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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 123, 19 March 1872, Page 6

Very vßsthctic ! —A navvy on the southci \ railway extension (Canterbury) has decline s to work there any longer on the ground tk ’ ; the scenery is so very uninteresting. w A mountain of silver, or, at all events, 't: mountain containing vast quantities of tfc le 1 metal, has been discovered in Nevada, ft :s j State just admitted into the American Unio) •s Its name is Silver peak, it is east of San Fir u j cisco, and about seventy miles south i- j Austin, and twelve immensely rich k > I have already been opened. The whol t- j Nevada is rich in silver, but this partient :! ■ spot will, it is believed, produce more tin n : any mines yet discovered. Close to ft is Peak is an extinct crater, near it a vast A 2. j posit of salt, within sight a hill of purest ra i phur, and around an endless stony deser ■ the whole scene suggesting strongly the p tnvc which lb bon drew of Hell.