Letter from Cornucopia. (September 6, 1875)
Letter 9
LETTER FROM CORNUCOPIA.
Buildings Going up—A Unanimous Election—The Mill and Mines—
Races—Cold Weather and Market Prices.
Editor Silver State:—You will not get a very long letter this time for news is scarce.
Personal. Reinhart is in town and has vigorously started in on his fireproof building on the corner of Silver and Ella streets. Reeves, formerly of your place is here—spinning around—building his cellar, and fast enclosing his new building for the drug store. L. I. Hogle came in yesterday looking out for his large interest in this section of the country. The new fire proof store of A. D. Meacham has its foundation laid, and if carried out according to programme will make a fine structure. Corcoran [Cochran] has opened out his fine eating house in splendid style. Dave Grayson is getting the material on his lot for the purpose of erecting a new meat market—the one he now occupies being too small for his vast business. Mrs. Norton is putting up a large boarding and lodging house at the mill.
The election on Monday the 30th ult., for a school tax to build a school house was carried out by a unanimous vote; there not being found in the box a single ballot saying "No tax." So you see we are in favor of education.
The panic news of the downfall of the Bank of California, created quite a feeling here for a short time, and is the subject of considerable talk yet; but when it was known that Freeman of Elko, our County Treasurer, was all right, little uneasiness was felt, and then again last night when we heard that the bank would in a few days resume business, all felt better.
I was down to the site of the Leopard mill the other day. The foundation is all in and part of the machinery on the ground. Everything is in a substantial manner, and when all is completed it will be one of the finest mills in the State. The mine is developing some very fine ore as is also the Hussey.
The race last Monday over the Cornucopia race course was quite a spirited one. It was between Mathew's bay and the [N——] Baby; $100 a side; distance 300 yards; won by the Baby. Next Saturday another race comes off over the same course, between Williard's [Willard's] brown and the above mentioned bay. So you see we have a chance for the horse sporting fraternity here as well as elsewhere.
Market Reports. Lumber $100 per thousand, and scarce at that; wood plenty at $15.00 per cord; flour $8.00 per hundred; barley 6½c. per pound; hay $35 to $40 per ton.
The weather is getting quite cool at night and all are preparing for winter.
The M. D. says it is terribly healthy here at present.
No shooting scrapes or grave criminal offenses to relate, so I will close for the present.——S. M. H.
Originally published in the Silver State on September 6, 1875. (link)