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Show ADVENTUROUS BACK TRAIL TO OLD CAMPS They are back trailing to Nevada the sturdy sons of the desert who blazed their way to Virginia City, Candelaria, Tonopah, Tono-pah, Goldfield, Pioneer and other bonanza camps of past years, and with their coming Nevada has aroused from partial mining inertia to resume her proud position posi-tion as the frreatest of precious metal producing states. They are drifting in from the four corners cor-ners of the world with the eagerness of wanderers returning to the old home town to relive the old scenes, renew old friendships and unite with men of lesser years in the rejuvenation of the state's mining industry, which received its impetus im-petus "at Divide. Time, with its a.ce-toll, has passed them by and left them perennially young. The stout body which served faithfully in long hikes across the arid wastes still presents the erectness of early manhood; the stout heart which met with equanimity whatever what-ever of good or ill fortune the day might hold, and the wandering foot which impels im-pels to endless journeying retains the spring of youth. It Is as though at some place in their wanderings each had found the fabled fountain of youth and drank deeo of its waters. They are wonder workers, these men who have written their names in letters of silver and gold upon the rockbound pages of Nevada's mining history, but they have worked no greater wonder than the efficacy with which they have stood off the ravages of the years. Repeaters all they are duplicating past successes at Divide, and prospecting the desert for ore bodies as they did in former years. The list of Divide's mine operators is a roster of "Who's Who and Why" In Nevada's Ne-vada's mining affairs. It Is a throwback to early Tonopah and Goldfield days another an-other Instance of history repeating itself. Tonopah Times. |