Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-01-19
NEvApA.s PRosPEcToRs.
Rough Adventures who I'm .ked $685.
100000 of Wealth.

OF the northwestern section OF the
great basin which Is incl0sed in the
Nevada boundary lines compared It
fav0rablv with the internal regions,
adding that with certain lucal Inn
provements, such as water and good
society, the conditions conducive to
healthful habitation would b, equally
enhanced in either case.
The expressed verdict of those who
see and know Of Nevada only from
views within :ange Of the eye, taken
from Central Pacific car wiat ows
while rushing alcny at a thirty or
foSty-mile pace, is usually s1rid ter.
ritory," "barren waste" .dccomposed
granite" salkali DESERT" s.sage
brush," etc, and is true m part. and
therefore pardonable, though crrone-
Gus in its greater sense. 1t is ohsisas
that the arid acres void of water and
vegetation are not habitable, just as
it Is true of the marshes and swamps
of the more populous States, and
what private capital with gov-sS
crnment and State aid has accom-
plished in draining and reclaiming
the latter will, as our national popu-
lation increases, be consummated in
the former by artesian wells and ir-
rigation. Opinions formulated
through wider acquaintance made
by traversing Nevada's interior by
stage and 'Cayusc" are obviously
more in accordance with fact than
those derived through observation
obtainable from 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 civilengineer, 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
IN neral resources and the undying
devotion of the prospector to the vo-
cation that Nevada is known to
fame. Decades prior to the COM
plet on of is railroad the State was
famous owing to its fabulous depos ts
of the precious metals. it was then
such men as the prospector left COM
Portable homes and gambled their
time in tireless search against the
chances of ststrike." Long years
spent in "roughing it, and isolation
from centers of civilization, made
their exteriors ungraceful, perhaps,
and their language uncouth though
unique, but their high appreciation
of the unwritten laws of the noun
tains in justice of man tn man and
their ever readiness to assist and care
for an unfortunate brother stamp
them as men of sterling worth and
character. ProsEecto S are first and
last Americans II their patriotism
is expressed with a lack of refine
ment it is nevertheless OF superior
quality for occasions when national
complications are beyond amicabIe
adjustment by the polished diplomats
and wise men of the East. II they
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 crim-
inality.
1t was due to the discoveries by
just such men that the Comstock
lode bonanZas are famous the world
over Just such men became million
aires, who prior to their fortunate
s'tind," wore just such apparel, drank
from tin can. and when overtaken
by night on the mountains coiled
themselves in buffalo skin OF
blanket and lay with their guns con-
venient to interrupt the barking of a
too familiar wolf, with not even
tent to prevent their counting the
stars from horizon to horizon when
the excitement of the days s'tind" of
''ledge matter" rendered the dark
ness vexatIous and sleep impossible.
Since the prospectors' location of
the Comstock mines $500, 600. 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 ho-
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 immensity, grandeur, and ar.
chitectural grace are Of universal ad.
miration; steamships, railroads, news
papers, and development of innumer-
able engineering and commercial en-
terpr.ses in sister States, all of which
owe their possibility to this fraction
of Nevada's hidden resources, attest
to the zeal Of her prospector citizens.
-Cassier's Magazine.
"Weish Rarebit."
There is no such thinga q "Welsh
rarebit" What one orders and eats
is "Wclsh rabbit" The name is
burlesque, not having or needing
any such justification as French pro.
vided for it when he imagined that
its original was 'srarebit" The
namc is one of group OF burlesque
names, such as "Connecticut oats"
meaning shoe pegs; Essex lion, T" q
calf. A "Fiedland duck" is baked
sleeps head; .Glasgow magistrates''
and ..NorfOlk caponsn are red her.