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LOCAL COLUMN
SILVER BRICKS - The citizens of Virginia City, propose to send to the Sanitary
Commission, the sum of $20,000 in silver bricks, The shipment will be made in
solid silver bricks, stamped with an appropriate inscription, and will prove
the biggest advertise- ment for Nevada Territory that ingenious brains have
yet con- ceived. These silver bricks will be curiously examined and com- mented
on by many a man in New York who would forget in fifteen minutes after he heard
it, the fact that $20,000 in gold coin or Treasury notes had been sent from
the unknown land of Nevada.
BUILDING LOTS - Hundreds of building lots have lately been staked off east
of town by speculative peg-drivers. We shouldn't wonder if there was money in
these lots. This city would not stop growing should it try. It's bound to go
ahead, and we must have some place to spread.
[Text recovered by Michael Marleau from reprinting in The Mining and Scientific
Press of November 8, 1862. Reprinted in Mark Twain Journal, Fall
2004, p. 12.]
