Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1901-07-13

territory drained by tfe MISSISSIPPI
or washed by the lakes
The prosperity everywhere pre-
yalent was however. doomed TO- in
terruption The Jewel was to great
to sacrifice without another effort
and again the tocsin of war was
sounded, agam the same old enemy
wended his may. 10. our shores and
once moro was our peaceful prosper
Gus land convulsed by war
The old revolutionary spirit was
burning brightly we had tasted the
fruits of, liberty and would defend it
at every cost, every hazard Gen
eral Jackson behind cotton bales at
! New Orleans and Commodore Perry
with his dug outs on Lake Erie
taught them tnat liberty wasa price
less treasure and that it would he
triumphantly defended even against
the combined efforts Of the monarch
zeal world. ono ! I'D
Peace being declared that same old
lnsullied flag waving proudly over
the land, enterprise followed with
alacrity the recrding steps of war
and prosperity perched itself above
/ us in letters as fixed as the stars in
! IN heaven
I The west and south west became
! the mecca for the home seeker. states
We're being carved out. stars added
to the flag and the little republic
rocked in the cradle of pride aiM pa
triotism was developing int nation
OF giant proportions feared and en-
We'd by christendom The phenome-
nal GROWTH of our agricultural and
mechanical industries demanded
cheaper and more rapid highways to
market and railroad construction be
came an exciting and beneficial epoch
/ These great arteries Of trade were
reaching out in every direction
Like mammoth octupus gathering
from the wheat fields and workshops
the products of toll To drop them into
the capaciouS NAV Of commerce
Our mexican troubles IN conjmc-
tiou with the discovery Of gold in Cal
ifornia turned the faces of advnntur-
ous mankind toward the shores of
the placid Pacific, and oX teams com
mencrd their slow and dangerous
trip across the Indian populated
plains of the far west From every
portion Of our broad domain human
beings aIlured thither by u love of
gain were tlocking toward the new
Eldorado to share in the golden har-
vest andSaid ia the building up of an
empire lashed by an octidehtal ocea,.
California, oregon Idaho Colorado
aud Silver bound Nevada, we're pguf-
my thentfabalous golden wealth into
the spacious ana endless channels of
finance and rs if touched 10y the mag
icians luagic wand the occldent was
rapidly becoming the great theatre
OF industry and advancement An
empire was thus formed OF chaos and
the Monte thristo output of precious
metals was lubrlcating the heavy
wheels of commerce all over the
Union, Our flag was floating from
the mast of vessels upon every sea
and our cereals and the products of
American toll were being tran
ported over trackless oceans to every
country AND every cline.
ln the midst OF this prosperity
when ambition and enterprise were
marching hand in hand when. tine
whole civilized world was gazing with
adIniratiousam envy upon our phe
nomcnal advancement off toward the
South arose cloud of discomfort.
gradually growing denser aud den
ser until restraint passed It's boun-
daries and civil war with all its hor-
rors burst forth upon us, The causes
that produced the trouble and the
struggle Itself are upon the wings of
time and being CARRIED down a rap
idly reccding past never to return
and ID that epoch in our history pa