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Show fi::a::cial jih-jaiis A good story at the expense of Nevada was told cs yesterday. It ran this way : . An English gentleman; with some acquaintances in this city; made a visit of-a few weeks to.Nevada. Returning,' he met one -of- his .friends, who said : ; . ' . . ."TTell, how is Nevada: t" . ' ; . : : i ' The reply was: V , : : ' It is the ; wonder of the earth. The whole Stitefis. roiring'like 1 a -'young .-earthquake with excitement' ex-citement' ifverj'body is either rich or going to . be day after tomorrow. No one ever saw such excitement. excite-ment. No one, ever saw such confidence.; .The ,old is n6t minded. The blizzard is not considered: ,.. Privations Pri-vations are jokes. All kinds r of. .'hardships ar.e laughed out of existence. The temperature of the whole State is 1052- At 106 the patient dies." Speaking" of Nevada, one of our shrewd merchants mer-chants was at Goldfield the other day and stayed two days. . On his return he said: , "I was' there' only two days, but'I have been uneasy un-easy ever since. I.think three months'would make it impossible for me to look at straight business agin. I think I might catch: the disease that is epidemic over there' arid, for the rest of my, nature for a million or nothing at alL" 1 . -. The effect of the old bonanza days is still visible in San Francisco, "or was before the fire. There were fifty or, one hundred of the old crowd there. They were living in back rooms, doing what little cooking they had to do on oil stoves or chafing dishes, buying buy-ing a few. shares of Con. Virginia at 65 cents and selling it" next 3ay for 80 cents and. hugging the belief, to their souls that the old times would, come back after a ; while, . that there' would be another boom and. they would come out all right. , Of course there is no cure for them nothing but death. Offer one of them a position, with a fair sal: ary,. out ,of . San Francisco, and he would decline it; his idea being that he was growing a little old and he .must .not miss it when the great opportunity comes to. make a "big killing." . - The South Sea bubble has been seen, in ..a little way in-Nevada many a time,, but the,-present excitement is.fteVery boss of .air exeitements-and-. there" is. so much money in "the country, that it is liable to last a long time. ; - . v ' - - But when, it is over, those that do not in the meantime make a little fortune will be liable to be no good all the; rest of . their natural lives, for it seems to be the very delirium tremens of finance. |