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[Daily Reveille, Austin, Nevada, undated 1882]

A Steep Railroad Grade.

Bob Lindsay, the famous Reno lawyer, who returned home from his visit to Austin this morning, was perfectly astonished at the steepness of our local railroad up Main street. He has been used to seeing the Central Pacific, the Virginia & Truckee, and other roads in the western portion of the State, with their comparatively flat grades of about 116 feet to the mile, therefore our Austin street railroad, with its steep grade of one foot in 12, seemed to Bob something outrageously wonderful. He considers it a little the loftiest climbing in the world for any locomotive to do on a plain track, and he is about right. Yet at one time to-day that gallant little locomotive took up two carloads of heavy nut-pine wood, 12 cords, without much trouble.