Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-09
Nevada's Splendid Outlook.


the business situation and the feeling
of confidence which exists rests upon
a substantial foundation is equally
clear. The basis of the change which
has come over the state is the almost
phenomenal mineral discoveries at
Tonopah and the really meritorious
mining developments in other parts
of the state. The decline OF the IA
nous Comst took seemed to take all
the hope and ambition out of our peo-
pie. There was more or less gen
eral assumption that the state was
mainly dependent upon that wonder
full lode, and when it was exhausted
the prosperity of Nevada was gone,
never to return. Men did not stop
to consider that the state contained
one hundred and ten thousand square
miles Of territory, of which not more
than ten thousand had been pros
pected with any degree of thorough
ness, while the greater portion of the
remaining one hundred thousand had
scarcely been touched by the pros
pector's pick. Nor did they stop to
think that the whole state lies within
what is distinctively gold and silver
belt, and II it did not contain many
''Comstocks" it was at least highly
probable that there were within its
vast area many deposits of mineral,
extensive enough and rich enough to
ensure permanent and prosperous
state, and so it has proved.
New mining camps have sprung up
in various parts of the state, most Of
them being of great promise. Search
light and Delamar both have a splen-
did outlook. The older districts of
Tuscarora, Cherry Creek, Phoebe,
Ely and vicinity are said to be look
ing better than they have for years.
Even upon the Comstock conditions
are improving, and undoubtedly there
are vast deposits there of compare
lively low grade ores which may now,
under improved metallurgical pro-
cesses, be proitaby treated, saying
nothing Of the possibilities of new bo-
nanzas being found.
1t goes without saying that the
great discoveries at Tonopah have
been and are the most conspicuous
feature of our present prosperity
These developments have been of a
character to yield immediate returns,
and fortunately thus far most of the
returns have found their way into the
hands of Nevada men--men born, or
at all events reared in this state, and
who naturally feel that their future
is interviewer with that of the COM
monwealth in which their lots have
been cast. Accordingly we find them
using the wealth already acquired to
promote and encourage further de-
velopments upon magnificent scale
Every well-wisher of the state must
bid them God speed in their work and
rejoice in the largest measure of per-
sonal prosperity which may attend
their efforts.
The mineral wealth thus recently
brought to light has encouraged bust
ness enterprises of many other lines.
The farmer and the merchant have
taken fresh heart; new railways,
both local and interstate, are being
projected; on every hand we hear of
telegraph, telephone, electric light
and water companies with improve.
ments Of old properties and new ven-
lures in contemplation. Carson is
looking up; Lovelock, Elko and other
towns in eastern Nevada are grow
ing rapidly; while Reno is fast forg-
ing to the front as the commercial
metropolis of the whole region lying
between Salt Lake and the Sierra
Nevadas. Nature has been kind and
bountiful to us, our people have been
intelligent, self-reliant and patriotic,
and unquestionably the business skies
of Nevada are brighter now than
they have been before at any time
within the last three decades. -
Journal.