The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-05-10
Carson Letter.

CIAhiS, COWdIdiCS ditb ia bi0u5he ~
vada to its present unenyiable posi-
ton. Common honesty, virtue and
sobriety will place the Silver State. on
its feet. Only farmers and stock rails
ers came to Nevada to build homes
and raise families. The great majority
of the mining men, and spectators,
and large proportion of business men
came to Nevada for the purpose OF
passing over the bridge which spans
the river which divides Poverty Shore
and Easy Street. These men simply
lived with women--like the tin horn
gamblers-and they went after the
almighty dollar wherever and however
they could get it, and always enter
tanned the hope of feathering their
nest, returning to civilization and get
ting married and build homes and
raise families. 1t was case of dia-
mond cut diamond with these men
or rather case of drowning each
other out with auckland wild
scramble for wealth followed. There
was not enough moral virtue and
moral feeling to repel, or even stay,
the Haunting ofvice, and Saturnalians
became our prominent citizens. A lot
of eunuchs in harem would be as
likely to build up State. However,
they have come, and they are nearly
az gone; they have played their part
upon the stage of life, and retired.
Naturally, imbeeility and incompe-
tency were woefully blended with ras-
cality in the management ofaffairs, pub
Lie and private Men were chosen to
superintend great mining enterprises
whose only qualifications were their
ability to stagger under mixture of
champagne, beer and gin, and their
popularity with the people. Others,
capable enough, were restrained by
the mining arrangements in San Fran
cisco, and their conduct was entirely
guided by the stock market. Out of
81, 200, 100000 taken out of Nevada, not
500, 900, 900 of it was taken out as a
matter of honest profit, or as a result
of honest Investment for the purpose
of separating the gold and silver from
the ore. 1t was nearly all extracted
and milled incidentally to working the
stock market In some instances the
ore was tsaltedu and dividends de-
clared out of moneys contributed by
pools for the purpose, to send the
stock up, but in most instances the ore
was.impoverished by mixture of coun-
try rock to break the market and send
the stock down, and to keep the ore
down to milling proposition, and
make the profits out of the milling.
Sudden breaks in the machinery and
caves in the mines have been caused
purpesely to break down the stocks.
Drifts, crosscuts, wines and upraises
have been run into ore, and all work
stopped, and the discoveries concealed
until the stock could be manipulated
and cornered, when all the discoveries
would be shown up at once. Mills
and hosting works have been erected,
and shafts sunk for the mere purpose
of selling machinery to the common
stockholders Mining experts have
been employed to write elaborated lying
reports; nothing in the long category
ofdishonesty was omitted, and every
man strained his genius and worked
up to his full opportunities to sin. The
monuments and wrecks of error and
wrong lie strewn upon mountain and
plain over all the State, from Pioeheto
B6dfe.
Politically, the State has been as
badly buncoed as industrially. The
Sheriff of Lincoln county used to make
$4,000 year, and it is not long since
the Deputy Constables of Virginia used
to make $500 month EACH And there
were Others Many of these people
died poor, and there are many left on
Pine street in San Francisco moaning
over the good old times in Nevada.
Jerry Barrett and Alexander Flem-
ming have located a quartz vein about
eight miles east from Carson. They
{. xth looafa1 IN n vein that ontorr,,c FCr