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good school house and an excellent hotel ; with increas- 

 ing trade. The mountain from which the town de- 

 rives its name is about three miles south of the latter 

 and is said to have been the scene of a conflict between 

 a party of emigrants and a band of Indians. 



Golconda was reached on the evening of the follow- 

 ing day— four hundred and seventy-eight miles from 

 San Francisco. Here are gold and silver mines, but 

 the place was small and calls for no further remark. 

 Remounted at sunrise the following morning and rode 

 to Winnemucca, the county-seat of Humboldt County. 

 The town has a fine brick Court House, together with 

 several stores, a hotel, shops and a school house. 



Reached Humboldt the following day, where I was 

 reminded that I was still in the land of civilization. 

 Stopped at the Humboldt House, a most comfortable 

 hostelry, its surroundings recalling my home in the 

 East. Humboldt is the business centre of several 

 mining districts and has a bright prospect before it. 



Lovelocks, the next point reached, is also on the 

 Central Pacific Railroad. It is a grazing region, and 

 large herds of cattle are fattened upon the rich native 

 grasses. Leaving Lovelocks, I found myself again on 

 a barren desert, covered in places with salt and alkali 

 deposits. Another station in the midst of this desert is 

 Hot Springs. Pushing forward I reached Desert, 

 three hundred and thirty-five miles from San Francisco. 

 The village is rightly named, for it is, in truth, a 

 dreary place. I was much relieved on reaching 

 Wadsworth, a town of about 700 inhabitants, and only 

 three hundred and twenty-eight miles from the end of 

 my journey. Some large stores here do a flourishing 

 business. There are also several good hotels, in one of 



