Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-03-14
KEY PITTMAN ON T0NOPAh
BNeerpts from Nr. pittman's Re-
marks at the Hearst Banquet.

man IN his recent Carson speech.
Regretting that space does not al
low printing the same in its entirety
in order that the full effect may be
understood, the following excerpts
are given:
'ln the month of August, 1900,
when the sun beat relently down
upon the smoudering deserts of Ne
vada, and the old prospector sought
the shade of some dilapidated build
ing to tell his stories of the past
rories of the Comstock when the
Carson and Colorado trains made
monthly trips towards the south, and
many q stage coach rotted 10 de-
serted corrals while the solemn
smokestacks of Belmont looked down
upon the dismantled and decaying
mills and deserted mines, Jim Butler
was prospecting along the San An
tone range to the south. Then was
the great Mizpah discovered. Not
to be bonded for the use of one man,
for from Reno, Carson, Winnemucca,
Virginia City and Belmont came
miners and friends of Jim Butler to
share in its wealth. They located its
surrounding hills they dug from its
bosom the treasure to build homes
and start the wheels of industry
throughout the whole state. On
those barren hills they have builded a
city They have caused sparkling
water to flow, and electricity to shed
it's bright lights for the comfort of
its five thousands OF people. Across
the desert, for sixty miles the teams
are coming Teams bred and raised
in the state of Nevada, hauling the
products of the state of Nevada to
the people of Tonopah. From the
machine shops of Reno comes inn
mense hosting plants; from Carson
valley, from Mason valley and from
the valley of the Humboldt they are
hauling hay, grain, meat and produce
TO our people Tonopah has caused
the eyes of the world to be turned to
Nevada. Tonopah has helped the
whole state and we had hoped the
people would feel generous towards
Tonopah But we are disappointed.
They tell us that disease and death
Turk at our very doors, and yet the
death rate of Tonopah the past win
ter has been less than that of either
Carson or Reno. They warn the
visitor not to drink our water, which
is as pure as that which flows from
the celebrated artesian well on the
farm of our honorable governor.
They say we are a transient and
migratory people; that we are not
taxpayers, and yet the five hundred
residences in Tonopah are owned by
our miners, and around their doors
may be heard the playful voices of
children. Strange rumors are cir
culated that we are not even in the
county for which we have done so
much. Rumors, that the honorable
gentlemen from Esmeralda county
are too honest and generous to voice.
Rumors that we are forced to believe
have been circulated by residence of
our own county, stung by jealousy or
urged by some ultra motive. This
insinuatingly whispered among you,
that only one mine exists az Tonopah
and that the camp is of doubtful
permanency Whether such rumors
are circulated through righteousness
or through ignorance, ! do not know.
If through ignorance then we ask
you, gentlemen, you senators sena-
tors and assemblymen, you residents
OF Reno, in the spirit of fairness. TO
deny such rumors, and say to their
publisher, that Tonopah has pro
duced six millions of dollars; that in
the mines Of the Tonopah company
alone there is Twenty millions of
dollars in sight according to the est
mate of the most distinguished expert
in the world tell him the Montana
Tonopah Company, the Tonopah and
Salt Lake company, the Fraction
Consolidated company, all have shin |