Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-11-26
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN TONOPAH
AN OPPORTUNITY.

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viii open at Portland, Oregon, on .
June l, 1905, and will be the greatest {
exposition projected by any city on '
the Pacific coast. 1t will be com d
menorative of the trip Of these two :
intrepid explorers who lourneying !
from Washington, D. c., overland. !
practically discovered Oregon and
Washington and were the eventual :
means Of wrestling from the British
government two of the richest states
in the Union, at that time dominated
by the powerful Hudson Bay company
of London. Portland is determined
that this exposition shall be the
greatest held on the Pacific coast,
an immense tract OF land on the
peninsular between the Columbia and
Willamette rivers has been secured
and over five millions of dollars have
been subscribed to complete the
buildings now in curse Of progress.
Portland is the third wealthiest city
per capita in the United States today
and with the natural beauty OF its
surroundings, its delightful climate
and its wealth of fruit and flowers
attracts an immense number of tour
lists every year, and it is safe to say
that the additional inducement of
the exposition will bring NJ enormous
number OF visitors from California,
Washington, Utah, Nevada and
British Columbia to the Garden City
of the Pacific coast.
The main object Of the exposition
IS to advertise the resources of Ore
gon which for fruits, vegetables,
wheat, hops and lumber is the peer.
less state of the west, but special
stress will also be laid upon its min
eral resources Of coal, gold, cobalt,
copper, quicksilver, etc, ard il IS at
this point that the opportunity OF
Nevada in general but Tonopah and
its tributary districts occurs. Other
states have awoke to this fact end a
large percentage of the mineral ex-
hibits at the St. Louis Fair will be
shipped to Portland direct. Nevada,
however, is inert aud lethargic, as q
mineral state it has not yet recovered
from the blow which stunned it wher
the Comstock bonanzas played out
and yet what state ia the Union cal
show its equal in output IN a given
number Of years, or what state can
show its vast potentiaiities for min
eral wealth as evidenced by the out
put and ore reserves Of the grea
mines of Tonopah and Goldteld. n
other mineral zone in the world ca
show such wealth to the ton of ore a
IS being shipped out every day ffof
This section. 1t is useless for the il
state appropriation. 1t would TAX
TOO long to obtain it and by the tim
it was granted it would be too lat
to use it. 1t is absolutely necessar
That Tonopah and Goldheld either
should take up this matter and tax
it up with a will and at once, alfead
time is short.
The citizens of these two camp
should form committees and elect
secretary, whose duty it will be
communicate with the secretary
the Exposition, and at one reser'
space for a mineral exhibit. Fl
secretary will also collect subscril
lions to defray the cost Of this al
the salary of an attendant in chart
who must be thoroughly well a
quainted with the entire district al
a mining man well posted with IL
conditions Of the country. An illu
trated booklet must be prepare
which will set forth in a truthful al
conservative light the immense mil
eral resources of this district and Il