Show I A BOOM I NEVADA No Occupation More Useful or Honorable Hon-orable Than Mining The surveyorgenerals report of Nevada Ne-vada according to the Western Mining Min-ing World shows that in the western and southwestern portions of the state 1 where formerly was the bulk of Ne vadas silver and gold mining carried on is experiencing as much of a revival re-vival as elsewhere In Esmerelda county the Silver Star mines are pay ing their owners a good profit and Silver Peak is proving to be a good gold producing camp The Big Indian Marietta Mt Granite and Hawthorne districts the mines are all making ago a-go d showing The output for the srte shows an increase over that of 1893 of 1121499 or a total for the year past of 3003695 in gold and silver The increase is principally due to the counties of Lincoln Esmerelda and Elko This is substantial evidence of renewed activity among the gold properties prop-erties and the best evidence in proof of the theory that Nevada ory Neada can produce gold if necessary That mining is the principal source of the present wealth and importance of the western and Pacific Pa-cific states no reflecting and candid person can deny That even now it is the leading productive industry vital izing and stimulating all others is equally true I gives to the world a yearly bullion product of many million lion dollars supplying the basis for a sound safe and certain onrrpnny vTinr carried In accordance with the constitution consti-tution of the government No business busi-ness is more honorable no industry more useful than that of the miner but clear and palpable as this may be it has become fashionable in some quarters to sneer at and condemn mining min-ing Reposing securely in the wealth of flocks herds lands vineyards orchards or-chards blocks in the city government and railroad bonds certain narrow headed gentry delight in denouncing the very source of their wealth without I with-out which they would have nothing Agriculture commerce in fact every I industry of the west was brought into existence and nurtured by mining The truth Is that if it were not for mining the west today would be a bleak wilderness I derness uninhabited |