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Show WHAT RICH MINES DO. Rno, Nev., was founded some forty-five or fifty yars ago. It was a quiet village all through the bonanza days, simply a relay station between San Francisco and Virginia City. It grew moderately, but was sfill a village jintil Tonopah was discov- ereJSiucTlfipnTurintflhe-ltlRr term yeanv there has been a transformation there. Those sonthern mines were discovered and developed and owned chiefly by Nevada men, and because of them, because of the treasure that came from them, because of the men who grew rich in other parts of the state going to Reno, the needed incentive in-centive was given, and it is now one of the loveliest loveli-est little pities of perhapa fifteen thousand people in all the west, and it ia growing right along. That soil in the Truekee meadows ia good; it enables people to quickly rear trees and make lawns, and it is the clearing house for a vastly large country ' north, south and east If it were not so near San Francisco it would be a stormy rival for Salt Lake in 'the next twenty-five years. Its present growth and prosperity are due, in great part, aa we look upon it, because Nevada men, taking money from Nevada mines, have invested large amounts there, which has encouraged others to invest; which brings us back to the old proposition that there is nr-thing half so direct toward fortune, toward development, devel-opment, toward an advance all along the line, aa to take the money from the mines and use it, and it haa that exclusive prerogative it is all newly creatod wealth. It is not gotten by one eunning man getting get-ting the best of ten thousand of his neighbors, but 'ii has contn out of the earth a direct addition t the wealth' of the world. It at once beeomea tn addition to the world's accumulated wealth,-and it comes at the same time in a way to not depress, ' but rather to accelerate every man's business; where it touches. 2f a man has a lot worth a thou- ' sand dollars, and man from the mines with wealth that was never used before ibuys the lots on either side for a thousand dollars each, and puts upon those lota buildings worth from ten to one hundred thousand dollars each, the man who owns the land in the center suddenly finds that his property has multiplied three or five or ten times in value. And this should be an encouragement to all men in 'Utah or any other state who gain money through the mines to try to make the state rich. By doing that they will make themselves richer and their neighbors on either side. All the money in the world originally came from the mines. Men can, trade, they can trade wheat for whisky, corn for beea; ecti can make a profit; but they are dealing in ihe world's coarser material. But when from the mines a man takes a thousand or a million dollars, it is virgin money, lie is not only benefited, but everyone near him is bt nefited. and out of that grow cities and prosperous prosper-ous farms, all kinds of manufactures it it the starting of progress. . . |