Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-06-17

were drawn NlOoCt bOSS"AN ="
mountains lowered and valleys exalt-
ed to make a path for the locomotive
"a path so smooth and clean that CT
v~ilization advanced over it at the be-
ginning of the goth century with un
soiled clothes, and the great beacon
light of a free government began TO
shine in a new America world across
the great Pacific ocean.
our flag now waves beyond the sea,
it has been planted on other ont
nents. and it behooves US as an intel
ligent and appreciative people to add
to our wonderful achievements by an
increased navy, supported by a mag
nifcent merchant marine, that our
great inheritance, with all its pro-
ductive powers, may be transmitted
from this to all future generations,
strengthened and frightened with in
creased splendor. and this we can do,
il we foster and protect, as we should,
the great mining industry OF our land,
an industry upon which all our in
dustry upon which all our industrial
life depends for its success. and is
now so rapidly increasing in our OH
and new possessions.
To those who have watched the
condition of the mineral industry Of
Nevada during the year 1904, the
marked revival of its activity
throughout the state is most appar-
emit. In the days when reduction costs
were higher than they now are, and
the percentage of values saved lower,
and the problem of transportation yet
unsolved, Nevada produced her mil
lions and now with the advance in the
science of metallurgy the reduction
in cost of mining and treatment of
ores. increased facilities Of trans
portation, with the wonderful produc-
ton of her new camp "Goldheld,'
that in a little more than n year
produced over $4,000, 900 as the re-
suit of work done under leasing by
the ordinary GNSlS NaS hlhSAs W.
starts with capital, have we no
in all confidence a right to believe
that Nevada in her production of tn
precious metals will be greater il
7 this the 10th century than she was Il
the 10Th?
5 The story that Tonopah-Gold
= uLfa All. a.. ,.Ct only pnp Df ne
g markable production Of gold ore
a that run up into the hundreds of do
? lars, to the ton, in train load lot
classed as low grade; and of oth'
e ores valued at $4,000 a ton that al
sacked, but it opens the search ligl
T of reason to all who read the stol
Alright, to the fact, that the miner
/ the true pioneer of civilization, al
that mining for the precious meta
Us is not a questionable venture, but
OF thoroughly practical and most re
d able business, and the most attra
ly tive and successful of all hum
employment, when conducted
~ business principles.
IL Mining has tremendous %certainti
IS The value of our mineral products
rs, 1880 was $369,319,000 In Is
in these products were valued at SCI
til 512,173. In 1899 the value Y
ms S976,S0O,94 and in 1900 passed
n billion dollar mark, and has stead
err, increased every year since that til
In 1880 our gold and silver p
lily duct amounted to $40, 700 zoe. n
all note the steady increase in the p
W cious metals. In 1890 u prod
IN was $103, 309,645. In 1899 it y
nix $I41, S60,026, in 1900, 1858, 1904
IDS Now take up the early history
yer Nevada regarding the production
mia the precious metals and we find t
tilt some Of the most marvellous sill
ad- mines in the world were those u
ion the Comstock lode in Nevada, MI
in that produced from 1860 to 1885
period of twenty years $325, GOO,
in worth of bullion and had Januar!
hat 1880, $50 miles in shafts and
md Ieries opened up, with 2,S0O men
TO- ployed earning average wages OF
the a day with $40 additional me-
all ployed ii the amalgamating mills
Gus AS early as 1876, earnings for
her year of the Comstock, amounted
en- 1S,0O2,9 600 in gold and s20,570,
be- in silver or a grand total of $3.50
the 9S4. Nor is this all hat cal
at said for the early history of mil
vast in Nevada. There is the distric
all which the Eureka and Richn
mines are located. These mines
tate duced during the census year
ices ing May 81. 1880, 62,S93 ounce
of gold and 2,037,66G ounces in 81
the total value $3,934.621 a nd alth'
,lted the extraction of silver from it's