Show I Old Mini Mining g Camp 1 Revived by Movies f Amid debris of exhausted mines ODa ona on OD ona a giant shoulder of or Mount Davidson once the most prodigal silver producing producing ing center the world has gray monument to miners' miners hope re recently recently re- re has been completed iJ A stern like business building says say saysa a bulletin of oC the National Geographic society Within rumbles machin machinery r rZ of a modern silver sUver reduction plant Into its huge maw maw- goes 2000 2010 tons of ore a da day an amount greatel than that taken from the entire Comstock Corn Com stock vein in bonanza days day of lS 1863 3 when 50 mills were grinding l SI Some think this new monument to to hope In Virginia City was built bya by bya bya a silv silver r compan company True the company company com corn pany built it but that new plant actually has been subscribed for foi forwith with the dimes and quarters the American people have paid to see sec seethe seethe the movies Flickers that millions millions mil mil- mill lions see on picture screens are dugout dugout dug duS out of ot Nevada mountains Mined silver becomes silver nitrate which catches the fleeting image on a a. tUrn film Samuel Clemens an idle penni less miner Joyfully accepted a a. re reporters reporter's reporters reporter's reporters reporter's re- re porters porter's Job jab on the Virginia City Enterprise En at 25 a week That was was In Inthe Inthe the early A few months later the Comstock rush was on Samuel Clemens with so much money In his hii pockets he did not collect his salary sal sai ary covered the silver rush for forthe forthe forthe the Enterprise Years later he wrote Tote his news scoop for posterity in the tha imperishable pages of It It Black nuggets from this vein were the wonder of ot Virginia City Then silver mining left Virginia City for new fields fields- Tonopah Nev Nov Montana l and other centers The difficulty in turning immigrants grants into good Americans is to find a model to work by Wheel WheelIng Wheel Wheel- Ing |