Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-01-02
IN EASTERN NEVADA.


The Carson News discusses the mining
outlook in Eastern Nevada in the follow
ing manner: Eastern Nevada is now
. start in mining that means good,
steady progress. 1t is not a "spurt
started by boomers that we see out there.
They had their "rush and boom in the
old days when they worked out their
surface bonanzss. That part OF the
country Is beginning to recover from the
~stagnation that followed the stampede
which occurred when the treasure st and
near the surface had been gathered.
Those who then remained and held on to
their mines through all manner OF hard
ships and deprivations are at last begin
ming to get their heads above water.
Men are a good deal like sheep in the
times Of excitement. In a rush they
follow the leader whether for good or
bad. When the strikes were made at
Phoebe and ct White Pine crowds rushed
to those places and they roared like a
Brobdingnagian bee hive while the sur
face bonanza lasted, then a stampede
started and away all few like a flock Of
pigeons. When the majority had es'
tablished themselves in the different
towns, and who stillha faith in the mines,
we're compelled in self.defense to shut
up their places Of business and strike out
for " pastures new"
II these stampedes were rough on tbs
people in the towns they were still worse
on men who had taken up and COM
menced developing mines outside in the
surrounding country. Before capital had
looked outside OF the limits of the towns
the rush to fresh fields came and the men
scattered far and near found themselves
left "out in the wilderness" They
were in some such a situation as would
he the tail OF a comet without a nucleus,
The majority of the prospectors whc
were out in the surrounding ranges
abandoned their claims and left tbs
country when they saw their base of sup
plies busted" But there were a few
who stuck to the claim they had located
and who have still held on through al
the years under all manner Of discourage.
ments. These men are at last coming tc
the front.
1t required q man with q heart ami
mated with more than ordinary courage &c
remain out in the hills when he saw all
in the town on which he depended rush
ing away, for with the rush went the
money he had hoped to secure to aid him
in the work of opening his mine. When
capital fled those who did not also fly the
country were doomed. doomed to years
and years of hermit life. With plenty
Of money they might 500 have devel.
oped their mines, but s~inglehsnded and
without means they were obliged to
peg away for a quarter Of a century
in order to accomplish what might have
been done in a year or two if they could
have had the assistance of capital.
Thus we see why it is that so many
undeveloped and unprospected mines
are now to be found in eastern Nevada.
People went into that region with a rush
and came out with a rush. Now the
people out there are building from the
ground up and on a foundation laid on a
slow and SURF plan. In the course of
the past fifteen or twenty years the her
nit miners have made developments at
so many points that the business of min.
ing in that section is pretty thoroughly
rooted. After these many years capital
has again turned in that direction and
~henceforward progress will be rapid.