The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-10-07
NEVADA PRESS


Reno Journal Prescribes for Tonopah Maiady
For several months of this year one
could hardly pick mp a Tonopah or
Goldfeld newspaper without discover
ing au essay or a sermon on Knock
ing" The one mission of those lan-
terms of civilization seemed to be an
effort to prove that the pen is mlghtier
than the hammer.
II a local exchange happened to men,
ton that the rain fell in Goldfeld or
that the undertakers of Tonopah were
not in business for their health. a
rancous chorus arose from the south
land denounciDg the Reno newspapers
as knockers; cartoons representing
Reno as a collection of tombstones tied
together with cobwebs were pub
lished; and advertisements for bid>
were printed to ascertain which citizen
of Tonopah or Goldfeld was public
spirited enough to offer the highest re-
ward to a man who would be willing to
mail the managers of the Reno news
papers a smallpox scab or a dynamite
bomb. And meanwhile the air of the
desert echoed to the refrain that a
"knocker" was no good" that he had
no fit place in the eternal scheme
Of things, and that If there was
one thing the new gold camps despised
more than wild cat" mines u bad
whisky it was q "knocker."
1t was therefore with something of a
shock that on u picking up the last
issue of the Tonopah Miner our as
founded gaze fell on the following para.
graph:
"Old Virginia City, of Comstock
fame, employs more men and makes
less noise-and levies more assessments
than any other mining camp in Ne.
vada."
That looks all right and sounds all
right at first glance. but there is a
scorpion sting in the clause embraced
by dashes-"and levies more assess
ments."
There is a "knock" if ever such a
thing as a knock existed. There is
a knock" if ever there was such a
thing as a steam-hammer "knock."
Aud the pity of it is that it should
fall o. the peaceful old Comstock, the
mother of all Nevada mining camps,
the Dot and source of every mining
discovery ever made in Nevada, not ex-
cepting ven Tonopah; the cause of the
building of the Virginia & Truckee
Railroad, which led to the building of
the Carson & Colorado Railroad, with
out which the T1nopah Railroad would
never have been thought Of.
And another pity is that very likely
the KNOCK" is unmerited in more ways
than one. AS for assessments proper
the Comstock certainly takes the medal.
but the sale of treasury stock. to III
way Of thinking, is only an indirect
method of levying assessments, and if
anyone should tell you there has been
no sale OF treasury stock In Tonopah
during the past four years you can put
him down as a disciple of Ananias.
Tonopah is built upon a foundation OF
treasury stock, just as the bread that
keeps life in the Comstock of to-day
is purchased with the proceeds of as
sessments. And neither camp has the
right to kick at or crow over the other
OF this score. Assessments or sales OF
treasury stock are necessary to the de-
velopment of every mining camp not
entirely under the control of a monied
monopoly.
We would advise the Tonopah Miner
to take a good long gaze into the look
ing glass. feel its own pulse. examine
its own tongue, and then to conclude,
to take a big. big dose of its own "don't
knock" medicine.-Reno Journal