The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-06-15
A REV IEW
Of One Year!
The First Number of the
Third Volgsnan of
the PILOT

The individual man, whatsoever his
condition, has kind Of instinct III
searching foy some event in his life
that shall give him a personality;
something distinctive and that shall
separate HIM from his fellows, and SO
he finds this thing of his having come
into the breathing world at a certain
day and date, about the only peculiar
event in his existence. he seizrs upon
i. and makes it memorable by festivl
ties, congratulations aad retrospect
ton. With a day and a wear he makes
bis. individuality, ard con.entsdly
SAYS to himself and to. the world, this
Is the |, this is the peculiar dlsassocl-
ated thing wherein the | does not be-
long to the common mass. A nation
does the same thing and It writes dow n
July 4, r775 aad each successive year
it fsos cannon and makes a treynen-
dous noise in commemoratIon Of the
event. Communities have the same
instinct of individual preservatlon,
and they have their days and years of
birth, and Ruby camp, that is now
becoming venerable in years, free
with the same desire, lifts up its voice
to the world and says to il: Behold !!
upon June 5, 1879, this monaentoHs
event occurred, in the heart OF the
Rocky mountains, the birth OF com
nunlty, anl so important a thing w2s
II ,nat is founders not content with
single baptisnal effort, chrlstened the
Infant with this other name OF Irwin,
from one Of Its early settlers, and IN a
pleasant overfowof boistrous egotisa,
and which latter name, IN the course
Of ti:ac, has come to supplant lis
more poctical and significant title.
Wlrh the birth OF this now some
what over-grown child, thefc soon
after followed another event quite as
monentou5 and this event IS WORTHY
of record, not because it involves the
reputation Of a man or the prosperity
Of : single community. And each
18th day of June we lay aside our
modest reserve and come forth in 4
" blaze Of glory net because Of per-
sonal vanity and egotism, but rather
that we have veneraiion for the
newspaper as an abstraction, in its
peculiar and far reaching functions Of
our American life.
The natal day OF Irwin was indica-
tive ola very important fact, but the
birth Of the ELK MOUNTAIN PILoT,
recorded a still greater TACT, and this
it was that Irwin as a community,
that this civilization that had planted
its foot in these rugged mountains,
had for all time reclaimed the wilder
ness. The prospector is the videt:e
Of civilization. The newspaper fol-
lows him and is the advance guard OF
the social order. Where men plant
the community, there comes the news
paper, to enlighteIl and civllize ; to
record the growing life to utter its
needs to defend its interests and to
connect and make it known to the
world.
'i'nc Pilot, il sort OF conscience
stricken retrospection, look; back over
.he past two years, ard it trusts that
in measure at least, /: has flied tie
requirements Of newspaper, ana ii
has also this full sense Of satisfaction,
that it has always had the interests Of
the community and the camp warmly
at heart, and has never fairered in is
best efforts to sustain and encourage
a, all times.
To-day the PILOT has risen to the
digni'y of standard medium on reli-
able mining matters, and our town has
bloomed into the sre...ness and i'm
portsnce Of a mayor, board oftrus;ees,
treasurer, bank buildings, hotels,
stores ianuns1able. and residences
wherei.. many families find comforta-
bic homes mills and crushers for
ore; developed andrroducing mines:
school house and church; toll Eoads
and ta1es 4 eraye wafd anA WIDER.