Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1901-06-22
NEvADA,s FUTURE.

is not state or territory west OF
the Rockies that is assured a
brighter future than long neglected
Nevada. The past history Of the
State reads more like fiction than
fact and even in the chronicles of her
mining activity hardly one half has
been told During the halcyon days
of mining, not only were the financial
centers of the western hemisphere
affected by the rise or decline of
Nevada mining securities but those
of the old world also, and it is beyond
question that the prodigious output
of the Comstock in conjuction with
other producing camps throughout
the, state, coupled with glowing an
ticipa tions for the future, that rem
dered the resumption of specia pay
ment possible in 1879
1t is impossible to estimate Or even
conjecture the advantageous effects
produced not only in the Golden
State, but upon the entire Pacific
coast, through the grand unfolding Of
Nevada mining properties. Looking
backward over the horizon of mining
it appears as though the entire con
stellation OF hope and assurance
lowered over the Battle Born
State, and that the speculative cap
ital Of chrisendom did homage to the
shrine of fortune within her boundary
lines. 1t was an epoch never to be
reenacted again upon the same plane
of recklessness and excitment. OPP
portunities dangled from every bush,
moneM,galore. fortunes made or lost
in a day and those who entered the
great vortex of speculation and, their
name was legion. became semi-insane
under the hypnotic influence that en-
veloped them
That a reaction would follow was
just as certain as oblivion, Slowly
but surely the great ore bodies were
exhausted or owing tothe conditions
that prevailed at that time could no
longer be worked protitably, capital
ever alert for promising possibilities,
bade farewell to the goose that laid
the golden egg and sought other
fields more alluring.
True enough Nevada has suffered
from this desertion and the closing
down of once large producing prop
critics but. even in the face of the
general stagnation that followed.
miners and prospectors always had
faith in the ultimate regeneration of
the mining industry though perhaps
not upon the same exciting and ven
turesome lines that characterized
the halcyon days of yore,
A poetical construction says; you
may break, you may shatter the vase
if you will. but the scent of the roses
will cling to it still and memory
clings to it's idols with the same un-
swerving tenacity. Those who fig
ured here in the bright days of
bonanza cannot and will not forget
Nevada and would rejoice with un-
feigned pleasure to see prosperity
perched once more above the land
of sage and silver.
Notwithstanding the fact that re-
collection and hope are all that re-
main of days that made hist, Dry. our
mining industry is not defunct by
any means but to the contrary will
bud into such prominence once more
as will surprise even the most enthus-
iastic Nevadian.
The entire state is practically
speaking vast mineral zone but the
richer and more promising districts
cannot be operated protitably under
the conditions at the present time
Take for instance all the territory
lying between Phoebe on the east and
Ro lie, California, on the west, and we
have belt of mining country of in
wealth but held in abeyance
because of non railroad intercourse
with the markets of the coast.
Owing to the high price of transporta-
ton to and from the mining districts
Dnly the richest ores could be shipped
,r reduced, on the ground hence vast