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Show I NEVADA'S MANY MINING BOOMS Nevada continues to have Its mln in excitements. During the palmy ) days of Tonopah and Goldfield, mining min-ing stampedes were of dally occur rence and the map of the state w?s so changed hv t lie springing up of nc towns that map6 six months old were obsolete With the destruction of Ban Franclscn there came a financial crash which closed down tWO-third of the "boom" camps of the state and drove at least a third of the popnla tion to distant lands The blow that struck California's metropolis hit the pocketa of the Nevada boosters who made Ban Francisco their he.ido.unr ters. Since the closing down of Manhit tan Rawhide, Golden Seven Troughs. Montgomery and other places or fit In glory, Nevada has been a C0U1 paratlvely quiet and sane state, pla tlonal has been placed on the map since then, with evidence of permanency, perma-nency, and Goldfield and Tonopah have settled down to the humdrum of regular producers But In the meantime, at least twenty towns, all at one time holding out a promise ot belr.g great mining center! have disappeared dis-appeared as though swept from the earth as were the two cities of the plain cursed from on high. Nevada though, is not long to be denied a mining excitement. Within the past sixty days Rochester has demanded de-manded ret Munition, and Rochester not only Is holding attention, but, better bet-ter still, gives promise of being a mining camp ot size and worth. Rochester is in Humboldt county, twenty miles from l,nvelo k, and i-W en miles from Orepna It 19 an old j district where placer mining was carried car-ried on by the Chinese for years The boulders of float, some weighing a ton, were passed by as of no value by the earlier goldseekers and it remained for outsiders with more searching, scrutinizing eyes to make the discoveries discov-eries which are holding the undivided Interest of Nevada mining men and drawing from remote quarters, even from Ogden, the Teniuresome Our buBinees houses might do well 1 to get in touch with this new camp and be prepared to profit by Its trade, if, eventually, the mines prove to be of the value indicated by surface pros- ' pects. |