Gold Hill Daily News

BRIDGE BURNING.—The Ophir bridge, which spans Washoe Lake at the town of Ophir (says the Carson Register), was burned day before yesterday. The fire took place on the west side of the bridge. After some efforts the flames were subdued. The Ophir bridge was a magnificent structure, something less than a mile and a half long. Piles were driven in the lake and the bridge double floored with three-inch plank, except at the east end, where the flooring was eight by eight timbers. The structure was built in the palmy days of the Ophir Silver Mining Company, and cost some sixty or seventy thousand dollars. It was designed for a railroad bridge and built under the supervision of the late Captain W. L. Dall, Superintendent of the Ophir mine. Within a few years it was purchased from the Ophir Company by John H. Dalissq., of Dall's mill, for less than one-tenth of its original cost. It is a monument of the former prosperity and greatness of Ophir, and is to that now deserted town what the Pyramids are to Egypt. We were unable to learn the cause of the fire.