Crossword-Solution: WASHOE 6 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

They may be darned sharp, but they’re not quite sharp enough to catch a Washoe hunter.” John Ferrier felt a different man now that he realized that he had a devoted ally.

This literary bomb really had two objects, one of which was to punish the San Francisco Bulletin for its persistent attacks on Washoe interests; the other, though this was merely incidental, to direct an unpleasant attention to a certain Carson saloon, the Magnolia, which was supposed to dispense whisky of the “forty rod” brand—that is, a liquor warranted to kill at that range.

Three days later he adds that he is going sorrowfully “to the snows and the deserts of Washoe,” but that he has “lived like a lord to make up for two years of privation.” Twenty dollars is inclosed in each of these letters, probably as a bribe to Jane Clemens to be lenient with his prodigalities, which in his youthful love of display he could not bring himself to conceal.

God, what a contrast with California and the Washoe!” And again: “Oh, Islands there are on the face of the deep Where the leaves never fade and the skies never weep.” The letters tell the story of his sojourn, which stretched itself into nearly five months.

Yet that evening he lectured in "Maguire's Opera House," Virginia City, to an audience composed chiefly of miners, and the receipts were not far short of eight hundred dollars.) A wonderful little city--right in the heart of the famous Washoe silver regions--the mines of which annually produce over twenty-five millions of solid silver.