The San Francisco call., 1898-04-06

1 Here is the place for the great est astronomical observatory ol tile world. Nowhere else, so sclentlsts wiio have visited the Comstock say, are Ine conditions so favorable. On Mount Da- wilson's top, the observers eye, uh- l troubled by atmospheric varlatlon' py l town exhalations, could seek out ce- 1 leStial mysteries, hidden elSeWHeie' Some day a wise man, who IS diso a | rich man-that beautiful comDlnatloh-
 will become aware of this 1act' anu oy, aS tronomical science will rise up ana call him blessed.
 | Still, the future of the Comstock IS 1 bound to be a mining future. new | generation, cured-if such thing De | possi ble-of the gambling mania, ready | to develop the mines for the mineral that lies within them, desirous or Work- ing the rich lodges of ore whose exist ence is undoubted, with the assistance of new inventions and riper eXperlence and business habits will yet be the so- lution of the Comstocks troubles. Interest in the Comstock is not dead. This is the land of surprises, of the unexpected. of unlimited possibilities. It's be- -burrowed land is still fought over as sperately-though legally and in more civilized fashion-its boun- daries are defined as jealously as in the days when it's stock sold for thou" sand times as much per share as it does to-day.
 AS to the Comstocker himself, he's born bull. His optimism is practically unquenchable. The longer he lives up in this wonderful, interesting town, whose houses have their back yards block above their front entrance, the longer his pathway daily is about the hem of Mount Davidsen's skirts, the more thoroughly convinced he IS oL' Providence's especial interest in IL. lie refuses to believe that what lbs been ,o$ s-, 1N IIa xrvi1 verted from the belief he holds with such intensity that the Comstock IS an exception to mining countries in gen. eral; that there are fully as good fish. silver and gold, in the mineral sea or majestically beautiful mountains around here as ever were caught by such expert fishermen as the bonanza kings; that far down, hiding snugly De- meath a Subterranean ocean that covers the deeper levels. or above the Sutro Tunnel level where the spendthr1ft mil lionaire prospector of early days dis dained to seek, or in the new lode, or behind stately Mount Davidson, or in American Flat. or the comparatively unexplored region of the Silver City country the precious metals are Stlll 10 be found in such profusion as generous Nevada bestows upon SagebruSherS who trust in her.
 It is the miner of fullest experience, he who came to Virginia City or Gold Hill in '59 or whereabouts, who Is the greatest bigot, where faith in the Com stock lode is concerned. All his bitterly
 gained experience, he will tell you, all his intuition of the peculiarities of min- eral belts on the Comstock-and they're as strongly individual as ComstockerS themselves-all his knowledge regard ing winzes and crosscuts, upraises and inclines. only % to prove more conclu- sively the fact that Queen Comstock is still or will again be the belle of Amer ican mining towns; that she has not abdicated in favor of any upstart Klon- dike and that time will confound unbe- lievers and confirm her supremacy.
 And perhaps he is right.