Show NEVADAS NEVADA'S S 'S NEW NEY LIFE AFTER J iON NO SLEEP Remarkable Transformation o of I State Long Little Heard From NEW NEW CAMPS CAMPS NEAR THE OLD How Prospectors for Y Years cars i 1 i. i Overlooked Good Things S Causes Wonder Seven years a ago Nevada had hall a population n of dt t about and nOll was WIlS unheard of or save lve when its vote voto of or about total was wa announced it In connection with other states slates says a writer in the Iho Cleveland Leader Jim Butler a hard hardy prospector found a l mineral minerai ledge In the mining district known as Tonopah and ami now nowa a little city of G. G OO busy people thrive o in that spot on the desert hemmed In h by hills from front which thousands of tons of gold ore are bein being extracted every month The rush which followed Butler Butlers s discovery H co cl 1 of the Tonopah district was seconded at t Goldfield following following- the discoveries s m ido here b by Henry Slimier SUm Slim fl lei ier I a bl half breed ed Indian bo boy and Al AI Myers r 18 s. s then both poor prospectors now men of great w wealth That was waN three lIe years Yal'S after the discovery lI of Tonopah a fact alm almost st beyond belief since the two districts ate arc but hut thirty m miles iles apart ahart However r me the prospector is i s not always n. n man of judgment e either ither in mining mining- or 01 in the thc affairs of the he t world Th Thirty lI or 01 forty Olt years eatS a ago CI the time great groat Comstock C stock discovered I and orn was worked making making- m multi millionaires of I Fair all all' F Flood lood and anti a score of ot other men muon well known n K at that time thur The Comstock lo fode tode de was worked out and Nevada e slept sl ept until six years realS ago l YeII Fifteen miles from the Comstock low lo Jode de is the new town of or Ramsey w where here great reat gold old deposits have been fo found und on a mineral minerai zone in the shape of a hl high h dI dyko e rising above e the ground so some omE me twenty live foci feet and directly traceable tr to lo the old Comstock district b but ut the prospectors of the tile early days w would not see this dyke Tho Time place o of f Virginia City which was the wealthiest community of its size In rica Amp A at that time has now been ta taken ken b by Ramsey fifteen miles a away a and nd but a year old were It not nol of sand would s how ow the time footprints o of prospectors for 01 fort f orty years for th they have trampled i pI in thill thia orl the tho great great- m mines tiles f r r- r rt t n nj j I r 50 ft 1 ht hi searching rc 11 I n ug J 1 or 1 gold god Sol quartz in ill surface InI In- In ii th I I c. and amid such mines mimics as tho tim Flor- Flor d nce Combination and amid Mohawk I oth- oth e ers rs rs bear evidence c of surface prospect prospect- I i Ing- Ing ng done i by minors rl a quarter of a c ago aJo Goldfield three years old olds oldis is s the largest I l city cily in Nevada Xe ith a of 1 with an electric li s system city cily water system r and amat well laid streets street good h homes omes a dozen Oll line fine stone stolle buildings a nd lid many matly more III in lh he course of construction con con- s hut t t the 1 majority ha have vc been heen 11 built of wood and of adobe p laster And Is hut butten miles mile f om ma where whre mining opera opera- lions lons t ons have ha been conducted for fori forty forty- f our years Camp of Today Practically all of oC of thc time the new camps in Ill Nevada Xe are nrc near to camps of the e arly days day is but nty- nty e I Ight ht miles northwest el t of Lida where S Samuel amuel J J. Tildon owned mining prop prop- 0 which ad added lel millions to his and where William C. C Whitney mined an and secured his first great wealth making possible to to 10 him the Jar l argo arge e affairs in which he afterward cn engaged age Their Theil ore was mule packed to lo o the tho wc western tern coast and thence by h sailing vessels around the horn and e landed at the reduction works i at Swansea in Wales Vales located a few miles north jf or Death Valle Valley is time the and metropolis of the Bullfrog district Charles M. M 1 Schwab paid for fot the tho Montgomery omel Shoshone Silo Sho- shone honc mine which was located led I Mont Montgomery omel a poor POOl prospector The Tho now new Wonder Yonder district is Js experiencing the lie same conditions that thai mark marked ell the early days lias of and has ever every of ot being a as great Ifal a cum CiLmi p. p Newer still are Rosebud ami Sever Seven I Troughs both rich in gold and ancI sll er ores oLes sliver silver predominating thus thins far fai am I in the Rosebud district i is b another point where It Is expected thai thal L G Gol Goldfield f history will be repeated repealed F Fain a 11 i low ha has ono one great developed eloped mine in the Nc a Nevada a Hills which has ahead already pal paid In dividends dl much more t than han the time original value of or tho shares share Goldfields Goldfield's Strides is the the mining mining- metropolis of If o f Nevada da and It is here that tile the g great reat properties have t been hou bought ht ant and s sold old for 01 a a. less puce price than a f few w shares c could be he purchased tod today Hero here also alsos I l s conducted the bartering with ith pros pros- P who have found and located properties of or value alue Hero to a town tc t three years old ha been brought ht the c count county scat seat of g a and here hero i l the he capitol of the state stale mu must t come h Here ere In Is a t little cil city cily of ot 1000 with but three t years eals of experience and amid bank aggregating |