Show THE RUSH IS ON IN NEVADA after many years of rip van winkle slumber in the battle born state the rush is fairly on again in nevada and this section of the tafe west is now one of the most popular fields for mining venture and investment to be found in the rocky mountain region nevada with its great mineral wealth was a bulwark of strength to the nation during the period of the civil war but its glory departed with the of silver as the white metal was its chief production burng during its early history of bonanza camps and prolific districts and for a quarter of a century mining has been on the decline within the environments of our sister commonwealth with the discovery of tonopah To however a few years ago an awakening came to the sagebrush state and now it is on the high tide of prosperity and the fame of its new fields and avenues of wealth reaches from the pacific to the atlantic from san francisco to philadelphia and so rich are the discoveries recently made in the desert camps of this section that people are rushing to these new Eldo rados by the hundreds and by the thousands and so productive have dave these new finds become that thriving bides have sprung up as if in a night in localities that not long ago were bleak and lonely deserts while railroads have been built and the conveniences and luxuries of old and civilized countries have obtained showing clearly the power of gold and verifying the oft repeated statement that the yellow metal is the magnet that attracts all mankind since the discovery of tonopah To the mining industry in nevada has been imbued with new life and vigor and the more recent discovery of goldfield not far distant has set the mining world afire as it were and so great is the interest now being taken in mining in this state that nearly every section of promise within its boundary lines is now receiving attention and no difficulty is experienced in attracting the capitalist and investor to the many deserted camps anich many years ago were productive of their thousands of their millions in the precious and baser metals As nothing succeeds like success it is evident that nevada camps are but on the verge of a great wave of prosperity and that the result of the onward movement of an army of prospectors through the mountain ranges of the state will be that many more new and important discoveries will yet be chronicled as but a small portion of this extensive commonwealth has ben visited by the pathfinder the prospector and the hardy mountaineer who blazes the trails that will open to the world a new country rich in its mineral possibilities just now the rush for nevada is on and as the camps of this state can be worked from one end of the year to theother the other with the winter months having the preference in a majority of cases we may expect that great things will be accomplished before I 1 the close of another year in the foothills foot hills canyons and mountain passes of the great stretch of country lying between the states of utah and california |