Eureka Daily Sentinel

Not So Dull as It Seems.

There are fewer men on our streets now than for a long time past. This gives the town an air of greater dullness than is justified by the facts. Many of the men who, a while ago, could be seen about the streets and in the saloons, have taken to the hills and are vigorously at work prospecting for ore, or taking it out and shipping it to the furnaces for reduction. On Prospect Mountain, for instance, more miners are agitating earth's bowels than ever before, we believe, in the history of the camp; and the most of them, as we have reported from time to time, are making wages, and some of them, also, getting handsome returns for their labor. Adams Hill is fairly alive with miners, whose number is increasing from day to day, and there is not one of them but is making good wages. A little while ago, for example, the Silver Lick mine was lying idle; now 18 men are tributing in it, several of whom have fine pitches. It is no bad sign that the number of idle men about town is reduced. They are at work keeping the furnaces alive for the present, and the chances are that among so many prospectors a big mine will be uncovered before Winter comes again.