| Show t l AIM t x Entrancing Tale a e of o Nevada eva a s Second econ Growth rows w tl BY H H BAR BARTINE TINE J 7 r jt H r t 1 ef dr lr HP aha h hal but bur 4 P v va w d In L T a f stilts Ilu ti nr 1 1 hu c h I a ar the 1111 ll last t n f r n t it II IJ b I I hunt tl cur 1811 l y k I Qt t ll l t I I III I I J t 1111 L 1 i ti I 1 I l r In th II um a P f 11 de pul tj l I urn I 1 rl ht tt me the tho thoI 4 I bd I f much t I i tl n lh the first t n I d 11 I t rut bpI bee d tn In I huIt r 5 nn 1111 the 1 H 0 o It h er erI I wt Wa lit 11 d r rt It I r hut hat w r rid INI t to bo l Y l of fr i value r tho o 0 ot t tf Icy r r a t 1 11 lI ur nr r much Ira ahu or 11 fur far Its ItH sH r t I T r ng amt I th taxi vr ever everS S thing nut a I Pimply n an ant t J NIt ter r th 1 1 pt 11 rl m II I tar nor till t ae t u r ri e hill s gar e 4 Ina 1111 1 PIC In the I oat t lit to o thoe wino Iho wire WI killS S tr M In III th the west Indeed tt It was wa wasu u 1 it Lf t br th the t 1 shot with any III r t tl JI d tit II YI r Ing ol 1 ot of t I th tun J rolion JA 11 t f Tilt KINGS A III ti I lain mun Atun Ii In th anti and some ot of 1 r t cat cat kung A fuw feIY more moreIn In i Od I tr I throw florae e while widle along n lie Iho river hOltom bt o s I a n nf t Homo er c r l f and nn mule for tor t homes bome upon the he fro alt all of d r rt the thee P m lW rI N M It watt w a t j der M sliver alining upon which thu tho y cep for Cur It Its and with without I t R k p out which Melt nil no star atar ut of Nevada would ever evor have shone In III tho field fiul of our lur national i JIU WH WAR LION jatis tivi say In 1873 the warfare upon sliver silver ho bo gan cau It Is tine nt th tho r nJ t r q ti r S tt of qt that tho nio t a f factor ctol In Ihn th e metal from rom t r 6 Its monetary was the tho nation Pit which was the tho producer oC at the ti and consequently tho 3 deeply Interested la In Its t aa value ns CUI well as thu tho ot of every 4 f thing that Is measured l In of 1 mono Por II a time tIm tho great groat riches or of ortho t tt tho Comstock the tho Bast Runge Hange 11 echo Austin ra 1 f ll and other rd cL 4 It tilt biota Iato In III rr k r r w r n fall fair but con constantly los lessening t r d f ot P The t r tt min t 0 or f t tho ho Y t s 1111 ot on t law ot of 1878 u uS uIl t tho ho S Sherman Sherl I law of 1890 tho tf ot of the tho metal our b j 1 t Industry r to at ugo g on mitt al although a 1 t tY 1 x t t t though sunder n most ern e ous hu mad n I 1 3 Y 1 M 1 cap But In 1893 the thu last blow canna The rho mint of India was wast Vai t t s l to t tr tt tt o sliver w l t mi t t rl v al o r t l t r t account and ho so 4 t t law was wal repealed hy by the tho t f 1 n I Cu n aas In lees than a week wo k lifter after y t r Uto tho order III bl council stopped r 1 1 ft In India silver lust lo t 3 i f f fi nt alo of Its In the thu I L arkola m of oC the thC worM world hlll thu tho re Ie S yd ty J t 1 of the Iho t n n law t onlY 1 Y j J h i a 1 l t u II recovery hut tilt tho I to IL a still lower level leol Lt In Y l J 1 J r II mininG S 8 parul n nd ACU lied 3 ted i d S and the tho Cerro In tle despair despairs s tl II ITS UL 1 4 t Cv t No other state In tho Union and andy S y 4 t probably no other lout ot of the Inha h Ilan 1131 globe suffered as Nevada did from tills great monetary change which SIr vir thi Ihl Ii ot of the world Ivory gry country H m the or of silver tit felt felth h ho o A om an attempt w t Its l to the go gobs hi stand urd with wholly or partially r front from It Its monetary In o 1 the lh e gold 01 mells err lit at valuation III ht teet endeavored to In make one dollar do the Ula work for 11 two dollArs tend had Previously beet n 1 and employed Necessarily there ther was VII II a or of ts In all gold suhl standard countries a Rum profits business ling rattan nod hard all as rues lasted froat until 1897 That they morn fern the Iho direct rosult lit of tin tho monetary change Is hI llY by the thedr dr that they trl la In gold standard countries only while sliver unusual pros prosper per ty end nJ hy by tho further act that ac Ito ho smallest of relief rollof lip ill lipp p pared until the In tre creane ot of gold production In ht South Alaska and other mho nuts of the 01 hI In a degree relieved t 10 monetary save prices nil nn upward turn made once moro more nun null I iN But Nevada be beit sh ah P was e Tall U it silver pro 1 1 0 dueer Not NOl only did 11 she lose tile the In the value of at i the silver but the tho Itself WIlS ens from cause e hut but tilt ores could be worked mho tho of the high tie de pouts Willi vi H mire ous with the In time tho price ot of the Iho metal th the then thon existing to direct the ot of our oUI people Into was Willi All Allmen men Inert are ale controlled lu 10 a 11 greater or orI I Meer ser extent b by their environments The most energetic I and ivo Ic men In hl the world would never think of cultivating orange In ht Greenland Greenlund or It Il seem utmost t us un fur natu ral for fill n a Nevada muter millet to under tinder ticks time development of the tho tate state upon new and untried lines The were n a more or less exodus II a rapid rapidly ly Iy dwindling population and It a wide widespread 1111 spread hopeless impoverish mont of the lien Ien of oC n assumed but who knew new nothing or of the tho ot of decay spoke contemptuously or of the Iho state and Its meager population It was us It a rotten bar bor barouh borough ough unlit unfit to 10 be n a stale elate Inhabited h by n 0 rew wilt eyed fanatics and n 0 fr a smore thieving silver alt I barons whose highest n nIle ll It WAIl tens to t o swin swindle Ile dle 1 the Iho t s n the tho orphan dollars DURING DUmO SERVICE During the period of at n m service In tho ho m r o of t r Ii oa rut 1 t 18 e 1 to 1 1 or ti f Nevada In III n a public way thought of little or nothing but silver On un any lino IIno other titan that which t led 1 In n th tho o sou or office freo sliver coinage no mo efforts ot of their lives Im III Congress met with the est cat In no proper sense enso v v n q the tho t I nil n 11 r ono one for tor lie 1 I a nut amid D 1 all ko were or of one one mind with to It And An Andall I all WI was the tho result of the thC conditions which prevailed Our ono one great Indus Industry Industry try had beon seriously crippled antI there was Willi nothing oleo 0 to which so lure The he general revival ot of busl busi business ness which In iii H 1891 7 Willi us scarcely felt PI In Nevada tor or we ha had no tied In Industries to be l LIGHT IN Ii jm SOUTH And so wo we struggled en until 1 1900 00 Then Than coma n Ricker of light f ht upon the horizon growing and amI until the tho In that thai quarter HIl nil their brilliant brilliant tho dark ark clout clouds 0 of business depression which 4 I u r P a l e eS I lh it I r S C M r i n tt ar Y w dr i r Iy t I t r r a Y e r rr n rr nt r r J M v w f w f f fr r 1 l int bt I t S 11 S S r 7 r s sr sr sa sL sr r r a S r a t i 3 r t L t r k 1 r Y n jp c j Io t j nW i LI i JUDGE H F BARTINE 55 t Vho ho ins Uns the of for fill the Teas of ot of headers of Zhu tho H H N i IWI NW w still burr heal II over other portions of oC thC t state T with t Its lis labul ous veach u w ns discovered and a J now ern In n the history or of our state stale bet an anThe The Tho excitement following thu tho develop developments ments nt Tonopah was not to be com coin pared with those thosa of earlier days when the tho rIches or of the tho Comstock of Austin Austill ot 0 f White Pine 1100 and atilt wore fir st brought to l hL Hope thad heel so long deterred In the tho hearts or of our OUI that It wits hard halll to arouse touch much enthusiasm at first And It was Willi just mis well that It was so A pell mell rush of vast multitudes of Impecunious men mento mento to tt It new mining district Is pro ot great gret suffering to many and It II l a genera 1 followed followell e by h II a reactIon from which recovery Is II a slow nn nail painful In rono ah has been been fortunate The Tho rush was never so groM groat but that the crowd could coul ho bo fairly accommodated while the silo values were so ro high so near tho th ali am I so ao widely that largo large numbers or of moderato moderate for tor fortunes tunes were speedily made mado and the tho Cl cap 1 put upon a paying basis almost tram the tho first stroke ot of the prospectors pick I TIlE The Tho later proving the tho treat great depth and continued richness of oC I mines give un nn O of permanency to tho lino district and stamp It I IlS as ono one ot of till the mining wonders of the tho WJ world worl One OltO of the tho most successful an and best informed oll operators lit In the tho dl I the opinion a my hear In Inu a 0 short tuna r ago ngo that tono Iah hM s worth or of gold and sliver In Insight insight sight It this Is true Irue there thero Is 18 no reason tu to doubt that the district will fairlY rival either Virginia Virginian City C ItY f for In n this or Butte Montana or It I Is a not nol to lo 10 Imagined g that the tho wealth of Tonopah Is nil exposed With two hundred millions In sight It Is ren rea to believe that there Is s several times that amount wIthin comparative comparatively 1 ly easy reach flU VISE HISE OF GOLDFIELD P Is only ono one small spot to In the great greal mineral minerai belt helt of oC southern Nevada That town has been the prolific pro mother of nm Y others saute sOllie tit of which even exceed the tho older oilier camp In actual wealth Ot Of the and most Important In developed riches is III 26 6 voiles duo south south It Is impossible t to dU do justice to without appearing to he be In In extravagances I Ever ver stranger who comes hero to con conditions expects to be dl and he generally I is lie Ho finds the no ae conditions both of oC limo tho mInes anti and andI of the tho town better far better than ho he had anticipated The mines of Gold I I field have not been beell proved to such a depth ns as those of but the area N of of known values alues Is much greater and there thero Is no reason tu to doubt douht that the tho will 1111 continue with depth It would loul he bo in III me to to discuss the tho merits of Goldfield front from the ot of either or practical mining would It bo be In Ingot gut got taste to make muke invidious compact compari comparisons sons eons between them and Tonopah The Iho two are aro quite different In theIr char characteristics but unless the tho practical an and mining millIng men loon of oC both bOlh are badly In ht their judgment both bolh are 10 essentially great The c r l district Includes Columbia Dla non loughl speaking the III district nil as proved Is about six miles square Within With Ut In leia urcu there are uro seven or eight immensely rich mines already I loped to tn the tho dividend point It Is morally certain that the tho next 12 months seo the tho number of paying doubled an and per imps trebled for tor now strikes are 1110 being constantly at brief intervals When one considers that Buttes pro production Iro of like hue hilt nearly mill 1111 been taken from rom an am area of oC about acres It Is hard harl to Brass Irn 1 a limit upon the of It Inay not bo be out or of n lace to 10 observe that Goldfield has hila an 1111 ud vantage over lIer Tonopah In that hero I the values entirely In gold while ores run Iun heavy hell In silver allor silvers the value alue at whIch III i s s e eby b by the Iho law and price of the thu White metal nut ut till all the these u apart that bolls districts have great futures be before fore oro them and that the they are aro to in yield a wealth or of the ulI In metals that will stagger the and the Iho world In tart mimic CHIC It is fairly claim dai I when hI h the riches ot of a single InitIo mino Iho tu a and It Is more than able that we have hae runny moro more Moha vIs In this district PROMISING CAMPS CAllS AntI And still the atory Is not told for Tonopah nn and are stars ot of so Nevada which shine lit at resent with tin tho great greatest est eAI brilliancy brilliancy there thero are nrc splendid prospects mind some ot of which are certain to develop Into Inlo strong stroll rivals an anti may oven out outshine shine the older ohler camps amps Nearly the Whole state slate Is strongly main but I 1 am dealing noun with those districts Mill lying hm the southern parts of Nye Nyc and counties and extending eastward Into i I ant am speaking ot of those thoe which broke brolo the clouds of oC distress that for fOl so ninny many years hue had hung over oer us like a 0 pall pail amid s tc alI the tho Camo lit o t Nevada r throughout the Iho mining worM world this region lie Silver Peak Penk Lida Gold Silver Rot Io Gold Center II Bullfrog u 11 Crescent r Callen II c h light Dc Deer r Lodge Gold Butte and other districts all 1111 pouring out their shining III ht larger r or 01 streams This t II is about miles III length 11 by teO In width nil and great as it II Is already proved to lie he Its widely surface has cly been leen scratched d But enough has haM been dote Jone to 10 chance the tho a aspect ot at ut arla s hu 9 a c amid to toju t n justify ju boundless hope for the future futuro or of lime state stute It II is III not nul lit nt nil a that the raglan I 1 ani now 1101 considering II Is the richest In gold and silver or of rummy equal area In ha the known worl AL IN Ii It Il must not ho supposed however that Nevadas recent plO progress has been confined to this region regon rue rhe rs developments and here have throughout the tho entire lengthy ant and breadth or of time state Time Tho grand old Comstock has hilI tell felt their influence mind Is now snaking makinI n a showing In 11 the lower levels which a 1 few years since Would have hlo been classed the Iho things Most encouraging reports are roan Eureka Aue uj tin Tuscarora auth other mining con cen centers conters famous In the tho days S ot of long ago while Ely is 11 rapidly forging to the tho front as IL a copper camp of the first rank Elba Virginia City and Carson are nil all showing a health v advance while the growth of n eno has been heen nothing short or nt Pho ne e tr If the tiro tidal WoO Warn Ot of Nova das continues to In rise ns there Is reason to believe that It will within the next decade Reno should contain people Ind perhaps considerably con sl more It be to this stole state what Salt Lake Lako City II is to Utah and 1 I the greatest r c center be between tween M een the ins name erne n elty Y min d Oakland 0 INCREASING ASIO AND RAIL nAIL RAILROADS ROADS Nothing could give gho moro evidence of the states forward move moO ment that lIum the increase e or of values as shown I 11 by the thC rolls anti nothing 1 1 give Itron stronger er or of outside capital has hils In the common commonWealths a future that the thc railroad con whIch hM has alreadY taken place which II now In progress unit S II In contemplation STI Till TI cant nIt not only conn Bence but It begets confidence liS as well welland an and creates wealth of 1 a permanent character which the arc nrc hound to 10 more valuable by bythe bythe the stead sternly amid consistent ln of oC the tho section through which the tho roads road woun wound they wa way IRRIGATION IN In the complexity of modern In indus industrial trial life no state or nation caul bl ho truly great which a single 10 u trip o s t silo t put l I i tidy i iId OUI full ull tn lh tilt Iho very Iry 01 11 ma 1111 In the o II 1 l to lime 1110 In of I liEd almost 1 II te ra crop mind the eto j I 1 OJ inter nh t J e Industry was Virtu a ly h through Ih the t and partly 11 by mint mist II 0 furnish IJ Therefore It I Jt t If core to OUr tutu that its I p I rf I t Ix 13 taking u a br low the tho expression bar Ct III lands lids that there thoro la IN I ti u ot of the state l 5 striking feature t f ItI In the II Sant e 1 the ru Jee antI and r tinder tI h b irrigation law i H II I 1141 of oC farm making 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