Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1905-01-20
FOLLOW THE CROWD.

"Follow the Crowd" and you Will
land IN Nevada.
With no intention Of casting the
slightest reflection upon the magnif-
ieent and marvellous mineral wealth
of Utah and of our sister states, we
must acknowledge that Nevada, to-
day, from mining point Of view,
has "the call" upon the metal-pro-
ducing states and territories Of the
west and that if one will but
"follow the crowd" he will soon find
himself within the boarders Of the
"Battle-Borno state, where every
county, now that the boom is on,
is a golconda, a section Of bonanza
land, although it may be that this
fact was never SO thoroughly rec
ognized and realized before.
Never, since the halcyon days 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 promin-
emily before the mining and bus
mess world as she does today. We
hear Of people being hypnotized or
mesmerized, Of multitude becom-
ing frenzied over a big and little
issues, but this is but a normal
condition compared 10 the fever that
has attacked the whole country as
far as Nevada mining is concerned,
for, as q matter Of fact, the mining
and business world has become Ne
yadaized. The Nevada fever is in
blood of the mining man. Every
thing in the state looks good to
him; and it is good For ifanything
is better than gold, it is more gold,
and in Nevada the yare getting it in
such quantities that the whole fl.
naucial world is startled.
Nevada, SO long as one dead to
the world, has been resurreeted at
last. A searching party went out
sometime ago to find the old Rip
Van Winkle Of the "sage-brush
state. They explored the deserts,
the foothills and the mountain
passes. In the low-lying hills Of
Nye and Esmeralda counties, where
they expect to find tie 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. Ledges
which, years ago, were believed to
be barren ore now found TO be pro-
life in their golden treasure, and
abandoned prospects and mines
have suddenly sprung into being
again with such a showing of min
eral wealth exposed in their hidden
recesses that one could almost swear
that "gold grows" " or that belief, as
now maintained by the mining man
as to the existence Of the precious
metals in Nevada, had worked a
miracle.
1t is hardly more than four years
ago, now, that the new mining camp
of Tonopah was discovered in Nye
county, and il took nearly two years
to convince the public at large that
this was bonanza district, But,
once convinced, a rush followed the
announcement of the finding of
Goldlield two years later Indeed,
SO great became the excitement that
prospecting was not long confined
to the boundaries Of these two great
camps, the result being that new
discoveries are being almost daily
chronicled III various portions of the
state, and the rush that follows
each announcement the stampede
that follows iii the wake OF new
find of this character, adds steadily
to the deep interest that is being
maintained in all circles, and new
recuits are daily added to the army
now swarming the hills and cam
yons OF our sister state, and, such is
the rush, such is the excitement, that
one has but to Follow the Crowd
to wake to a realization that he is in
Nevada, section OF the west which
promises to develop into one Of the
banner mineral-producing states Of
the great west.
Follow the Crowd and you will
go to Nevada. salt Lake Mining
Review.