The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-05-18

a stone of singular beauty as it lay =
few feet away. and I asked Mr.. Guthrie
to let me get It, He stopped with a pro-
test and said that wou have the buggy
loaded with something besides typewrit-
ers II / picked up every stone l came to.
But l picked up the rock, which locke d
to me like petrified bone. Mr.. Guthrie
said. "Petrifed nothing but / thought
/ could detect a sort of ad-you got-it
look on 8 face. 1 climbed back into the
buggy leaving my find at the foot of the
hill to pick up and haul toward ho-.a.
tomorrow. AS we climbed up the very
steep mountainside the formation grew
more interesting with every yard trav-
eled. We did not have to stretch our
imagination much to see a crocodile
coddle up in the rocks. Drunk again. =
l hear some one say; but not bit of it,
We had to stretch it less when we saw a
parrot rerched on the side of rock. We
stretched it enough to see an o d turkey
gobbler flirting with a sage hen. M.
Guthrie strained his SO that he could see
old John d. Rockefeller and his ba d
head. could see him, too. The fantas-
tic shapes that the commissions of nature
had thrown the molten lava into was
something very strange, yet ve-y heap
tiful. AS we mounted the summit over
looking Virgin valley the scene was ore
1t looked like where nature had finishes
her work and ha~- dumped the materia
left over from making the worn. Eve y
tint of the rainbow could be seen in eh
vaiey and on the low tab ian Is s.a-
rounding it. 1t was beautiful. beautiful
beyond description. / only wish that my
do 1t just a smattering OF justice, but
quail i'm the attempt. After looking al
the magnificent picture for perhaps 8.
minutes. we started down the canyon for
our objective point. the ranch of James
M. McGhee. AS We drove up / cou d
hardly wait for an introduction to Mr..
ing myself about this wonderful won
derful spot. and when 1 did and Mr. Nc
Ghee said. "Oh. yes. we produce every
thing from caif to set of teeth worn
by man centuries ago." and invited me
to the house to prove it. l was electrified
and thought to myself. Am l standing
vomit forth what is hidden under the
earths surface?" Mr.. McGhee gave me
prehistoric teeth. bones of animals long
since extinct. moars from the jaws of
the saber-toothed tiger thigh bones big
enough for the prehistoric mastadon, the
knuckle joint of man with a hand like
the hand of Providence. pieces of petri-
fed trees. petrifed birds eggs and sew
eral other relics of other ages. thought
to myself that Virgin valley and it's sur
oooooooooooooo oooooooooooooo
HELD UP RESTAURANT.
In a manner thoroughly in keeping with
the dime novel and hair-raising tales of
episodes on the frontier. a well dressed
young man. single-handed. he'd up early
the other morning the restaurant on a
principal street In Goldfie d. conducted by
Wheeler & Tighe. The bandit secured
the sum of $50 and made good his escape
1t is the opinion that the desperate is the
! same man who Thursday night broke the
show window Of s. Jonasen & Son and
attempted to brain Mr.. Jonasen by huri-
ing two huge rocks through the e ass,
securing three nugget watch chains val
ued at approximately $3.50.
FOR SALE.