The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-01

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together with a strand Of talking wire,
and the daughters of James Fair and
the Widow Rooney, whom he married,
are the leaders of fashion in the gay
resorts of the world; and who would
think. to look at Mrs. Willie Wander
bilt or at Mrs. Herman Oelriehs, that
every dollar that has strewn the paths
under their feet with roses, and show
cred them with golden fortune, was
dug out of the gray ground of old Ne
vada.
Little Jennie Flood, who used to hang
over the back gate of her father = hum
BILE cottage up there in Virginia City,
could sign her check for s $4,000 0 to-
day, and never miss the money when
the checks had been cashed.
The son Of George Hearst took the
monty his father found in the ground
up there in the cactus state, and built
him a chain of papers that stretch from
ocean to ocean,, and are quoted and
copied in every civilized country on the
globe.
1t was the Comstock lode that drove
the buffalo back from the plains,
herded the gray wolves and tent them
snarling to the hills for shelter. And
it was the Comstock lode that broke
the prize and stern enmity of the red
men and turned them into American
citizen, just as it was the Comstock
lode that built the Mackey-Bennctt
cable, for did not the Comstock build
the railroadq
Who would have spun that gigantic
spider web we call the overland road,
across the continent, if it had not been
for the Comstock lodef
Have you ever climbed the sweet rise
of smiling ground that leads from the
silver edge of the Pacific up to the
Sutro Heights in San Franchises
Have you ever stood there in that
garden, one of the most beautiful pleas
ure grounds in the world, and watched
Tile Wllt0 u1uCCIb VI Vic Dull
up their arms in their strangs melodic
measure-down there below the cliffss
The Comstock has done something
for you, too, for Sutro Heights would
never have been if Adolph Sutro, a
poor Jew, with nothing but his brain
and his indomitable will, had not built
the Sutro tunnel up there on the Com
took and snatched the gold out of the
penurious earth before the greedy wa
ter could get at it.
The Comstock lode built cities, made
states and subdued the savage heart of
a wild continent.
Then Nevada rested again
Now she is awake, wide awake, and
we re going to hear stranger stories
than ever from her again
Stories that make the very heart in
your body leap, stories that will thrill
the world az the old Comstock happen
ings thrilled it with hope and courage
and strength, and the very joy of liv-
ing
Nevada is awakening again and Ton
opah, Goldfeld, Ida, D~iamondield,
Kawich, Gold Reed, Bullfrog and Rhy-
olite may all produce other Comstocks.
Remember this date, 1905. 1t may be
as historic az 1849.
Have you ever seen Nevada, the land
of the Joshua trees It is like going to
the country of the Wumbletewee, in
the ~old-fahioned Scotch fairy books.
The Joshua tree is a kind of a misbe-
gotten palm left over from volcanic
centuries. 1t is green in a sort of rat
thing stiff-fngered way, all the year
round, and at the end of each branch is
la twisted growth-the elder brother of
la pineapple-only it is not good to eat.
1t does not look like a tree at all, that
is, like a real tree, with thirsty and
vigorous springing branches.
1t is like a weakened, cruel, avarie-
ious old man turned into a Joshua tree
for his sins and condemned to stand
bent into all manner or cOnt0rted mis-
cries in the gray-parched sage brush,
with great ~misshapen fists stretched to
the brazen sky in one last gesture of
eternal despair.
Captain Kidd killed the wickedest of
his crew and set his ghost to watch the
treasure when he buried it, they say.
In such a manner does the wicked,
sneering Joshua tree stand over the
treasure buried in the jealous earth out
there in Nevada and seems to defy any
human being to dig where its malignant
shadow falls.
Shake your swollen fists at the sky
all you like, old Joshua tree, you can-
not scare us away from the treasure you