Show JOTTINGS SIL SILVERING VERLAND A granil grad of file lie national at lirginia ad MINING AND OTHER LEADING industries young america lit in ills hl glory our people do adoun n on tile tho gold I 1 inist rust about tho the new lako jn in tile desert the mines all A fortunate Kort chis year home mining laffaira trado good cassels tassels I 1 1 ally sev NOV july 9 1811 1801 our celebration of the fourth this year was the lineba seen on oil tile comstock since the old flush times like the circus tile celebration of tho the fourth is old et at la is a bior or now among the rising generAtiOn Ren cration aro are those aho vho bring to the bujol men t of our national holiday fresh minds find and tu to those tho the locarni lc cinman arni at of li birly is 13 as something hat but newly indented to those of us its aho ho have been fort forty Y or fifty celebrations of the fourth the ike exer erses and nil all else begins to bo be homem somewhat hat monotonous but referring back to the days of our childhood wo so are ablo able to ic ie collect a titan it nhen hen tile tho national Nal Nati loual oual festival appear appeared to bo be something bewly inaugurated slid and full all of 0 novelties elt tha tery clulo it has ts all eady old acid tamo to our fathers critically examined wo we find cud that tho the fourth il ii more p a day tor for the young than for tho the old aho ho young outer enter more thoroughly into tire spirit of the great uil holiday than can those on the downward side aide of life their hearts are in tits the busi business nebs all ali bettorf bettors bright before thern them and with sparkling eyes ind lid elastic clastic sted they joyously por par lorm form tho the pints parts ab assigned signed thom them they really hane much more to celebrate than had some of us w lien no 0 first began to honor the day half a century ago much luch of tho the pleasure plea soro of the graybeards gray beards of the day daiy IS derived front from ob the spirit mith tho the youngsters take hod 0 hero they aro are about leaving oil the most novel and feature of our celebration was kis the appearance in the procession sion of 1 two compan lesot high school girls they wore uniform dresses of a neat close fitting pattern of red white and blue material carried ornamental men tal staves I 1 in n their hands and mar marched clied and med till all tire the ons of oil drilled military companies those these young girls participated in tile the call celebration brath wt with an amount of otvlia via and am aarn refreshing to behold for them there was nothing monotonous or wearing in tho the observance of the groat great anniversary ver sary and it was the same with the oung lads lada mho nith lah all the youngsters the hie Tou fourth is fresh and glorious ABOUT TILE THE motet OF 0 TILE THE PEOPLE the orator C C pow pos ning was hopeful of the restoration to tho the people of the right of the free slid and collian goof sIlver fors for some ouse years tears tits the deprivation of the people of this constitutional right has been touched upon by our orators every fourth and the wrong wrone done dona the masses by class clas in the east is being well beaten into the beads of the rising generation of this thia now arid and furthest st west this will continuo to logo be so until the great wrong Is righted it Is the one black spot that comes up with us on tho the occasion of each celebration of tire tha national anniversary 11 in all hearts there Is the sure feeling caused louscil by a class having been permitted to deprive the people of a privilege dilego en joint by them fur one hundred jears ears under alo constitution what we e do here hero tea may not reach tile the plutocrats of the bast but it reaches tile the hearts of those who will one day bo be rulers in this western country and thebo ibobo who will have a voice lit in the allaire all lira of the nation it mill hero here bo be scored down tile the past east as in times pro pre coding ceding ill revolution were the wrongs done our forefathers by the abo ruling powers in the mother country also wo we hero here hope that thai the masses in the ekl easl will soun soon bo be made to goo the iho ton loul blow that was struck by the lue money power in 1873 it wo a hero here cannot reach the east wo we rejoice hat wo we haie bae there who tire aro dolny doing noble work in the iho good cause our people watch with interest buic resl the fight that Is being mado made by bt elvart jones and others against the plutocracy of 0 the iho last east stewart Is chuwing himself a grand old war chief of the people ile he is always in fit his bis armor and ready for battle ile he Is invincible because lio he has hal on his sido sida truth and right THAT LAKE lahe nature seems to bo be doing what there has at various limps beers beao talk of bringing ann in about aboul artificially in the region bordering it ring till tho colorado aler it appo iri ari hoever that ll it iko liko l is not desired at the point where hero tile one about which so much Is now being said has bas to appear general fremont was always anxious for the formation of oc an inland sea down in that thai region lit in 1879 when he was wa governor of 0 arizona bromont str strongly ugly is advocated rotated di a plan apian for coni converting erting into au all inland sea an all arid and and sandy plain lying between arizona and southern callior cal for this arid arra area was said to bo be tile the bed of so au ancient lake ills it plan however contemplated biting the old like halite by cutting through a barrier ridge and admitting the iho waters of the iho gulf of 0 call Calif orala jie ile figured that in this way could bo be fornsel a navigable inland sea SUU buo miles loun long SO 50 miles wide and boo foot feet deep to do this would cost cose as he be estimated it about ills his objects were the formation of a great com coin mercial higday all and the improvement of ahe climate of the country afterwards others othera contemplated tile formation of a sli similar ullar inland luli nil sea by diverting the ibo waters of the colorado color iilo river into the basin bablo of an lake la ILL 11 1 I 1 l herne J P jones jonea and other com cm 10 liers were interested ills lato late I 1 E n james tile wall ano n civil and mining engineer of tits comstock Com lode wits sent down into that country and artau went ent over ovar the ground very carefully tare fully traveling Ira for days with no its other coni compactions comp gaii actions bufis titan two iwo or three indian guides for sonio some reason tile ilia project cloned though james found that thab lio lie could torm form several inland at no great cost mr janks james informed me ma that tt hat cos t most intel him were tire many sig signs 11 ile hi saw ol of tile ot of paying veins of tile metal tut tile indians indiana who nere acro with him lalni in tho the capacity of 0 galdes it seem hain ilia As much for the poopoo or of abdow as spies upon hi movements as anything oso the red men forbade orb tilo ills 11 making any ox 1 mi nation of tile tho rocks soon scott and con nent so far hi as to snatch out of his big hands and acid throw away any pieces of 0 float that lie ho picked up in view ol of the great advance that lias has of late years been malle made to in tile ih cultivation of tile llie soll soil by means of artificial Irrig AdOll ll it is probable ii that the llin waters of the colorado could bo be more profitably bli used in the llie growing of vat bailoni lots kinds of crops than in the tor for mitlon of takes lakes ind arid seas sea stills soils that some years year ago sago were thought utterly worthless aro are now found to be 0 of I 1 unbounded fertility when property properly irrigated tile only busing basins devoted to 10 tho the formation Jorio alion ot of climate ameliorating lake takes should bo be those it li redeemably alkaline it will be recalled that thai about tile kiino th lie general was urging his project tor for the llie formation or of an aik inland son sea captain Kon dalio was advocating a similar thing in algeria Alge rii now the he french are filling tho the algerian deserts with orchards cre bards gardens arid groves of ditto dale palms palm no doubt they do the tha same or bettor better in tire tho desert regions of arizona n hero instead of being dependent on water from artesian vi wells ells they have the bhole hole colorado river to draw upon As the ditto date palm Is found to be product ho he in tho the bligh boyhood of it Is not improbable that a time will come u vilian lien thou thousands sandi ot of groves grove ot date bearing paim ace iree sill will bo be seen lit fit tho the places now thought lit ab nb only odly to be turned lit inlo to inland seas MINES nearly all recent reports front from the region aro are favorable favor ablo it Is probable that it will provo prove to bo be a good gold camp they aro are going alizad at the discovery claim thu that of mr montgomery and the mine Is found to improve as it Is 13 up recently in grading a bite for a blacksmith shop they found a quartz boulder containing 1000 in gold this probably cimo came from the crop plugs of the loilo lode with a paying bonanza to start in upon tile llie montgomery men certainly hao haio good prospects before theta them other bonanzas aro are sure to bo be found kunii at depth or in drifting along tile the course of tile tho anti and th alio richest may not come to the surface in oilier other veins velus paying ore la being found many of the most moil now in crimp camp aro are there to stay slay they are preparing to bring in the water of a largo spring distant distan t five nulls miles through an iron pepo still and soon will bavo bao taken pera vinent root A good sign ll Is that men recently from the camp say they like it ft and are aio going back to grow up with willi it ii though hot bot to in surl summer lic r the place Is very pleasant in t in winter there theio are arc probably in southern nevada scores 1 if not hundreds 0 of as yet yel undiscovered velus veins as good its as this so called ca lied Ire fogle find mm mile do the right kind of prospecting in that hat t region are pretty buro to deot ith their heir reward los or it wo AVO sao that well by tile discovery of mr montgomery haio gono golia into the same famo region and mado made good finds this was no dondit because they prospected carefully still had the samo same men inon gono gone into tho the samo same see tion before montgomery mado made ills dl coory tire the chances cli ances are that ti they V have pa passed ased on oil and found DOW ng A LUCKY 11 I 1 this ye beir a r our eel e bration of the na dional pissed passed without a tire lire or even an alarm alarin nj ni doubt this tall boslov ou ing to tile the cautious caution and vigilance or of I 1 our people all had been realist fealing lire fire and dread dreading inq tho ills jubilee jubileo on that ac all were cry careful anti watchful till bould seem to lime hao been the caso case throughout tile whole bole country the hies bias reported on tho the 1 fourth ere unusually few almot almost every scar car heretofore tile iho ires papers have bran been filled w lib ith accounts of lires I 1 in n every state in the iho union and generally gol lerall Y bail bad ones onas undoubtedly tile ounia of prevention illon was vas aery where in tile minds of tile people also thus fit far tho the fatal accidents repel rop oiled led are ro fewer than ibao common many men are arc blowe to lo pieces fill cannon in filing salute MIXING MAT mattene TEnt matters mailers aro are nil all right enough on the comstock k but bill stock sleek mattei a aro are all the manipulators lit in sao aiu francisco now have things ill all their own wiy way down abro the ibo hears anti and tile bulls boat the lion and the ali kanaulu lamb in lying lying together tORii thor while they tile ida tile spoils and hobnob hob nob together tile steel galket will nill now for a time be turned out to the hie ci lippers us as a boon bono Is flung to a dog they aro are content m ellb tit pick fugh and are at till all alases ready to mako make a dah for or any crumbs that tall lull fruin from the iho table 0 whon when I 1 lie iho clif apers get hold of the market our comstock dealers call do nothing and all Is hat flat mero mere ton cent cenk wo have hero many laro largo and bold dealers and when tho the ton loir dictions aro arc such thal ihal thuy are able to la operate they do much lucli toward making a lively markel TRADE WITH MOST MEX though speculation tn in joining shares Is flat business IS fairly brisk wish all our aud shopkeepers shor keepers next axt to the hie pro provision isida stores tits rush rurh is to ihu abo dry goods establishments I 1 out am not suro sure that wens thorn to come pinch plu ching ln times the provi blon men would out aut bu be frozen out before tire tho dr goods men such la it the ibe mania tor for dress tho rho book stores of the tha Cotus tock k ate less iced at present than over ever before 1 ubay hey scale to havo have no demand for or anything anything except stationery stationary school books and tho the now novels 0 of the uin that if at all were loss titan than deuty years ago kept on tile the top slice sadica i as of all printe o or under lock locia find and key llad ii of families teem seem to pay no lie lacu llon lion to this matter this Is strange when can sonic ut of tile llie young men inon 0 of tin tile town think it II is rattler loutfi I 1 the other day said to a young nun mail of elgh tean that there seemed of late lalo to lit bo nothing elc comfor to to ton n in the book line slid anil asked do the tha young of 0 tits alico buy choul tho iii 2 yes said tile mail inan all lit running after alem ahem anil and its tots bad what la is tile use un putting pulling panta lettes on the iho pictured tired logs legs of ballot dancers whon u heir scicli bite book i are arc every bore openly sold field 2 I 1 is i sa a ing at the spigot and losing at tile with till a vengeance file lh cioll chop ti is pretty sure to bo be ot of tile tho samo same kind as ai tile seril seed that was sown sawn MATTES IV IN people here ik ro who tho hid hall a small I 1 taste of 0 mormon rifle when this region WM was western utah do not touch liko like ibo be present lir csont aspect 0 of affairs tit in utah they siy say ilia lun iiona tire aro aan attain getting on too lop in salt lao la 0 city and have already so as ai to divide the belittles in union there ia 1 strength but in div division aion it II la 1 the saino old story of 0 the tb divis lon ion of elio llio bundle ot of breedi recd or sheaf jhc if of arrows the difference between a republican Tt mormon lonnon and a democratic normon Is about tile battle as between richard andvick and jaick boware lio ware of th shen lion they como come bearing gifts n apply to belittles people alio lie hato been ot of going to halt lako lake from this thia region now say BAY they do not wait want t to go to a place where trouble is 19 so evidently bra hig they look tor for wild tialen if the cormons mormons succeed in dividing divid ln inz the gentiles Gont lles tho battle batile Is over a gentile of neither faction will be the bistier borg the motown rule will bo be on top air and astri astride doof of both statehood itt tined a gentile in utah will lit bo be a cl cat su in OLD arill GOING although Althon gli wo we heir of iss sick sickness since the setting selling in ot of hot bol edher yet there are still many deaths the old timers are gradually dropping out 0 of tilt the ranks the latent departure was ivas that of Will william fain Alea meadows dows proprietor of the wm win tell house tho the uld eoys boys ale aie beginning to losing sing I hurrah turrah tor for the HIP next man that dies I 1 today to day met gillis tits veteran printer to lo the post office balu sta was yell well we are still here this has |