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Show LINCOLN COUNTY, NEVADA. The Caliente Lode Express declares that Lincoln County, Nevada, is going to boom this year in a way to make the old stories of progress there seem tame. That a railroad is going to be in Pioche and that a great lot of the old mines and new mines are going to be made dividend-payers, that so many people will go there, that it will be a great field for a merchant, and that generally prosperity is in the air. . All of which is good. There are plenty of splendid mines in Lincoln County, Nevada. They were rich enough thirty -five years ago to warrant the hauling to reduction works 250 miles by wagon. A" great many millions of dollars dol-lars was taken out of the ground and Pioche was a great city. Then came litigation; then some stubborn stub-born rock came in ; development had not been carried on sufficiently in advance of stoping, companies got in debt, stocks faded away on the stock boards and Pioche went into the sere and yellow leaf and stayed that way for twenty-five years. There is no reason why it should not this year have its boom, for none of its mines were worked out. All they need is new machinery, cheap transportation trans-portation and plenty of labor. Pioche is nearly on a straight line east from .Goldfie'ld, and there is no reason why Lincoln county should not be as rich as Nye, and the chances are ten to one that this year's work will prove that it is. |