The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-12-30
NEvAOA's PROSECUTORS.
Rough Adventurers who Tn O sked $780,
q OOO of Wealth.


A traveller commenting on the
Il, 1871, 500 acres occupying a portion
OF the northwestern section Of the
great basin which Is incIosed in the
Nevada boundary lines compared it
favorably with the internal regions,
adding that with certain local im-
provements, such as water and good
society, the conditions conducive to
healthfnl habitation would be equally
enhanced in either case.
The expressed verdict OF those who
see and know OF Nevada only from
views within range OF the eye, taken
from Central Pacific car windows
while rushing along at a thirty or
forty-mile pace, is usually 'arid ter
ritory," ''barren waste" 'decomposed
granite" 'alkali desert" sage
brush" etc and is true in part, and
therefore ~pardonable, though erroEe-
Gus in its greater sense. 1t is obvious
that the arid acres void OF water and
vegetation are not habitable, just as
ii is true OF the marshes and swamps
OF the more populous States, and
what private capital with gov
eminent and State aid has accom-
plished in draining and retaining
the latter will, as our national popu-
lation increases, be contaminated in
the former by artesian wells and ir-
rigatiOn. Opinions formulated
through a wider acquaintance made
by traversing Nevada's interior by
stage ana 'CayGse" are obviously
more in accordance with fact than
those derived through observation
C1:ainable from a single route trav-
ersing the State from east TO west,
and which was chosen not by the
artist, the farmer, the miner, or the
settler, but by the civil engineer, who
sought less for the interest Of the
State than he did TO build the link
connecting the Atlantic with the
Pacific at a minimum cost per mile.
1t is, however, due entirely to its
mineral u ana the undying
devotion OF the prospectOr to the vo-
cation that Nevada is known to
fame. Decades prior to the com
plet,on OF It's railroad the State was
famous owing u its fabulous depos IS
OF the precious metals. IT was then
such men as the prospector left COM
Portable homes and gambled their
time in tiTeless search against the
chances OF a strike" Long years
spent in ''roughing it,, " and isolation
from centers OF civilization, made
their eXteriors un~graceful, perhaps,
and their language uncouth though
unique, but their high appreciation
OF the unwrltten laws of the noun
tains in Justice Of man TO man and
their ever readiness TO assist and C
for an unfortunate brother stamp
them as men OF sterling worth and
character. Prospecto S are first and
is expressed with a lack OF refine
ment it is nevertheless OF a superior
quality for occasions when national
complications are beyond amicable
ad Justmcnt by the polished diplomats
and wise men OF the East. If the Y
use the product OF their lead mines
to execute their wholesome unwrit-
ten laws and to express their disap-
prOval Of horse-stealing, they stimuli
taneously Herewith decrease the
danger to posterity Of inherited Grim
inality.
1t was due TO the discoveries by
Just such men that the Comstock
1ode bonanzas are famous the world
over. Just such men became million
aires, who, prior TO their fortunate
'fnd," just such apparel, drank
from a tin can. and when overtaken
by night on the mountains coiled
themselves in a buffalo skin or
blanket and lay with their guns con-
venient to interrupt the barking OF a
too familiar wolf, with not even a
tent To prevent their counting the
stars from horizon TO horizon when
the excitement OF the days find OF
ledge matter" rendered the dark
ness vexatiouS and sleep impossible.
Since the prospectors' location OF
the Comstock mines 5000, 000, 900 has
been extracted from them and poured
into the nations horn of plenty. The
Mackey-Bennett cable, the Post Tele-
graph. hundreds OF regal monuments
in the large cities Of the country, the
Mills Building, New York. such no.
tells as the Palace, the Baldwin, the
Grand Opera House, and the new
California Theater in San Francisco:
the palatial residences by the score,
whose immensely, grandeur, and ar
chitectural grace are Of universal ad
miration; steamships, railroads, news
papers, and development OF innumer-
able engineering and commercial en-.
terprises in sister States, all OF which
I'VE their possibility To this fraction
nj Nnyadais hidden rpspurcps attest
to the zeal OF her prospector citizens.
-Cassier's Magazine.
Welsh Rarebit."
There is no such thing as a "Welsh