The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-16
TRUTH On GoLDFIELD
Districts Whelc Millions Were Made
In a Year.

mining for the precious metals have
been carried or on so grand a scale
that the results of the struggle with
natures forces have greatly affected
the mining interests of the world.
This is at Virginia City, Nevada, the
home of the Comstock Lode, which has
created more interest than anything
else ever known in the history of min.
ing. The term Comstocker is known
everywhere, in every country and in
every language. The Comstock miner
is everywhere recognized az a post
graduate to miners of other camps
Most famous mining engineers have
taxed their utmost skill in the service
of the Comstock. The greatest geolo-
gists have given laborious days to the
studies of it's marvels. Travellers have
gazed upon it's mighty engines and
threaded it's underground cities. Me
tropolises have been stirred to their
profoundest depths by mining news
ITOm OOnSCOck OnanZaS.
Through the Comstock Lode, Neva,
da, in the early '70s, took first place in
mining interests, but for a quarter of
a century it has been neglected largely
through the forbidding character of
it's desert sections, which are now the
center of mining excitement. Lack of
communication and the copper finds of
Montana and Arizona along with the
gold discoveries of Alaska, Cripple
Creek and other districts were causes
for withdrawal of the attention of
mining men from Nevada, yet there
lies within it's borders the most prom
Using golu belt in the world, now
reached by railroad for the first time.
To thy; stretch of country from
Virginia City in the north to Search
light in the extreme southern part of
Nevada, miners from every part of the
globe are gathering at this time In
the last two years three famous camps,
promising to be among the greatest
the world has known, have been dis
covered in this territory-Tonopah,
Goldfield and Bullfrog. This is part of
the great American desert, which has
been avoided for years because Of the
almost unsurmountable obstacles plac-
ed in the way Of exploration.
Horace Greeley in 1859 spoke of this
section as follows:
81 have come across a desolate and
terrible country, a land seemingly
worthless forever, the Great American
Desert, but l believe that the Almigh-
ty has created nothing in vain and as
l have passed through this awful re-
gion, the thought has fixed itself in
my mind that since it is certainly use
less for other purposes, it may be a
land of vast mineral wealth. If that
be so, it will take a hundred thousand
California miners a hundred thousand
years to prospect it,
The plateau to which Greeley al!ud-
ed is from two to five thousand feet
above the sea and between five and
six hundred miles wide, stretching
from Oregon into Arizona east of the
Sierra Nevada mountains. Even the
valleys of the higher portion of the
above sea, while the greater mountain
peaks rise five thousand feet more.
The Comstock Lode has made more
fortunes than did any other equal ex-
tent of ground in history. 1t has adj
ded hundreds of millions to the world
treasures of precious metals. 1t has
built transcontinental railroads and
laid cables across the ocean. 1t has
built a multitude of cities and laid the
foundation of q metropolis-San Fran
cisco. 1t has built scores of vast for
tunes and made names famous the
world over as those of Mackay, Fair,
Jones, Sharon, Ralston, Stewart, Flood,
O'Brien, Hayward, Deidesheimer and
SutrO.
Stocks in the Comstock mines of the
Cos and early '7Os today command
high prices on leading mining ex-
changes Of this country, as Ophir, Saw
age, Haae & Norcross, Choller- Potosi,
Gould & Curry, Yellow Jacket, Crown
Point, Belcher, Oyerman, and greatest
of all the Consolidated California and
Virginia. During a short period the
Ophir produced eO,oo0,0OO; Savage,
$40, 900, 900; Hale s. Norcross, $1l,O0o,-
900; Chollcr & Potosi, $l6,O0O,OOo
Gould & Curry, $4,000, 600; Yellow
Jacket, $16,5O0,0O0; Crown Prince,
$z2, O0O, 1000; Belcher, $26,0OO,0 900, while
from 1873 to '78 the Consolidated Vir-
ginia produced $6~0,732,0O0, paying
$40, 10000 dividends, and California
from 1875 to '79 produced $43,727,-
600, paying in dividends $~3l,5OO,0oo.
The above is but a small part OF the
total production of this wonderful
aamn The Consolidated California