The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-01-20
FOLLOW THE CROWD.
(Salt Lake Mining Review.)

In the pursuit of the mining industry in this western country,
Follow the Crowd" and you will land in Nevada.
With no intention of casting the slightest reflection upon the mag
nifcent and marvellous mineral wealth OF Utah and of our sister states,
we must acknowledge that Nevada, today, from a mining point of view,
has the call upon the metalproducing states and territories of the west,
and that If will but follow the crowd" he will soon find himself.
within the borders of the Battle Born state, where every county, now
that the boom is on, is a goconda, a section of bonanzaland, although it
may be that this fact was never SO thoroughly recognized and realized
before. #HHH ##w ..r#. ."
Never, since the hahyon day. of the great Comstock Lode, since the
days when Nevada silver furnished the sinews of war during the period of
our great national peril, and never, since the days of the '49er, has Nevada
stood forth so prominently before the mining and business world as she
does today. We hear of people being hypnotzed or mesmerzed. of a
multitude becoming frenzed over big and little issues, but this is butts
normal condition compared to the fever that has attacked the whole coun-
try as far a g Nevada mining is concerned, for, Is a matter Of fact, the
mining and business world has become Nevadaized. The Nevada fever is
in the blood OF the mining man. Everything in the state looks good to
him; and it is good. For, if anything is better than gold, it is more gold,
and in Nevada they are getting it in such quantity a to astonsh the most
optimistic of the mining fraternity; in such quantities that the whole
financial world is startled.
Nevada, so long as n dead to the world, has been esurrecte at
last. A seaching party went out sometime g to find the old Rip Van
Wrinkle of the "sagebrush state" They explored the deserts, the foot
hills and the mountain passes. In the low-lying hills of Nye and Esmer-
aida counties, where they expected to find the remains of the sleeper, they
found, instead, the mystic wand of Midas, and now, in every camp of the
state. almost, in old and new districts, everything that is touched by the
pick OF the prospector, turns to gold. Lodges which, years ago, we're be-
and abandoned prospects and mines have suddenly sprung into being
again with such a showing of mineral wealth exposed in their hidden re-
cesses that N could almost swear that gold grows" or that belief, as
now maintained by the mining nn is to the existence of the precious.
metals in Nevada, had worked a miracle.
1t is hardly more than four years ago, now, that the nw mining
camp of Tonopah was discovered in Nye county. and it took nearly two
years to convince the public at large that this a a bonanza district. But,
once convinced, a rush followed the announcement OF Gohfeld two years
later. Indeed, Sc great became the excitement that prospecting ws not
long confined to the boundaries of these two great camps, the result being
that new discoveries re being almost daily chroniled lin various portions
of the state, and the rush that follows each announcement. the stampede
that follows in the wake of a new find of this character, adds steadily to
the deep interest that is being maintained in all circles, and new recruits
are daily added to the army now swarming the hills and canyons OF our
sister state, and, such is the rush, such is the excitement that one has
but to "Folow the Crowd to wake to a realization that he is in Nevada,
a section of the west which promises to develop into one of the banner
mineral producing states of the great west.
"Folow the Crowd and you will go to Nevada.