The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-08-25
NEvADA's VOLCANO.
Rye Patch Story a Product Of Fervid
IMAGINATION.

story from Rye Patch, Nevada, SAYS
|Goodwin's Weekly. Nevada has
had some hot times in her his
tory, but no volcanoes in modern times.
The fact that the rocks are hot is not
conclusive. There are very few of the
surface rocks of Nevada that have
not been hot during the past month.
The benzine Of Humboldt county has
often heen noted for its fervidness.
This truth could rave been established
thirty years G by the testimony of
the late Pat Harris and so many others
who all have folded their tents and
stolen away.
There was such a company of them,
and they are practically all zone. They
were a select company; such a com
pany was never gotten together be-
fore; we fear there never will be
pretend that they had caught the heat
on their breaths or the lava flow of
their v~ocabularies from any rare old
moutain eruption. Their cabin doors
were always open; the stranger was al
ways yeleome, and if he wanted a dis
%cussion on any subject from history,
poetry, science, mining experts. Oar
win, or Homer, or Shakespeare, or the
Salvation Army, or the formations
which were most generous IN treasure
hearing, or why the biggest idiot was
always the luekiest prospector, or why
the Southern Pacific Railroad company
charged more for carrying freight from
Chicago to Winnemucea than from
Chicago To Sacramento, the stranger
could get it for the asking; but there
We're no pretentions to a volcano.
Those were the days when Mr.. Shar-
on was king of the Comstock, when
Mr.. Huntington was Lord OF the South
ern Pacific, when j. z. Jones was the
best loved nan in Nevada; when a
stage ride to Phoebe was more of an
undertaking than it now is to cross
tlt 4 dAAlHl. = titIt "b7 t1b
and Eureka and Humboldt and Phoebe
and Belmont, but no Tonopah, no
Goldield, no Bullfrog-no, volcanoes
save whom some impassioned Democrat
ic orator made a Mount Pelee of him
self and insisted on a purer, higher,
holier and less sectional government.
that the poor might have q chance and
the dream OF the fathers might be re-
allied. Il was the day of big teams
and royal stage drivers, hut no volca-
noes; the boys drew a line and would
not have them. Nevada must be get
ting demoralized.
From 1S49 To 1859 many thousands
of emigrants made the fearful Journey
across Nevada with their own teams.
Some men and thousands OF poor ami
mails died; the whole length Of the
great desert was strewn with the bones
Of the poor, faithful animals that had
s~ueeumbed to thirst and fatigue. We
suspect that some tens of thousands of
men, surveying the desolation. asked
themselves what the purpose was in
creating such q repeliant region. But
learned that where nature. within the
deep bosom Of her ancient mountains,
mad hidden her jewels, at the same
time she had placed sinister guards
around those treasures, until the time
should be ripe to bring them forth.
Now the treasures from that great ore
chamber glitter in fair structures in
San Francisco, in New York, IN Chiea-
90 and a hundred other cities, and
many an emigrant that crossed that
desolate waste, supported only by the
dream of d fair land beyond. grew at
length to think that Nevada, in her
robes of serge, was really fairer than
California in her robes of purple and
gold. Another thing followed. Up to
the time that the Comstock was found,
$780, 900 was held to be q great for
tune, Ten years later men began to
think of millions as they before had
thought of thousands. It vas AT
that time that the great republic began
to assume a new prestage, and the n
ton was able 10 command the money
needed to carry on a great war. The
era of railroad building began; rail
roads and the transformation eff little
cities into great ones ana the creation
of new ones, Through the roads and
the fast steamers If was il a little
time fixed so the Dakota farmer was
able TO ship his grain to Liverpool and
sell it at a price which the English
farmer could not compete with. The
date of the wonderful change was real
ly the discovery of the Comsteck, and
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