Show THE TIlE OLD COMSTOCK COMSTOCH When a miner finds a new v mine and it lo looks ks large on the outside a and d assays assays pretty well he is not afraid to tell ten you in m confidence that he hasan has an another th r. r Comstock are rat rather er scarce 1865 and 1866 were dull years ears on the Comstock but in 1867 the old lode yielded That was before the B Belcher or the Consolidated Virginia California-Virginia bonanzas were found That was the yield of thirteen mines as follows H Hue Hale te and Norcross 1091 Sa 3 Savage e Crown Point Yellow Jacket Gould Goud and Curry Curr Potosi Chollar Empire Imperial Confidence Ophir Kentuck Gold Hill Quartz M M. M. M Co Overman The next year the Belcher Beicher began to yield then three years after that the Consolidated Cal California California- ornia- ornia Virginia bonanza set everybody crazy Between that and it gave up and paid in ili dividends There are not very many mines like the Comstock Even before 1867 while the war was raging between 1861 and 1865 its yield was one of the steadying forces for the union because it helped materially the government government govern govern- ment mont to meet its interest account and to hold a R little ittle value in the greenback |