Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-05-13
THE EVENING NEWS.
Thursday Evenias..--....May Is, 1869
Refrc.hlng Assurnncc.

Last fall and winter when the great
rush was made to White Pine, every
body felt certain that the famous new
Silverado was at least the very richest
on the face Of the globe, and ali they
had to do vas simply, FIRST get there,
aud next secure the Inevitable fortunes
lying about loose, awaiting to be picked
up. Calif~ornians-" old For,y.niners
especially-and old Washocircs were
particularly fast and foremost in this
wild exciting rush. They got there;
they located mines on top of miTcs, and
all their brains got so thOrongly c!lor-
ided and warped that they ran M the
prices for everything TO n fearful ex-
tent. They located town sites, mill
sites, and in fact, everything l~0cutHSle,
and held on for the huge prices they
felt they could command. Some were
smart enough to sell, and all who thus
speculated then, did well, aud put
money in their pockets. As spring mp.
preached and the snow melted of,
those rsticent property holders began 20
doubt the financial propriety Of holding
out much longer, trying to catch new
Corners from Californiawards, yet they
felt fully assured that by aud by, when
the great railroad was completed, there
would be q grand rush from The East for
White Pine. And they laid for those
Eastern chaps loaded with ~crccnbackS.
They foudly desired to cut their eye
teeth for them, and show them some
things learn them how to go into the
house 10 case it should rain, and all
that sort of thing. They longed to
shake hands with the coming men, that
unsophisticated 1900 from Chicago,
who were already booked and had their
greenbacks all packed ready 10 start.
Now, il the face Of all these philan.
tropic a~nticipations, is it no. csaSpcr.
ating to read the following extract from
u leading editorial in the Chicago TSi,
JuRs Of April %? What refreshing AS
surancs what ineifible cheek on the
part of green C~hicaSoans to presume to
criticize us old experienced residents
on our eternal liability to fly oil the
handle aud rush wildly wherever any
new discoveries gave aH eHcus" Tor
rushing. They whom we were calcu'
lating on taking in out of the wet, and
doing for properly. Read
Most of the White Pine adventurcrs
were probably Cnlifornians, who should
have learned from observation. il not
from dearly bought experience, that re
ports concerning new mining GiScovs-
ries are always greatly exaggerated.
They should have known, too, that n
dozen or score of undevclopcd quartz
lodes could not possibly support n pop
~ulatiou Of fifteen or sixteen thousand.
But the lessons Of Gold Beach, aud
Kern River, and Fraser River, and
Reese River, and Esmeraldt, were lost
upon them. Their eyes were dnzZled by
visions Of the huge blocks of native sill
yer which were said TO be qunrried from
the Eberhardt mine, and they must go
and "try their luck" They inrgo. thFt
each of the places named above had
each, in its day, hceu proclaimed the
richest ever discovered and that each,
in its time, had proved to he de!usion
and II snare, except To 1t few very so';u
nate individuals. Each 0f them, prob
ably, had II vague idea that mines is
rich rs the Ebcrhardt were "lyin.
around loose upon Ire rsurc tl'i', and
that he was the fortunate individual
who was to enrich himself BY unenrtI-
ing them. Such are the chimerical
hopes that always haunt the brain OF II
gold or silyer.mud adventurer. TIE
%, s.. rnIa "a yyhnp tborsan1l nrn ruSl. !
ing to a little mining locality, like u
flock Of chickens around n grain OF com,
TO stay away. II you can get there
among the first, you may be one Of the
successful ones. BIT if you so after the
rush has commenced, the chances are n
thousand to one that you will regret it.
The history of mining exci;ements is
full of warnings, which people Of ordi.
nary sense ought to profit by"