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Show THE NEVADA CHANCE. Flood and O'Brien, two San Francisco saloonkeepers, saloon-keepers, listened to the tale of a couple of Nevada Ne-vada prospectors in tho late '50s. The result was the opening up of the great Comstock lode, with its hundreds of millions, the creation of the beautiful beau-tiful city of San Francisco, since destroyed by ' fire and quake, and the making of a half-dozen multi-millionaires, including Mackey and Fair. Nevada is grinding out a new crop of millionaires, million-aires, and they are ding recruited from every walk of life, with many a Flood and O'Brien among them. Nevada is proud of its 1906 crop. Every man has a chance in Nevada who hr.3 learned the lesson of self-abnegation and is willing to toll, to j endure and to suffer until he reaches his goal. Nevada and Mexico are crossed by the same ' range of mountains, the Sierra Nevadas, and no one need to be convinced of the hidden treasure of these mountains and of the deserts that lie. beside be-side them. All of us learned that lesson in the primary school. Gold and silver, copper and lead, are to be had for the finding. The Indomitable application of the men who are now searching for the precious and semiprecious semi-precious metals is telling. The beginning only Is 1 now being chronicled, and a hundred years hence the story of the riches of the Sierra Nevadas and the Nevada deserts will not yet have been told. This broad empire of gold extends to the younger America an inviting hand, and welcomes all who have the energy and determination of purpose. Here in Nevada the grasping methods pursued by corporate interests to control all industries to the exclusion of younger competitors is neither practiced nor tolerated. There is an opportunity for every man who will apply himself aixl play his role in the conquest of the desert. A broad, liberal spirit of fair play and equal opportunity to all characterizes the Nevada citizenship. The Sagebrush State at the beginning of the year 1907 throws open its portals to the man who will make a place for himself and lend his talent j to tho upbuilding of tho State' main industry, j mining. L. M. SULLIVAN. j Goldflold, Dec. 18, 1906. Note Mr. Sullivan is a young man, and his i history is a little mixed. Flood, Mackay & Co. did not become main factors on the Comstock until 1870. Ed. Weekly. 1 |