. The Pacific tourist . ll,a foundry, a ten-stamp quartz mill, with a capa-city for crushing ten tons of ore every 24 hours,and other public improvements completed, or incontemplation. The town is divided into twoparts—upper and lower; the latter being builton the bottom land near the river, and the upper,on a huge sand-bank, adjoining the of the buildings are frame, though a feware built of brick, or adobe, which, in this west-ern country, are called dobe, for short. There is a school-house with accommodationsfor about 150 pupils—two apartments, and nochurches. It is also quite
. The Pacific tourist . ll,a foundry, a ten-stamp quartz mill, with a capa-city for crushing ten tons of ore every 24 hours,and other public improvements completed, or incontemplation. The town is divided into twoparts—upper and lower; the latter being builton the bottom land near the river, and the upper,on a huge sand-bank, adjoining the of the buildings are frame, though a feware built of brick, or adobe, which, in this west-ern country, are called dobe, for short. There is a school-house with accommodationsfor about 150 pupils—two apartments, and nochurches. It is also quite a shipping point forcattle and wool. About 9,000 head of cattlewere shipped to the San Francisco market fromthis place, in the months of January and Feb-ruary of the present year. In the spring of1875, over .500,000 lbs. of wool were shipped toiJ^ew York and Boston markets. It is also theshipping point to Camp McDermott, near thenortlieiu line of the State; to Silver City andBoise City, Idaho; and to Baker and Grant. WINNEMUCCA, THE NAPOLEON OF THE PIDTES. Counties, in south-eastern Oregon. The stagelines are as follows : Daily stage and mail lineto Silver City and Boise City, Idaho,—distanceto Silver City, 210 miles, extension to Boise, 65miles farther. The same line supplies CampMcDermott, 85 miles distant. Semi-weeklyline, ]\Iondays and Fridays, to Paradise Valley,45 miles. Weekly line—soon to be made dailyand to carry the mail to Jersey, 65 miles, (south)leaving at present every Wednesday. There isalso an immense freighting business done withthe mining districts in the vicinity, and withIdaho Territory. Regular freight lines are onthe road between this place and Silver following mining districts are tributary 192 wmm ^m€iFw to Winnemucca and located in HumboldtCounty: beginning north of the railroad—thereare placer mines west of Paradise Valley andsettlement; at Willow Creek about 60 miles dis-tant from Winnemucca. Bartlett Creek Mines,gold and
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