their own laws, nothing can prevent Carson City, in common with the whole of Western Utah, from speedily attaining to a condition of permanent and growing prosperity.tA is o van to :conworitinstgivipenwinforgloiArerrtiortbraduothval:rea:dre It 1 vailnanshoapFcalinortanWada,moWenaiancforjecl
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North San Juan Hydraulic Press
North San Juan, California, US
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