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Show utlng point Goldfleld la' a metropolitan city with electric lights and all the luxuries of modern civilization- Fairview la taking; on city proportions. ... A new campaign of work has been Inaugurated on the Comatock and a little bit of a mine on the Comstock la bigger big-ger than anybody's else big; mine In the country. There Is jreat work going; on near Walker's lake. Ploche is promising prom-ising that S9 soon as the railroad la finished there she will ihow"that the millions taken out In the early days were eally but the result of prospecting; that deep mining; la lbout to begin, and that the proposition Is to make Ploche i prosperous cam) all through this coming generation. ' And new discoveries are being made every " day; the State at last is being thoroughly prospected. :' , It was held back for years .because of lack of transportation. transpor-tation. 7 It was a matter of dread to vislfone of her camps a little off of the railroad. Now the automobile takes passengers pas-sengers at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour all over the southern, eastern and western parts of the State and railroads are creeping In. Nevada has vindicated her old promise that she Is the foremost of mining States and Intends always to be. "NEVADA IS NOW IN THE FRONT RANK. . The New York World refers to Nevada sneeringly as the "brushiest of sagebrush State." Let it rest its perturbed soul Jn peace. Nevada Is a great mining State this year. ' She has more little camps and has started more big ones than any other mining State In the Union. She has on ex-j ex-j hibitlon today the biggest copper mine in the known world, where the developments are measured by miles and where the ores are continuous for quarters of sections. She has " another half as big with ore enough developed to last fifty years. She has another where the prospects promise to ; excel either of the other two with the same amount of de-'velopment de-'velopment work done. These are all copper. V Then she has magnificent gold and sliver mines, and promises by year after next to produce more from her mines than Illinois and Iowa do from their fields, and the wealth produced will be indestructible wealth, good for all yths future. She has ten new mining districts where only two or three years ago all was silence, and where. If the v owner of the New York World had been set down to make a survey, his remark would have been that If he owned the whole business and wanted to punish some enemy in the extreme, he would deed him the whole country and make a condition that he should live there through the rest of his life. . ..... ,. ' . The towns of Nevada are growing Immensely. Beno is "becoming metropolitan.' ' A big advance Is about to begin - at Elko. Ely, is laying the foundation for a city as big as ' Butte. Hazen Is becoming a thorough commercial dlstrlb- |
