The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-24
FABULOUS WEALTH.
A Mountain of silver in California
Mime that will Yield $3OO,OOO,OOO.

A Mountain of silver in California-A
Mime that will Yield $3OO,OOO,O0O. II
Fact is stranger than fiction. No
novelist, dramatist, or romancer ever
invented situation which was not
sooner or later surpassed by some de-
velopment of fact. An illustration of
this general truth is to be found in
Nevada. Our readers will have not for
gotten the gorgeous festivities which
characterized the recent wedding of the
daughter of Mr.. William Sharon,
of San Francisco. The story read
like tale from the "Arabian
Nights. To the dazzled eyes
of Eastern readers, the pomp
and circumstance of the Western
Crmsus seemed like the creations of the
genii, or treasures conjured up by the
wand of some mighty magician. What
was impossible to man who could
celebrate his daughters wedding with a
three housand-dollar fre.p place, a
thousand dollar clock, two-thousand-
dollar windows, fifteen-hundred- dollar
bedsteads, twenty-one-hundred- dollar
chandeliers, four-thousand-dollar car
pets, fve-thousand-dollar mirrors, one
hundred-and- fifty thousand-dollar fur
niture, and flowers, filagree, gems,
jewels, and plate, mounting into the
millions? Upon the strength of this
glowing, golden story, a romancer Of
fertile imagination went to work and
conjured up the diamond wedding of
the dark-eyed daughter of De Souza
Cabral, the diamond mine owner of
Diamentina, whose income was only
$20,000,000 per annum. The Sharon
wedding, with all its gold, paled in the
brilliancy of this abraldiamond affair.
His intention was to dwarf the reali-
cations of fact with the creations
of fancy, and yet his pretty romance,
dazzling as it is, has already been out
done by the very man he intended to
travesty. An article printed elsewhere,
from the San Francisco papers, shows
that Mr.. Sharon, the King uf Com
stock, has reached what is supposed to
be the very heart of the Comstock
mine. His laborers have penetrated
below the crest of the mountain and
struck q silver lode-in mining par
lance, bonanza, or huge mass of ore,
extending through the Consolidated
Virginia, California, and Ophir claims
for distance of 1900 feet, and no one
can yet tell how much further. This
bed of ore is almost pure silver, and
the experts have already figured that it
will pan out $500, 900, 900, the profits
on which will reach between $3.50, 00O,-
600 and $200,000,000 And this is only
the beginning Now, what becomes of
that insignificant diamond affair in
Brazil which the romancer so cunningly
pictured ? Where is De Souza Cabral
with his petty 100000 600 of income by
the side of Sharon with his $500, OOO,-
900 find, in addition to his other
millions of wealth ? The Californian
has seen the Brazilian hero of fc-
ton and gone several better. The af-
fair has it's own warming for the
romancers not to indulge in any more
tilts against the truth. Gradgrind's
facts, sooner or later, always turn up
and overwhelm Munchausen's airy
fancies. Apart from any application to
domestic displays of wealth, there are
other features connected with this dis
covery which can hardly be estimated
now, such as the stimulus it must give
to trade and the influence it must have
upon the commercial interests of San
Francisco, where these mines are
owned, to bring into that city an
amount of capital equal, if not greater,
than the present assessed value of the
whole city.-Chic0go Tribune.