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Show j IKS MIS: : GOLDFIELDJEXAiVlPLE Crospector's Intuition Re- suits in One of Nevada's i; Biggest Properties. 'onopah Divide, Once For-lorn For-lorn Hope, Now Great Producing Field. h, . . "Ye r,a-t that faith, dogged persever-. persever-. and untiring effort play In the determent de-terment of mineral wealth Is well ex-upltfied ex-upltfied in the following article from wall Street Revlow: . 1903, owing to the discovery of the 'wield camp, the Gold Mountain re-jved re-jved what wa3 almost its death-blow, i deathblow in the sense that its devel-,rnt devel-,rnt had been indefinitely postponed. m the meager shipments of promis- gold outcrops near the surface, and ,e impossibility of obtaining money for ,velopment, this camp was like an uban- : Kied graveyard. The years between 1903 ,H 1917 mark fourteen long years of eVe and decay. Many a party rode by ' their automobiles, passing what is "' now as the Tonopaii-Divide prop- iv in the journey to buy stocks In some " liiine project in the height of the boom ' S At the slcht of these forbidding lis IT- might pause to reflect that hero is a camp that lots of the optimistic - Inlne men had great faith in only a few -lire "before. But now there was no ona ,low aa to do It reverence. bw a Hunch Developed. "Here is a camp that the boys went con" on, but the Goldfield is the real Ins Little did they think that they sre passing over an abandoned mine at could be bought for SSOull cash. The Ith of one man in It, Mr. Brougher, and I uncanny feeling that he could find " Jd at depth, the will power to follow out is 'hunch,' are the agents that devel-, devel-, one of the greatest mines in Ne-ja, Ne-ja, today worth $10,000,000. As Jay mid said when he visited the state of jvada many years ago, 'Who knows the ssibiiities of this great west! We may this very moment be standing on a Tillable gold mine that will be brought ' 1 light many generations hence.' -' "These were the words of a prophet, and Jay Gould was considered the shrewd-t shrewd-t man that ever operated in slocks in e history of Wall street, his offhand edlction was fulfilled in reference to e slate of Nevada by this redevelop-nt redevelop-nt of the Tonopah-Divlde mine into a rge silver producer. It is said, 'Faith n move mountains,' and it was on ac-unt ac-unt of the faith of H. C. Brougher that ese great treasures of nature were sided up for the benefit and glory of ,..in, but not until he iiad worked with ' "ei?y and perseverance, persisting -Oainst all obstacles, overcoming every :ffictilty until his objective was finally Celled. George Wingfield, his partner, ; hacf but little faith In these proceedings. I He sold out his half Interest for a lew dollars, which, after the discovery, he very luckily replaced.' Hope Is Beacon Light. "This means more to the mining world than the discovery of one mine, however great. It means that hope, which is the beacon light of the optimistic miner, must spring eternal in the human breast. For many have hoped and hoped' on in vain in the development of mines, and their hopes as yet have never been rewarded. re-warded. ' They can point to this as, the basis of the hope. Has not in this present pres-ent year the Tonopab-DIvide turned $30,-000 $30,-000 into $10,000,000? And was not it as hopeless a task at the beginning, apparently, appar-ently, as any forlorn hope ever could be? So there's a chance again for all, and hope gets a new force and a new faith that the Good Book says will oven 'move mountains.' "The mining man must necessarily be an optimist. But he must have some beacon bea-con to light his way. In mining histoi-v there are many such cases men who have staked all on faith, or, as thev would call it, 'a hunch.' And the world admires ad-mires the man who has the courage of his convictions, and who gambles with Fate until faith triumphs over all obstacles. ob-stacles. "Columbus gave a world to a world, ' sustained by this same faith. The Forty-niners Forty-niners wrung from nature the treasures that she jealously guarded since the dawn of creation. This gold was the basis of the great prosperity of these United States in the succeeding fifty years and supplied the financial power that backed the moral power that made America the land of hope and opportunity that welcomed wel-comed the oppressed of all nations." |