Reno : a book of short stories and information . 9, and from Carson City to Reno in1872. The entire cost of the road was$5,200,000, or not less than $100,000 permile. The enormous business transacted by theroad may be surmised when it is stated thatfor a long time it paid the Central PacificRailway $ 1,000 per day for freight on goodsreceived therefrom, and collected for freightat the Virginia City office from $60;000 to$90,000 per month, and at Gold Hill butlittle less. East of Carson City on the road to Vir-ginia City we pass the State Prison, knownfor its historic relics. Some years ago, du
Reno : a book of short stories and information . 9, and from Carson City to Reno in1872. The entire cost of the road was$5,200,000, or not less than $100,000 permile. The enormous business transacted by theroad may be surmised when it is stated thatfor a long time it paid the Central PacificRailway $ 1,000 per day for freight on goodsreceived therefrom, and collected for freightat the Virginia City office from $60;000 to$90,000 per month, and at Gold Hill butlittle less. East of Carson City on the road to Vir-ginia City we pass the State Prison, knownfor its historic relics. Some years ago, duringquarrying in the prison yard, immense foot-prints of pre-historic animals and birds werediscovered at a depth of twenty feet belowthe surface of the ground. They cover anarea of two acres, and were made by masto-dons: they are over four inches deep. Manyman-like tracks were found, 1 8 to 20 incheslong and 8 inches wide, with a stride of 30inches and a distance between right and lefttracks of 19 inches. A few miles east of Carson is the town. RENO 159 of Empire, once an important trading postand distributing point for lumber, cordwood,etc. After leaving Empire the road enters thecanons of the Carson River, passing in rapidsuccession the sites of numerous mills whichwere erected to crush the rich ore of theworld-famous Comstock Lode. Principalamong these were the Morgan, Brunswickand Santiago mills which turned out hun-dreds of millions of dollars worth of grade of the road rises rapidly, the trackleaves the canon and soon reaches the MoundHouse, the junction point with the SouthernPacific. Railroad trains leave Mound Housefor Dayton, Fort Churchill, Tonopah, Gold-field and all points south. Leaving Mound House the road soon tra-verses the famous mineral belt of the Com-stock Lode. This belt is 7,000 feet wide and6 miles long, and produced nearly a billiondollars. The first mine to be seen is the Hay-wood, lying to the west side of the mine produced over
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