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Silent Reminders.

In approaching Austin from Reese river valley, the first prominent object on leaving the railroad depot, at the mouth of the canyon, is the cemetery–the graveyard. There lie buried many of the very earliest as well as the latest prospectors and residents, and this "city of the dead" is very fully peopled. It is a very suggestive sight to any one pointing their way into the canyon where Austin is, reminding them of the many possibilities that they may not come out as they go in, and that the only "dead thing" they have in prospect is what they see before them within that silent enclosure. The whole broad valley in that vicinity wears a desolate, solemn look, and even the tall slim spiral whirlwind dust-clouds, that continually go waltzing across and around the wide level plain, singly or in pairs, or groups, look like disembodied, restless spirits, listlessly wandering in search of the lost hopes of the old Prospector's soul, that would not die with his body.